ISic020493: ISic020493
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 2)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Foot of a black-glazed kylix (Attic).
- Object type
- kylix
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- ceramic
- Type > subtype
- ceramic > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is placed on the underside of the foot.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- scratched
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela
- Provenance found
- Found in Bitalemi.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
500—480 BCE (so Arena on letters) (500 BCE - 480 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Inscription, probably votive, found at Bitalemi. Arena (IGASM 2[2], no. 47) favours a date between 450 and 440, while Dubois attributes the inscription to around 500. We agree with the latter hypothesis, based on palaeography (see the rendering of gamma and lambda). The term could be related to the root of the masculine hydronym ΓÎλας, the feminine toponym ΓÎλα, and the masculine anthroponyms ΓÎλων, Γελώιος, identifying the name as a feminine in -ωι (Cordano 1985, 158-9). Arena reconstructs the name as Γελ(λ)ο͂ι (Γελλῷ), referring to Sappho, PLF 178 and the homonymous mythical creature, which could be linked to the cult of Demeter and might be an epithet of the Demeter worshipped at Bitalemi. If this is the case, a connection between this name and the toponym should be considered, although any derivation or relationship between the two remains obscure.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Cordano (1985) at 158-159
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 157
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at 47
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/20/2021