ISic020499: ISic020499
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after photograph ;
- Arena: Εὐαρίδας or Εὐχρίδας ;
- Dubois: Εὐχ<α>ρίδας or Εὐαρίδας
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Black-glazed kylix.
- Object type
- kylix
- Object condition
- complete
- 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 Gela.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
460—440 BCEE (so Arena on letters) (460 BC - 440 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The text has been variously interpreted. Dubois reads it as Εὐαρίδας if the third letter is an alpha (thus admitting a different ductus for the two alphas in the inscription) or as Εὐχ<α>ρίδας if the third sign should be read as a chi (a 'red' variant expected in Gela). Arena reads as Εὐαρίδας also admitting a different ductus for the two alphas, the first of which he defines as 'Sikan' (though, this would rather be a 'Sikel' alpha similar to those attested in Sikel inscriptions from eastern Sicily, cf. e.g. ISic003364) or as Εὐχρίδας admitting the presence of a red chi. However, we seem to be able to see a division between the first part of the word and the second, marked (perhaps) by some sort of punctuation. Moreover, the third sign, rather than a red chi or a Sikel alpha, seems to be a corrected upsilon (a dittography) to obtain another letter, perhaps a kappa. In addition to the unusual ductus of the third sign, which could be the result of a correction, the aberrant ductus of delta, rho and sigma could suggest a text that is alien to the Geloan context.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.0843
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Nuove iscrizioni dall’acropoli di Gela», in Philias Charin. Miscellanea di studi classici in onore di Eugenio Manni, vol. 5, 6 voll. (Rome, 1980), 1767–1831, at 1782-1783, no.11, pl. 3
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 144c
- 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 53, pl. XIX.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/21/2021