ISic020507: ISic020507
- ID
- ISic020507
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- votive
- Object type
- loom weight
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 2)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Loom weight.
- Object type
- loom weight
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 6-7 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is placed horizontally along the longest face of the loom weight.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela
- Provenance found
- Found in the sanctuary of Bitalemi in Gela (chapel G1).
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
450—400 BCE (so Arena on letters) (450 BC – 400 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Clay loom weight found, together with about 30 others (ISic020504 to ISic020534) all bearing the same inscription, in the G1 chapel of the sanctuary of Bitalemi near Gela. The inscription, incised on the clay before firing, probably contains an adverb or adjective with propitiatory intent for the offered object (Orlandini 1965, 455-456; Arena IGASM no.58). It could also be the anthroponym Θεότιμος, although the first hypothesis is more likely given the votive context of the object.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- P. Orlandini, «Nuovi graffiti rinvenuti a Gela e nel territorio di Caltanissetta», Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. 20 (1965): 454–60, at 455-456, pl. I.2
- P. Orlandini, «Lo scavo del Thesmophorion di Bitalemi e il culto delle divinità ctonie a Gela», Kokalos 12 (1966): 8–35, at 20, pl.X.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 156
- Rosalba Panvini, Gelas: storia e archeologia dell’antica Gela, 1993, at 164, V.16
- 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 58, pl. XXI.1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Valentina Mignosa
- James Chartrand
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 4/22/2021