ISic020537: ISic020537

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Arena (IGASM 2)

Physical description

Support

Description

Foot of a black-glazed kylix (Attic).

Object type

kylix

Material

ceramic

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on the underside of the foot.

Text condition

incomplete

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Gela

Provenance found

Found in Gela.

Map

Current location

Place

Gela, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela ,

Autopsy

No Autopsy

Date

Evidence

lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

greeting (exhortation)

commentary

The inscription, on a kylix, seems likely to be read as πίῃ, second person of the subjunctive of πίομαι, and therefore as an invitation to drink. According to Agostiniani it should instead be interpreted as the numeral indicating the capacity of the kylix.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: -
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.0867
• 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 1799, no. 35, pl. 9
• Luciano Agostiniani, «Eterogeneità e pertinenza nell’epigrafia arcaica di Gela», Kokalos 45 (1999): 427–48, at 433
• 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 62, pl. XXII.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