ISic020551: ISic020551

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic020551
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: measure (value)
Object type: pelike
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Arena (IGASM 2)

Physical description

Support

Description: Foot of a red-figure pelike.
Object type: pelike
Material: ceramic
Condition: complete
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the underside of the foot.
Text condition: complete
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

475—450 BCE (so Arena on letters) (475 BC – 450 BC)

Evidence: lettering

Text type

measure (value)

commentary

Inscription in clear letters under the foot of an intact pelike, depicting a scene with Dionysus and a satyr. The first interpretation of the text is due to Halbherr (referred to by Orsi 1906), who interpreted λε̄κυθίδες as a measure followed by the number twenty ΔΔ (Orsi also reads this way, while Arena corrects with ΗΔΔ). Again according to Halbherr, the preceding number, indicated in accordance with the Attic system, should be read as 'ten thousand and one drachma and four obols'. Arena (see translation, which we accept) assumes a correspondence between the two values.

Bibliography

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

5/6/2021