ISic020558: ISic020558
- ID
- ISic020558
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- abecedarium
- Object type
- vessel
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 2)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of vessel.
- Object type
- vessel
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Herbessus (?)
- Provenance found
- Found in tomb 113 at Montagna di Marzo.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
500—480 BCE (so Arena on letters) (500 BC – 480 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Abecedarium of which only the first four letters remain. The alpha is of the type with a dot on the inside instead of a horizontal stroke, which is common in the Sicilian context on defixiones (see Brugnone 1978; Tribulato, Mignosa 2021, 315 on the question of alpha variants in archaic Sicilian contexts). The delta also presents a similar ductus, with a dot inside. Agostiniani (2018) provides the apograph of the graffito with an arrow-shaped alpha (type with a bar attached to the vertex of the letter). However, from an analysis of the photograph reported in Arena IGASM 2[2] 92 (pl. 27.3) the alpha appears to be of the type with a dot in the centre, while the mark interpreted as the first bar of the alpha appears to be an encrustation on the vessel. The reason for the difference of the ductus of alpha is to be found in the particular nature of the text, the alphabetarium, which presents the 'model' types of the local alphabet. It should also be noted that, without the possibility of tracing the archaeological context in this case, it is difficult to date the document on a palaeographic basis. On other abecedaries found in Sicily on ceramics see Tribulato 2017 (and on this document in particular p. 119).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. II. Sicilia Centrale e Meridionale, vol. 2, Forthcoming, at MMA 45
- 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 92, pl. XXVII.3
- Discussion
- Olga Tribulato, ‘Learning to Write in Indigenous Sicily. A New Abecedary from the Necropolis of Manico Di Quarara (Montelepre, South-West of Palermo)’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 201 (2017): 117–22, https://iris.unive.it/retrieve/handle/10278/3684163/95330/zpe%20201-tribulato.pdf, at 119
- Luciano Agostiniani e M.R. Albanese Procelli, «Montagna di Marzo (Piazza Armerina): la tomba Est 31», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 37 (2018): 151–208, at 183-184, fig. 89
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
- 5/7/2021