ISic020573: ISic020573
- ID
- ISic020573
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- ownership
- 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: 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
- Terravecchia di Cuti
- Provenance found
- Found in Terravecchia di Cuti.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Imera, Italy
- Repository
- Parco Archeologico di Himera e Antiquarium ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
450—400 BCE (so Arena on letters) (450 BC – 400 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
This would be the first occurrence of the name, which then appears in Plu. Rom. 4.5, Ἄκκαν Λαρεντίαν in Rome. However, another version of the name (Ἄκα) is found on a millstone from Adrano (unpublished?) and on a locally produced hydria (the text is painted before firing) from Montagna di Marzo dating to the early 5th century BCE (Arena IGASM no. 121; ISic020580). Another loom weight with identical inscription (ISic020574) was found in the same context.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- E. Militello, Terravecchia di Cuti (Palermo, 1960), at 56, pl. 12g
- P. Orlandini, «L’espansione di Gela nella Sicilia centro-meridionale», Kokalos 8 (1962): 69–121, at 110
- A. Dell’Aira, «Silloge epigrafica geloa» (Università degli Studi di Palermo, 1965), at 169, no. 85
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Per la storia dei culti in Sicilia», La Parola del Passato 20, fasc. 101 (1965): 163–78, at 165-166
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tavolette di piombo inscritte della Sicilia greca», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 3.7 (1977): 1329–49, at 1337, n. 37
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 175c
- Antonietta Brugnone, Pesi da telaio, 1991, at 55, no. 66
- 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 113, pl. XXXII.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
- 5/19/2021