ISic020579: ISic020579

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Dubois (IGDS 1) ;
• 1: Manganaro, Arena: π[ᾱο͂]ν
  
• 2: Arena: δ’ἐφίλε̄ ... ἆγε

Physical description

Support

Description

Floor of a black-glazed kylix (Attic).

Object type

kylix

Material

ceramic

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: 8.5 cm, dim: 18 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The text is placed on the floor of the vessel, arranged in a clockwise spiral.

Text condition

complete

Letter heights

Line 1: 5-7mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Herbessus (?)

Provenance found

Found in Montagna di Marzo.

Map

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 66529

Autopsy

No Autopsy

Map

Date

Evidence

lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

gift, private document

commentary

Text engraved in a spiral pattern on the floor of a kylix that is, however, identified by the inscription as a skyphos. Forssman's reading gave a better understanding of the text, which would be a joke engraved on the cup for use in a symposial context. Manganaro speculated that this was an invitation to κοτταβίζειν. Dubois hypothesised that one could think of an object used in the symposium and that the inscription refers to a scurrilous game intended for the drinker who emptied the cup in question and found the inscription. Unusual is not only the type of text and its layout but also the onomastics. The name Πόρϙος is attested only in this inscription by epigraphy and in an Alcmanes (Fr. 1.1.19) verse known indirectly by Hesychius (ν 516) Νηρεύς· θαλάσσιος δαίμων. Ἀλκμὰν καὶ Πόρκον ὀνομάζει. Φρύνᾱ occurs also elsewhere, although rarely (two occurrences in total, at Thebes and Thespiai). Given the interplay of the inscription, Dubois assumed that this last name referred to a female courtesan. The gap at l. 1 was reconstructed by Manganaro as π[οτᾶ]ν, an integration we accept. It is also possible to read, with Dubois, φίλη as an archaic present indicative (the form would be akin, as the scholar notes, to similar ones in Theocritus, cf. ὅρη in Theoc. XXX.22). The word form ἀννέμο<ν>τα has been interpreted by Forssamn and Gallavotti, with whom later editors agree, as the accusative of the participle of ἀνανέμω (= ἀναγιγνώσκω), with ellipsis of the nasal, on the basis of its use by Epicarmus and Theocritus. Gallavotti recognises the segment between the beginning of line 2 and γράπσας as a hexameter and the following syllables as an iambic cadence.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 35.1009
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 31.0824
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Intervento: segnalazioni di epigrafia greca; iscrizioni da Montagna di Marzo», Kokalos 14–15 (1965 1964): 195–202, at 197-199, pl. 18
• M.L. Lazzarini, «I nomi dei vasi greci nelle iscrizioni dei vasi stessi», Archeologia Classica 25–26 (1974 1973): 341–75, at 355-357, nr. 23, pl. 71
• M.L. Lazzarini, «Un’iscrizione vascolare arcaica della Sicilia», Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Rendiconti. 28 (1973): 695–98.
• C. Gallavotti, «Letture epigrafiche», Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 20 (1975): 165–91, at 172-177
• M.T. Manni Piraino, «Epigrafia greca», Kokalos 22–23 (1977 1976): 269–80, at 273
• B. Forssman, ‘ἀννεμοτα in einer dorischen Gefässinschrift’, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 34 (1976): 39–46, at 39-46
• C. Gallavotti, «Da Stesicoro ad Empedocle», Kokalos 26–27, fasc. 1 (1981 1980): 413–34, at 426
• Olivier Masson, « La Sicile et le monde grec archaïque. L’apport de la linguistique », Kokalos 30‑31, n^o 1 (1985 1984): 71‑77, at 76
• Olivier Masson et J. Taillardat, « Un vase parlant de Sélinonte (SEG XXIX,938) », Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 59 (1985): 137‑40, at 137-140, pl. 9-10
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 167
• 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 120, pl. XXXIII.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

5/21/2021