ISic020580: ISic020580
- ID
- ISic020580
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- ludic text
- Object type
- hydria of local manufacture
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Dubois (IGDS 1)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Hydria.
- Object type
- hydria of local manufacture
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 34 cm, dim: 88 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The inscription is placed on three different parts of the vessel, divided as follows: 1) a first text on the inside of the rim of the vessel, arranged in a circle, boustrophedon; 2) a second text identical to the first arranged on the body of the vessel in three lines, boustrophedon; 3) a third text on the opposite side of the body, in two lines, boustrophedon.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- passim: 4mm
- 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 ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
499—480 BCE (499 BC – 480 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
An inscription painted on different parts of the same vessel, whose repetitiveness, together with its content, betrays its ludic nature. The game could perhaps refer to a recreational situation in a symposial context in which Aka could be the name of the courtesan (thus Dubois) or simply, without over-interpreting the inscription, the name of the beloved of Geloios, who perhaps due to his young age or lack of means would have asked Eurimachos to pay for the hydria. Note the use of chi04, which refers to the red alphabet adopted in Gela, and the recurrence of the name Ἄκα, which may be a version of the name Ἄκκα found in another inscription from Terravecchia di Cuti (ISic020573 and ISic020574.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 28.0767
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Segnalazioni di epigrafia greca», Kokalos 14–15, fasc. 195–196 (1969 1968), at 146, pls. 15.1, 16.1-2, 17.1
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Intervento», Kokalos 22–23, fasc. 1 (1977 1976): 253–57, at 256
- C. Gallavotti, «La firma di Aristonothos ed alcuni problemi di fonetica greca», in Philias charin. Miscellanea di studi classici in onore di Eugenio Manni, vol. 3, 4 voll. (Roma, 1980), 1013–31, at 1021
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 166
- 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 121
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
- 5/26/2021