ISic020582: ISic020582

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: ISic020582
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: ownership
Object type: amphora

Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Arena (IGASM 2)

Physical description

Support

Description: Lid (of black-glazed amphora?).
Object type: amphora
Object condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, dim: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: ceramic
Type > subtype: ceramic > unverified

Inscription

Layout: The inscription is placed on the upper part of the lid.
Text condition: complete
Technique: scratched
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Herbessus (?)
Provenance found: Found in Montagna di Marzo.
Map

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Autopsy: No Autopsy
Map

Date

450—400 BCE (so Arena, on letters) (450 BC - 401 BC)

Evidence: lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

ownership

commentary

This is probably a case of uncontrolled writing, like others encountered on ceramics in Sicily, in which the writer mistakenly begins the text in one place on the support and then rewrites it in a broader part.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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

Printed editions

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 124a, pl. XXXIV.3

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

5/27/2021