ISic020587: ISic020587
- ID
- ISic020587
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- vessel
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 3)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Foot of a black-glazed vessel (Attic).
- Object type
- vessel
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, dim: 13.2 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is placed on the underside of the vessel arranged in a spiral.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 5-15mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Himera
- Provenance found
- Found in Imera, at the Temple D.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Imera, Italy
- Repository
- Parco Archeologico di Himera e Antiquarium , H73.487
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
520—500 BCE (so Arena on letters) (520 BC – 500 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Inscription incised in neat characters before firing on a base of a medium-sized vase. The inscription is a couplet of poetic inspiration whose first hemistich is the same as the beginning of v. 3 of the Homeric Hymn to Hera (Ζε̄νὸς ἐριγδούποιο). It is followed by another Homeric formula (γλαυκο̄́πῑ Ἀθε̄́νε̄ι) with a shortened form γλαυκο̄́πῑ rather than the recurring γλαυκῶπιν. The form κόρε̄ι has a vocalism that is attested in Euboea (cf. Bechtel 1921-1924, 74). τε̄́νδ(ε) could refer to κύλικα but could also indicate something else. It is interesting to note that a clay and headless figurine of Athena was found near the vase (Manni Piraino 1974, p. 266).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
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- EDR: -
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- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Alcune iscrizioni inedite dall’area sacra e dall’abitato di Himera», Kokalos 20 (1974): 265–71, at 266, pl. XLII.2
- P.A. Hansen, Carmina epigraphica graeca saeculorum VIII-V a. Chr. n. [vol. I] and ... saeculi IV a. Chr. n. [II]. «Texte und Kommentare», 12, 15. ol. I, nos. 1-465; II, nos. 466-901., 2 vols (Berlin, 1983), at 392
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 8
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. III. Iscrizioni delle colonie euboiche, vol. 3 (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1994), at 45, pl. XIV.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
- 6/3/2021