ISic020600: ISic020600
- ID
- ISic020600
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- skyphos
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena 1998 (IGASM 5)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Black-glazed skyphos.
- Object type
- skyphos
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, dim: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in the area of Siracusa.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 546.167
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
500—450 BCE (so Arena on letters) (500 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The dedication is written in an alphabet aberrant to the context of Syracuse, in which it was found. According to Jeffery (1961), the alphabet is of the Megarian type, which she explains by suggesting that those (the pacheis) transported by Gelon to Syracuse from Megara Hyblaea had made a dedication using, for reasons she does not further investigate, the alphabet of the mother country. According to Guarducci (1959-1960), on the other hand, the alphabet would undoubtedly be Corinthian and could easily be explained by the presence of Corinthians or Corcyraeans in Syracuse around the fifth century.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 696305
- EDR: 150330
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 195573
- PHI: 301184
- Printed editions
- L.H. Jeffery, ‘Anne Jeffery Archive’ (CSAD Oxford, n.d.), J.WC.L.R, Anne Jeffery Archive, at J.WC.MegH.30.p.01
- Margherita Guarducci, «Nuove note di epigrafia siceliota arcaica», Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 21–22 (1960 1959): 249–78, at 250, fig. 2
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 276 no.30
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Megara e Selinunte, 1st ed., vol. 1 (Milano: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1989), at 75, fig. 13
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 90
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 276 no.30
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. V. Iscrizioni di Taranto, Locri Epizefiri, Velia e Siracusa, 1st ed., vol. 5 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 1998), at 95
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
- 4/24/2025