ISic020701: ISic020701
- ID
- ISic020701
- Language
- Sikel
- Text type
- ludic (?)
- Object type
- kotyle
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Sudano 2015
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Attic Black-figure Kotyle.
- Object type
- kotyle
- Material
- clay, fired
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The inscription runs on the underside of the foot.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Terravecchia di Grammichele
- Provenance found
- Discovered in 1916 by P.Orsi among the grave goods in one tomb in the necropolis of Casa Cantoniera.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi ,
- Autopsy
- Mignosa 2022-01-17
- Map
Date
end of the 6th-beginning of the 5th century BCE (Sudano 2015). (520 BC – 480 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, material-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
The inscription was initially interpreted as Greek by Comparetti (consulted by Orsi himself) who read a verse from the comedy Ephialtes by Phrynicus (Comparetti 1919-1920, 200-203), followed in the Greek interpretation by Manganaro (1968, 202). Subsequent editors soon recognised its non-Greek nature: thus Lazzarini (1973-1974, 344-346), who attributed it to the Etruscan area; Agostiniani and Cordano (2002, 82-83) who, supporting a more likely thesis - partly as a result of comparisons with other indigenous sites in eastern Sicily - suggested that it is an inscription in an indigenous language (i.e. Sikel) that nevertheless presents several linguistic loans from Greek. In particular the word 'poteron' = gr. ποτήριον, from which it could be inferred that the inscription, also considering the type of vessel, is a ludic one which refers to the symposial context.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Domenico Comparetti, «Varietà epigrafiche siceliote», Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale 16–17 (1920 1919): 194–203, at 200-203
- Paolo Orsi, ‘Grammichele. Fittili Con Un Verso Del Comico Frinico’, Notizie Degli Scavi Di Antichità, 1920, 336–37, https://doi.org/ita.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Segnalazioni di epigrafia greca», Kokalos 14–15, fasc. 195–196 (1969 1968), at 202
- M.L. Lazzarini, «I nomi dei vasi greci nelle iscrizioni dei vasi stessi», Archeologia Classica 25–26 (1974 1973): 341–75, at 344-346
- Luciano Agostiniani e Federica Cordano, «L’ambiente siculo», in Il Guerriero di Castiglione di Ragusa. Greci e Siculi nella Sicilia sud-orientale (Atti del Seminario di Milano, 15 Maggio 2000), Hesperìa 16 (Roma: L’Erma’ di Bretschneider, 2002), 77–89, at 82-83
- Nella Sudano, ‘Greeks and Sikels in the Hyblaean Area: An Historical Interpretation of the Epigraphic Evidence in the Chalcidian Hinterland’, in SOMA 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Held at the University of Catania 3-5 March, vol. 2, 2 vols (Oxford, 2015), 699–708, at 701-702, no. 2, fig. 8
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Valentina Mignosa
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/21/2022