ISic020709: ISic020709

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: ISic020709
Language: Sikel
Text type: production or ownership
Object type: krater
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Antonaccio in Antonaccio, Neils 1995

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of neck and rim of a black-glazed krater (Laconian type).
Object type: krater
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: 0: , 1:

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the neck of the vessel, just below the rim.
Text condition: complete
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin: Morgantina
Provenance found: Found during the excavations (1990) in the eastern shoulder of the plateau on which the archaic settlement was placed.
Map

Current location

Place: Aidone, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico di Aidone , 90-61
Autopsy: no autopsy
Map

Date

second quarter of the 6th—first half of the 5th century BCE (destruction of the archaic settlement during Douketios' campaigns) (575 BC – 459 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

production or ownership

commentary

The inscription shows a name that occurs in other documents from eastern Sicily (see in particular the loom weights from Terravecchia di Cuti ISic020569, ISic020570, ISic020571). However, judging from the ductus it appears to be a forgery.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

1/30/2022