ISic020712: ISic020712

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: ISic020712
Language: Sikel
Text type: ludic (symposium context?)
Object type: mug
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Antonaccio, Shea 2015

Physical description

Support

Description: Fragment of the bottom of a mug (?).
Object type: mug
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the underside of the vessel.
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, Trench 13, Stratum 1 (Antonaccio, Shea 2015).
Map

Current location

Place: Aidone, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico di Aidone , 90-3
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

ludic (symposium context?)

commentary

Similar to another document from Morgantina, a kylix exhorting drinking with an inscription on the interior bottom of it (ISic020711), this is probably also an 'interactive' document, to use Antonaccio and Shea's words (Antonaccio, Shea 2015, p. 60). «If this [sc. λαπε] is a Sikeliote Greek imperative, it is possible that λάπε is standing in for the aorist imperative λαβέ from λαμβάνω. If so, the bottom of this mug is exhorting the potential user to ‘take it!’ which is plausible if it were hanging from a wall or resting upside down on a shelf with the base visible» (Antonaccio, Shea 2015, p. 61).

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Carla Maria Antonaccio and Tim Shea, ‘Some Graffiti from Archaic Morgantina’, in Morgantina Duemilaequindici. La Ricerca Archeologica a Sessant’anni Dall’avvio Degli Scavi, Ed. L. Maniscalco (Palermo, 2015), 59–67, at 60-61, fig. 2

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

1/30/2022