ISic020739: ISic020739
- ID
- ISic020739
- Language
- Sikel
- Text type
- ownership
- Object type
- skyphos
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Mussinano 1970
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Attic black-glazed skyphos.
- Object type
- skyphos
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 14.4 cm, dim: 17.8 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is scratched on the underside of the foot.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Herbessus (?)
- Provenance found
- Found during the excavations (Soprintendenza alle Antichità di Siracusa, 1966—1968) in the East archaic necropolis of Montagna di Marzo, on the bottom niche, East grave 31.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Agrigento, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo , 65585, n. sc. 14
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
500—450 BCE (500 BC – 450 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, material-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
The inscription is on one of the 14 inscribed vessels that were part of the grave goods of tomb East 31 of the archaic necropolis of Montagna di Marzo, part itself of a larger set of objects (on which see Albanese Procelli in Agostiniani, Albanese Procelli 2018, pp. 151-182) belonging to two different burials, one more recent than the other, inside a hypogeic chamber with a platform, which was used for the pottery (and not for the deceased, as in the other hypogeic tombs of this type). The burials were contained in two clay sarcophagi. The vessels found in the tomb can be divided into two groups (Agostiniani, in Agostiniani, Albanese Procelli 2018, 194): large Attic (imported) drinking vessels (cups, 'stemless cups', a skyphos, i.e. luxury vessels, typically related to the consumption of wine in the symposium); vessels of different types, all of a smaller size. To the first group, the drinking vessels, belong 7 vases, of which 3 belong to the deceased in the front of the chamber, 4 to the second, in the back. The inscriptions of this first group show what appear to be names, perhaps onomastic formulae, followed by an ending -mi that could be (cf. Agostiniani, in Agostiniani, Albanese Procelli 2018, p. 195) an aphaeretic form of the verb εἰμί, not known in Greek epigraphic culture but perhaps adapted by the writers of Montagna di Marzo in correspondence with syntactic structures proper to their language. This epigraphic formula could be comparable to the Greek ownership inscriptions. In this document we have 'ares kaka' as the onomastic formula, without -mi (but other two vessels from the same grave feature the same onomastic formula 'ares kaka' with the ending -mi, see ISic020740 and ISic020741). The name inscribed is probably that of one of the two deceased in the grave.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. II. Sicilia Centrale e Meridionale, vol. 2, Forthcoming, at MMA??
- L. Mussinano, «Iscrizioni da Montagna di Marzo», Kokalos 16 (1970): 166–83, at no. 2, p. 171, pl. XXIII, fig. 2
- Discussion
- Luciano Agostiniani e R.M. Albanese Procelli, «La tomba Est 31 di Montagna di Marzo (Enna)», Kokalos 52 (2015): 17–49, at fig. 4
- Luciano Agostiniani e M.R. Albanese Procelli, «Montagna di Marzo (Piazza Armerina): la tomba Est 31», Cronache di archeologia e di storia dell’arte 37 (2018): 151–208, at 163, 186, 190, 195, fig. 103
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
- 10/14/2021