ISic020753: ISic020753

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
ISic020753
Language
Sikel
Text type
ownership (?)
Object type
cup
Status
No data
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Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after apograph. ;
  • Agostiniani 2018: γασμυσχελος

Physical description

Support

Description
Cup.
Object type
cup
Material
ceramic
Condition
complete
Dimensions
height: cm, dim: , width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
The text is arranged in a clockwise spiral and there is a letter chi (or a commercial mark) at the center of the inscription that does not seem part of the text.
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 area of the archaic necropolis, grave 169.
Map

Current location

Place
Agrigento, Italy
Repository
Museo Regionale Archeologico Pietro Griffo ,
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

500—450 BCE (500 BC – 450 BC)
Evidence
archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

ownership (?)

commentary

According to the editor, this would be an imitation of a Greek name, with the Greek masculine nominative ending in -ος (as in ISic020754, Agostiniani 2018, p. 192, n. 144). The letter in the centre of the inscription should not be read as an integral part of the inscription, but could be interpreted as one of the well-known and recurrent signs placed on ceramics, both local and imported, in the form of a cross and perhaps as a trademark.

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Printed editions
Discussion

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Valentina Mignosa
Contributors
Last revision
10/14/2021