ISic020759: ISic020759
- ID
- ISic020759
- Language
- Sikel
- Text type
- ownership (?)
- Object type
- pyxis, lid
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Agostiniani, in Agostiniani, Albanese Procelli 2018.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Pyxis lid.
- Object type
- pyxis, lid
- Material
- ceramic
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, dim: , width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- 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 109.
- 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
commentary
The masculine name Πυρρίας is common in Greek, also in Sicily. Πυρρι[ας] occurs for example in the environment of Gela, as shown by the graffito on black-glazed Attic skyphos (ISic020500; Arena IGASM II[2], no. 54, pl. 19.3; Manni Piraino 1980, p. 1804-1805, no. 42, pl. 11; SEG 29.0874) and by a defixio (Arena IGASM 2[2], no. 45, l. 9), and it would therefore be no surprise to find it in the context of Montagna di Marzo. But we can also assume a masculine nominative case ending in -α, alien to Greek, but conceivable for other cases from Montagna di Marzo (Agostiniani 2018, p. 193), such as Ταμυρα (MMA 83; ISic020752) or Κακρυολα (MMA 81; ISic020761). Or, since the inscription is on a pyxis, a vessel generally associated with predominantly female use (Agostiniani 2018, 193, n.147), the name could be a feminine one, not otherwise attested in Greek.
From a palaeographical point of view, it is interesting to note the use of 'normal' alpha (and not the arrow-shaped type), the rho type without the lower stroke (as occurs elsewhere and in the East tomb 31) and the upsilon type with a vertical bar, when most inscriptions use the V-type.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Discussion
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 29.0874
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Nuove iscrizioni dall’acropoli di Gela», in Philias Charin. Miscellanea di studi classici in onore di Eugenio Manni, vol. 5, 6 voll. (Rome, 1980), 1767–1831, at 1804-1805, no.42, pl. 11
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. II. Iscrizioni di Gela e di Agrigento, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 5 voll. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002), at 54, pl. XIX.3
- 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 193, fig. 119
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