ISic020762: ISic020762

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: ISic020762
Language: Sikel
Text type: ownership (?)
Object type: kylix
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani, in Agostiniani, Albanese Procelli 2018.

Physical description

Support

Description: Foot of kylix.
Object type: kylix
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, dim: , width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed 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 area of the archaic necropolis, grave 104.
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

The text, with the ending in -αι, would suggest an anthroponym in the dative case. However, since the anthroponym is not otherwise known in Sicily for the Greek context (Νίνας is known in Thespie in a document of 245-240 BCE, SEG 37.0385, l. 28), it can also be assumed to be an indigenous name in the dative case, according to a 'mixed' morphology also found at Segesta in the Elymian texts. The use of dative in the ownership formula in fact, alien to Greek, recurs in archaic Sicily in both Greek and indigenous documents and would suggest - this is Agostiniani's (2018, p. 193) hypothesis - that it may be a trait peculiar to the morphology of the indigenous language(s) of Sicily, used in Greek as well in 'mixed' contexts such as Montagna di Marzo.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Luciano Agostiniani, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia. II. Sicilia Centrale e Meridionale, vol. 2, Forthcoming, at MMA 43

Discussion

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. 121, n. 148

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

10/14/2021