ISic020769: ISic020769

This inscription is deprecated. Valentina Mignosa deprecated the file in favour of ISic020558 as this text appeared to be a different inscription due to the difference in the reading of the ductus of alpha (see Arena IGASM 2, 92, fig. 27.3; Agostiniani 2018, p. 183-184, fig. 89) but it is actually the same document (see commentary in ISic020558). View inscription ISic020558

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: ISic020769
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: abecedarium
Object type: cup
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text after Agostiniani, in Agostiniani, Albanese Procelli 2018.

Physical description

Support

Description: Cup, fragment of the wall.
Object type: cup
Material: ceramic
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: cm, dim: , width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is placed on the outer surface of the fragment.
Text condition: incomplete
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 113.
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

abecedarium

commentary

This is clearly a beginning of an alphabetarium. Interestingly, the ductus of the letters is different from what we see in the other texts: the arrow-shaped alpha is of the type with a bar attached to the vertex of the letter; the gamma is of the type with a single bar, perhaps slightly curved; the delta is of the type found in Montagna di Marzo, but with a dot in its centre. Clearly, the reason for this difference is to be found in the particular nature of the text, the alphabetarium, which presents the 'model' types of the local alphabet. It should also be noted that, without the possibility of tracing the archaeological context in this case, it is difficult to date the document on a palaeographic basis, due to the reasons mentioned above.

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 45

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 183-184, fig. 89

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

12/21/2022