ISic020942: ISic020942

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
ISic020942
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
dedication
Object type
Incense burner
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Brugnone 2018, checked against photograph ;
  • 1: Brugnone: ἐπ[ι]θυε ... ἐσ(χαρίς or χάριον)

Physical description

Support

Description
Small ceramic incense table/burner, consisting of a shallow circular cup or basin (diam. 12.7 cm) on a circular pedestal foot (diam. 7.5 cm). The basin has a relief rim. Text is incised on the flat upper surface of the table. The object is recomposed of several fragments.
Object type
Incense burner
Material
ceramic
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 7.5 cm, width: 12.7 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
The text is incised pre-firing in a clockwise direction around the upper surface of the basin in a single line.
Text condition
No data
Technique
incised
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Letters incised with a relatively broad tool, in single strokes without serfis, but with some extensions to strokes, e.g. at top of alpha. Alpha has straight bar. Epsilon has slightly shorter mid-stroke. Nu has diagonal starting and finishing part way down the verticals. Omicron and theta are slightly smaller than other characters. mu has straight lines, with the middle strokes joining slightly above the base line.

Letter heights
Line 1: 4-9mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin
Selinus
Provenance found
From the necropolis in Manicalunga, Selinunte, but without more specific provenance. Identified in the museum store during restoration work..

Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 62928
Autopsy
No Autopsy
Map

Date

Later fourth or earlier third century BCE on the basis of the lettering (Brugnone). The type of incense burner has a long chronological span, and archaeological context is lacking. (350 BC - 251 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

dedication

commentary

Brugnone notes that ἐσχαρίς would also be possible (but also ἐσχάρα?). The final sigma is invisible in the published photograph; Brugnone (2018: 56) notes that 'dopo l'epsilon si intravede un sigma che sembra inciso dopo la cottura con una punta sottile', and suggests the two letters, following a mark of separation, stand as abbreviation for the object itself.

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/6/2024