ISic020947: Fragment of cup with graffito
- ID
- ISic020947
- Language
- Punic
- Text type
- identification
- Object type
- cup
- Status
- edited
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after De Simone 2013
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of an Attic red-figure cup depicting a drunken Silenos. Dimensions not recorded.
- Object type
- cup
- Material
- ceramic
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm,聽width: cm,聽depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- two letters on the base of the cup, added after firing
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- scratched
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations 2010-2011 in the area of the Kothon, Pit 1660, Motya. Now in storage in the Museo Whitaker.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Whitaker , MC.11.4512/2
- Autopsy
- none
- Map
Date
Second half of the 5th century BCE (450 BC - 401 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The first letter (Aleph) is written upright, and before writing the second letter (Lamed), the scribe rotated the vessel counterclockwise. It could be interpreted as an abbreviation (of a name) or a commercial sigla. The text appears to be complete.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Spagnoli (2012) at 53 fig.35
- Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013), at 26 MO.5 fig.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/1/2025