ISic030017: Bronze weight
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 2)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Astragalus-shaped weight of 925 gr, with rigid suspension ring.
- Object type
- weight
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 6.8 cm, width: 8 cm, depth: 5 cm
Material
- Description
- bronze
- Type > subtype
- metal.bronze > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela medium certainty
- Provenance found
- Found in Gela, whence to an English private collection, and acquired by the Vienna Museum in 1906.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Vienna, Sicilia
- Repository
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Antikensammlung, VI 3075
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
500—480 BCE (500 BCE - 480 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/knoechelgewicht-aus-gela-67079
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- A. Boeckh and J. Franz, Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum III. Pars XVII. Inscriptiones Phrygiae. Pars XVIII. Inscriptiones Galatiae. Pars XIX. Inscriptiones Paphlagoniae. Pars XX. Inscriptiones ponticae. Pars XXI. Inscriptiones Cappadociae. Pars XXII. Inscriptiones Lyciae. Pars XXIII. Inscriptiones Pamphyliae. Pars XXIV. Inscriptiones Pisidiae et Isauriae. Pars XXV. Inscriptiones Ciliciae. Pars XXVI. Inscriptiones Syriae. Pars XXVII. Inscriptiones Mesopotamiae et Assyriae. Pars XXVIII. Inscriptiones Mediae et Persidis. Pars XXIX. Inscriptiones Aegypti. Pars XXX. Inscriptiones Aethiopiae supra Aegyptum. Pars XXXI. Inscriptiones Cyrenaicae. Pars XXXII. Inscriptiones Siciliae cum Melita, Lipara, Sardinia.Pars XXXIII. Inscriptiones Italiae. Pars XXXIV. Inscriptiones Galliarum. Pars XXXV. Inscriptiones Hispaniae. Pars XXXVI. Inscriptiones Brittanniae. Pars XXXVII. Inscriptiones Germaniae. Pars XXXVIII. Inscriptiones Pannoniae, Daciae, Illyrici. Addenda et corrigenda (1853), vol. 3, 4 vols, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1853), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s5X4lUGIFBkC/page/n3/mode/2up, at 8521
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 593
- L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 1st edn (Oxford, 1961), at 278 no.51 pl.53
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at I, p.253-254, II, p.476
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 153
- L.H. Jeffery and A.W. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), at 278 no.51 pl.53
- 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 16, pl. VII.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/9/2021