ISic030018: ISic030018
- ID
- ISic030018
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- votive
- Object type
- weight
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Arena (IGASM 2)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Weight with a ring.
- Object type
- weight
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is arranged around the weight.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Gela
- Provenance found
- Found in Gela on the north slope of the acropolis.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Gela, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela ,
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
Date
500—475 BCE (500 BC – 475 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Dubois points out that the same inscription is found, in Sicily, on a loom weight now in the Museo Paolo Orsi di Siracusa (Orsi 1906, 679, no. 1, fig. 510 ). The weight of 418 g corresponds to two talents of silver, each weighing 208.8 g (Dubois IGDS no. 152).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 16.0547
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 152
- 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 26, pl. XI.1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Valentina Mignosa
- James Chartrand
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 4/14/2021