ISic030026: Record of a debt
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Dubois (IGDS)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lamina.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 6.7 cm, width: 11.3 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- : 3mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Terravecchia di Cuti
- Provenance found
- Originally observed in the Virzi collection, subsequently into a collection outside Italy
Current location
- Place
- , Sicilia
- Repository
- private collection
- Autopsy
- No autopsy
Date
500—451 BCE (500 BCE - 451 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
God, Fortune! - Archon is indebted to the Goddess - [of the value of] Sicilian talents with interest (for a) total (of) - 141 ounces, 301 talents [Sicilian] - With this - he does not buy the food but buys the statues and furnishings with this silver and is indebted to the Goddess for twenty litrai - also the sister of Archon is indebted (to the Goddess) and being indebted (both she and Archon) also of her property and that of Archon (and) of this silver and of the children; Kupura and Saiso, (are) free women themselves and their children; concerning the insolvent Archon, as soon as he has delivered this silver at that same moment let him be free.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tavolette di piombo inscritte della Sicilia greca», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 3.7 (1977): 1329–49, at 1329-1335, pls. 54-56
- SEG at (1977), 27.0657
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Epigrafia greca», Kokalos 26–27 (1981 1980): 437–55, at 443-444
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 177
- Arena (1990) at 42, 44
- Van Effenterre and Ruzé (1995) at 278-280 no.77
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Nuove tavolette di piombo iscritte siceliote», La Parola del Passato 52 (1997): 306–48, at 325-329
- SEG at (1997), 47.1415
- 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 119
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/14/2026