ISic030047: Metal tessera bearing a personal name
- ID
- ISic030047
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- tessera (civic)?
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- draft
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Sudano 2015
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lamina.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- bronze
Inscription
- Layout
- The inscription runs on three lines on one side of the the lamina.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Terravecchia di Grammichele
- Provenance found
- Discovered among the ex-voto from the shrine of Poggio dell'Aquila.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 15757
- Autopsy
- Mignosa 2022-01-17
- Map
Date
first half of the 5th century BCE. (500 BC - 451 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
This is a lamina bearing a name followed by a patronymic, both of which are well attested in Sicily (see Sudano 2015, 703) and both featuring doric traits. The document has been interpreted as a civic tessera (see Cordano 1992) or as a votive tessera (Orsi 1897, 262-263; Manganaro 2003, 152) applied over an anathema, although it does not have any application hole.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «D’una città greca a Terravecchia presso Granmichele in provincia di Catania», Monumenti di Antichità 7 (1897): 201–74, at 262-263, fig. 45
- Federica Cordano, «Una tessera pubblica da Terravecchia di Grammichele», La Parola del Passato 47 (1992): 455–58.
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni greche del V sec. a.C. della Sicilia», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 144 (2003): 147–56, at 150-152
- Nella Sudano, ‘Greeks and Sikels in the Hyblaean Area: An Historical Interpretation of the Epigraphic Evidence in the Chalcidian Hinterland’, in SOMA 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Held at the University of Catania 3-5 March, vol. 2, 2 vols (Oxford, 2015), 699–708, at 703, no. 5, fig. 11
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Valentina Mignosa
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/23/2022