ISic030052: Contract for the sale of property
- ID
- ISic030052
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- Private contract
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on Manganaro in Parola del Passato 1989, corrected from photo in Cordano 1984;
- 4: Perhaps [....]κότα, an accusative participle referring to the seller's possession of the property in question?
- 5: κα[.], M., but the iota is clearly visible in the photo.
- 6: τῶ, M., but the iota is clearly visible in the photo.
- 7: [.]ὐάμερ[..?], M., but the epsilon is clearly visible in the photo.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A lead sheet with the left, top, and right sides damaged.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- Lead
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: not recorded cm, width: not recorded cm, depth: 0.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text fills all the preserved surface; this appears to be a fragment from the center of the original lead sheet and no information about the margins or original extent of the text is preserved.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kamarina
- Provenance found
- G. Manganaro first published the text from a drawing while it was in the possession of G. Iapichino, who by 1989 had given the object to the Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale di Ragusa in
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Ibleo , 8013
- Autopsy
- No data
- Map
Date
2nd century BCE (200 BC – 100 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Tiny fragment, but the unambiguous reference to guarantors (Ἄμποχοι) suggests this is an independent contract and not to be joined with another existing text. It is written in the same hand as ISic 030051.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 27.0651
- 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 1344-1349
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Case e terra a Kamarina e Morgantina nel III–II sec. a.C.», La Parola del Passato 44 (1989): 189–216, at 191 Kam. II
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at p.137 dr
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Randall Souza
- Contributors
- Randall Souza
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 6/21/2023