ISic030053: Contract for the sale of a house and a shop

Apparatus criticus

• Text based on Cordano in Boll. Art. 1984 and Manganaro in Parola del Passato 1989;
• 2: νη. πρ., C.; throughout the text C. does not expand the abbreviations as M. does.
  
• 3: τὰ(ν), M.
  
• 4: Θράσυλλον, M.λαύρα [.]πὲρ Γάου, C. and D. but the dative proposed by M. would appear to be more correct.Φερσσοφάσας, M., but the sheet clearly has three sigmas from the drawing of U. Lazzarini and G. Foglia printed in Cordano 1984.
  
• 8: πρῶ(τα), M.Σάννων, M.

Physical description

Support

Description

A lead sheet broken into five main fragments, and with the top, left, and bottom sides lightly damaged.

Object type

lamina

Material

Lead

Condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 9 cm, width: 13.8 cm, depth: 0.1 cm

Inscription

Layout

The left margin is not preserved but the first letters of most lines are preserved; the damage to the top has destroyed some of the text of L.1, and the ancient folds have damaged some of the text body. The right margin is entirely preserved and the bottom margin partially preserved.

Text condition

incomplete

Letter heights

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Kamarina

Provenance found

Discovered in 1973 before systematic excavations by R. Brugaletta on his property at a place later identified as House 17, Insula A 34.

Current location

Place

Ragusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Ibleo , 4470

Autopsy

No data

Map

Date

Evidence

lettering

Text type

Private contract

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 698770
• EDR: 153032
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 71000200
• PHI: 331917

Printed editions

• Giacomo Manganaro, «Case e terra a Kamarina e Morgantina nel III–II sec. a.C.», La Parola del Passato 44 (1989): 189–216, at 192 Kam. III
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 124

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