ISic030054: Contract for the sale of property
- ID
- ISic030054
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- Private contract
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on Cordano in Boll. Art. 1984 and Manganaro in Parola del Passato 1989;
- a.1: [---....]άτα[.], C.
- a.2: [.]ουκλῆς, C.; [..]θυκλῆς, Dubois in IGDS1δευ τ[...]αι, M.
- a.3: πρώ. Ἴνικις, C.ἐνά. δευ., C. (Cordano does not expand the tribe/phratry numerals)
- a.4: [..]ά. πρώ., C.; . πρώ, M.
- a.5: Ἡρακλείδ[.], C
- a.6: [---]Γνάθωνος, C.; εναθ[.. ? ..]νος πεμ. πρ., Dubois in IGDS 1No omicron is visible at the end of the line in the drawing of G. Foglia in Cordano 1984.
- a.7: .ε.τ[.]μος, Dubois in IGDS1
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A lead sheet preserved in three main fragments, and with the top, left, and bottom sides damaged.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- Lead
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 3.5 cm, width: 7.5 cm, depth: 0.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Only the right margin of the text is preserved; the last preserved line of text may well be the final line of the original due to the lack of visible letters below it and the fact that the line runs closest to the right edge of the lamina (perhaps in an effort to avoid running onto a new line); the full bottom margin is not preserved. Top and left margins are unknown. No word breaks at line ends.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kamarina
- Provenance found
- Discovered in 1971 in systematic excavations on the south side of Platea C in the intersection where it passes between block C43 and C44.
Current location
- Place
- Ragusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Ibleo , 8020
- Autopsy
- No data
- Map
Date
ca. 300 BCE (350 BC – 250 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Manganaro's readings of Line 1 are not supported by G. Foglia's drawing in Cordano 1984, but Lines 2-7 are dominated by personal names, and so it may well be correct. Outstanding questions are: 1) how much text to imagine existing to the left of fragment 1 and 2) why does the person named on Line 2 get a fully spelled out δευτέραι?
On point 1, Line 3 ends with a tribe and phratry designation, and the preserved beginning of Line 4 begins with a tribe and phratry designation, so we must have at least enough space for a name and patronymic to the left of what is preserved. This being the case, if we accept Manganaro's restoration of Ἄμποχοι in Line 1, then we should have 2 guarantors on Line 2 (i.e. a name, patronymic, and tribe/phratry designation before Euthukles/Bathukles), 2 more on Line 3, 2 more on Line 4, 3 more on Line 5, 1 more on Line 6, and 2 more on Line 7: 12 guarantors in all. On the other hand, if we do not accept the restoration of Ἄμποχοι, then we have the more normal number of 10 guarantors, and Euthukles/Bathukles becomes an official or perhaps one of the parties to the transaction.
On point 2, Manganaro's restoration of two abbreviations is tortured. Dubois in IGDS1 suggests that it may be an "indication of a date" but ordinals for the date usually follow the name of the month; it is however possible that the month followed at the beginning of the next line.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- 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 194 Kam. IV
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 125
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