ISic030057: Contract for the sale of a house and related structures

ID
ISic030057
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
Private contract
Object type
lamina
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from Souza 2022 in ZPE.;
  • Line.2: Manganaro does not expand the phratry-tribe designations here or elsewhere in the text.
  • Line.4: [..]ν, M. and C.
  • Line.13: On the lamina, the letter in the final word that must be an omega or an alpha is rendered oddly with two vertical lines.
  • Line.14: δυ δ[.]κάτα, C.;
  • Line.15: M. read ...; C. read [....] δευ; I cannot detect the existence of letters on this line either by autopsy nor photography.
  • Line.16: [.]ΡΙΚΑΙΔΕΚΑΤ.. ? .., M.; τρί και δεκάτ, C. and D.

Physical description

Support

Description
A lead sheet intact on the right side, damaged on the top, left, and bottom sides. The measurements below do not reflect the addition of a fragment to the left of the text as proposed in Souza 2022 in ZPE.
Object type
lamina
Material
Lead
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 6.8 cmwidth: 8.5 cmdepth: 0.1 cm

Inscription

Layout
The top of the sheet is damaged and the first line of text is not well preserved, but does appear to be the first line of the document. The right margin is entirely preserved. The bottom of the sheet is damaged but the final preserved line of text does appear to be the last line of the document. The left margin is unknown, and it is an open question how much text is lost on the left side (see below in commentary). The text wraps and several words are continued fron one line onto the next, breaking roughly between syllables (Lines 4, 5).
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin
Kamarina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded; first attested in the collection of Diego Ricotti Prina.

Current location

Place
Ragusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Ibleo ,
Autopsy
Souza, 2014.03.24 (not on display)
Map

Date

ca. 250-200 BCE (250 BC – 200 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

Private contract

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Randall Souza
Contributors
Last revision
6/21/2023