ISic030058: Contract for the sale of property
- ID
- ISic030058
- 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 is from Souza 2016, integrating two joining fragments to the three consituting the document published by Cordano and Dubois.;
- 3: [....]ατεία[.], M.;[..].τεία[.?] , D.
- 4: [....]κίας, D.
- 6: The lambda in Glaukias' name has a crossbar, which is perhaps why it was crossed out.τετάρτα, D.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A lead sheet in six fragments partially intact on the bottom side, and damaged on the top, left, and right sides. Measurements below do not reflect the addition of the sixth fragment, Manganaro's Kam. IX, to the right hand side of the text as proposed in Souza in ZPE 2022.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- Lead
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 4.7 cm, width: 4.9 cm, depth: 0.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Only the bottom margin is preserved
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Kamarina
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded; first recorded 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
commentary
With this document we have yet another female seller of property who may be, conservatively, the daughter of Aischylos, or more likely, his widow, depending on restorations in empty spaces.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 39.1010
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Case e terra a Kamarina e Morgantina nel III–II sec. a.C.», La Parola del Passato 44 (1989): 189–216, at 200 Kam.VIII, 203 Kam.IX, 207 Morg. IV
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 54
- Randall Souza, ‘More New Readings of Hellenistic Sicilian Real Estate Contracts Involving Women’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 223 (2022): 71–81, at 76 no.2
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