ISic030061: Contract for the mortgage of land and equipment

ID
ISic030061
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
Private contract
Object type
lamina
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text is from Manganaro in ASNP 1977. The main alternative is Comparetti's editio princeps in NotScav 1912.;
  • C. adds two speculatively restored lines before the first preserved line: [.............................................];
  • 1: [.........]ὰ, C.
  • 2: [..]ὶ, C.; ἐνι[.....]      , C.
  • 3: [..]ξαμήνωι, C.
  • 4: Ἄμ[.]οχοι, C.; Αἰσχρίων Σίρα, Ἡρ[··]στλ[..?], C.
  • 5: νος, C.; Ἀριστάρχ[..]      , C.
  • 8: C. interprets the monogram as indicating a connection between the two Aischrions listed one after another; M. follows De Sanctis in considering it an error; Ἀριστά[....]      , C.

Physical description

Support

Description
A lead sheet in eight fragments, damaged on top and right sides, apparently preserved on left and perhaps bottom sides. Reported in early publications to be silver, but apparently it is a lead object like all other Sicilian real estate contracts.
Object type
lamina
Material
Lead
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 5.0 cmwidth: 6.5 cmdepth: 0.1 cm

Inscription

Layout
The left side of the text and its margin is completely preserved from L. 4 onward; all other margins are unknown. The text appears to wrap, e.g. from L. 4 to L. 5 where the break is between syllables.
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin
Morgantina
Provenance found
Published in 1912 by Orsi, having been acquired along with other objects by him for the Syracuse museum on 14 February 1910 from Serra Orlando (Morgantina).

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 30811
Autopsy
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Date

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

Text type

Private contract

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Citation and editorial status

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