ISic030061: Contract for the mortgage of land and equipment
- ID
- ISic030061
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- Private contract
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
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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 cm, width: 6.5 cm, depth: 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
- No data
- Map
Date
ca. 250-200 BCE (250 BC – 200 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 452-453 fig.30
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 4.0062
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tavolette di piombo inscritte della Sicilia greca», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 3.7 (1977): 1329–49, at 1342-1344 tav.LXI
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 194
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