ISic030062: Contract for the sale of houses

Apparatus criticus

• Previous editions are Manganaro's ed. pr. in PP 1989, and Dubois in IGDS II no. 56. This text and the apparatus are copied from Souza 2022 in ZPE;
• 1: [...---], Manganaro. Neither M. nor Dubois read any letters on my Line 1, and M. inserts an additional unrestored line (dashes) between my Lines 1 and 2; [...........]ς οἰκίας, M. and D. but no sigma is visible on the sheet; πέ[...........?], M.
  
• 3: [.......] Παντίας, M. and D.; Λυκίσκου ., M.
  
• 4: Φ.λ.κ[..?], M. The upsilon after the phi is unusual: it is reversed compared to the other upsilons, i.e. the short part is on the right; also the more vertical hasta is extremely long and runs down into the next line.
  
• 5: [---]Φιλωνίδας[---], M. and D.
  
• 6: [---]ΑΣΙΔΑ.Λ .. ? .. Τ[---], M.

Physical description

Support

Description

A lead sheet damaged on top, right, and bottom sides, apparently preserved on left side.

Object type

lamina

Material

Lead

Condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 4.3 cm, width: 5.4 cm, depth: 0.1 cm

Inscription

Layout

The left side of the text appears to be completely preserved, as does the top of the text (even though the support is partially damaged at the top). Right margin of text not preserved, nor is the bottom of the text preserved.

Text condition

incomplete

Letter heights

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Morgantina

Provenance found

Whether from Morgantina or Camarina remains uncertain; from 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

Evidence

lettering

Text type

Private contract

commentary

The engraving of this brief contract is extremely light and difficult to read. The list of names at the end, headed by the brother of the buyer (who is designated as the "guardian" of his sister, who could not transact business independently), likely comprises the guarantors of the contract.

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 698783
• EDR: 153237
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 71000291
• PHI: 331953

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 39.1011
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Case e terra a Kamarina e Morgantina nel III–II sec. a.C.», La Parola del Passato 44 (1989): 189–216, at 209 Morg. V, fig.8
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 56
• Randall Souza, ‘More New Readings of Hellenistic Sicilian Real Estate Contracts Involving Women’, Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 223 (2022): 71–81, at 78 no.3, fig. 5

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