ISic030064: Contract for the sale of property

Apparatus criticus

• Previous editions are Manganaro's ed. pr. in PP 1989, and Dubois in IGDS II no. 58. This text and the apparatus are copied from Souza 2016 in ZPE. The gaps at line ends are maxima.;
• 2: .Ε, M. and D.
  
• 3: [---]ΛΕΦΙ[---]ΕΛΟΝ[---]ΙΛ[---], M. and D.
  
• 4: [....]μαχος Φί[.....], M. and D.; [....?]υ, D.; Ἡρακλείδ[...........]
  
• 5: Φιλ.νίδας, M. and D.;  Ἄν.αλλος, M. and D.
  
• 6: Ξεν[..]λέο[.], M. and D.; M. adds "(nome)" at the end of the line.
  
• 7: [.].έ..[..], M. and D.; M. adds "(nome)" at the end of the line.
  
• 8: Τε[.]σάνδρου, Ἁγήσανδρος Ἀλι..[...], Κλέων[---], M. and D; M. adds "(patron.)" at the end of the line.
  
• 9: Ξ[.]νων Ἱ.πάρχ.υ,   Ἄντ[.]λλος, M. and D.

Physical description

Support

Description

A lead sheet in several fragments, damaged on top and right sides, apparently preserved on left and bottom sides.

Object type

lamina

Material

Lead

Condition

damaged

Dimensions

height: 5.9 cm, width: 11 cm, depth: 0.1 cm

Inscription

Layout

The left and bottom margins of the text appear to be almost completely preserved. Top and right margins of text not preserved.

Text condition

incomplete

Letter heights

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Morgantina

Provenance found

Original discovery not recorded (probably Morgantina?); 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

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 698785
• EDR: 153241
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 71000293
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 39.1013
• Giacomo Manganaro, «Case e terra a Kamarina e Morgantina nel III–II sec. a.C.», La Parola del Passato 44 (1989): 189–216, at 213 Morg. VII fig.10
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 58
• Randall Souza, ‘Hellenistic Sicilian Real Estate Contracts Inscribed on Lead Tablets: New Readings and Implications for the Economic Independence of Women’, Zeitschrift Fūr Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 197 (2016): 149–66, at 153-155 fig.9

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