ISic030303: ISic030303

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic030303
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: Revenge doll (Rachepuppe)
Object type: statue
Status: draft
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Edition

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Apparatus criticus

Text after Sudano 2015

Physical description

Support

Description: Lead figurine naked with its head covered in holes, and its feet completely twisted.
Object type: statue
Object condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 7.5 cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: lead

Inscription

Layout: The inscription runs on the back of the statue.
Text condition: complete
Technique: engraved
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Terravecchia di Grammichele
Provenance found: Discovered in Terravecchia di Grammichele.
Map

Current location

Place: Siracusa, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi ,
Autopsy: Mignosa 2022-01-24
Map

Date

between the 5th and the beginning of the 4th century BCE (Manganaro 1997; Sudano 2015). (500 BC - 380 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context, material-context, lettering

Text type

Revenge doll (Rachepuppe)

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

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EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Discussion

Marco Camera, Terravecchia di Grammichele. Storia di un insediamento della Sicilia orientale tra indigeni e Greci, Edizioni Quasar, Antico (Roma, 2020), at 156-157, fig. 7.6

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Valentina Mignosa

Contributors

Last revision

11/3/2025