ISic000072: I.Sicily inscription 000072
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- ID
- ISic000072
- Language
- Punic
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Cordici as a 'pietra marmorea', and the implication of the form in the drawing is a plaque. No further details are preserved, although the apograph implies damage to the upper right.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Eryx
- Provenance found
- The only record comes from the manuscript of the Antonio Cordici, of the 1640s, who described it as preserved 'in potere del Castellano', and who had a copy from dott. Rocco Palmo'
Current location
Lost.
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE, 'da quanto si può dedurre dalla copia' (Amadasi Guzzo) (300 BC - 101 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Preserved in the two manuscripts of Antonio Cordici, cod. ex Coppola f.49 and cod. Panormit. f.48. Amadasi Guzzo interprets as a dedication to Astarte of Erice. The text contains an internal dating by mention of sufets.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644807
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.20, no.15
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl.20, no.15
- Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Corpus inscriptionum Semiticarum (Paris: e Reipublicae Typographeo, 1881), at 135
- A. Pellegrini, Studi di epigrafia fenicia (Palermo: Clausen, 1891), at 79-81
- Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, Le iscrizioni fenicie e puniche delle colonie in Occidente (Rome: Istituto di studi del vicino Oriente, 1967), at Sic.Pun.01
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/9/2026