ISic000073: Funerary epitaph for MTR the potter
- ID
- ISic000073
- Language
- Punic
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of De Simone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular limestone stele, roughly finished on all sides.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 60 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over two lines, set at the top of the stele, filling the available width.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 75-120mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- Found in 1779, either on Mozia or the nearby necropolis at Birgi
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Italy
- Repository
- Villa Whitaker , 5418
- Autopsy
- De Simone
- Map
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC – 401 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
mtr: Punic personal name, unexplained.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 644808
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 323 no.17
- Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Corpus inscriptionum Semiticarum (Paris: e Reipublicae Typographeo, 1881), at 1.137
- Joseph I. S. Whitaker, Motya, a Phoenician Colony in Sicily (London: G. Bell, 1921), at 116-120 fig.2
- Nahoum Slouschz, Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions (for the Bialik Foundation by the Vaad Halashon Haivrit, 1942), at 116
- P. Cintas, « A propos de Motyé, “C.I.S.”, 1,2, no.137. Réflexions sur l’épigraphie paléopunique. », Karthago 12 (1964 1963): 149‑63, at fig.2-3
- Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, Le iscrizioni fenicie e puniche delle colonie in Occidente (Rome: Istituto di studi del vicino Oriente, 1967), at Sic.Pun.03
- Rossana De Simone, «Una nuova iscrizione punica su un cippo funerario da Mozia», Folia Phoenicia 7 (2023): 53–61, https://doi.org/10.19272/202313201004, at 54 fig.3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/31/2025