ISic001116: votive dedication to Aphrodite

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ID
ISic001116
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
dedication
Object type
table
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of IGPalermo checked against photograph;
  • 2: Manni Piraino: τράπηξαν (typographic error?)

Physical description

Support

Description
A limestone slab, forming part of the front of a small votive table.
Object type
table
Material
limestone
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 15 cm, width: 44.5 cm, depth: 2 cm

Inscription

Layout
The text is set out over two lines on the lower part fo the front face of the slabe, in a field (4 cm high) demarcated from the upper part of the face by an incised horizontal line.
Text condition
complete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Small neat early Hellenistic letters, Alpha with straight bar, epsilon with short middle bar, zeta formed by vertical with horizontal bars top and bottom; Mu with four sloping strokes, full length; omicron, omega and theta all smaller than other letters; sigma with four equal strokes, top and bottom angled outwards; omega open with short horizontal tails.

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 9-11mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Sicilia
Provenance found
First recorded in the College of the Jesuits in Palermo in 1748/1749 by Thomas Blackburne, but provenance not recorded. As a dedication to Aphrodite, it is tempting to attribute it to the sanctuary at Erice.

Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8796
Autopsy
observed in Palermo museum, but no proper autopsy to date
Map

Date

4th century BCE (400 BC - 301 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

dedication

commentary

Several Massaliotes are attested in Hellenistic Sicily, notably at Lilybaeum in ISic003114 and Syracusae in ISic003334, and it is tempting to see this as a dedication by a Massaliote trader at the sanctuary of Eryx.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/1/2025