ISic001116: votive dedication to Aphrodite
- ID
- ISic001116
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- table
- Status
- No data
- Links
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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
- 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
- Lettering
-
- 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 – 300 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Thomas Blackburne, ‘Inscriptions in 1748 / 1749 Collected by Thos Blackburne Esqr’ (1749), papers of C.T. Onions MS 2089, National Library of Australia, at foglio 36
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo (Palermo, 1762), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1762, at 68 no.3
- 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 7 cl.1 no.17
- 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 8 cl.1 no.18
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5553
- A. Boeckh et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols (Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1828), at 3.5553
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0295
- Ch. Michel, Recueil d’inscriptions grecques (Brussels: Leroux, 1897), https://www.worldcat.org/title/879126873, at 1244
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 42.1806
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 42.0969
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 134
- D. Gill, Greek Cult Tables (New York, 1991), at 41 no.11
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Massalioti per il Mediterraneo: tra Spagna, Sardegna e Sicilia», in Sardinia antiqua: Studi in onore di Piero Meloni in occasione del suo settantesimo compleanno, a c. di M. Bonello Lai (Cagliari: Edizioni della Torre, 1992), 195–206, at 195-199
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/1/2025