ISic001551: I.Sicily inscription 001551
- ID
- ISic001551
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- aedicula
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- text checked against photograph in Vento ;
- line.1: Kretschmer: Μάρχιος (mislead by part of the decoration); Manni Piraino: Σημβρῶνις
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- aedicula
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 93.5 cm, width: 57 cm, depth: 50 cm
Material
- Description
- plaster on stone
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- painted
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Relatively broad brushstrokes with some fluidity. Alpha is broad with straight bar; beta has distinct closed eyes, somewhat angular; eta is broad with outward turning lower strokes; theta is ovid with horizontal bar; mu is broad with vertical uprights, and the middle strokes only descending half-way; omicron is sometimes slightly smaller and above the line; sigma is lunate; omega is lunate.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- One of thirteen found in Marsala in 1895; the original findspot was concealed.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 1070
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st century BCE — 1st century CE (100 BC - AD 100)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0040
- P. Kretschmer, ‘Das Femininum von ἥρως’, Glotta 16, no. 3–4 (1927): 306–7, at 306 no.1
- E. Gabrici, «Stele sepolcrali di Lilibeo a forma di Heroon», Monumenti Antichi 33 (1929): 41–60, at 53-54
- A.M. Bisi, «Influenze italiote e siceliote sull’arte tardo-punica. Le stele funerarie di Lilibeo», Archeologia Classica 22 (1970): 92–130, at 100 no.3
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 21
- C.A. Di Stefano, Lilibeo. Testimonianze archeologiche dal IV sec a.C. al V sec. d.C. (Palermo, 1984), at 169
- M. Vento, Le stele dipinte di Lilibeo (Marsala: Centro europeo di studi economici e sociali, 2000), at 101-105 tav.68-73
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026