ISic001553: I.Sicily inscription 001553

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic001553
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: aedicula
Status: draft
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text checked against photograph in Vento;
line.1: Gabrici: ΙΘΙΟΚΑΣΙΑ ΗΡΥΣΑ ΑΓΑΘΑ; Manni Piraino: Ἰθι[. .]ασία ἥρ[υ]σα ἀγαθά

Physical description

Support

Description: No data
Object type: aedicula
Material: plaster on stone
Condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 93 cm, width: 55.5 cm, depth: 61 cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: painted
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Simple letters with slight serfis to the strokes, particularly to the top of the alpha. Alpha is broad with straight bar. The initial theta appears circular with a central point; the final theta has a detached horizontal bar and is slightly ovoid.
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Lilybaeum
Provenance found: Found in Marsala in 1895, but exact provenance was concealed.

Current location

Place: Palermo, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 1067
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

1st century BCE — 1st century CE (100 BC - AD 100)

Evidence: No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Photograph in Vento is excellent and it is possible to see traces of almost the entire text, as originally read by Gabrici.

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

3/9/2021