ISic001573: I.Sicily inscription 001573
- ID
- ISic001573
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a small limestone base, preserving the right and lower edges. Part of upper cornice is preserved and with above the remains of the paws/feet of a relief scuplture. The inscription on the recessed face below (7cm high).
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 13.5 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 11.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek immediately below the cornice on the face.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
Types list:
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 10-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Chance find in September 1965 in Contrada Manicalunga, north side of the Timpone Nero necropolis.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 17053
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Second quarter 5th century BCE (500 BC – 450 BC)- 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 26.1111
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Quattro iscrizioni greche del museo di Palermo», Kokalos 12 (1966): 200–206, at 202 no.3
- M. B. Wallace, ‘Notes on Early Greek Grave Epigrams’, Phoenix 24 (1970): 95–105, at 105
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 91
- W. Peek, ‘Grabepigramm aus Selinus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 23 (1976): 93–94.
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no.25
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Note epigrafiche selinuntine», Thalassa 3 (2006): 45–123, at A19 tav.11.48
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/24/2025