ISic001578: I.Sicily inscription 001578
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- ID
- ISic001578
- Language
- No data
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- block
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
Text of IGPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large rectangular block of the local stone, damaged at the left end, and with poor surface preservation.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- stone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 36 cm, width: 117 cm, depth: 43 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Seemingly a single line across the upper part of the 'front' face.
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
There is some debate over the letter forms, due to the poor state of the stone, and whether various epichoric letters are present.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found in Selinunte, 'probably' in 1893 (Garbini)
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 8748
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Presumably to be dated to the archaic/classical period of Selinunte (600 BC - AD 400)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text is very difficult to read and the interpretation much disputed, although Garbini was confident that it is not Punic. Guarducci and Garbini debated the presence of various letter forms, whether Megaran or from Selinunte, and Guarducci speculated that it was a non-Greek inscription in Greek letters. It seems most likely to be a damaged and difficult to read funerary inscription.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 344 no.4
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Iscrizioni inedite e revisioni selinuntine», Kokalos 9 (1963): 137–56, at 152 n.33
- G Garbini, «intervento», Kokalos 10–11, fasc. 1 (1965 1964): 484–85.
- Margherita Guarducci, «Gli alfabeti della Sicilia arcaica», Kokalos 10–11 (1965 1964): 465–88, at 487
- M.T. Manni Piraino, Iscrizioni greche lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelika 6 (Palermo: S. F. Flaccovio, 1973), at 104
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/7/2025