ISic001660: I.Sicily inscription 001660
- ID
- ISic001660
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- text checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Although consistently described as marble in publications, the stone is a compact limestone, not a marble, in the form of a thick slab/plaque.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 42 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 20.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regular and neat letters without serifs. Alpha with both straight and broken bar, beta with closed loops (upper slightly smaller), Mu has full length slanting strokes; omicron full size; sigma has horizontal top and bottom; rhomboid omega.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Found on Capo Boeo
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi , 24361
- Autopsy
- Observed on display by Metcalfe, 2015-04-18
- Map
Date
2nd or 1st century BCE (as late as early Augustan acc. to Wilson and Manni Piraino; but Manni Piraino also suggests 2nd century BCE). The form of the letters surely suggests an earlier date in this range. (200 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284791
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 64900328
- PHI: 331219
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1965.0507
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 34.0951
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Due Iscrizioni inedite di Marsala», Kokalos 9 (1963): 157–62, at 159-162 no.2 tav.52
- C.A. Di Stefano, Lilibeo. Testimonianze archeologiche dal IV sec a.C. al V sec. d.C. (Palermo, 1984), at 125-126 no. 155
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 361 n.107
- C.A. Di Stefano, «Lilibeo: contributo alla rilettura dell’insula I», in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-IIIsec.a.C.). Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra, a c. di C. Ampolo, vol. 2 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), 545–53, at 547
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Parlare greco a Lilibeo: la documentazione epigrafica tra II e I sec. a.C.», in Lilibeo al tempo di Cicerone. Atti della Giornata di Studi Museo Archeologico Regionale Lilibeo - Marsala, 3 maggio 2019, a c. di Maria Grazia Griffo, Antonella Mandruzzato, e Elisa Chiara Portale (Palermo: Palermo University Press, 2021), 55–80, at 63 fig. 7
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/27/2023