ISic001661: Funerary inscription of Magon
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of De Simone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large rectangular block of limestone, serving as a tomb marker, roughly finished.
- Object type
- block
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 77 cm, depth: 15.5 cm
Material
- Description
- porous yellow calcarenite with visible bioclasts and reddish cement, likely calcarenite di Marsala (MRS) (grainstone with globigerinoids, bryozoans, miliolids, echinoid spines, red algae, quartz) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.non-polishable.yellowish > calcarenite_SiciliaOCC_Marsala
- Provenance
- Marsala
- Map
Inscription
- Layout
- Single line of very large letters filling the front face
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 115-160mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Foun in excavations of 1974 in the necropolis on via Fante, tomb 7.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
- 11295
- Autopsy
- observed on display 2023
- Map
Date
Tomb dates to the second half of the third century BCE (250 BCE - 201 BCE)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645119
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, «Appendice C. Un’iscrizione punica dalla necropoli di Lilibeo», in Lilibeo Punica, a c. di C.A. Di Stefano (Marsala: Centro Socio-Culturale «Luigi Sturzo», 1993), 61, at ph
- Enrico Caruso e Maria Grazia Griffo, a c. di, Lilibeo e il Mare. Il museo archeologico regionale di Marsala (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’identita siciliana, 2024), at 285 G6.26 fig.269 and 324 fig.322
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/20/2025
- License
- Commons CC-BY 4.0