ISic001661: I.Sicily inscription 001661

ID
ISic001661
Language
Punic
Text type
funerary
Object type
block
Status
No data
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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
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 26 cmwidth: 77 cmdepth: 15.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Single line of very large letters filling the front face
Text condition
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, Italy
Repository
Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi , 11295
Autopsy
observed on display 2023
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Date

Tomb dates to the second half of the third century BCE (250 BC – 201 BC)
Evidence
archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/20/2025