ISic001670: A Punic abecedarium
- ID
- ISic001670
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Punic
- Object type
- plaque
- Text type
- abecedarium
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of De Simone 2013 (Minima epigraphica punica)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque of limestone, intact across the top, but broken on the other three sides. Roughly finished on the reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 20.2 cm, width: 19.5 cm, depth: 9.5 cm
Material
- Description
- whitish calcarenite , likely (packstone with planktonic foraminifera and micritocic cement) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.non-polishable.whitish
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of text, incomplete left and right.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- From the site of Selinunte, but exact details unknown. Currently on display in the Palermo museum.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 47236
- Autopsy
- Photographed in Palermo museum, Prag 2017-07-21
- Map
Date
4th cent. BCE (after 409 BCE on historical grounds) (409 BCE - 301 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Although line one is securely identified as an alphabetic sequence, the overall nature and function of the text remains very uncertain. The intepretation of lines 2 and 3 (in a seemingly different hand from line 1) is unclear, and the fact that the stone was clearly prepared and the text is carefully engraved makes it difficult to establish the overall intention.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Rossana De Simone, «Epigrafia fenicio-punica», in Forme della scrittura, a c. di C. Pastena et al. (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2010), 12–15, 48–51, at 51 no.12 ph
- Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013), at 33 SEL.2 fig.24 and pp.47-50
- Rossana De Simone, «Un alfabetario punico da Selinunte», in Ritual, Religion and Reason. Studies in the Ancient World in Honour of Paolo Xella, a c. di O. Loretz et al. (Munster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013), 267–70.
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/11/2021