ISic001687: I.Sicily inscription 001687

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic001687
Language: Ancient Greek
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: aedicula

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

text from photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: No data
Object type: aedicula
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 65 cm, width: 50 cm, depth: 31 cm

Material

Description: plaster on stone
Type > subtype: mortars > plaster

Inscription

Layout: Traces of a single line of letters above/between the heads of a reclining couple
Text condition: No data
Technique: painted
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Lilybaeum
Provenance found: One of thirteen found in Marsala in 1895; the original findspot was concealed.

Current location

Place: Palermo, Sicilia
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas; 1071
Autopsy: Observed in the Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, 27.09.2021 (2nd floor, not on display)
Map

Date

2nd century BCE (200 BC - 101 BC)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Although published by Gabrici and Vento, there were no visible traces of text; some traces are now visible due to recent conservation work.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

E. Gabrici, «Stele sepolcrali di Lilibeo a forma di Heroon», Monumenti Antichi 33 (1929): 41–60, at 56, plate IV.1
M. Vento, Le stele dipinte di Lilibeo (Marsala: Centro europeo di studi economici e sociali, 2000), at 66-68 tav. 20-24

Discussion

P. Kretschmer, ‘Das Femininum von ἥρως’, Glotta 16, no. 3–4 (1927): 306–7.

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

11/2/2021