ISic001886: Funerary epitaph for ḥṭ’lm
- ID
- ISic001886
- Language
- Punic
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of De Simone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A limestone funerary cippus capped by a pyramidion at the top; broken into three perfectly joinable fragments. Awaiting restoration.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 104 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over five lines on the plinth, with traces of rubrication.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- Rubrication
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 58-105mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- Found in 2014, in the Motya necropolis; it was reemployed inside the West Wall of Tower B8.1
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Whitaker , MO 11202
- Autopsy
- De Simone, 2014-07
- Map
Date
End of 6th or early 5th century BCE (525 BC - 475 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
ḥṭʾlm: a hapax in phoenician onomastics. mms: punic personal name, unexplained. bʿlytn: phoenician personal name “Baal has given”, Latin transcription attested in various inscriptions, e.g.: BALITHONIS (CIL V 4920), BALIATON (CIL VIII 16011, 27491), BALIATHO (CIL VIII 68, AE 1992 1781).
Bibliography
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/2/2025