ISic001892: Fragment of a basin with inscribed rim
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- ID
- ISic001892
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- basin
- Text type
- dedication
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Brugnone 2024
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rim fragment of a red marble basin, with a Greek inscription on the rim. Preserved rim length 11.5 cm, rim height 3 cm
- Object type
- basin
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 3 cm,聽width: 11.5 cm,聽depth: cm
Material
- Description
- red brecciated limestone with red nodules and white and red veins, likely calcare rosso brecciato Sicilia Occidentale (Fe, Mn encrustation, red micrite matrix with sparite patches and sparite veins) (identification based on pXRF, digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy)
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.polishable.red > calcare_rosso_SiciliaOCC
Inscription
- Layout
- remains of five letters with a vacat following, filling the space on the rim.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Plainly cut letters with very basic terminal point serifs. Straight bar alpha.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Excavated in 2008 in the Parco archeologico di Lilibeo, in the area sacra of insula III, SAS VI, US125.
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
- 8992
- Autopsy
- observed on display 2023, no formal autopsy
- Map
Date
Imperial period (i.e. first three centuries CE) (CE 1 - CE 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: 173468
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/21/2025
- License
- Commons CC-BY 4.0