ISic001984: Votive inscription to the goddess Astarte
- ID
- ISic001984
- Language
- Punic
- Status
- edited
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- stele
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of De Simone 2013
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular votive cippus, of which the top and part of the base are broken. The surface shows extensive damage from a plough.
- Object type
- stele
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 114.5 cm, width: 37.2 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- stone.calcarenite > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over four lines in the upper part of the cippus.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 21-76mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- A casual find on the island of Mozia
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Whitaker
- MO 11202
- Autopsy
- De Simone 2025-03-23
- Map
Date
6th - 5th century BCE (600 BC - 401 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Only the first two lines of the inscription are interpretable; the rest is illegible due to the stone's poor state of preservation.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Coacci Polselli (1978) at 167-168, tav. LXXXV.1
- Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013), at 25 MO.1 fig.1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/18/2025