ISic001985: Fragment of a dedicatory inscription
- ID
- ISic001985
- Language
- Punic
- Status
- edited
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- basin
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Coacci Polselli 1986.;
- 1: alternatively: 示dn[---]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rim fragment of a bowl or basin, of Pentelic marble.
- Object type
- basin
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 3.6 cm,聽width: 4.2 cm,聽depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Five letters preserved around the rim
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 12-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- A casual find on the island of Mozia, in the area of the Eastern Tower.
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Whitaker
- Autopsy
- none
- Map
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC - 401 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text contains part of a votive inscription of which only the genealogy remains with the initial part of a Phoenician anthroponym to be completed as 示dr[b士l] or 示dn[b士l].
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Coacci Polselli (1986) at 93-94
- Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013), at 26 MO.4 fig.4
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/20/2025