ISic002005: Funerary inscription for ʿbdmlqrt

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: ISic002005
Language: Punic
Text type: funerary
Object type: stele
Status: edited
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Edition

Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013) Zotero

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Apparatus criticus

Text of De Simone after Campus 2020

Physical description

Support

Description: The upper part of a painted quadrangular stele of the local limestone, broken off below.
Object type: stele
Material: limestone
Object condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: 60 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout: Text over four lines across one of the wider faces, of which the fourth line is partly lost
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: rubrication, red colour
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1-4: 20-62mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Motya
Provenance found: Found in re-use in Tower 6 (west fortifications) in the area of the necropolis, Motya, during excavations 2014-2019.
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Current location

Place: Mozia, Italy
Repository: Museo Whitaker , 39940
Autopsy: none
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Date

5th century BCE (500 BC - 401 BC)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

ʿbdmlqrt is a Phoenician personal name, “Servant of Melqart”.

Bibliography

Digital editions

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Printed editions

Campus (2020) at 60
Rossana De Simone, «Una nuova iscrizione punica su un cippo funerario da Mozia», Folia Phoenicia 7 (2023): 53–61, https://doi.org/10.19272/202313201004, at 54 fig.3

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Rossana De Simone

Contributors

Last revision

12/1/2025