ISic002006: Punic funerary inscription
- ID
- ISic002006
- 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 from autopys
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A quadrangular block of limestone, some damage to the face.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 42.8 cm, width: 84 cm, depth: 37.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over two lines on the upper part of the face, with three letters lost in the first line.
- Text condition
- partly_illegible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- rubrication, red colour
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 50-108mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- Found during excavations 1972-1974, in re-use in a wall of the West fortifications by the necropolis, Motya
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Whitaker ,
- Autopsy
- De Simone 2025-03-23
- Map
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC - 401 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name of the deceased cannot be reconstructed. ʿzry is a hypocoristic Phoenician personal name with suffix -y from the root ʿzr "to help".
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Coacci Polselli (1978) at 163-166 no.1, tav. LXXXV.2
- Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013), at 25 MO.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/1/2025