ISic002708: I.Sicily inscription 002708
- ID
- ISic002708
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Meligunìs Lipára XII with comparison to photograph;
- 1-2: Bernabò Brea 1947: ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑΓΑΘΑ-ΡΕ ΧΑΙΡΕ ΥC;
- Calderone: Ἐλευθέρα, Καθαρέ, χαίρετε
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large intact stele, very carefully squared and with smooth surfaces. In the upper half of the front face, it has a wide and shallow hollow, with an arched upper end. Inside there remain traces of applied elements (perhaps stucco), also arched at the top, no longer preserved. The recess measures 44cm x 58cm.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- volcanic (pietra di Fuardo)
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 94 cm, width: 62 cm, depth: 10 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The names are split into two columns, with the concluding salutation following below these; there is a mark of separation between the two names to clarify this.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 50-60mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lipara
- Provenance found
- Found in 1941 during the excavation of a cistern in the villa owned by Ziino in the Diana district.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Lipari, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 70
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Roman period (100 BC – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645128
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 334497
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 218 no. VI
- S. Calderone, «Analecta epigraphica liparensia», Epigraphica 11 (1949): 49–60, at 55 no.B.4
- L. Bernabò Brea, M. Cavalier, e L. Campagna, Meligunìs Lipára. XII. Le iscrizioni lapidarie greche e latine delle isole eolie (Palermo: Mario Grispo Editore, 2003), at 394
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Alex Antoniou
- Last revision
- 5/15/2024