ISic002772: I.Sicily inscription 002772
- ID
- ISic002772
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Meligunìs Lipára XII
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Stele squared quite accurately and with smooth surfaces, except the more rough rear one; the base bulb is irregular and slightly protruding, with a large gap at the bottom right. The slab is strongly corroded in the upper part, and chipped along the left margin. On the back there are conspicuous remains of mortar, probably related to the reuse of the stone
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- volcanic (pietra di Fuardo)
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 68 cm, width: 34.7 cm, depth: 9.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 35-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lipara
- Provenance found
- Found in 1979 in excavation of zone A of trench XXXVI (on the property of Zagami). It was reused as the S head of the 1802 masonry sarcophagus
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Lipari, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 13483
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
3rd — 2nd century BCE (300 BC – 101 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645169
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 334211
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1381.8
- L. Bernabò Brea e M. Cavalier, Meligunis Lipara VII. Lipari. Contrada Diana. Scavo XXXVI in proprieta Zagami (1975-1984) (Palermo, 1994), at no.8 pl.123
- 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 109
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Alex Antoniou
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 10/12/2021