ISic002803: I.Sicily inscription 002803

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
ISic002803
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Meligunìs Lipára XII;
  • 1: ΝΙΚΑ.ΥΛΙ. Bernabò Brea - Cavalier ;
  • Νικασυλίς Masson

Physical description

Support

Description
Stele of small dimensions. Upper right corner is missing; the surface has remains of lime. The stele has been reused as a funerary monument twice and is an opistograph. The oldest inscription is presented here. On same support as .
Object type
stele
Material
volcanic (pietra di Pulera)
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 50 cmwidth: 31.7 cmdepth: 10.3 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
partly_illegible
Letter heights
Line 1: 38-45mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lipara
Provenance found
Discovered in 1975 during the excavation of trench XXXVI (Zagami property), on the ground in front of funerary enclosure A of the late Roman necropolis, in which perhaps it had been reused.
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Current location

Place
Lipari, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 12311
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

3rd — 1st century BCE (300 BC – 1 BC)
Evidence
lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/10/2022