ISic002826: I.Sicily inscription 002826

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
ISic002826
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Meligunìs Lipára XII
  • 1: ἈφροδισιάςSEG

Physical description

Support

Description
Stele, well-squared, with bulbous base. Carefully polished surfaces,The inscription is difficult to read and would appear to have been intentionally chiselled, perhaps on the occasion of a possible re-use of the slab as a funerary stele
Object type
stele
Material
volcanic (pietra di Fuardo)
Condition
complete
Dimensions
height: 65 cm, width: 37.5 cm, depth: 11 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
complete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 50-70mm
Line 2: 48-50mm
Line 3: 50-56mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lipara
Provenance found
Discovered in 1980 during the excavation of trench XXXVI, zone D (Zagami property). It was reused as a cover slab for masonry tomb 1837
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Current location

Place
Lipari, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 13810
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

1st century BCE (100 BC – 1 BC)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
3/22/2023