ISic002862: I.Sicily inscription 002862
- ID
- ISic002862
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Meligunìs Lipára XII;
- 2.1: Manganaro (1992) restores ΑΠ[ΟΛΛΩΝΟΣ]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large intact stele, very tall in height, with smooth surfaces. The thickness of the slab is significantly reduced in the upper part of the rear face. At the corners of the base, on the front face, it had two protrusions, chiselled when reused as a covering slab. Text on both faces of the stone.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- volcanic (pietra di Fuardo)
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 120 cm, width: 59.4 cm, depth: 12 (lower), 6 (upper) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Lines 1.1-1.2: 50-65mm
- Line 2.1: 180-200mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lipara
- Provenance found
- Found in 1980 in the excavation of trench XXXVI (Zagami property), zone D. It was reused as a covering slab of masonry tomb 1825.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Lipari, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 13796
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st century BCE (100 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- material-context
Text type
commentary
Manganaro (1992) restores ΑΠ[ΟΛΛΩΝΟΣ] due to the elaborate type of alpha, placed on the stone before it was used as a funerary stele, as part of the front face of a large altar consecrated to that deity. However, Meligunìs Lipára XII suggests that the rough, irregular and less carefully polished appearance of this face makes this unlikely to have been an exposed facade to an altar (and it might be added that the elaborate alpha would be highly anomalous for a pre-first-century BCE date in Sicily). They argue that the two letters had the same function as the isolated characters or signs on similar tombs, in such cases usually to be connected with the original funerary use/context.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645256
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 334491
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1381.93
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 42.0854
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tra epigrafia e numismatica», Chiron 22 (1992): 385–410, at 388-389 ph
- L. Bernabò Brea e M. Cavalier, Meligunis Lipara VII. Lipari. Contrada Diana. Scavo XXXVI in proprieta Zagami (1975-1984) (Palermo, 1994), at no.93 pl.132
- 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 388
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
- 5/6/2024