ISic002863: I.Sicily inscription 002863
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- ID
- ISic002863
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Meligunìs Lipára XII
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large stele with surfaces not very carefully polished, slightly chipped along the edges
- Object type
- stele
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 95 cm, width: 43.5 cm, depth: 10 cm
Material
- Description
- volcanic (pietra del Monte Rosa)
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
lunate epsilon and sigma
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 48-52 (alpha 40)mm
- Line 2: 50 (sigma 52)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lipara
- Provenance found
- Found in 1975 in the excavation of the late Roman necropolis of trench XXXVI (Zagami property); it was reused as a covering slab in tomb 8 of enclosure 1.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Lipari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 12307
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st century BCE (Brea thinks second half, but this is circular arg. on basis of names) (100 BC - 1 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645257
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 334511
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 45.1381.94
- L. Bernabò Brea e M. Cavalier, Meligunis Lipara VII. Lipari. Contrada Diana. Scavo XXXVI in proprieta Zagami (1975-1984) (Palermo, 1994), at no.94 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 408
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026