ISic002952: I.Sicily inscription 002952
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- ID
- ISic002952
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- funerary monument
- Text type
- funerary
Edition
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Physical description
Support
- Description
- A limestone block, consisting part of the marker on the top of an epytymbion type monument, with a missing element on top, perhaps a stylised head.
- Object type
- funerary monument
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 74 cm, width: 85 cm, depth: 25 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek letters, approximately centered on the upper part of the front face.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 70-80mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cephaloedium
- Provenance found
- Viale Principe Umberto, in the area of the Hotel Artu (formerly the Hotel Jolly), 1963
Current location
- Place
- Cefalù, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Mandralisca
- 120
- Autopsy
- 2014-12-14 Metcalfe
- Map
Date
1st century BCE (Manganaro; Tullio) (100 BCE - 1 BCE)- Evidence
- archaeological-context, lettering
Text type
commentary
The text offers a Greek transliteration of the Latin names Decimus Laelius, and either a translation of Magnus, or simply transcription of the Greek 'Mega'. Manganaro suggested this might be a libertus of Decimus Laelius, the friend of Pompeius Magnus, ftribune of 54 BC.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Manganaro (1965) at 201 tav. 72.2
- Amedeo Tullio, «Saggio sulla topografia e sulle antichità di Cefalù», Kokalos 20 (1974): 119–51, at 131 n. 68
- Tullio (1979) at 16 tav. 1.2
- SEG at (1986), 36.0847
- Tullio (1987) at 210
- Amedeo Tullio, «La collezione archeologica», in Cefalu. Museo Mandralisca, a c. di V. Consolo et al. (Palermo: Novecento, 1991), 60–93, at 92 fig. 105
- Amedeo Tullio, «Scavi, sondaggi e sopralluoghi a Cefalù. 1976-1985», in Studi sulla Sicilia Occidentale in onore di Vincenzo Tusa (Padova: Bottega d’Erasmo. Aldo Ausilio editore, 1993), 193–202.
- Tullio (1994) at 65-67 fig. 52
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Incontri di culture a Cefalù. L’epitafio di Pompeia», in Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici, a c. di A.S. Giammellaro, vol. 2, 3 voll. (Palermo: Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2005), 849–50, at 849
- SEG at (2008), 58.1045
- Montalbano (2008) at 176 VS 3 tav. 33.2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/19/2026