ISic003070: I.Sicily inscription 003070

Photo R.J.A. Wilson

ID: ISic003070
Language: Ancient Greek
Text type: funerary
Object type: column
Status: draft
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Apparatus criticus

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Physical description

Support

Description: No data
Object type: column
Material: Plaster on stone
Condition: damaged
Dimensions: height: 87 cm, width: 34 cm, depth: 34 cm

Inscription

Layout: No data
Text condition: No data
Technique: painted
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Neatly painted square letters with short serifs, painted in the style of stone cut letters. Alpha is broad with straight bar; Epsilon has equal length horizontal strokes; theta is ovoid with a full horizontal bar; kappa has arms that are not quite ful length; mu has vertical first and last, with middle strokes nearly reaching down to the line; pi has equal length verticals; sigma is four-bar, of equal length, top and bottom strokes horizontal.
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Lilybaeum
Provenance found: Excavated in the via del Fante necropolis in 1984.

Current location

Place: Marsala, Italy
Repository: Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi ,
Autopsy: Photographed, Metcalfe, 2018-08-31
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Date

2nd century BCE (Manni Piraino) (200 BC - 101 BC)

Evidence: archaeological-context

Text type

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

3/5/2021