ISic003114: I.Sicily inscription 003114

Photo R.J.A. Wilson
Photo R.J.A. Wilson
ID
ISic003114
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
column
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Manni Piraino

Physical description

Support

Description
A funerary stele in the form of a fluted column supporting a rectangular block bearing the inscribed field (the block is 26cm high by 57 cm wide)
Object type
column
Material
stone
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 75 cmwidth: 37 cmdepth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Four lines of Greek text, engraved in stucco and painted in red, across the full width of the rectangular block, with a vacat below.
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
Rubrication, red coloured
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lilybaeum
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded.

Current location

Place
Marsala, Italy
Repository
Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
Autopsy
On display.
Map

Date

Suggested to date to the later 3rd or earlier 2nd century BCE (250 BC - 151 BC)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021