ISic003115: Funerary aedicola for Damatrios

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2023-07-18

ID: ISic003115
Status: edited
Language: Ancient Greek
Object type: aedicula
Text type: funerary

Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text of Brugnone2024, checked against photograph ;
2: Brugnone: alternatively Ποπλείο[ς]

Physical description

Support

Description: Small, damaged 'pseudo-aedicola', of the coarse local stone, coated with stucco and painted; text incised.
Object type: aedicula
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 34 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 33 cm

Material

Description: plaster on unspecified sedimentary rock (yellowish calcarenite) (identification based on visual observation only)
Type > subtype: mortars > plaster

Inscription

Layout: Incised and painted, one word per line within a recessed frame (H 14.5 cm x W 13.5 cm), stucco on stone.
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: No data
Letter heights: Line 1-4: 10-32mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Lilybaeum
Provenance found: Excavations 1974, via del Fante, adjoining Cooperativa S. Francesco
Map

Current location

Place: Marsala, Sicilia
Repository: Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi; 4537
Autopsy: Observed on display 2023-07-18
Map

Date

second to first century BCE (200 BCE - 51 BCE)

Evidence: lettering, nomenclature

Text type

funerary

commentary

The formula μακαρῖτα χαῖρε is found in another funerary epitaph at Lilybaeum, ISic003660. The second name, Popleios (i.e. Latin Publius) could either be a patronymic, or else the adoption of a Latin name as a second name, as attested in other Sicilian cases (Cic. Verr. 2.4.35, 2.5.16).

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

SEG at (1976-1977), 26.1075
M.T. Manni Piraino, «Su alcune iscrizioni inedite di Marsala», in Studi di storia antica offerti dagli allievi a Eugenio Manni (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 1976), 213–22, at 213-215 no.1 tav.10.1
Di Stefano (1984) at 178-179 no.193 fig.97
Enrico Caruso e Maria Grazia Griffo, a c. di, Lilibeo e il Mare. Il museo archeologico regionale di Marsala (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’identita siciliana, 2024), at 316-318 G8.5 fig.314

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

1/19/2026