ISic003115: Funerary aedicola for Damatrios
- ID
- ISic003115
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- aedicula
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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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
- Material
- tuff
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 34 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 33 cm
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
- 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, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi , 4537
- Autopsy
- Observed on display 2023-07-18
- Map
Date
second to first century BCE (200 BC – 50 BC)- Evidence
- lettering, nomenclature
Text type
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
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 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
- C.A. Di Stefano, Lilibeo. Testimonianze archeologiche dal IV sec a.C. al V sec. d.C. (Palermo, 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
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/20/2025