ISic003702: Fragmentary funerary inscription

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 2023-07-28
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 2023-07-28
ID
ISic003702
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
tomb cover
Status
draft
Links
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Edition

D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Noy, based upon photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
Text incised in the plaster covering of a tomb, but only very partially preserved
Object type
tomb cover
Material
plaster
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
incised
Pigment
No data
Lettering

lunate letters

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lipara
Provenance found
From the necropolis in proprieta Zagami, Lipari, from the cover of tomb d in a Jewish hypogeum found in a Roman cistern
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Current location

Place
Lipari, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernabďż˝ Brea" ,
Autopsy
None
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Date

4th-6th century CE (AD 401 - AD 600)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The inscription, on the cover of a tomb that forms part of what appears to be a Jewish hypogeum, is only alluded to in Meligunis Lipara VII, but illustrated/published in the 1988 monograph by Bernabò Brea, and republished by Noy in his corpus of Jewish inscription.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/14/2026