ISic003975: I.Sicily inscription 003975

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic003975
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Meligunìs Lipára XII
  • 2: ΕΖΩΚΕΙ Libertini

Physical description

Support

Description
Large rectabgular stele with smooth surfaces. On the sides of the upper part there are two square holes, of which the right one is filled with whitish mortar. It was probably a cladding slab for an architectural structure of some kind (funerary monument?). Composed of two contiguous fragments with a gap along the left edge and abbrasions of the front face.
Object type
plaque
Material
volcanic (pietra di Fuardo)
Condition
fragments, contiguous
Dimensions
height: 100 cm, width: 51 cm, depth: 10 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Lines 1-4: 55-65mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lipara
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded.

Current location

Place
Lipari, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 952
Autopsy
Seen by Libertini (1921) in 'giardino dell'Episcopio'
Map

Date

(Unknown – Unknown)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

Commentary translated from ILipara

There are no traces of lines above the first visible line. Libertini, who identified the stone as a stele rather than a cladding slab observed: "The first part of the name is missing, though the stele appears intact". On the other hand, the letters missing at the beginning of line 1, one or two, don't seem sufficient to reconstruct a full name. The proposed reading is based on the hypothesis that the first part of the name, maybe a patronymic preceeded by another name, was inscribed on another slab, contiguous with the preserved one.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
3/20/2023