ISic004013: I.Sicily inscription 004013

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
ISic004013
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Meligunìs Lipára XII
  • 1: Meligunìs Lipára XII suggests the possibility of: Ζμυνας

Physical description

Support

Description
Whole stele, carefully polished, used as a funerary sema twice,In fact, the slab bears on the same face, at both ends, two distinct and mutually extraneous inscriptions, turned upside down with respect to each other. Since it is not possible to establish a relative chronology of the two phases of use, the inscriptions have been conventionally indicated with a and b. Here is the text of inscription a.,[object Object]
Object type
stele
Material
volcanic (pietra di Fuardo)
Condition
complete
Dimensions
height: 58 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 9 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
complete
Letter heights
Line 1: 45-50mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Lipara
Provenance found
Discovered in 1950 during the excavation of trenches I-IV (State property). It was reused as a cover for tomb 29
Map

Current location

Place
Lipari, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 955
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

(Unknown – Unknown)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/25/2024