ISic020946: Fragment of a dedication
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- ID
- ISic020946
- Language
- Punic
- Status
- edited
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- vessel
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Amadasi Guzzo 1980-1981
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a ceramic vessel.
- Object type
- vessel
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 3.2 cm, width: 4.1 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- ceramic
- Type > subtype
- ceramic > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Three letters and a fragment of a fourth are preserved, incised before firing
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- incised
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 12mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Motya
- Provenance found
- A casual find in the area of the Cappiddazzu, Motya. Now in storage in the Museo Whitaker.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Mozia, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Whitaker
- Autopsy
- none
- Map
Date
4th century BCE (400 BC - 301 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The text seems to be part of a votive text to the goddess Astarte.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Amadasi Guzzo (1980) at 7-8 Tav.1
- Rossana De Simone, Minima epigraphica punica. Nuove iscrizioni di Sicilia (Palermo: Il Palindromo, 2013), at 26 MO.3 fig.3a-b.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Rossana De Simone
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/1/2025