ISic030004: Lead defixio
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Bettarini 2005
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular lead sheet in three joining pieces, originally folded five times. Heavily corroded.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 3.7 cm, width: 8 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Greek text inscribed on both sides, beginning on the recto in 9 lines, boustrophedon (first line l-to-r), and continuing on the verso in a further two lines, also boustrophedon (first line l-to-r).
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, deteriorated
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
presence of qoppa
- Letter heights
- Line 1-11: 3mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus medium certainty
- Provenance found
- Found in the archaeological area of Selinunte, in the Buffa necropolis.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 42579
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
Late sixth or early 5th cent. BCE (Bettarini) (525 BCE - 475 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- SEG at (1976-1977), 26.1113
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Defixiones inedite da Selinunte», in Studi di storia antica offerti dagli allievi a Eugenio Manni (Rome, 1976), 67–90, at 73-79
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 174, no. 95
- IGASM1 Arena (1989) at 60
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 31
- López-Jimeno (1991) at no. 3
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Iscrizioni di Megara Iblea e Selinunte, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 5 voll. (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1996), at no. 60
- J. B. Curbera, «Defixiones», in Sicilia epigraphica. Atti del convegno internazionale Erice 15-18 Ottobre 1998. (ASNP ser.iv, quad.1), a c. di M. I. Gulletta (Pisa, 1999), 159–86, at 178, no. 18
- L. Bettarini, Corpus delle defixiones di Selinunte: edizione e commento, Hellenica (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005), at 16
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/30/2026