ISic030008: Lead defixio
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bettarini
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Oval shape. Heavily corroded.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 8 cm, width: 5 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Horizontal Writing. Left-Right. Two columns side by side.
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 3mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Gaggera, Sanctuary of Malophoros.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 42564
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
500-451 BCE (500 BCE - 451 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
A list of names (nom.), 7 men, 1 possibly a woman, to the left of them the sign >, interpreted by the editors as a γ(ράφο). (Jordan) Plaque de plomb contenant une liste de huit noms gravés négligemment. (Dubois) Μύχα es la unica mujer entre las victimas. La onomástica es griega. (Lopez-Jimeno)
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Comparetti (1918) at 197-199, no. 27
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 175-176, no. 101
- IGASM1 Arena (1989) at no. 64
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 35
- López-Jimeno (1991) at no. 8
- 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. 24
- L. Bettarini, Corpus delle defixiones di Selinunte: edizione e commento, Hellenica (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005), at 26
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Savannah Neibart
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/15/2021