ISic030039: Lead lamina
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Apparatus criticus
- Text Dubois, Arena
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular lead lamina, folded in half lengthways, with texts on the outside (a) and the inside (b).
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 5 cm, width: 8.5 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 3-6mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Himera
- Provenance found
- Himera
Current location
- Place
- Himera, Sicilia
- Repository
- Parco Archeologico di Himera e Antiquarium
- H 69.439
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
475-451 BCE (Dubois, Arena). (475 BCE - 451 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Whether a letter (as suggested by Mani Piraino), or part of a defixio (so, speculatively, Jordan) is unclear. Dubois and Arena report text (a) only.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- M.T. Manni Piraino, «Le iscrizioni», in Himera II. Campagne di scavo 1966-73, vol. 2, 2 voll. (Roma, 1976), at 681 no.45, tav.CXVI.1
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 177-178 (unnumbered)
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 11
- Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. III. Iscrizioni delle colonie euboiche, vol. 3 (Pisa: Nistri Lischi, 1994), at 51
- 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 181 no. 51
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/17/2026