ISic030084: Greek defixio naming Baleria Arsinoe
- ID
- ISic030084
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- defixio
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Comparetti ap. Orsi (subsequent editions are derivative, without further autopsy).
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lamina.
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- lead
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 2.6 cm, width: 16.0 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Found in the Necropolis of S. Placido (excavations of P. Orsi, 1914), in burial no. 48, a tomb 'a cappuccina' in 'recinto F', which was covered by a pile of stones; the lamina was found inside the burial, directly beneath the ceramic tube provided for libations.
- Map
Current location
Currently unlocated in either Messina or Siracusa museums, no autopsy since Orsi/Comparetti
Date
first or second century CE (lettering, context) (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 875109
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 313643
- PHI: 329610
- Printed editions
- Paolo Orsi, «Messana. La necropoli romana di S. Placido e di altre scoperte avvenute nel 1910-1915», Monumenti Antichi 24 (1916): 121–218, at 167-169 fig. 34
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 04.0047
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 114
- M. A. López Jimeno, Las tabellae defixionis de la Sicilia griega (Amsterdam, 1991), at no. 38
- 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.53
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at VIII
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Thea Sommerschield
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- Valentina Mignosa
- Thea Sommerschield
- James Chartrand
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 6/11/2024