ISic030086: Greek defixio
- ID
- ISic030086
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- defixio
- Object type
- lamina
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Comparetti, reproducing the signs he prints, but noting the number of illegible signs presented in his accompanying drawing
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lamina (Curbera and Jordan invert Orsi's measurements)
- Object type
- lamina
- Material
- lead
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 6.2 cm, width: 7.1 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 association with burials 54 and 55, to the north of 'recinto D', two skeletons in bare earth, buried head to toe, with this and a second lamina positioned next tto the head of no.54 .
- 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: 941118
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 313638
- 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 160 fig. 26
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 113
- M. A. López Jimeno, Las tabellae defixionis de la Sicilia griega (Amsterdam, 1991), at no. 40
- 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 182 no.54
- 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 VII
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