ISic030112: Lex sacra
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Dubois
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular lead sheet
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 59.7 cm, depth: 0.2 cm
Material
- Description
- Lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Greek text inscribed in two columns, one inverted in relation to the other
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 8mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Obtained by the Getty Museum in 1981, repatriated in 1992; textual features imply Selinunte, and suggested to come from the area of the Gaggera hill
Current location
- Place
- Selinunte, Sicilia
- Repository
- Baglio Florio Selinunte
- Autopsy
- No data
- Map
Date
First half of the 5th cent. BCE (500 BCE - 451 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- SEG at (1993), 43.0630
- SEG at (1994), 44.0783
- SEG at (1995), 45.1413
- SEG at (1996), 46.1273
- 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 104 no.53bis
- SEG at (1998), 48.1250
- SEG at (1999), 49.1253
- SEG at (1999), 49.1327
- SEG at (2000), 50.1021
- SEG at (2001), 51.1387
- SEG at (2002), 52.0932bis
- SEG at (2003), 53.1032
- SEG at (2006), 56.1098
- SEG at (2008), 58.1029
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 18
- Roy D. Kotansky, ‘The Lex Sacra from Selinous. Introduction, Translation and Notes’, in La Città Inquieta. Selinunte Tra Lex Sacra e Defixiones (Udine: Mimesis Eidizioni, 2015), 127–34, at 127-134
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/17/2026