ISic031001: ISicily inscription 031001
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bettarini
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular lead sheet in three joining pieces, originally folded five times. Heavily corroded.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 3.7 cm, width: 8 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- Lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Greek text inscribed on both sides, beginning on the recto in 9 lines, boustrophedon (first line l-to-r), and continuing on the verso in a further two lines, also boustrophedon (first line l-to-r).
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, deteriorated
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
presence of qoppa
- Letter heights
- Line 1-11: 3mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found in the Buffa necropolis, Selinunte
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 42579
- Autopsy
- No data
- Map
Date
End of the 6th — beginning of the 5th cent. BCE (525 BC - 475 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 26.1113
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Defixiones inedite da Selinunte», in Studi di storia antica offerti dagli allievi a Eugenio Manni (Rome, 1976), 67–90, at 73-79
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 31
- M. A. López Jimeno, Las tabellae defixionis de la Sicilia griega (Amsterdam, 1991), at no.3
- 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 no. 60
- Discussion
- 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 no.95
- 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.18
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Thea Sommerschield
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/10/2021