ISic001701: Marble votive table with Punic inscription
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Table, found fragmented (the top broken into multiple fragments), but fully restored: legs (travertine) are solid slabs towards the rear, but the front profile carved to lion claw feet, with feathers to the top, and a volute profile.; table top (marble) has a raised moulding aroudn the edge, recessed upper surface, and a cornice profile to the sides. Legs are 65.5 cm tall, 11.3 cm wide, dimensions below are those of the table top slab itself.
- Object type
- table
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 7.8 cm, width: 145.7 cm, depth: 72 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is inscised in a single line along the right half of the smooth lower portion of the front profile, with a two-step moulding projecting above. Text is 494 mm long.
- Text condition
- legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 4-14mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Cossura
- Provenance found
- Found in 2011 in excavation of the access staircase to the south of the sanctuary on the top of the acropolis; table found immediately in front of the staircase.
Current location
- Place
- Pantelleria, Sicilia
- Repository
- No data
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Rollig dates by lettering to between the later third and first century BCE. (250 BC - 51 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/1/2022