ISic003327: Part of a caduceus of the Adeonzinoi
- ID
- ISic003327
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public document
- Object type
- caduceus
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ampolo and Robert
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A bronze 'boss' or 'button' ('campaniform') from a bronze caduceus.
- Object type
- caduceus
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 3.3 cm, width: cm, depth: cm, dim:
Inscription
- Layout
- Text in a single line around the side of the piece, above a moulding around the lower edge.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 5mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Sicilia
- Provenance found
- Said to have been found in Sicily in 1888, subsequently in the Froehner collection.
Current location
- Place
- Paris, France
- Repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Autopsy
- None
Date
5th century BCE (Robert, by the letter forms) (500 BC – 400 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The Adeonzinoi are not identified. Some scholars (e.g. Guarducci) have interpreted this piece as a weight, rather than as an element from a caduceus, but the attribution to a caduceus is generally accepted.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 645578
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 70900618
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B1
- L. Robert, Collection Froehner. 1. Inscriptions grecques (Paris: Editions des Bibliothèques nationales, 1936), at no.83 with pl. XLIII
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 201
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Alla ricerca di poleis mikrai della Sicilia centro-orientale», Orbis Terrarum 2 (1996): 129–44, at 142 n.65 with tav. 15 fig. 15
- Carmine Ampolo, «Diplomazia e identità culturale delle comunità: la testimonianza dei caducei», in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-III sec. a.C.). Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra, a c. di Maria Adelaide Vaggioli, vol. 1, 2 voll. (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), 181–89, at 185 appendix B no.1 with fig. 8
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 6/17/2021