ISic030114: Part of a caduceus of the Ichaninoi
- ID
- ISic030114
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public document
- Object type
- caduceus
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after photo and previous editions
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Part of the staff from a bronze caduceus
- Object type
- caduceus
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 17.4 cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text was engraved on all four sides of the staff (which is square in cross-section), complete on one (A), erased or eroded on the opposite side (C), and incomplete on the other two sides (B) and (D).
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 8mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ichana
- Provenance found
- Found in the territory of Villadoro (EN)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Enna, Italy
- Repository
- Private collection
- Autopsy
- None
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC – 401 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The staff is reported as having been found in the territory of Villadoro, near Nicosia; but as Manganaro observes, no conclusion can be drawn from this regarding the original location of Ichana (=Ichaninos / Ichaninon / Sichana / Sichaninos / Sichaninon), which is otherwise only attested in Steph. Byz. s.v. Ἴχανα and in a small number of coins, and which Manganaro speculates may have been located towards the south-eastern coast; Dubois, by contrast, suggests on the basis of the alphabet that it should be in the hinterland of Himera on the north coast. It is not clear from the photograph and reported readings whether the text on side C is thought to have been erased or simply worn away; given the layout, it does not seem likely that the text on sides B or D included the second word.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 896129
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: 333391
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1296
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B2
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Alla ricerca di poleis mikrai della Sicilia centro-orientale», Orbis Terrarum 2 (1996): 129–44, at 141 with tav. 12 fig. 10.1-4
- 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.2 with fig. 9
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 92
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/18/2021