ISic030115: Part of a caduceus of the city of Hi(p)pana
- ID
- ISic030115
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public document
- Object type
- caduceus
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after previous editions
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Part of the handle, cylindrical in section, with moulded ring elements, of a bronze caduceus. No dimensions are reported by Manganaro, but may be recorded in Crispi (non vidi)
- Object type
- caduceus
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is incised immediately below the moulded ring near the top of the handle, with the word damosion running around the handle and the ethnic instead written down the handle, perpendicular to the first word (Manganaro appears to misinterpret Crispi, implying that the word damosion is written around the 'bottone', or moulded ring, but Crispi's text and fig.1 (reproduced in Manganaro fig.3) show it immediately below the ring).
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Hippana
- Provenance found
- Found on the site of ancient Hippana (Montagna dei Cavalli)
- Map
Current location
Reported lost, with no modern observation
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC – 401 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Coins bearing the same ethnic, with the same spelling support the restoration (so Manganaro). The site of Hip(p)ana (also Sippana) is now generally accepted to be that on Montagna dei Cavalli, just to the south of modern Prizzi.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- G. Crispi, «Intorno a due oggetti di bronzo trovati tra i ruderi d’Ippana, antica città in Sicilia», Poligrafo. Rivista scientifica, letteraria, artistica per la Sicilia 1, fasc. 3 (1875): 165–69.
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1296 note
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B3
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Un kerykeion perduto degli Hipanatai e la ubicazione di Hipana», Orbis Terrarum 3 (1997): 127–30.
- 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.3
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. (Geneva: Droz, 2008), at 93
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/18/2021