ISic030116: Caduceus from the city of Longane
- ID
- ISic030116
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public document
- Object type
- caduceus
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after previous editions and photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Bronze caduceus
- Object type
- caduceus
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 45.7 cm, width: 7.6 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is arranged down the cylindrical handle in a single line, running from top to bottom.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Longane
- Provenance found
- Exact provenance is not recorded; said to come from a Sicilian tomb, acquired subsequently by the British Museum
Current location
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Repository
- The British Museum , GR 1875.810.3
- Autopsy
- none
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC – 401 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Many commentators supply the word κε͂ρυξ (herald) as a subaudible element to complete the text, but it is not clear why this should be necessary, when the standard formulation on such objects is the neuter term 'damosion' with the genitive plural of the ethnic, meaning 'public property of the people of x', and this would appear to be a simple 'speaking' variant of the same.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0594
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B5
- J. F. Crome, ‘Kerykeia’, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 63–64 (1939 1938): 117–26, at 118 no.3 pl. 18.1
- Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 200
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Alla ricerca di poleis mikrai della Sicilia centro-orientale», Orbis Terrarum 2 (1996): 129–44, at 141 with n.63 and tav. 13 fig. 11
- 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 186 appendix B no.5
- Carmine Ampolo, ‘History of Sicily, 480-211 B.C.’, in Sicily. Art and Invention between Grece and Rome., ed. C. L. Lyons, M. Bennett, and Clemente Marconi (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013), 12–26, at 24 fig.10
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/18/2021