ISic030117: Caduceus from the city of Syracusae
- ID
- ISic030117
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public document
- Object type
- caduceus
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Ampolo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Part of the staff of a bronze caduceus
- Object type
- caduceus
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is on one face of the curved fragment of the staff of the caduceus (which is square in cross-section)
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in the stores of the museum at , Greece
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Olympia, Greece
- Repository
- Archaeological Museum of Olympia ,
- Autopsy
- none
Date
5th century BCE (500 BC – 401 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 705317
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 71000450
- PHI: 215074
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1990.0160
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 38.0368
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B7
- W. Hornbostel, ‘Syrakosion Damosion. Zu einem bronzenen Heroldstab’, Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 24 (1979): 33–62, at figs. 5-6
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Alla ricerca di poleis mikrai della Sicilia centro-orientale», Orbis Terrarum 2 (1996): 129–44, at 142 with n.68
- 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.7 fig. 13a-b
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/21/2021