ISic030118: Caduceus from the city of Syracusae
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- ID
- ISic030118
- Status
- draft
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Object type
- caduceus
- Text type
- public document
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Apparatus criticus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A bronze caduceus (whether intact or not is not recorded)
- Object type
- caduceus
- Object condition
- unknown
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- bronze
- Type > subtype
- metal.bronze > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- No details known
- Text condition
- unknown
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
No details known
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Circumstances of discovery unknown
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Sicilia
- Repository
- private collection
- Autopsy
- none
Date
5th-1st century BCE (500 BCE - 101 BCE)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The caduceus is recorded by Hornbostel and Hornbostel in a note to their discussion of ISic030117, and by Manganaro 1996, and is attributed to Syracuse, presumably on the model of δαμόσιον Συρακοσίον
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Hornbostel, ‘Syrakosion Damosion. Zu einem bronzenen Heroldstab’, Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 24 (1979): 33–62, at 237
- Manganaro (1996) at 142 n.68
- SEG at (2006), 56.1077.B8
- 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.8
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/21/2021