ISic030119: Caduceus from an unknown Sicilian location
- ID
- ISic030119
- 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 published editions and photographs
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lower part of the staff of a bronze caduceus
- Object type
- caduceus
- Material
- bronze
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 13 cm, width: cm, depth: cm, dim: 0.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is on one side of the staff, which is cylindrical in cross-section, immediately above the terminal section of the staff; the text is followed by a vacat before the break.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 5mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Sicilia
- Provenance found
- Described by Manganaro as having been found in an unspecified zone of eastern Sicily.
Current location
- Place
- unknown, Italy
- Repository
- Apparently in a private collection ,
- Autopsy
- none
Date
4th-3rd century BCE (400 BC – 201 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1997.0724
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1297
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B9
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Alla ricerca di poleis mikrai della Sicilia centro-orientale», Orbis Terrarum 2 (1996): 129–44, at 143 with tav. 16 fig. 16
- 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.9 with fig. 14
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/21/2021