ISic030120: Caduceus from an unknown Sicilian location

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic030120
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
public document
Object type
caduceus
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

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Physical description

Support

Description
Part of the staff of a bronze caduceus
Object type
caduceus
Material
bronze
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 9.5 cm, width: cm, depth: cm, dim: 0.8 cm

Inscription

Layout
The text is on one side of the staff, which is cylindrical in cross-section.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 7mm
Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin
Sicilia
Provenance found
No information is provided on provenance.

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

public document

commentary

The fragment appears to have the standard formulation of genitive plural ethnic and the word δαμόσιον. The presence of omega indicates a Hellenistic rather than classical date, but it is not clear that it can be assumed (as in Manganaro and Ampolo) on the basis of the visible letters to be necessarily third rather than fourth century BCE.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/21/2021