ISic030120: Caduceus from an unknown Sicilian location
- ID
- ISic030120
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- public document
- Object type
- caduceus
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after published editions and photographs
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
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Somewhat irregular broad letters. Alpha has straight bar; mu has all four strokes oblique and approximately equal length; nu has oblique second and third strokes; omega is semi-circular and fully open with short horizontal tails.
- 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
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 46.1298
- ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B10
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Alla ricerca di poleis mikrai della Sicilia centro-orientale», Orbis Terrarum 2 (1996): 129–44, at 143 with tav. 17
- 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.10 with fig. 15
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/21/2021