ISic030121: Caduceus of the people of Enna

Apparatus criticus

• Text after Manganaro

Physical description

Support

Description

Part of the handle of a bronze caduceus, rectangular in cross-section (dimensions not recorded)

Object type

caduceus

Material

bronze

Condition

fragment

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Text is incised along one face of the handle.

Text condition

incomplete

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Enna

Provenance found

No data

Current location

Place

unknown, Italy

Repository

Apparently in a private collection ,

Autopsy

none

Date

Evidence

lettering

Text type

public document

commentary

Assuming that Manganaro's reading of final omicron is correct (and not omega; the published photograph does not provide sufficient clarity to judge), then a date in the early fourth century rather than later seems likely (the semi-aspirate itself is rare in Sicily, and usage otherwise appears to date between the late fifth and c.300 BCE).

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 705684
• EDR: 159042
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 70800277
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• L.H. Jeffery, ‘Anne Jeffery Archive’ (CSAD Oxford, n.d.), J.WC.L.R, Anne Jeffery Archive, at J.WC.Leont.NL.p.01a-c
• Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 2008.0635
• ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1923, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1607583, at 56.1077.B11
• Giacomo Manganaro Perrone, «La prima (metà V sec. a.C.) e l’ultima (44-36 a.C.) emissione degli Hennaioi in gloria di Demetra», Sicilia Antiqua 4 (2007): 33–43, at 35 with fig.5

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• James Chartrand
• Valeria Vitale
• Michael Metcalfe
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

6/21/2021