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Iaitia
(26 words)
[English version] (Ἰαιτία). Stadt auf Sizilien (Diod. 22,10,4; 23,18; Steph. Byz. s. v. I.; vgl. HN 148), wohl identisch mit Ietai (s. Nachträge). Falco, Giulia
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Der Neue Pauly
Echetla
(112 words)
[German version] (Ἐχέτλα;
Echétla). Town in the interior of Sicily, neighbouring Leontini, Syracusae and Camarina (Diod. Sic. 20,32), in the border region between the spheres of influence of Carthage and Hieron II (Pol. 1,15,10). Besieged by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st Punic War. Plin. HN 3,91 calls the citizens of E.
stipendiarii. Judging from the similarity in name, E. was located on the hill Occhialà near Grammichele east of Caltagirone where Siculan-Greek remains and a Demeter sanctuary were found. …
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Motyum
(62 words)
[German version] (Μότυον;
Mótyon). Fort in the region of Acragas, occupied by Ducetius in 451 BC, reconquered by Acragas the following year (Diod. 11,91,1; 4). Possible location at modern Vassallaggi. …
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Engyon
(119 words)
[German version] (Ἔγγυον;
Énguon). City in the interior of Sicily, …
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Sileraioi
(83 words)
[German version] (Σιλεραῖοι/
Sileraîoi). Ethnic name probably of Italic mercenaries from the region of the Sila Mountains (Sila [1], Bruttium), who up to the death of Dionysius [1] I in 367 BC minted Syracusan bronze coins in the 'drachma' series with the legend SILERAION and an attacking warrior. …
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Entella
(209 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Sicily (Ἔντελλα;
Éntella), modern Rocca d'Entella west of Corleone. City of the Elymi in the west of Sicily (Thuc. 6,2,3), often named in the wars of Dionysius I and of Timoleon with the Carthaginians (Diod. Sic. 14,9; 48; 61; 15,73; 16,67; 73), numbered by Cic. Verr. 2,3,103 among the
civitates decumanae, by Plin. HN 3,91 to the
stipendiarii, not destroyed until the 13th cent. by Frederick II. The investigation of the settlement and of the area belonging to it (begun in 1983) has brought finds to …
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Merusium
(39 words)
[German version] (Μερούσιον;
Meroúsion). Settlement of unknown location, 70 stadia (Theopompos FGrH 115 F 189) from Syracuse, probably in the vicinity of a sanctuary of Artemis Meroessa (Steph. Byz. s.v. Μ.). Falco, Giulia (Athens) Bibliography BTCGI 9, 567.
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Piacus
(66 words)
[German version] (Πίακος/
Píakos). City in Sicily (Steph. Byz. s.v. Π.), presumably to the northwest of Catania at Adrano in the Mendolito quarter. Finds of coins suggest this location: bronze (425-420 BC) and silver (
c. 400 BC) issues as well as an exemplar showing the double
Piacinus/
Adran legend. Falco, Giulia (Athens) Bibliography BTGCI 13, 501-507 …
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Cossura
(91 words)
[German version] (Κόσσουρα, Κόσ(σ)ουρος;
Kóssoura,
Kós(s)ouros, Lat.
Cossura,
Cossyra). Vulcanic island between Sicily and Africa, modern Pantelleria, before the Punic Wars under Carthaginian rule, in the First Punic War temporarily, after 217 BC finally conquered by Rome and attached to the province of …
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Elymi
(292 words)
[German version] (Ἔλυμοι;
Élymoi). Pre-Greek tribe in western Sicily, thought by Thucydides (6,2,3; cf. Str. 13,1,53) to be descendants of Trojan refugees ( Elymus); according to Hellanicus (FGrH 4 F 79b), they were forced out of southern Italy by the Oinotroi. They were generally allied with the Phoenicians and hostile towards the Greeks. Following their Hellenization in the 5th cent. BC, they are no longer mentioned as a tribe. The names of their towns ( Eryx, Segesta, Entella) point to Ligurian…
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Gaulus
(225 words)
[German version] (Γαῦλος, Γαῦδος;
Gaûlos,
Gaûdos). North-western island of the Malta group (modern Gozo), first mentioned by Hecataeus (FGrH 1 F 341; cf. Str. 6,2,11; Diod. Sic. 5,12,4: located in the open sea with good harbours; Procop. Vand. 1,14; Plin. HN 3,92). Name probably Phoenician: γαῦλος/
gaûlos, ‘round cargo boat’. In the 8th cent. it was colonized by Phoenicians, later in Carthaginian, Greek, and after 220 BC Roman possession. Inland there was a settlement of the same name. Coins with Greek and Punic legends (HN 883). In Ggantij…
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Ecnomum
(149 words)
[German version] (ἔκνομον;
éknomon). Massif in southern Sicily near the mouth of the Salso above Licata. The discovery of remnants from archaic times (chthonic sanctuary, necropolis) in Mollarella and newer studies about the mountain [1], which was bordered by a subsidiary of the ancient Hime…
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Miscera
(22 words)
[German version] (Μίσκερα/
Mískera). Town in Sicania (Sicani; Theop. FGrH 115 F 198). Location unknown. Falco, Giulia (Athens) Bibliography BTCGI 10, 159f.
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Phalarium
(56 words)
[German version] (Φαλάριον;
Phalárion). Fortress (φρούριον;
phro…
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Eryce
(46 words)
[German version] (Ἐρύκη;
Erýkē). Town in Sicily (Steph. Byz. s.v. Ἐ., s.v. Παλική), located most probably in the mountainous area [1] of Ramacca [2]. Falco, Giulia (Athens) Bibliography …
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