Abacaenum(151 words)
[German version]
(Ἀβάκαινον; Abákainon). Town of the Siculi on a steep hillside near the modern Tripi, c. 10 km south-east of the city of Tyndaris to which, at its foundation in 396 BC, Dionysius I added a large amount of A.'s territory (Diod. Sic. 14,78,5). Listed among the theorodokoi in Delphi (beginning of 2nd cent. BC; IG XIV 382 a-d; [3. 420; 431]). Continued to exist into late antiquity.
Manganaro, Giacomo (Sant' Agata li Battiata)
Bibliography
1 A. Bertino, Atti IV del Convegno di Numismatica Napoli, 1973, 105 ff.
2 R. Calciati (ed.), Corpus Nummorum Siculorum 1, 1983, 73-75
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Manganaro, Giacomo (Sant' Agata li Battiata),
“Abacaenum”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 06 May 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e100160>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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