Abakainon
Abakainon ( Greek Ἀβάκαινον ; Latin Abacaenum ) was an ancient city located on a steep mountain in northeastern Sicily near today's municipality of Tripi .
The originally Sicilian settlement came under Greek cultural influence. The urban area of Abakainon initially extended north to the sea, but became in 396 BC. . Chr in the founding of Tyndaris by the tyrant Dionysius considerably reduced. The historian Diodorus , who is an important source for the ancient history of Sicily, mentions Abakainon above all when describing the military conflicts between Syracuse and Carthage ; for example, Dionysius I defeated in 393 BC. At Abakainon the Carthaginian general Mago , who lost 800 men. Accordingly, the place was a more important place for a long time, but has not been mentioned in the literary sources since the time of King Hieron II of Syracuse . Probably the rising prosperity of neighboring Tyndaris was to blame for Abakainon's decline. However, Ptolemy mentions it so that it still existed during the Roman Empire .
The Italian Dominican and historian Tommaso Fazello found ancient remains of the city at the foot of the hill on which today's Tripi is located . The city's silver and copper coins can be found from the middle of the 5th to the end of the 3rd century BC. The types (boar and acorn) indicate cattle breeding in the nearby large forests. Abakainon is also mentioned in the directory of the Theodorokoi from Delphi (early 2nd century BC).
literature
- Edward Herbert Bunbury: Abacaenum . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
- Christian Hülsen : Abakainon 2) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 12.
- Giacomo Manganaro: Abakainon. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 5.
Web links
- Coins of Abakainon (English)
- R. Wilson, DARMC, R. Talbert, S. Gillies, T. Elliott, J. Becker: Places: 462062 (Abakainon). Pleiades, accessed June 9, 2013 .
Remarks
- ↑ So Diodor and Stephanos of Byzantium ; Ptolemy (3, 4, 7) gives the notation Ἀβάκαινα .
- ↑ Diodorus 14, 78, 5
- ↑ Diodor 14, 90, 3; 19, 65, 6; 19, 110, 4; 22, 13, 2
- ↑ Diodorus 14, 90, 3-4
- ↑ Ptolemy 3, 4, 7
- ^ André Plassart: Inscriptions de Delphes. La list des Théorodoques. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 45, 1921, pp. 1-85 ( online ), line 92 . Corrections in Giacomo Manganaro: Città di Sicilia e santuari panellenici nel III e II sec. A. C. In: Historia. Volume 13, 1963, pp. 414-439 (to Abakainon p. 431). Further inscriptions from Abakainon: Inscriptiones Graecae XIV 382 and 382 a – d.
Coordinates: 38 ° 3 ' N , 15 ° 6' E