Considerazioni sullo zoonimo ΚΑΣΤΩΡ nel Papiro di Artemidoro (V6 Gallazzi/Kramer/Settis)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21413631 |
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| Authors | Marco Vespa (0000-0002-0570-7713, Université de Fribourg, Institut du monde antique et byzantin, Rue du Criblet 13, 1700 Fribourg , Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-6459 • E-ISSN: 1867-1551 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/apf-2020-0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3133446405 |
| Language | IT |
The Artemidorus Papyrus has a legend on the verso (V6) that bears the usual word for ‘beaver’ in ancient Greek, i.e. κάστωρ. This does not correspond to the drawing of the animal, which looks more like a dog. Through an analysis of various zoological texts, this article solves the difficulty by considering the other zoonym of the beaver, which was κυνοπόταμος, i.e. the ‘river dog’
Art · Art history · Beaver · Biology · Humanities · Legend · Papyrus · Ancient Near East History · Classics · Ecology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
| Highly cited | No |
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