DOI article:
Morawiecki, Lesław: Coins from Cossyra
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TOM IH/IV
KRAKÓW 1999
LESŁAW MORAW1ECKI
Institute of History, The Rzeszów Pedagogical University
Rzeszów
COINS FROM COSSYRA
The poets wrote of this island, "Cossyraąueparua. "] And indeed, Cossyra
(now Pantelleria) is a smali island2 of volcanic origin, with barely 83 sąuare
kilometers of surface area. Virtually its entire length - 13.7 km - is cov-
ered with hills that do not exceed several hundred meters (with the
highest point at Montagna Grandę, 836 meters above sea level).3 From
I am sincerely grateful to the Lanckoroński Foundation for financing my stay research
at Rome in 1999.
1 Silius Italicus 14.272; cf. Ziegler, s.v. Kossura, RE Bd. XI, col. 1503-1504; for the varying
forms of the name, see W. Pape, Wórterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen, Bd. I, Braunschweig
1884, p. 704; for Latin forms, see TLL Onom. C, col. 668-669.
2 The population grew from ca. 7000, according to W.-N. Bouillet, Dictionnaire universel
d'histoire et degeographie, Paris 1866, p. 1421, to 7900 (in 1981). The island was oftenusedin
antiąuity and in modern times as a place of exile or a prison.
3 For contemporary data on the island, see Lessico UniwersaleItaliano di lingua,lettere, arii,
scienze e tecnica, vol. 16, Roma 1976, p. 54, and Conoscere Lltalia. Enciclopedia deli'Italia antica
e moderna, Sicilia 2, Novarra 1983, pp. 565-566.
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KRAKÓW 1999
LESŁAW MORAW1ECKI
Institute of History, The Rzeszów Pedagogical University
Rzeszów
COINS FROM COSSYRA
The poets wrote of this island, "Cossyraąueparua. "] And indeed, Cossyra
(now Pantelleria) is a smali island2 of volcanic origin, with barely 83 sąuare
kilometers of surface area. Virtually its entire length - 13.7 km - is cov-
ered with hills that do not exceed several hundred meters (with the
highest point at Montagna Grandę, 836 meters above sea level).3 From
I am sincerely grateful to the Lanckoroński Foundation for financing my stay research
at Rome in 1999.
1 Silius Italicus 14.272; cf. Ziegler, s.v. Kossura, RE Bd. XI, col. 1503-1504; for the varying
forms of the name, see W. Pape, Wórterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen, Bd. I, Braunschweig
1884, p. 704; for Latin forms, see TLL Onom. C, col. 668-669.
2 The population grew from ca. 7000, according to W.-N. Bouillet, Dictionnaire universel
d'histoire et degeographie, Paris 1866, p. 1421, to 7900 (in 1981). The island was oftenusedin
antiąuity and in modern times as a place of exile or a prison.
3 For contemporary data on the island, see Lessico UniwersaleItaliano di lingua,lettere, arii,
scienze e tecnica, vol. 16, Roma 1976, p. 54, and Conoscere Lltalia. Enciclopedia deli'Italia antica
e moderna, Sicilia 2, Novarra 1983, pp. 565-566.
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