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Modio (copricapo)

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Busto di Serapide che indossa il modio

Il modio è un tipo di copricapo, o corona, a forma di cilindro con un'estremità piana, che si riscontra nell'arte egizia e in quella del mondo greco-romano. Il nome è stato coniato dagli studiosi moderni per via della somiglianza con l'omonimo contenitore usato in antichità come unità di misura delle granaglie.[1]

Il modio è indossato da alcune divinità, tra cui Mut[2], divinità eleusine e i loro equivalenti romani, Artemide efesina e alcune altre sue forme[3], Ecate e Serapide[4]. Quando indossato da alcune divinità, esso è una rappresentazione della fertilità.[5]

Un alto modio, variamente ornato con simboli, motivi vegetali e ureo, fa parte del complesso copricapo con cui venivano ritratte le regine egizie[6]. Esso era anche il copricapo distintivo dei sacerdoti di Palmira.[7]

  1. ^ Judith Lynn Sebesta and Larissa Bonfante, The World of Roman Costume (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), p. 245; Irene Bald Romano, Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, And Roman Stone Sculpture in the University Of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, 2006), p. 294.
  2. ^ Betsy M. Bryan, "A Newly Discovered Statue of a Queen from the Reign of Amenhotep III," in Servant of Mut: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini (Brill, 2007), p. 32.
  3. ^ Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions pp. 131–132.
  4. ^ Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture: The Styles of ca. 331–200 B.C. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), p. 95.
  5. ^ Fontenrose, Didyma, p. 131.
  6. ^ Bryan, "A Newly Discovered Statue of a Queen," p 36ff.; Paul Edmund Stanwick, Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings As Egyptian Pharaohs (University of Texas Press, 2002), p. 35 et passim.
  7. ^ Romano, Classical Sculpture, p. 294; Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Brill, 1999), pp. 246–247 .

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