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From Stone to Byte: looking at verse inscriptions
Charlotte Roueché
Aphrodisias:
Funerary
epigram for
Asclepiodotus
(late fifth
century)
http:insaph.kcl.a
c.uk/ala2004,
no. 54
Epitaph for Asclepiodotus
[ο]ὐ̣ θά//νεν οὐ//δ' Ἀχέ//ροντοϲ // (5) ἴδεν ῥό//ον, ἀλλ' ἐ//ν
Ὀλύμπωι //
Ἀϲκληπιόδο//τοϲ τε\ρεϲ̣ι // (10) ϲυνφέρετε, //
οὗτοϲ ὅτιϲ // δώμηϲε καὶ // ἀγλαὰ πολ//λὰ τιθήνηι //
[...
He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in
Olympus Asclepiodotus is borne among the stars - he who
also built many splendid things for his motherland [ ? . .
http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004 no. 54
Oxyrhynchus
Papyrus 50.3523
Excerpt from
St John’s gospel
2nd century
From
http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/
POxy/
The Aleppo Codex
of the Torah
(10th century CE
Palestine)
Deuteronomy
32:50-33:29
showing
Parashah,
spaces between
sections.
Image from
http://www.aleppocodex.
org/
Chapters introduced by Stephen Langton,
c. 1220
Bridwell Library
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
Aldine Edition
of Herodotus
Cover of the
Aldine Plato
1515
The Aldine Plato
Robert Estienne
(Stephanus)
1503-1559
Image from Alfred Gudeman:
Imagines Philologorum (1910) at
http://www.telemachos.huberlin.de
Edition by Stephanus
(Henri Estienne, son of Robert)
Geneva 1578,
of Plato’s
Theaetetus
p. 142
Image from Wikipedia
Stephanus
(Henri Estienne)
Edition of Plato’s
Apology
(Geneva, 1578)
Image from George Sarton
Ancient Science Through
the Golden Age of Greece
(1993) in
Google Book
From Alfred Gudeman: Imagines Philologorum (1910) at
http://www.telemachos.hu-berlin.de
Bekker’s edition of Aristotle, 1831, page 184.
Image from Wikipedia
Mosq. Synod.436
f.219
(c. XIII-XIV
? Trebizond)
Kekaumenos,
Advice and Anecdotes,
showing chapter
divisions.
οἱ νοτάριοί σου ὁπόταν κατὰ τινος τῶν θεματικῶν λέγωσι,
μὴ αὐτίκα συναπαχθεὶς τοῖς λόγοις αὐτῶν καὶ θυμωθεὶς
ἀμύνῃς αὐτόν. | (xx) ἔθος γὰρ τοῖς ὑποχειρίοις ἵνα εἰ μὲν
λάβωσί τι παρὰ τινος ἐπαινῶσιν αὐτὸν πρὸς τὸν κύριον
αὐτῶν καὶ μεγαλύνωσιν αὐτὸν κἂν ἀνδροφόνος ἐστὶ καὶ
τυμβωρύχος.
From the Advice and Anecdotes of Kekaumenos (11th
cent.)
Berlin, 24 July 2008
Constantinople: Hippodrome: The obelisk was erected in 390
under Theodosius I, by the City Prefect, Proclus
Constantinople: Hippodrome. Base of obelisk, erected by the
prefect Proclus (388-392), whose name has been erased
and restored in the Latin epigram.
Constantinople: Hippodrome. Base of obelisk, erected by the
prefect Proclus (388-392), whose name has been erased
and restored in the Greek epigram.
‘Memnonium’, Luxor
The Colossus of
Memnon
Thebes, Egypt
Colossus of Memnon:
detail
http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54
[λ]άμπει κ(αὶ) φθιμένοιϲ ἀρετῆϲ φάοϲ, οἳ περὶ πά̣τ̣ρη̣[ϲ]
πολλὰ πονηϲάμενοι ξυνὸν ἔθεντ' ὄφελ̣[οϲ.]
Ἀϲκληπιοδότωι λόγοϲ ἥρμο̣ϲεν, ὧι πόλιϲ ἥ̣[δε]
οἷάπερ οἰκιϲτῆι τόνδ' ἀνέθηκε τύπο[ν.]
dash
5
Τήκει καὶ πέτρην ὁ πολὺϲ χρόνοϲ· ἀλ̣λ'̣ ἀ̣[ρετάων]
Ἀϲκληπιοδότου τὸ κλέοϲ ἀθάνατον,
ὅϲϲα καὶ οἷα πόρεν γέρα πατρίδι τοῖϲ ἐπὶ π[ᾶϲιν]
καὶ τόδε μετρείϲθω ξυνὸν ἔρειϲμα θό̣[λου.]
Line 8, for ξυνὸν, AP has κοῖλον.
The light of virtue shines even for dead men, who, undertaking
many labours for their country, established general benefits. The
saying fits Asclepiodotus, for whom this city has dedicated this
statue as for a founder.
Long time wears away even stone; but the fame of Asclepiodotus’
virtues is immortal, the number and kind of privileges which he
obtained for his country. In addition to all these, let this adjacent
structure of the vaulted chamber be counted as well.
Aphrodisias: Honorific epigrams for Asclepiodotus
http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54
Aphrodisias:
Funerary
epigram for
Asclepiodotus
(late fifth
century)
http://insaph.kcl.a
c.uk/ala2004, no.
54
Epitaph for Asclepiodotus
[ο]ὐ̣ θά//νεν οὐ//δ' Ἀχέ//ροντοϲ // (5) ἴδεν ῥό//ον, ἀλλ' ἐ//ν
Ὀλύμπωι //
Ἀϲκληπιόδο//τοϲ τε\ρεϲ̣ι // (10) ϲυνφέρετε, //
οὗτοϲ ὅτιϲ // δώμηϲε καὶ // ἀγλαὰ πολ//λὰ τιθήνηι //
[...
He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in
Olympus Asclepiodotus is borne among the stars - he who
also built many splendid things for his motherland [ ? . .
http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004 no. 54