Gregg Schwendner over at What’s New in Papyrology alerts us to the following epigraphical articles published in volume 36 of Ancient Society (ISSN: 0066-1619; / E-ISSN: 1783-1334).
Troels Myrup Kristensen has posted a photograph of the sarcophagus, found at Termessos in 1998 and now in the Antalya museum. The verse inscription on it, which he reports to be barely readable to the naked eye, has been published as:
Troels offers an English translation, modified from the one on display in the museum:
(This grave) keeps inside the one that death took suddenly. This is the grave of Dog Stephanos that went away and vanished. Rhodope cried for it and buried it like a human. I, (the) Dog Stephanos: Rhodope set up my grave.
Julia Lougovaya (one of our co-editors here at CE), highlights this inscription in her review of SGO 4 (BMCR 2005.07.31), offering the following translation of the readable portion of the text (the final 2 of 3 original epigrams):
This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished,
Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human (vv. 4-5).
I am the dog Stephanos, and Rhodope set up a tomb for me (v. 6).
Julia notes that Rhodope’s own sarcophagus, which carries a prose epitaph in which she takes sole credit for the construction of the tomb (Αὐρ(ηλία) Ῥοδόπη τὴν σωματοθήκην ἑαυτῆ μόνη), was found nearby. This inscription is published as:
Andrej Petrovic and Brian Turner contributed to the content of this article.
The editors of CE would be grateful for additional information about these inscriptions: texts, translations, photographs, publication information and the like.
Troels Myrup has posted 3 color photos of portions of the Gortyn legal code.
Some print publications relevant to the inscription:
Online:
The recent publication of Jean-Paul Rey-Coquais, Inscriptions Grecques et Latines de Tyr (BAAL supplement III, Beyrouth 2006) has just come to my notice. This volume contains some 412 inscriptions, most illustrated with photographs, squeezes, and/or sketches; all carefully edited and briefly commented upon; those of any substance translated (into French). There are Greek and Latin indices, a general index, a preface and table of contents in Arabic at the back (from our point of view!), but the one obvious missing feature is a concordance of publications. A nice-looking corpus, however.
As of today’s posting of BMCR 2007.05.01 the following titles of epigraphic interest are available for review (some of them not snapped up since last month). There must be epigraphers out there who want free books?
- Edmondson, Jonathan, Granite Funerary Stelae from Augusta Emerita. Monografías Emeritenses 9. Mérida: Artes Gráficas Rejas, S. L., 2006. Pp. 303. (pb). ISBN 84-8181-313-3.
- Minon, Sophie, Les inscriptions éléennes dialectales (VI-II siècle avant J.-C.). Volume I: Textes. Volume II: Grammaire et vocabulaire institutionnel. École Pratique des Hautes Études Sciences historiques et philogiques III. Hautes Études du Monde Gréco-Romain 38. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 2007. Pp. 280, pls. 22; 657. EUR 80.00 (pb) (each volume). ISBN 978-2-600-01130-3. ISBN 978-2-600-01131-0.
- Iplikcioglu, Buelent, Gueler Celgin, and A. Vedat Celgin, Epigraphische Forschungen in Termessos und seinem Territorium IV. Vienna: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. Pp. 320; ills. 242. EUR 79.00. ISBN 978-3-7001-3532-6.
- Nosch, Marie-Louise B., The Knossos Od Series. An Epigraphical Study. Vienna: Verlag der Oesterriechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. Pp. 71. EUR 21.60. ISBN 978-3-7001-3605-7.
Guidelines on registering as a reviewer:
Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested author in the subject line. (PLEASE DO *NOT* REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.) They should state their qualifications (both in the sense of degrees held and in the sense of experience in the field concerned) and explain any previous relationship with the author.
Reviewed in BMCR 2007.05.03:
Cesare Zizza, Le iscrizioni nella Periegesi di Pausania. Commento ai testi epigrafici. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2006. Pp. 518. ISBN 88-467-1598-5. €32.00.
Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri, Rome (filippocanaliderossi@hotmail.com)
Word count: 1858 words
This book deals with inscriptions that are reported in Pausanias, rather than surviving on stone, so is slightly different from a typical epigraphic edition. It is a very interesting methodological and historiographical discussion, however.
The 2004 volume of Praktika tes en Athenais Archaiologikes Etaireias (ISSN 1105-0969) has just been published. Petros Themelis’ report on the excavations of Messene (p. 27-53) includes 10 new inscriptions and a detailed mention of a long (184 lines) text recording an arbitration between Messene and Megalopolis in 185/4 BC.
Noted by way of the Blegen Library News blog (but not seen yet) in the latest edition of Hesperia:
Note: I could not successfully resolve the DOIs for these articles at https://dx.doi.org/. Note also that free access for the unsubscribed is not (yet?) available for this latest issue.
Since it seems not to have reached the libraries yet, let me signal the following publication (in Greek, with a summary in German):
Pantelis M. Nigdelis, Ἐπιγραφικὰ Θεσσαλονίκεια. Συμβολὴ στὴν πολιτικὴ καὶ κοινωνικὴ ἱστορία τῆς ἀρχαίας Θεσσαλονίκης, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2006, 646 p., ISBN: 9601215506.
It is a publication of 75 inscriptions from Thessaloniki (of which 59 previously unpublished, if I counted correctly) and 66 testimonia epigraphica, with copious commentaries.
Announcement circulated by AIEGL; this publication apparently makes frequent reference to epigraphic evidence:
M. Mortarino, M. Reali, G. Turazza, Genius loci. Storia e antologia della letteratura latina, 3 volumi, Loescher, Torino, 2007.
Il link sottostante rimanda alla pagina di presentazione del volume, sul sito web Loescher.it:
The latest issue (345: February 2007) of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research is devoted to epigraphic matters. The table of contents (pdf) lists the following articles:
Gregg Schwenderer alerts us via What’s New in Papyrology to the following article (not seen by me):
