Auf dem Bruchstuck eines Bronzekessels steht eine Bustrophedon-Inschrift im elischen Dialekt aus der Mitte des 6. Jh. v. Chr. Genannt ist eine Regelung („wratra“ = Rhetra) des Kronos-Festes („Kronika“), dass ein Kultbeamter (der „Theokolos“) in den funf Tagen des Festes das Opfer auszufuhren hat, auser wenn die „Olympiade“ stattfindet. Kronos hatte in Olympia einen Altar in der Altis und einen auf der Spitze des nach ihm genannten Kronos-Hugels. Vermutlich gab es in archaischer Zeit ein jahrliches funftagiges Fest fur Kronos, das alle vier Jahre im Zusammenhang mit dem ebenfalls funftagigen Fest der Olympien fur Zeus, den Sohn des Kronos, stattfand. The fragment of a bronze cauldron shows a bustrophedon inscription in Elean dialect to be dated to the middle of the 6. cent. B.C. Its text is a regulation („wratra“ = rhetra) of the festival of Kronos („Kronika“): a cult official (the „theokolos“) has to sacrifice in the five days of the festival, except in time of the „Olympiad“. At Olympia Kronos had an altar in the Altis, another one at the top of the hill of Kronos, named after this cult place. In archaic times there was presumably an annual five-day festival for Kronos, which every four years was celebrated together with the five-day Olympic festival for Kronos’s son Zeus. KeywordsOlympia; Bronze-Inschrift; lex sacra; Rhetra; Kronos; Archaik; Olympische Spiele Olympia; bronze inscription; lex sacra; rhetra; Kronos; Cronus; archaic time; Olympic Games
P. Giss. I 21 è una lettera di Eudaimonis al figlio Apollonios, il noto strategos dell’Apollonopolites Heptakomias. Tra gli altri argomenti, essa tratta di due indumenti, un Lakonion e un Attalianon, la cui natura è lasciata irrisolta nelle varie edizioni e traduzioni del papiro. Autori latini, e anche greci, permettono però di intendere il primo come un indumento colorato con porpora della Laconia, il secondo come un indumento intessuto o ricamato con fili d’oro. La menzione di tali indumenti in un documento dell’archivio di Apollonios non è una difficoltà, poiché già altre lettere dell’archivio testimoniano il suo gusto per tessuti di lusso. P. Giss. I 21 is a letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios, the well-known strategos of the Apollonopolite-Heptacomia nome. Among other topics, the letter deals with two garments, a Lakonion and an Attalianon, whose nature was left unresolved in the various editions and translations of the text. However, Latin authors allow us to understand the first one as a garment dyed with purple of Laconia (according to Pliny the best available in Europe), and the second as a garment woven or embroidered with gold threads. The mention of such garments in a document of the Apollonios archive is not a difficulty, as other letters of this archive already testify to his fondness for luxury fabrics. KeywordsP. Giss. I 21; Archivio di Apollonios; tessuti; porpora di Laconia; Attalicae vestes P. Giss. I 21; Apollonios archive; textiles; Laconian purple; Attalicae vestes
The article offers the first edition of a Greek papyrus belonging to the Austrian National Library, which preserves the biggest part of a sale on delivery for reeds. This document offers valuable information concerning not only reeds as products involved in such a transaction, but also the production and use of reeds in general. Therefore, it supplements our knowledge provided by the few already published sales on delivery which come from the Hermopolite nome which also date to the early seventh century.Keywordsedition; Greek; papyrus; sale on delivery; Byzantine period; Hermopolite nome.
This document is a demand note for providing a shipwright and his rations sent by Appa Kyros to the inhabitants of the village of Poinami in the Heracleopolite nome. According to Karabacek, it belongs to the archive of the Heracleopolitan pagarchs Appa Kyros and sons, Christophoros and Theodorakios, from the early years after the Arab conquest of Egypt. This attribution implies for our papyrus a date to the year 638: one year earlier than the regularly accepted date for the beginning of the conquest and thus, according to Karabacek, still falling into the Byzantine period. However, the composition of the rations shows that the carpenter of our text must have worked in the service of the Arab administration. By discussing the chronology of the documents of the said archive, I try to answer the question of whether we have to anticipate the date of the conquest, or whether the papyrus has to be dated to a later period. Il documento è una richiesta per l’invio di un carpentiere con le sue razioni, inviata da Appa Kyros agli abitanti del villaggio di Poinami, in Eracleopolite. Secondo Karabacek, esso appartiene all’archivio dei pagarchi Appa Kyros e figli, Christophoros e Theodorakios, dei primi anni dopo la conquista araba d’Egitto. Questa attribuzione implica per il nostro papiro una data al 638: un anno prima della data accettata tradizionalmente per l’inizio della conquista e dunque, secondo Karabacek, ancora nel periodo bizantino. Tuttavia la composizione delle razioni mostra che il carpentiere del nostro testo deve aver lavorato al servizio dell’amministrazione araba. Attraverso la discussione della cronologia dei documenti dell’archivio, cerco di rispondere alla questione se si debba anticipare la data della conquista, o se il papiro sia da datare a un periodo più tardo. Keywords Archive of the pagarchs Appa Kyros; Christophoros and Theodorakios; Arab conquest; chronology; shipwright; karaboi; rations; measures Archivio dei pagarchi Appa Kyros; Christophoros e Theodorakios; conquista araba; cronologia; mastro d’ascia; karaboi; razioni; misure
The epitaph of Seikilos from Tralleis has attracted remarkable scholarly interest, as it provides the only complete example of an ancient Greek musical composition that includes musical notation. However, while highlighting the singularity of the epitaph, scholars have neglected to relate it to its context: thousands of funeral inscriptions from Asia Minor. Comparing musical notation inscribed on stone to similarly documented phenomena such as mathematical proofs or philosophical essays allows a redefinition of the epitaph’s role in its broader cultural context. Keywords Greek epigraphy; Greek music; Greek mathematics; epitaph; funeral culture; Seikilos; Tralleis
Verfasser: Lajos Berkes, Ana Isabel Blasco Torres, Willy Clarysse, Susan Fogarty, Nikolaos Gonis, Csaba A. La'da, Federica Micucci
This article presents the edition of a hitherto unpublished declaration of surety in Greek from 6th century Middle Egypt kept in the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library. In this fragmentary document surety is provided for a gardener (?) called Neilammon son of Timotheos. Of particular interest in the papyrus is an attestation of a notary called Elias unknown to date, who also appears in two other Vienna papyri published in this volume for the first time. Keywords Greek deed of surety, late antiquity, Herakleopolis (?), notary Elias
The term συναρχίαι (“joint magistracies”), designating the joint meetings of different boards of magistrates, appears in the decrees of the Peloponnesian cities in the 3rd and the 2nd centuries BCE, obviously under the influence of the Achaian federation. The institution itself seems to have been originated in Achaia, but the συναρχίαι in the cities should not be regarded as exact copies of the corresponding federal body, since the local and the federal “joint magistracies” carried out different functions. KeywordsThe Peloponnese; Achaia; koinon; polis; joint magistracies; Greek epigraphy
The inscription IG II/III³ 4, 1397 found in the agora of Athens is a dedication to Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta and Iulia Domna. It is to be dated to the 23rd Panathenais = 207/208 which proofs that the Attic Panathenaids start with the year 120 AD. Die Inschrift IG II/III³ 4, 1397 von der Agora in Athen, eine Weihung an Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta und Iulia Domna, ist in die 23. Panathenais = 207/208 zu datieren. Damit ist bewiesen, dass die Attische Panathenaidenzählung mit dem Jahr 120 n.Chr. begann. Keywords Greek epigraphy; Athens; Agora; Septimius Severus; Caracalla; Geta; Iulia Domna; Panathenais Griechische Epigraphik; Athen; Agora; Septimius Severus; Caracalla; Geta; Iulia Domna; Panathenais
P.Vindob. G 25640 ist eine herakleopolitanische Gestellungsbürgschaft aus dem 6. Jh., die aus zweierlei Gründen von besonderer Bedeutung ist. Einerseits aufgrund der hohen Strafsumme und der Tatsache, dass wir bisher kaum Gestellungsbürgschaften aus dieser Zeit aus dem Herakleopolites kennen und andererseits wegen der ungewöhnlichen Unterschrift des Notars Elias. P.Vindob. G 25640, edited in the present paper, is a deed of surety from 6th-century Heracleopolis. Only a few sureties are known from this time and place. The deed in question is of particular interest because of the high penalty in case of breach of contract on the one hand and the peculiarity of the notary’ Keywords Heracleopolite surety; 6th-century; notary Elias; Latinate signature Bürgschaft; Herakleopolites; 6. Jh.; Notar Elias; lateinische Unterschrift
A selection of Latin inscriptions from the Albertinum in Dresden, mainly of Roman origin, which either remained unpublished or whose reading or interpretation could be improved. KeywordsRoman sepulchral inscriptions; Carmen epigraphicum; forgery; Cardinale Cesare Taggiasco; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
