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From Stone to Byte: looking at verse inscriptions Charlotte Rouech é

From Stone to Byte: looking at verse inscriptions Charlotte Rouech é. Aphrodisias: Funerary epigram for Asclepiodotus (late fifth century) http:insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54. Epitaph for Asclepiodotus

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From Stone to Byte: looking at verse inscriptions Charlotte Rouech é

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  1. From Stone to Byte: looking at verse inscriptions Charlotte Roueché

  2. Aphrodisias: Funerary epigram for Asclepiodotus (late fifth century) http:insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54

  3. 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, // οὗτοϲὅτιϲ // δώμηϲε καὶ // ἀγλαὰπολ//λὰτιθήνηι // [ . . . 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

  4. Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 50.3523 Excerpt from St John’s gospel 2nd century From http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/ POxy/

  5. 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/

  6. Chapters introduced by Stephen Langton, c. 1220 Bridwell Library Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University

  7. Aldine Edition of Herodotus

  8. Cover of the Aldine Plato 1515

  9. The Aldine Plato

  10. Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 1503-1559 Image from Alfred Gudeman: Imagines Philologorum (1910) at http://www.telemachos.hu-berlin.de

  11. Edition by Stephanus (Henri Estienne, son of Robert) Geneva 1578, of Plato’s Theaetetus p. 142 Image from Wikipedia

  12. 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

  13. From Alfred Gudeman: Imagines Philologorum (1910) at http://www.telemachos.hu-berlin.de

  14. Bekker’s edition of Aristotle, 1831, page 184. Image from Wikipedia

  15. Mosq. Synod.436 f.219 (c. XIII-XIV ? Trebizond) Kekaumenos, Advice and Anecdotes, showing chapter divisions.

  16. 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.)

  17. Berlin, 24 July 2008

  18. Constantinople: Hippodrome: The obelisk was erected in 390 under Theodosius I, by the City Prefect, Proclus

  19. Constantinople: Hippodrome. Base of obelisk, erected by the prefect Proclus (388-392), whose name has been erased and restored in the Latin epigram.

  20. Constantinople: Hippodrome. Base of obelisk, erected by the prefect Proclus (388-392), whose name has been erased and restored in the Greek epigram.

  21. ‘Memnonium’, Luxor

  22. The Colossus of Memnon Thebes, Egypt

  23. Colossus of Memnon: detail

  24. http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54

  25. [λ]άμπει κ(αὶ) φθιμένοιϲἀρετῆϲ φάοϲ, οἳπερὶπά̣τ̣ρη̣[ϲ] πολλὰπονηϲάμενοι ξυνὸν ἔθεντ' ὄφελ̣[οϲ.] Ἀϲκληπιοδότωι λόγοϲἥρμο̣ϲεν, ὧι πόλιϲἥ̣[δε] οἷάπερ οἰκιϲτῆι τόνδ' ἀνέθηκε τύπο[ν.] dash 5 Τήκει καὶπέτρην ὁπολὺϲ χρόνοϲ· ἀλ̣λ̣' ἀ̣[ρετάων] Ἀϲκληπιοδότου τὸκλέοϲἀθάνατον, ὅϲϲα καὶοἷα πόρεν γέρα πατρίδι τοῖϲἐπὶπ[ᾶϲιν] καὶτόδε 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.

  26. Aphrodisias: Honorific epigrams for Asclepiodotus http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54

  27. Aphrodisias: Funerary epigram for Asclepiodotus (late fifth century) http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004, no. 54

  28. 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, // οὗτοϲὅτιϲ // δώμηϲε καὶ // ἀγλαὰπολ//λὰτιθήνηι // [ . . . 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

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