Metioessa - Studies in honor of Eleni Mantzourani

Metioessa - Studies in honor of Eleni Mantzourani

Giorgos Vavouranakis, Ioannis Voskos

Abstract

The volume comprises a collection of essays in honor of Eleni Mantzourani, Professor emerita of Prehistoric Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, by her colleagues, former students and main research associates. The essays are divided in four groups: a. Greek Mainland - Aegean islands (except Crete); b. Crete; c. Cyprus; d. Miscellanea. The topics of the essays in the first group include Neolithic chipped stone tools and figurines, the frescoes of Ayia Irini and the architecture of Akrotiri, Mycenaean pottery and fresco iconography, the history of archaeology, and Mycenaean cultural contacts and trade. The Minoan group of essays are about landscape and environmental archaeology, funerary and cult ritual, pottery, fresco and seal iconography. Studies on prehistoric Cyprus regard the early human presence on the island, Neolithic pottery, early prehistoric and Bronze Age social organization, Cyprus and its relation to Mycenaean Greece, to the eastern and the western Mediterranean, and the examination of cultural heritage postgraduate programs in Cyprus today. The three essays of fourth group are about a comparison of farming practices in prehistoric Crete and Cyprus, the profile of the warrior in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece and Archaic Doric temples in mainland Greece and on the Aegean islands.

ISBN (print version): 978-618-5740-01-6

ISBN (digital version): 978-618-5740-02-3

Contents

I. VOSKOS, G. VAVOURANAKIS, “Eleni Mantzourani: the journey so far”, 17-43.

ODYSSEAS KAKAVAKIS, “Neolithic chipped stone industries of western Macedonia, northern Greece. The assemblage of Varemeni Goulon”, 47-59.

STELLA KATSAROU, JOHN F. CHERRY, JACK L. DAVIS, “An unusual Neolithic figurine from the Nemea Valley”, 61-69.

LYVIA MORGAN, “Creatures of water and air. Flying fish and the divine”, 71-83.

ΚΛΑΙΡΗ ΠΑΛΥΒΟΥ, “Από τα παράθυρα της Δυτικής Οικίας. «όλος ο κόσμος μια σκηνή»”, 85-95.

ΡΑΝΙΑ ΜΠΑΛΛΗ, “Εκ νέου επίσκεψη στην ανασκαφή της μινωικής αποικίας των Κυθήρων. Μεθοδολογία και προσωπικότητες των ανασκαφέων μέσα από αρχειακή έρευνα”, 97-110.

NANNO MARINATOS, “A letter of Spyridon Marinatos to Martin P. Nilsson about Messenia”, 111-117.

VASSILIKI PLIATSIKA, “Mayhem in miniature. Detailing the work of a miniaturist pictorial painter in Mycenae”, 119-133.

IPHIYENIA TOURNAVITOU, “Special women and extraordinary creatures. An iconography of intimacy and transcendence in Mycenaean Greece. The lost link”, 135-150.

ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΠΕΤΡΑΚΗΣ, “Πάντας τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ. Συμβολικές εκφράσεις στα μυκηναϊκά υποπόδια”, 151-168.

ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΖΥΓΟΥΡΗΣ, “Εισηγμένα αντικείμενα από τη βόρεια Ευρώπη και την Αίγυπτο στην Αιτωλία και στην Ηπειρο κατά τη 2η χιλιετία π.Χ.”, 169-182.

ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΠΑΠΑΓΙΑΝΝΗ, “Τα μικροθηλαστικά της προϊστορικής Κρήτης. Αναπάντεχοι μάρτυρες εμπορικών διαδρομών και βιοδείκτες του εξανθρωπισμού του κρητικού οικοσυστήματος”, 183-192.

GIORGOS VAVOURANAKIS, “From landscape perception to niche construction. The case of the Mesara, south-central Crete, in the Early and Middle Bronze Age”, 193-206.

ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΓΛΑΡΑΚΗ, ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΣΟΦΙΑΝΟΣ, “Η διπλή εμφάνιση του εικονογραφικού θέματος του βουκρανίου στον μινωικό θολωτό τάφο της Μυρσίνης Σητείας και η σημασία του”, 207-216.

PHILIP P. BETANCOURT, “Miniature clay vases from the shrine of Eileithyia at  Inatos”, 217-224.

ΣΤΑΜΑΤΟΥΛΑ ΜΑΚΡΥΠΟΔΗ, “Σφραγιστικές επιφάνειες με μικρές παραλλαγές. Συγκριτική εξέταση”, 225-236.

ΛΕΥΤΕΡΗΣ ΠΛΑΤΩΝ, “Το ρυτό και το ιερό δισκοπότηρο. Τελετουργίες σπονδών και πόσης στη νεοανακτορική Κρήτη. Οι ενδείξεις από τη Ζάκρο”, 237-250.

ΜΑΡΙΑ ΣΑΚΕΛΛΑΡΑΚΗ, “Kεραμική από το Νίρου Χάνι. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της ΥΜ ΙΒ κεραμικής της βόρειας κεντρικής Κρήτης”, 251-262.

ROBERT B. KOEHL, “Minoan stick-fighting”, 263-270.

ANASTASIA M. VERGAKI, “Lonesome are the eyes. Remarks on the depiction of animals on the Aghia Triadha Sarcophagus”, 271-286.

ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ Η.Μ. ΚΟΥΣΟΥΛΗΣ, ΧΡΙΣΤΙΝΑ ΠΑΠΑΔΑΚΗ, “Ανιχνεύοντας την ιστορία της «πεντάλφας» με αφορμή ένα θραύσμα κονιάματος από την Κνωσό”, 287-306.

NΙΚΟΣ ΕΥΣΤΡΑΤΙΟΥ, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΥ, “Το αρχαιολογικό πρόγραμμα του ΑΠΘ στην Κύπρο. Η ανασκαφή της προϊστορικής θέσης Αγ. Ιωάννης/Βρέτσια Ρουδιάς στο Τρόοδος”, 307-316.

DAVID FRANKEL, “Constructing Sotira. Discard and deposition at a Neolithic village in Cyprus”, 317-324.

DIMITRIS KLOUKINAS, “On round houses and right angles: comments on the architecture of Late Neolithic Cypriot communities”, 325-340.

IOANNIS VOSKOS, EVDOXIA TZANNI, “Gourds, pots and the archaeology of the “invisible” in Neolithic Cyprus”, 341-352.

CHARA THEOTOKATOU, ““Skipping a Beat”. The social and economic implications of hoarding in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus”, 353-370.

JENNIFER M. WEBB, “Weapon-bearers at Middle Bronze Age Lapithos, Cyprus”, 371-382.

ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΒΟΥΤΣΑ, “Εύγλωττη «σιωπή». Αναζητώντας την Κύπρο στα αρχεία των μυκηναϊκών ανακτόρων”, 383-398.

KONSTANTINOS KOPANIAS, “Hittites, Mycenaeans and ‘Sea People’ in Cyprus at the end of the 13th century BC”, 399-416.

ΒΑΓΓΕΛΗΣ ΝΙΚΟΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, “Σύμβολα κύρους της  Ύστερης Εποχής του Χαλκού από την απώτατη Δύση στην Κύπρο”, 417-430.

DESPINA CATAPOTI, POLINA NIKOLAOU, DESPINA ANDRIOPOULOU, “Archaeology vs Cultural Heritage? An insight into current cultural heritage postgraduate study programs from Cyprus”, 431-446.

EVI MARGARITIS, CARLY HENKEL, “Farming the big islands of the Mediterranean. Crete and Cyprus in the Neolithic and Early-Middle Bronze Age”, 447-460.

ANTIGONI PASCHAKI, ”The profile of the Minoan and early Mycenaean warrior: 1700–1400 BC”, 461-476.

ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΟΣ ΚΑΝΕΛΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ ΚΟΒΑΝΗ, “Επικαιροποίηση του καταλόγου W.B. Dinsmoor Sr., Μetric measurements of temples (1950). Oι περίπτεροι δωρικοί ναοί στον Ελλαδικό και ευρύτερο Αιγαιακό χώρο”, 477-494.

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Open Access Journal: RES PUBLICA LITTERARUM

[First posted 17 April 2012, updated (new URLs) 24 September 2034]

RES PUBLICA LITTERARUM: Studies in the classical tradition

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ISSN: 0275-4304
ISSN (online): 1828-7824

«Res publica litterarum» è una rivista annuale di studi sulla tradizione classica, fondata nel 1978 da Sesto Prete presso la Kansas University. Si propone di indagare la classicità dalle origini alla sua sopravvivenza nella contemporaneità, in tutti i suoi aspetti: la letteratura, il pensiero, le arti figurative, nella convinzione che il recupero della ‘tradizione classica’ nella sua totalità sia il migliore antidoto contro una cultura da un lato troppo frammentata, dall’altro troppo appiattita sul presente.

«Res publica litterarum» accoglie al suo interno saggi, note e discussioni, edizioni di testi e documenti, recensioni. I contributi inviati devono essere accompagnati da un résumé italiano e inglese di non oltre 100 parole e da 3/5 parole chiave. I manoscritti sono sottoposti a revisori anonimi.

XLV/2024

Abstract

«Res publica litterarum» non cambia la sua missione, in linea con le finalità con cui fu fondata nel 1978 da Sesto Prete alla Kansas University, «rilanciare il concetto di ‘classico’ come matrice della cultura occidentale». Scriveva Piergiorgio Parroni, nella ‘Premessa’ alla seconda serie (1998): «forse Prete, vivendo all’estero, aveva percepito in anticipo quel vento di crisi che ora ci tocca cosí da vicino e aveva sentito il bisogno di recuperare la ‘tradizione classica’ nella sua totalità contro i pericoli di una cultura da un lato troppo frammentata, dall’altro troppo appiattita sul presente. Da qui l’esigenza di creare uno strumento rivolto a indagare la classicità dalle origini alla sua sopravvivenza nella contemporaneità, in tutti i suoi aspetti: la letteratura, il pensiero, le arti figurative». Venticinque anni dopo tale esigenza è ancora piú attuale. — Direzione e Redazione presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Roma Tre, viale Ostiense 234, 00146 Roma; e-mail: rpl@uniroma3.it. I contributi devono essere accompagnati da un résumé italiano e inglese di non oltre 100 parole. I manoscritti saranno sottoposti a revisori anonimi."> «Res Publica Litterarum» continues its mission in line with the purpose for which it was founded by Sesto Prete at Kansas University in 1978, «to relaunch the idea of classical as the roots of Western culture». In the foreword to the second series (1998), Piergiorgio Parroni wrote: «Perhaps, living abroad, Prete perceived in advance that wind of crisis that is now so dominant, and felt the need to recover the ‘classical tradition’ in its totality, against the dangers of a culture which is, on the one hand, too fragmented, and on the other too absorbed in the present. Hence the necessity of creating a tool dedicated to the investigation of the classical world, from its origins to its survival in contemporary society, in all its aspects: literature, way of thinking, and figurative arts». After twenty-five years, this necessity is all the more actual. — Manuscripts of articles and book reviews should be sent to Res publica litterarum, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Roma Tre, viale Ostiense 234, 00146 Roma; e-mail: rpl@uniroma3.it. Contributions must be accompanied by an Italian and English abstract of 100 words (max). Manuscripts received are reviewed by anonimous peers."> \ 

«Res publica litterarum» non cambia la sua missione, in linea con le finalità con cui fu fondata nel 1978 da Sesto Prete alla Kansas University, «rilanciare il concetto di ‘classico’ come matrice della cultura occidentale». Scriveva Piergiorgio Parroni, nella ‘Premessa’ alla seconda serie (1998): «forse Prete, vivendo all’estero, aveva percepito in anticipo quel vento di crisi che ora ci tocca cosí da vicino e aveva sentito il bisogno di recuperare la ‘tradizione classica’ nella sua totalità contro i pericoli di una cultura da un lato troppo frammentata, dall’altro troppo appiattita sul presente. Da qui l’esigenza di creare uno strumento rivolto a indagare la classicità dalle origini alla sua sopravvivenza nella contemporaneità, in tutti i suoi aspetti: la letteratura, il pensiero, le arti figurative». Venticinque anni dopo tale esigenza è ancora piú attuale. — Direzione e Redazione presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Roma Tre, viale Ostiense 234, 00146 Roma; e-mail: rpl@uniroma3.it. I contributi devono essere accompagnati da un résumé italiano e inglese di non oltre 100 parole. I manoscritti saranno sottoposti a revisori anonimi.

Contributi

Premessa

Paolo d'Alessandro 

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/1

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Il Peisandros-scholium e le origini dell’epos tebano

Antonio P. Martina 

Il contributo si propone di esaminare il Peisandros-scholium (Pisander ap. schol. Eur. Phoen. 1760) al fine di individuare gli elementi del mito tebano utilizzati nel perduto Crisippo di Euripide, riguardante il ratto di Crisippo ad opera di Laio, e quelli che, anche alla luce di nomi, luoghi e culti attestati nelle tavolette in lineare B, risultino anteriori ad Euripide e risalenti a remota antichità.

The article aims to examine the Peisandros-scholium (Pisander ap. schol. Eur. Phoen. 1760) in order to identify elements of the many-sided Theban myth present in Euripides’ lost Chrysippus (concerning the abduction of Chrysippus by Laius) and those which, in the light of names, places and cults attested in Linear B tablets, appear to be prior to Euripides and dating back to remote antiquity.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/2

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Allusioni e novità in Opp. Hal. IV 11-39 (inno a Eros)

Andrea Murace 

Attraverso un’analisi filologico-letteraria, questo articolo si propone di studiare la struttura, la composizione e il sistema di allusioni e riecheggiamenti dell’inno a Eros che Oppiano (II sec.) ha inserito all’inizio del IV libro degli Halieutica, poema didascalico sulla pesca. Particolare attenzione è riservata ai sintomi della passione amorosa e alle loro corrispondenze con Saffo (specialmente col fr. 31 V.) e con Apollonio Rodio.

Oppian (2nd cent. CE) includes a hymn to Eros at the beginning of Book 4 of his poem Halieutica, dedicated to fishing. The aim of this paper is to examine it from a philological-literary point of view in order to better understand its structure, composition, and allusions to the earlier literary tradition. In particular, the analysis focuses on the symptoms of love and traces correspondences with Sappho (especially fr. 31 V.) and Apollonius Rhodius.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/3

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Non satis acutus fuit: Cicerone contro Epicuro sull’amicizia (fin. I 65-70 e II 78-85)

Carlo Di Giovine 

Nel I libro del De finibus bonorum et malorum di Cicerone Lucio Manlio Torquato espone e difende la posizione assunta da Epicuro e dai suoi seguaci relativamente all'amicizia. Nel II libro Cicerone confuta le argomentazioni di Torquato e attacca Epicuro (Non satis acutus fuit), mettendo in luce il carattere disinteressato e non utilitaristico dell'amicizia, che nasce da caritas e amor.

In Book 1 of Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum, Lucius Manlius Torquatus explains and defends Epicurus' – and his followers’ – concept of friendship. In Book 2, Cicero rejects Torquatus' arguments and attacks Epicurus (Non satis acutus fuit), maintaining that friendship, which springs from caritas and amor, is expected to have an unselfish nature, not a utilitarian one.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/4

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Virgilio, Aen. IX 412 sg.: un locus insolubilis?

Alberto Canobbio 

Eneide, libro IX: il troiano Niso nel tentativo di salvare il suo amico Eurialo catturato dai Rutuli scaglia contro i nemici un’asta che uccide Sulmone; a proposito dei due esametri che descrivono la traiettoria dell’asta di Niso (vv. 412 sg. et venit adversi in tergum Sulmonis ibique / frangitur ac fisso transit praecordia ligno) Servio parla di locus insolubilis. Dopo un riesame del passo e della storia della sua esegesi si prende posizione a favore del testo pubblicato da Geymonat (adversi, non aversi) e dell’interpretazione secondo cui in tergum sta a indicare che Niso colpisce Sulmone non sullo scudo, come ritiene Servio, bensì alla schiena, come si legge nell’edizione Einaudi curata da Alessandro Fo.

Aeneid, Book IX: the Trojan Nisus, in an attempt to save his friend Euryalus captured by the Rutuli, throws a spear against his enemies and kills Sulmo. The two hexameters which describe the trajectory of Nisus’ spear (412 f. et venit adversi in tergum Sulmonis ibique / frangitur ac fisso transit praecordia ligno) are spoken of by Servius as locus insolubilis. A new examination of the exegetical history confirms both the text issued by Geymonat (adversi, not aversi) and the interpretation according to which in tergum indicates that Nisus hits Sulmo not on the shield (as believed by Servius), but on his back, as we read in the Aeneid published for Einaudi by Alessandro Fo.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/5

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La funebre gloria di Anfiarao nel VII libro della Tebaide di Stazio

Carmelo Salemme 

Con uno stile caratterizzato da una concisione estrema, denso di scorci, di accostamenti inediti, che rendono unica la pagina della Tebaide nel panorama stilistico della letteratura latina imperiale, Stazio descrive in un intreccio di gloria e di morte la tragica figura di Anfiarao (insieme pio veggente e micidiale strumento di morte), destinato a sprofondare nel suolo, inghiottito dalla terra. Tale intreccio di gloria bellica e di note funebri si fa trasparente nelle impreviste intuizioni espressive del poeta, con forme ignote al classicismo augusteo.

Statius describes in an interweaving of glory and death the tragic figure of Amphiaraus (both pious clairvoyant and lethal instrument of death), destined to sink into the ground, swallowed up by the earth. He does so using a style characterized by extreme concision, full of foreshortenings and original matchings, that makes this page of the Thebaid unique in the stylistic landscape of Latin literature of the Imperial Period. Such interweaving of warlike glory and funereal features becomes evident in the unexpected expressive intuitions of the poet, with forms that are unknown to the Augustan classicism.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/6

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Pio II e la scoperta del continente asiatico

Giuseppe Marcellino 

Il lavoro analizza il contributo personale di Enea Silvio Piccolomini alla scoperta del continente asiatico attraverso una lettura della sua Historia rerum ubique gestarum (1461), comunemente conosciuta con il titolo di Asia. In particolare, di quest’opera incompiuta si analizzano la struttura e i temi portanti, tra cui quello centrale dei drammatici sviluppi politico-militari della lotta tra Occidente cristiano e Impero ottomano. Inoltre, si esamina il potenziale impatto della lettura dell’Asia su Cristoforo Colombo, il quale possedette e annotò un esemplare dell’opera, oggi conservato alla Biblioteca Colombina di Siviglia.

This paper analyses Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s personal contribution to the discovery of the Asian continent through a reading of his ‘Historia rerum ubique gestarum’ (1461), commonly known by the title of ‘Asia’. In particular, the paper analyses the structure and main themes of this work, among which the pivotal one of the dramatic politico-military developments of the struggle between Christian West and Ottoman Empire. The paper also analyses the potential impact of the reading of Piccolomini’s ‘Asia’ on Christopher Columbus, who owned and annotated a copy now preserved at the Columbian Library of Seville.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/7

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«Col senso anche la forma»: di varianti d’autore

Ambra Russotti 

Dobbiamo a Scevola Mariotti la formulazione di uno dei rari criteri metodologici a uso dei filologi classici sulla questione della variantistica d’autore: dal momento che i ritocchi d’autore comportano, di norma, modifiche sostanziali sulla forma del testo oltre che sul senso, potranno più difficilmente essere ritenute d’autore varianti più vicine per il suono e per la grafia piuttosto che per significato. Alla luce della cospicua documentazione offerta dagli “scartafacci” degli autori moderni, resa più facilmente consultabile negli ultimi decenni grazie ai progressi della filologia d’autore, si propone un approfondimento dell’enunciato, presentato dallo stesso Mariotti come orientativo e passibile di eccezioni.

We owe to Scevola Mariotti the formulation of one of the rare methodological criteria available to classical philologists on the issue of authorial variants: since the author’s intervention usually involves substantial modifications to the form of the text as well as the meaning, Mariotti suggests that variants which are closer in sound and spelling, rather than meaning, are less likely to be authorial. Considering the conspicuous documentation offered by the study of modern authors’ notebooks, made more easily accessible in recent decades by the progress of authorial philology, we propose an in-depth analysis of the statement, presented by Mariotti himself as indicative and subject to exceptions.

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Il testo delle Compositiones di Scribonio Largo: un bilancio delle edizioni piú recenti

Sergio Sconocchia 

In questo lavoro rivisito alcuni punti delle mie due edizioni di Scribonio (Lipsiae, Teubner 1983 e Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020 [CML II 1], con raffronti con l’edizione di Jouanna-Bouchet (Paris, Les belles lettres, 2016). Prendo in esame anche il testo di nuovi excerpta (tradizione secondaria), identificati in genere di recente, offrendo in piú di un caso, come pare, un testo piú ampio e genuino rispetto a quello talora alterato o mutilo della tradizione diretta. Devo segnalare, in piú di un punto, un limite metodologico evidente di Jouanna-Bouchet: la studiosa si attiene sistematicamente ai testimoni TR che, come confermano gli excerpta, senza dubbio talvolta, direi spesso, conservano e condividono errori di subarchetipo e non sono portati, per la loro stessa natura, a riproporre varianti di un testo piú ampio ma pur sempre — e senza dubbio — genuinamente scriboniano.

In this article I reconsider a number of difficult passages in my two editions of Scribonius Largus (Leipzig, Teubner, 1983 and Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020 [CLM II 1]), comparing the solutions adopted there with those of J. Jouanna-Bouchet (Paris, Les belles lettres, 2016). I also revisit some passages transmitted as excerpts, i.e., what is termed secondary transmission, only identified in recent years, which in several instances offer a fuller text, closer to the original than that found in the direct transmission. In establishing her text Jouanna-Bouchet had systematically privileged TR, which I consider an error in editorial practice, because in contrast with the direct transmission which shares such questionable readings with a hyparchetype, these excerpts occasionally, one might even say often, provide a more complete text whose wording is without doubt nearer to what Scribonius wrote.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/9

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Tinctorium non cinctorium in Mela II 15

David Lodesani 

L’articolo prende in esame un termine di Mela II 15 cioè cinctoria, presente nei codices deteriores del De Chorographia e accolto unanimemente dagli ultimi editori, cui si oppone tinctoria presente nel codice V, alla base di tutto il resto della tradizione conservata. Con una serie di osservazioni sull’uso e il valore dei termini e sulle varie tappe della riflessione critica cui è stato sottoposto il brano in questione, si vuole dimostrare come l’adozione del termine tinctoria sia di gran lunga la soluzione migliore.

This paper deals with a reading of Mela II 15 i.e. cinctoria testified by some codices deteriores of De Chorographia and unanimously accepted by the latest editors, to which tinctoria of the manuscript V, the archetype of the extant tradition, is opposed. By a series of remarks on the use and the value of the two readings, and on the various steps of the critical reflection which the passage in question has undergone, we aim to prove that the adoption of tinctoria is, by far, the best solution.

DOI: 10.13134/1828-7824/1-2024/10

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Review Articles-Recensioni

N.F. Berrino  A. Di Meglio  D. Marrone  Ch. Savino 

Recensioni a/Review articles to: C. Salemme, Lucrezio e il problema della conoscenza: De rerum natura 4, 54-822 (Berrino); Medicina e letteratura tra Medioevo ed età moderna, a cura di C. Fossati (Marrone), Francesco Barbaro. De re uxoria, a cura di C. Griggio e C. Kravina (Savino), Andrea Frizzera, Roma: la sovranità e il modello. Le istituzioni romane nel IV libro del Contrat social di Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Di Meglio)

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The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600- 1500 BCE),

The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600- 1500 BCE),

Gianluca Miniaci and Peter Lacovara (eds.)

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The burial of Queen Ahhotep represents one of the most significant finds in Near Eastern Archaeology. A gilded coffin and a trove of magnificent jewels and precious objects belonging to a queen named Ahhotep was discovered at Dra Abu el-Naga, in Western Thebes by Auguste Mariette in 1859. Many of the objects associated with the burial bore the names of Kings Ahmose and Kamose of the end of the Second Intermediate Period and the beginning of the New Kingdom (1600–1500 BC) and reflected the influence of the Aegean and of Nubia. Despite its importance, the treasure has never been fully published and much new research on the various aspects of the find have not been collected into a combined study until now. The volume details the circumstances of the treasure’s discovery, its history of display and publication, both the technical and artistic aspects of the individual elements of the material, a review of the history and burial practices of the period. The volume also tackles the analysis of the Aegean influence on the elements of the treasure and the Eastern Mediterranean relations at the turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600–1500 BC). As appendices there are also maps, chronological tables, lists of the treasure and selected images.

 

Open Access Journal: Iggeret: The official newsletter of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew

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Iggeret: The official newsletter of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew

Founded in 1950, The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and academic teaching Hebrew language, literature and culture of all periods, from the biblical era to the immediate present. Membership consists of Hebrew scholars, teachers and graduate students in universities, colleges and seminaries all over the world. NAPH convenes an annual International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture. It also organizes a series of sessions at the annual conference of the Society for Biblical Literature. NAPH publishes Hebrew Studies, an internationally recognized scholarly journal covering all periods of Hebrew language, literature and culture. It also publishes Higher Hebrew Education, an online journal devoted to the methodology and pedagogy of teaching Hebrew in institutions of higher learning. In addition, NAPH sponsors Eta Beta Rho, a national scholastic honors society for students of Hebrew in institutions of higher learning.

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Open Access Journal: Metatron: Revealing Ancient Knowledge

[First posted in AWOL 27 January 2022, updates 21 September 2024]

Metatron: Revealing Ancient Knowledge

An initiative of Bible and Religions of the Ancient Near East Collective (BRANE), hosted by Renewed Philology at Yale.

A journal of modern philology and the ancient imagination offering new vistas on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Named after the mediating angel of Jewish mysticism, it is designed to open cutting-edge research to a broad intellectual community.

As an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Metatron is designed to be:

Conversational but Focused: each volume presents a dialogue between scholars on a current topic. Contributors of diverse backgrounds and career stages approach the question from multiple perspectives.

Rigorous but Readable: Rather than mystifying readers with bursts of recondite theory or vast footnotes, Metatron focuses on short pieces designed to provoke thought and evoke dialogue. These are combined with companion case studies that share an important text, image, or site and work through it to illuminate new aspects.

Scope: Our scope covers ancient Western Asia and the Near East from the dawn of writing through late Antiquity and from philology and poetics to history and material culture. As an open-access publication, Metatron presents high quality works-in-progress designed to provoke creative discussion. An initial stage of double-blind peer review preserves the rigor of traditional publication, but an equally vital element of review is the discussions that make up the journal itself. The result preserves the scholarly values of traditional publication but focuses not on fully polished works but contributions that raise questions worth having a dialogue on.

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  A summary by Sonia and three responses, from biblical, comparative, and Mesopotamian perspectives.

 

Vol. 1, Issue 2,  2021

Ancient Hebrew Literature Beyond “The Bible,” Part Two: “What is Scripture?

Recent scholarship on the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism has emphasized that “Bible/biblical” is not an especially useful category when discussing ancient Israelite and early Jewish literature in its historical contexts of composition. There was no Bible to speak of prior to the first century of the Common Era. How, then, should these texts be categorized? The label “Scripture/scriptural” has come to fill this void in order to avoid the canonical imposition of “Bible/biblical” while still retaining some sense of the importance of these traditions. But what do we mean by “Scripture/scriptural”? What kinds of scriptural claims do we see in these texts? Is scripture a cross-cultural phenomenon? Does it vary over time? These questions sit at the center of this issue of Metatron, which puts forward a range of new proposals and challenges for understanding “scriptural” texts.

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  Introduction

  James Nati Seth Sanders

  Biblical scholarship has acknowledged that “Bible” is an anachronistic category when contemplating the contexts in which this literature emerged. “Scripture/scriptural” has taken its place, but what is Scripture?

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  Preview: Is Bible “Scripture?”

  David Lambert

  Questioning whether it continues to remain helpful or adequate to use “scripture” as an obvious, natural, and universal concept for comprehending the function and history of certain kinds of texts.

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  Response to David Lambert, ‘What is Scripture?’

  John Barton

  Argues that there have been three main stages in thinking about the biblical canon, and that Lambert is proposing a fourth stage, which moves the discussion on.

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  On Media, Power, and Making Maps: A Response to David Lambert

  Laura Carlson Hasler

  This article argues for the utility of the term "scripture" in marking hierarchies among texts and other forms of ancient media.

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  A Response to David Lambert’s “What is Scripture?”

  Chontel Syfox

  Continuing Metatron’s conversation about what ancient Jewish literature was, Chontel Syfox responds to David Lambert’s work in progress “What is Scripture? An Introduction to Biblical Assemblages.”

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Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2021

Ancient Hebrew Literature Beyond “The Bible”: Part One

Part One of a series on Ancient Hebrew Literature Beyond “The Bible.” For the earliest Jewish readers and writers, there was no “Bible.” Instead the literature from this period constitutes a surprisingly broad spectrum of sacred texts from Genesis and the Books of Enoch to hundreds of different Psalms attributed to David but often not found in modern Bibles. If the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls along with decades of new research has proven that “Bible” is a misleading anachronism for the Second Temple period, can we create a new and better picture of Judaism and Christianity’s earliest known religious literature?

• Articles 

  Introduction

  James Nati Seth Sanders

  There was no “Bible” as such even by the end of the Second Temple period. How do scholars organize this corpus in the absence of the category?

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  Towards a New Map of Second Temple Literature: Revelation, Rewriting, and Genre Before the Bible

  Molly M. Zahn

  How do we move beyond anachronistic frameworks for understanding ancient Jewish literature? A multivariable approach may help.

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  On Making Manuscripts, Genre, and the Boundaries of Ancient Jewish Literature

  Elena Dugan

  This response to Zahn emphasizes how using literary qualities as variables rather than categories allows us to redescribe hybridity in our archive, and perhaps, reimagine some of our Qumran manuscripts.

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  Plotting History and Textual Use on a New Map of Second Temple Literature: A Response to Molly M. Zahn

  Nathan Mastnjak

  This article suggests the relevance of textual history as a useful addition to Molly Zahn’s proposal and asks how her proposed classification scheme could improve printed anthologies.

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  New Maps of Early Jewish Literature Across the Boundaries of the Real: A Response to Molly M. Zahn

  Eva Mroczek

  Imagined or lost texts are still part of the ancient literary landscape, and should be mapped in our new cartography.

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