The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity

434 Pages·2018·11.208 MB·English

by  Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Edmund Thomas

The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed
Texts in Classical Antiquity
Brill Studies in Greek and
Roman Epigraphy
Editorial Board
John Bodel (Brown University)
Adele Scafuro (Brown University)
VOLUME 11
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The Materiality of Text –
Placement, Perception, and
Presence of Inscribed Texts in
Classical Antiquity
Edited by
Andrej Petrovic
Ivana Petrovic
Edmund Thomas
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Cover Illustration: A plaque with a metrical entry regulation to the sanctuary of Great Mother
(Phaistos, Crete, I.Cret. I XXIII 3, 3rd/2nd century BCE).
Photo by A. Petrovic, courtesy of the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion.
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Names: Petrovic, Andrej, editor. | Petrovic, Ivana, editor. | Thomas, Edmund
 (Edmund V.), editor.
Title: The materiality of text : placement, perception, and presence of
 inscribed texts in classical antiquity / edited by Andrej Petrovic, Ivana
 Petrovic, Edmund Thomas ; editorial assistant, Kevin Scahill.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: Brill studies in Greek
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures x
Note on Contributors xv
The Materiality of Text: An Introduction 1
Andrej Petrovic
Part I
Concepts
1 What is an ἐπιγραφή in Classical Greece? 29
Athena Kirk
2 The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek
Literature 48
Alexei Zadorojnyi
part II
Contexts
section A
Epigraphic Spaces
3 The ‘Spatial Dynamics’ of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram:
Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and
Viewer-Readers 73
Joseph W. Day
4 Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions 105
Valentina Garulli
5 Erasures in Greek Public Documents 145
P. J. Rhodes
vi Contents
section B
Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and
Roman Literature
6 The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram 169
Donald E. Lavigne
7 Writing, Women’s Silent Speech 187
Michael A. Tueller
8 Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy 205
S. J. Heyworth
section C
Architectural Spaces
9 The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred
Architecture and Altars 231
Ioannis Mylonopoulos
10 Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of
‘Duplicate’ Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at
Aphrodisias 275
Abigail Graham
11 Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public
Space of Pompeii 303
Fanny Opdenhoff
12 Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural
Repression 324
Ida Östenberg
13 Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public
Spaces – A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia 348
Katharina Bolle
14 Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between
Sculpture and Mosaic 380
Sean V. Leatherbury
Contents vii
Indices
Index Locorum 405
Index Nominum 409
Index Rerum 413

Acknowledgements
This volume contains revised versions of selected papers delivered during a
series of research talks on the materiality of texts at Durham University in
the academic year 2011/12, hosted by the Department of Classics & Ancient
History, and a conference held in Durham in September 2012. As editors, we
are very grateful to all our contributors for their patience, understanding, and
support. We are particularly grateful to the Department and the Faculty of Arts
and Humanities at Durham for their financial support of both the research
talks and the conference. We are also very grateful to the British Epigraphy
Society and the Society for Promotion of Hellenic Studies for their financial
support, particularly in the provision of student bursaries. We thank the staff
at University College Durham and the Calman Centre for their hospitality and
unwavering support prior to and throughout the conference, and Dr. Barney
Chesterton and Eris Williams Reed, then both PhD students in the Department,
for their help in all organizational matters and for their general good cheer.
At the University of Virginia, we are grateful to Matt Pincus, a graduate stu-
dent in the Classics Department for his help with proofreading, and especially
to our University of Virginia colleague Jane Crawford for her generous help with
several papers written by non-native speakers of English. Kevin Scahill and
Adam Gross, our editorial assistants, have provided invaluable help through-
out the complex process of the preparation of this manuscript for printing.
Our particular thanks go to Professor John Bodel for his encouragement
to submit the volume to the Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy se-
ries, to Professor Adele Scafuro as the series’ co-editor, and to the anonymous
reader(s) for their feedback and advice. Both individual papers and the vol-
ume as a whole have greatly profited from all their suggestions and advice. In
addition, we are very grateful to the editors at Brill, Mirjam Elbers and Giulia
Moriconi, as well as to our production editor, Wilma de Weert.
Finally, we are very grateful to the museums and institutions around the
world that have kindly granted permissions to publish images of their material:
they are thanked individually in individual papers.
The abbreviations follow the guidelines of OCD and SEG, supplemented by
those of the GdE; less often encountered abbreviations are explained either in
the list of abbreviations following individual papers, or on the first mention of
the relevant corpus. For further assistance, please consult the Index locorum.
Charlottesville and Durham, February 2018.
Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Edmund Thomas
Figures
Chapter 3
1 Delphi, sanctuary of Apollo, late second century CE. Plan (no. 19639,
D. Laroche) 77
2 Delphi Museum, Daochus’ monument. Photo (no. 47.283, Ph. Collet) 78
3 Delphi, Daochus’ monument. Restoration drawing (by C. Smith) 78
4 a–c Samos, Cheramyes’ korai: A, Paris, Louvre; B, Samos, Vathy Museum;
C, Berlin, Altes Museum. 83
5 Samos, Geneleos’ group. Restoration drawing at H. J. Kienast, “Die Basis der
Geneleos-Gruppe,” AM 107 (1992), Beilage 2 86
6 Dedication of -chares (his inscription visible) and Tychandrus. Restoration
drawing (by K. E. Rasmussen, Archeographics) at C. M. Keesling, “Patrons of
Athenian Votive Monuments,” Hesperia 74 (2005) 406, fig. 8 87
7 Delphi, “Nauarchs” dedication. Restoration drawing at J. Pouilloux and
G. Roux, Énigmes à Delphes (Paris 1963) 57, fig. 18 (Roux) 91
8 Delphi, Arcadians’ dedication. Drawing at H. Pomtow, “Studien zu den
Weihgeschenken und der Topographie von Delphi,” AM 31 (1906), pl. 24
(H. Bulle) 91
9 Olympia, c. 450 (with the later Nike dedication) 96
Chapter 4
1.2.a Photo taken by A. La Capra, courtesy of Elena Miranda, University of Naples,
permission of Valeria Sampaolo, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 110
1.2.b Photo published by Moretti, IGUR 1148 110
1.3 Photo published by Bernand, IMEG pl. XXXII 113
1.5 Photo published by Bernand, IMEG pl. LXIV (detail) 116
2.1 Photo Museo Lapidario Maffeiano, Verona, inv. no. 28671 119
2.3.a and 2.3.b Photographic Archive of the Epigraphical Museum, Athens,
inv. no. EM 10495 123
2.4 Photo Museum of Eleusis, cat. no. 253 (detail) 126
2.6 Photographic Archive of the Epigraphical Museum, Athens,
inv. no. EM 2641 129
3.1 Photo provided by Fototeca Musei Vaticani, Città del Vaticano, Rome,
inv. no. 9034 132