Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era by Maria Kanellou Ivana Petrovic Chris Carey

The Russian émigré Plato von Ustinow – who settled in Palestine in 1862 and lived there until 1913 – was a keen collector of antiquities. In contrast to other collectors, however, von Ustinow did not purchase the objects from art-dealers. Instead, he appears to have worked with professional archaeologists, but also bought objects from local inhabitants in Jaffa and Jerusalem. His collection includes a substantial number of glass vessels: primarily blown vessels dating to the first- to sixth- or seventh century CE, i.e. the Roman and Early Byzantine era. The von Ustinow collection is comparatively homogeneous, and most of the objects are likely to stem from a relatively limited geographical area, as it closely resembles material from funerary contexts found in modern-day Israel. The collection includes a number of perfume bottles, small jars and kohl-flasks, objects most probably utilised in the preparation of the deceased before burial.

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City, Town, and Countryside in the Early Byzantine Era

The Classical World ◽

10.2307/4349679 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 55 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Margaret A. Alexander ◽

Robert Hohlfelder

Keyword(s):

Byzantine Era ◽

Early Byzantine

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Robert L. Hohlfelder, editor. City, Town, and Countryside in the Early Byzantine Era. (Byzantine Series, number 1.) Boulder: East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press. 1982. Pp. viii, 209. $22.50

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/89.3.744 ◽

1984 ◽

Keyword(s):

Columbia University ◽

East European ◽

Byzantine Era ◽

Early Byzantine

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Late Antique and Early Byzantine Era Inscriptions at Assos

Τεκμήρια ◽

10.12681/tekmeria.17292 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tolga Özhan

Keyword(s):

Asia Minor ◽

Late Antique ◽

The Third ◽

Byzantine Era ◽

Funerary Inscriptions ◽

The City ◽

Early Byzantine

In this paper, eleven new inscriptions are presented, which were found between 1981 and 2017 at Assos in the southern Troad, Asia Minor. Funerary inscriptions that can be dated to the Late Antique and Byzantine periods constitute the majority of the inscriptions found during the period defined above. The first inscription, carved on a lintel, is an acclamation of the Lord/ Emmanouel. The personal name Chrysogonos in the second inscription may have been the name of a stonecutter who worked in the quarry. The third inscription is the epitaph of the gravediggers of the Orthodox “Great Church”. By the phrase “Great Church” (μεγάλη ἐκκλησία), a cathedral must have been intended, located inside the city or its immediate surroundings. The fourth inscription presented here is the sarcophagus inscription of the heirs of an individual called Daniel. The fifthis the sarcophagus inscription of Theoktistos. The inscriptions nos. 6-10 from the oor of Ayazma Church include several sarcophagus inscriptions: No. 6 is of Bas(s)os, no. 7 is of Eutychianos, and no. 8 is of Onesimos, whose father’s name is uncertain due to a crack and damage on the surface of the stone. No. 9 is the sarcophagus of presbyter Anastasios, and no. 10 is the sarcophagus of Eugenios. The eleventh inscription is a fragmentary sarcophagus inscription.

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Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era

10.1093/oso/9780198836827.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Visual Arts ◽

Third Century ◽

Late Antique ◽

Poetic Form ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

The Third ◽

Byzantine Era ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cross Fertilization ◽

Early Byzantine

This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies; with the absorption and adaptation of earlier poetry in epigram; with the cross-fertilization between inscribed and literary epigram; with the dynamics of the relationship between epigram and its literary, sociopolitical, and cultural background from the third century BCE up until the sixth century CE; with its interaction with the visual arts and with Latin poetry; with the activities of late antique compilers who have generated the selections that survive nowadays. The chapters in this collection do not seek to offer a single comprehensive overview of epigram but individually and collectively demonstrate its remarkable richness and diversity. In the process they help to explain the fascination that epigram exercised, both in the ancient world and in subsequent ages, and contribute to the growing body of research on this significant and versatile poetic form.

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