From Stone to Byte: looking at verse inscriptions

Charlotte Rouech

Aphrodisias:Funerary epigram for Asclepiodotus(late fifth century)

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

Epitaph for Asclepiodotus

[] // //' // // (5) //, ' // // // \ // (10) , // // // // // [ . . .

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

Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 50.3523

Excerpt fromSt Johns gospel

2nd century

From

http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/

The Aleppo Codexof the Torah(10th century CEPalestine)

Deuteronomy 32:50-33:29showing Parashah,spaces between sections.

Image from http://www.aleppocodex.org/

Chapters introduced by Stephen Langton, c. 1220Bridwell LibraryPerkins School of TheologySouthern Methodist University

Aldine Edition of Herodotus

Cover of the Aldine Plato1515

The Aldine Plato

Robert Estienne(Stephanus)1503-1559

Image from Alfred Gudeman: Imagines Philologorum (1910) athttp://www.telemachos.hu-berlin.de

Edition by Stephanus(Henri Estienne, son of Robert)Geneva 1578,of Platos Theaetetusp. 142

Image from Wikipedia

Stephanus(Henri Estienne)

Edition of PlatosApology(Geneva, 1578)

Image from George SartonAncient Science Throughthe Golden Age of Greece(1993) inGoogle Book

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

Bekkers edition of Aristotle, 1831, page 184.Image from Wikipedia

Mosq. Synod.436f.219(c. XIII-XIV? Trebizond)

Kekaumenos, Advice and Anecdotes,showing chapterdivisions.

, . | (xx) .

From the Advice and Anecdotes of Kekaumenos (11th cent.)

Berlin, 24 July 2008

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

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

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

Memnonium, Luxor

The Colossus of MemnonThebes, Egypt

Colossus of Memnon:detail

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

[] () , [] ' [.] , [] ' [.] dash5 ' [] , [] [.] Line 8, for , AP has . 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.

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

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

Epitaph for Asclepiodotus

[] // //' // // (5) //, ' // // // \ // (10) , // // // // // [ . . .

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