[HN Gopher] A marble slab in storage turned out to be an ancient...
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A marble slab in storage turned out to be an ancient Greek yearbook
Author : isaacfrond
Score : 62 points
Date : 2022-06-08 07:42 UTC (1 days ago)
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| jl6 wrote:
| I'd love to know more about how they determined this was a new
| document rather than a copy of another. Is there a central
| catalogue of all Ancient Greek texts that you can search (by
| keyword?)? Are there few enough that you can just ask an expert
| scholar and they will know?
| jan_Inkepa wrote:
| I don't have an overview, but there are various databases for
| greek and latin inscriptions -
| https://inscriptions.packhum.org/allregions for example is a
| big one. For written materials,
| http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ is pretty good, but I
| don't think that has rarer stuff.
|
| Compared to Chinese textual sources (where it's pretty easy to
| find/search gigantic digitized catalogues of old chinese texts
| - though I don't know much about it so maybe it's lacking in
| many ways once one starts delving deeper), digital humanities
| in european languages seems to be lagging behind. Archive.org
| does a lot of heavy lifting for medieval latin texts, but the
| disadvantage is that they're not 'digitized' in the sense of
| being correctly OCR-ed (which is a minefield for Medieval Latin
| because of all the abbreviations). You have lots of individual
| endeavours to catalogue various types of material, and some are
| really good/nice, but that they're not integrated together is a
| minor pity (though maybe there is some nice site that I don't
| know about).
|
| I'm not a professional in this field, nor that learned, I've
| just dabbled and experienced varying degrees of
| frustration/satisfaction.
|
| Maybe someone who actually has an overview/proper knowledge of
| the field can comment, but until they do that's my layperson
| perception of the landscape...
| bigbillheck wrote:
| > Is there a central catalogue of all Ancient Greek texts
|
| Yes, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae:
| http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu
| theoldlove wrote:
| TLG doesn't have inscriptions.
| rob74 wrote:
| How appropriate for a Thesaurus of Ancient Greek to have a...
| Latin name? Wait a minute...
| jhbadger wrote:
| The name is a reference to an earlier (paper) collection of
| Greek texts from the 16th century, Henri Estienne's
| _Thesaurus Graecae Linguae_. Although Estienne was French,
| the commentary and the like were in Latin as that was the
| tradition in scholarly work at the time.
| ARandomerDude wrote:
| > that was the tradition in scholarly work at the time
|
| True, though it's stronger than that. Latin was the
| closest thing to a universal language in Europe at that
| time, serving a role similar to that of the English
| language today.
| jhbadger wrote:
| Exactly. Like if somebody had a modern collection of
| Greek texts and called it "A Collection of Greek Texts"
| in English people wouldn't think it that strange that the
| title wasn't in Greek.
| DonaldFisk wrote:
| The word thesaurus is derived from the Ancient Greek word
| thesauros.
| jan_Inkepa wrote:
| That just covers literary texts it seems, so you'd probably
| want an epigraphy source for texts like the one in question?
| isaacfrond wrote:
| The translation is here:
|
| https://atticinscriptions.com/inscription/AIUK14/1
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