J. Gruskovà, G. Martin, O. Kresten, F. Mitthoff, K. Kaska, C. Hofmann, W. Kreuzer, M. Phelps, K. Boydston, R. L. Easton Jr., K. T. Knox, D. Kelbe, D. Kasotakis, W. A. Christens-Barry, D. Stewart, Ira Rabin, Oliver Hahn, L. Glaser, J. Garrevoet, I. Shevchuk, S. Klumpp, D. Deckers, J. Buck
- The Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on Gothic incursions into Roman provinces in the Balkans in the middle of the third century AD that were revealed some years ago in a Greek palimpsest at the Austrian National Library in Vienna (ÖNB), are commonly considered as one of the most important additions of the last decades to the corpus of texts from classical Antiquity. Tere is a high degree of confdence among scholars in supposing that the fragments come from the lost work Scythica written in Greek by the third-century historian P. Herennius Dexippus (Δέξιππος) of Athens. The new fragments have hence also been called Dexippus Vindobonensis. In his Scythica, Dexippus recorded wars of the Romans with the Goths (and other tribes) whom he called Scythians.
The work had been hitherto known only from excerpts and quotes by later authors. Eight pages of a Byzantine manuscript copy of the ancient text have survived hidden underneath the visible surface of the last four parchmentThe Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on Gothic incursions into Roman provinces in the Balkans in the middle of the third century AD that were revealed some years ago in a Greek palimpsest at the Austrian National Library in Vienna (ÖNB), are commonly considered as one of the most important additions of the last decades to the corpus of texts from classical Antiquity. Tere is a high degree of confdence among scholars in supposing that the fragments come from the lost work Scythica written in Greek by the third-century historian P. Herennius Dexippus (Δέξιππος) of Athens. The new fragments have hence also been called Dexippus Vindobonensis. In his Scythica, Dexippus recorded wars of the Romans with the Goths (and other tribes) whom he called Scythians.
The work had been hitherto known only from excerpts and quotes by later authors. Eight pages of a Byzantine manuscript copy of the ancient text have survived hidden underneath the visible surface of the last four parchment folios of the Vienna manuscript Historicus graecus 73, f. 192r -195v4. The copy is written in a Greek calligraphic minuscule which has been estimated by palaeographers to be of the middle or the second half of the eleventh century. In the thirteenth century, the text (on each of the eight pages arranged in one column, with 30 lines per page) was washed of the parchment and the valuable material made from animal skin was re-used for Christian texts. The new writing largely covered the faded remnants of the original text. It thus became hidden from the human eye for more than seven hundred years. Its discovery by Jana Grusková, a classical philologist specialized in the transmission of Greek texts, resulted from a systematic review of all Greek palimpsests kept at the Austrian National Library in Vienna at the beginning of the twenty-first century and a detailed examination of the four folios in 2007-20097.…
MetadatenAutor*innen: | J. Gruskovà, G. Martin, O. Kresten, F. Mitthoff, K. Kaska, C. Hofmann, W. Kreuzer, M. Phelps, K. Boydston, R. L. Easton Jr., K. T. Knox, D. Kelbe, D. Kasotakis, W. A. Christens-Barry, D. Stewart, Ira Rabin, Oliver Hahn, L. Glaser, J. Garrevoet, I. Shevchuk, S. Klumpp, D. Deckers, J. Buck |
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Persönliche Herausgeber*innen: | M. Cronier, B. Mondrain |
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Dokumenttyp: | Sonstiges |
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Veröffentlichungsform: | Verlagsliteratur |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Französisch): | Collège de France – CNRS Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance |
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Auflage: | 1 |
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Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2020 |
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Organisationseinheit der BAM: | 4 Material und Umwelt |
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| 4 Material und Umwelt / 4.5 Kunst- und Kulturgutanalyse |
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Verlag: | Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance |
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Verlagsort: | Paris |
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Jahrgang/Band: | 2020 |
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Ausgabe/Heft: | 24/1 |
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Erste Seite: | 945 |
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Letzte Seite: | 967 |
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DDC-Klassifikation: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
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Freie Schlagwörter: | A Greek palimpsest; Antiquity; Byzantine manuscript; Gothic incursions; Scythica Vindobonensia,; Vienna manuscript |
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Themenfelder/Aktivitätsfelder der BAM: | Material |
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ISSN: | 0577-1471 |
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ISBN: | 978-2-916716-81-7 |
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Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 29.11.2021 |
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Referierte Publikation: | Nein |
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