Athenian lettering of the fifth century B.C. : the rise of the professional letter cutter

Athenian lettering of the fifth century B.C. : the rise of the professional letter cutter / Stephen V. Tracy.

There has been much debate about the dates of 5th century B.C. Athenian inscriptions and the hands of the inscribers. This book brings order to the study of hands of 5th century B.C. Athens by setting out a methodology, by discussing critically the attempts of others to identify hands, and by presen...

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Main Author: Tracy, Stephen V., 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.
Subjects:
Inscriptions, Greek > Greece > Athens.
Lettering > Greece > Athens.
Greek language > Alphabet.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
Greek language > Alphabet
Inscriptions, Greek
Lettering
Greece > Athens
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction and Methodology
  • Inscriptions Discussed and/or Assigned
  • Part I. General Studies of the Writing of the Fifth Century B.C.
  • The First Decrees and Laws of ca. 515 to ca. 450 B.C.
  • Unique Examples of Writing of ca. 450 to ca. 400
  • The Inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280)
  • The Inscribers of the So-called 'Attic Stelai' (IG I3 421-430)
  • Part II: Attic Letter Cutters of ca. 450 to ca. 390
  • The Cutter of IG I3 263 Dates: 454/3-450/49
  • The Cutter of IG I3 270, 448-ca. 438
  • The Cutter of IG I3 35, 440/39-432/1
  • The Cutter of IG I3 364, 434/3-433/2
  • The Cutter of IG I3 392, ca. a. 425 a.
  • The Cutter of IG I3 50, 424/3
  • The Cutter of IG II2 1386, 423/2-394/3
  • The Cutter of IG I3 80, 421/0
  • The Cutter of IG II2 17, 414/3-386/5
  • The Cutter of IG I3 102, 413/2-410/09
  • The Cutter of IG I3 316, ca. 408/7
  • The Cutter of IG II2 1401, ca. 395
  • Summation
  • Appendix One: Hands in Fifth-Century B.C. Attic Inscriptions (reprint of Studies Dow 277-282)
  • Appendix Two: The Wrongful Execution of the Hellenotamiai (Antiphon 5.69-71) and The Lapis Primus (reprint of CP 109, 2014, 1-10)
  • Appendix Three: Down Dating Some Athenian Decrees with Three-Bar Sigma: A Palaeographic Approach (reprint of ZPE 190, 2014, 105-115)
  • Index of Passages Cited
  • General Index.

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