CLA230H1 Lecture : Inscriptions and Greek History
Document Summary
Types of greek inscriptions: tombstones, religious decorations. Public: laws and decrees, religious calendars, alliances, public work schedules, expenditure, accounts, inventories, commemorative documents, lists of office-holders, etc. Rosetta stone: decree establishing cult of ptolemy v, trilingual: egyptian hieroglyphic, egyptian demotic, ancient greek. 7th century bc: once a man has been kosmos he cannot be again for 10 years. Pros and cons of using inscriptions as historical. Sometimes can deduce dates by clues: if someone we already know of (ex, an archon or tyrant) we can figure out a relative date. List of archons (fragment: non of the names are complete, looks like militates is one of the names, archon in 524/3 bc, we can therefore figure our the dates for other archons. 4 bar sigma (mid 5th bc: later development. Problem is that people though appearance of 3 bar made it early 5th but in fact it"s not the case. Public inscriptions of athenians who died on campaign.