Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond: Methods - Projects - Case Studies

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by  Andreas Rhoby (ed.)

Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond
Methods – Projects – Case Studies
Edited by
Andreas Rhoby

ANDREAS RHOBY (ed.)
INSCRIPTIONS IN BYZANTIUM AND BEYOND
ÖSTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
PHILOSOPHISCH-HISTORISCHE KLASSE
DENKSCHRIFTEN, 478. BAND
VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN ZUR BYZANZFORSCHUNG
Herausgegeben von
CLAUDIA RAPP und CHRISTIAN GASTGEBER
Band 38
ÖSTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
PHILOSOPHISCH-HISTORISCHE KLASSE
DENKSCHRIFTEN, 478. BAND
Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond
Methods – Projects – Case Studies
Edited by
ANDREAS RHOBY
Vorgelegt von w. M. JOHANNES KODER in der Sitzung vom 24. Oktober 2014
Veröffentlicht mit Unterstützung des
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 223-G19
Umschlagbild:
Orchomenos, church of Skripou, inscription of central apsis (a. 873/74),
ed. N. OIKONOMIDÈS, TM 12 (1994) 479–493
© Andreas Rhoby
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CONTENTS

Preface ................................................................................................................................................ 7
List of illustrations .............................................................................................................................. 9
List of abbreviations ........................................................................................................................... 13

Andreas RHOBY
A Short History of Byzantine Epigraphy ........................................................................................... 17

Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond

Cyril MANGO
Some Lessons of Byzantine Epigraphy .............................................................................................. 33

Vincent DEBIAIS
La tentation de Byzance. Réflexions sur les inscriptions byzantines vues de la Latinité ................... 39

Vasil GJUZELEV
Die byzantinische und die slawische Epigraphik in Bulgarien heute ................................................. 51

Andrey VINOGRADOV
Byzantinische Inschriften des nördlichen Schwarzmeerraums .......................................................... 55

Methods of Editing Byzantine Inscriptions

Peter SCHREINER
Drei Grundfragen zu einem Corpus byzantinischer Inschriften ......................................................... 75

Walter KOCH
Die großen westlichen Corpuswerke zu den mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Inschriften ..... 79

Guglielmo CAVALLO
Corpus delle iscrizioni bizantine e pratiche della cultura scritta
Note su questioni aperte e per prospettive future ............................................................................... 93

Erkki SIRONEN
Zu den Richtlinien für die Edition byzantinischer Inschriften ........................................................... 107

Charlotte ROUECHÉ
Byzantine Epigraphy for the 21st Century .......................................................................................... 115

Joel KALVESMAKI
Introducing Athena Ruby, Dumbarton Oaks’ New Font for Byzantine Inscriptions ......................... 121
6 Contents
Current and Future Projects

Katerina NIKOLAOU – Irene CHRESTOU
Indices of Published Christian and Byzantine Inscriptions
An Old Project carried through with New Technologies .................................................................... 129

Sophia KALOPISSI-VERTI
Byzantine Dedicatory Inscriptions and Donor Portraits (7th–15th c.)
A Project in Progress at the University of Athens .............................................................................. 135

Mari XENAKI
Corpus des Graffites en Cappadoce : Introduction ............................................................................. 157

Alexandra A. EVDOKIMOVA
Greek Graffiti from St Sophia’s in Constantinople
in the Archive of Robert van Nice (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.) ........................................ 167

Case Studies

†Sencer JAH(cid:153)N
Spätrömisch-frühbyzantinische Inschriften aus Perge in Pamphylien ............................................... 177

Mustafa H. SAYAR
Ziegelstempel von den Ausgrabungen am Nordwestufer des Lagunensees Küçükçekmece ............. 187

Kazimir POPKONSTANTINOV
Greek Inscriptions from Ninth-Tenth Century Bulgaria
A Case Study of Byzantine Epigraphy ............................................................................................... 195

Ida TOTH
Epigraphic Traditions in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
General Considerations ...................................................................................................................... 203

Linda SAFRAN
Greek in the Salento: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Public Texts .................................................... 227

Selected Bibliography ......................................................................................................................... 241
Index ................................................................................................................................................... 243
List of Contributors ............................................................................................................................ 245
PREFACE

The present book, the first collective volume entirely devoted to aspects of Byzantine epigraphy, a discipline
which has long been neglected, mainly comprises papers delivered at two international meetings: a workshop
entitled “Byzantinische Epigraphik: Wege zu einem Corpus” held on 18 May 2010 at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences in Vienna, and a round table titled “Towards a Corpus of Byzantine Inscriptions” convened on
24 August 2011 at the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sofia. While
some of the presentations given at these two meetings—those of Denis Feissel, Renate Kohn, Hans Taeuber,
Georgios Velenis, Andreas Zajic, and Niccolò Zorzi—will be published elsewhere, this book includes artic-
les by other scholars who were not present at these two events, namely Irene Chrestou, Vincent Debiais,
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Katerina Nikolaou, Linda Safran, and Mustafa Sayar.
It is the editor’s wish to provide a fresh impetus for the field of Byzantine epigraphy. Critical editions of
inscriptions, their detailed interdisciplinary analysis, and research on their significance for Byzantine culture
are still desiderata in our field.
I should like to express my sincere gratitude to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for the publica-
tion of this volume as well as to the Austrian National Fund (FWF) for funding the printing. Thanks are also
due to the anonymous reviewers of this publication as well as to David Wright, Anneliese Paul, Denis Feissel
and Carolina Cupane for the proofreading and to Ingrid Weichselbaum for editing the illustrations in Adobe
InDesign.

Andreas Rhoby
Vienna, December 2014