Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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Summary
Abstract: This study assembles an island-wide context for the dossier of inscriptions revealed by excavations at the temple of Asklepios at Lissos in southwestern Crete, by examining the nature of the dossiers attested at and for sites sacred to Asklepios across the island. Such groups of inscriptions should be called “dossiers” rather than “archives,” given their subjective and selective nature; they were chosen to project the way a city and region represented itself rather than to preserve a complete epigraphic record (Cooley 2012b, 222). The ultimate goal is to determine just how characteristic or distinctive the dossier of Lissos is – geographically, chronologically, and by epigraphic genre – within Crete, where Lebena has long dominated the record.
Key words: Crete, Lissos, Asklepieion, inscriptions.
Introducing the dossier of the Asklepieion at Lissos
The Lissian dossier was completely unknown when Margarita Guarducci published the second volume of Inscriptiones Creticae in 1939. The nine inscriptions attributed to Lissos there came instead from the necropolis of Lissos, an ancient wall, the church of Ag. Kyrikos, and unknown locations at Ag. Kyrkos. In the absence of a documentary record the Asklepieion of Lissos had remained unknown until excavation in 1957‒1960 (Riethmüller 2005, 345, no. 162). In 1957 Nicholaos Platon discovered the temple northeast of the church of Ag. Kyrikos, after receiving word that antiquities had been found at Ag. Kyrkos by private individuals seeking water (Platon 1959c, 19). He went to investigate and found the source of these antiquities buried under massive rocks thrown down onto the site by an earthquake (Blackman 1976, 520). The rocks that had tumbled down from high above turned the small sacred building to ruins, thus sealing it and its contents for centuries. After three seasons of excavation between 1958 and 1960, Platon had unearthed not only a temple but its many inscriptions (Platon 1957, 1958b, 1959b, 1959c, 1960b, 1996).
Systematic study of these inscriptions is only now underway, despite discovery nearly 60 years ago. Platon's excavation diaries record the discovery of close to 40 inscriptions; additional inscriptions are not drawn in his diaries but stored in the Chania Museum.
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- Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity , pp. 127 - 154Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2017