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Cargando... Athenian lettering of the fifth century B.C. : the rise of the professional letter cutterpor Stephen V. Tracy
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The purpose of this book is to establish the role of the professional letter cutter of inscriptions as a principal agent in the Greek polis in general, and Athens in the fifth century B.C. in particular. What distinguishes the publication under review and makes it an integral part of the whole “corpus” of Tracy’s work on this concept is its attempt to get at the actual chronology of inscriptions via the hand of the cutter. The epigraphical evidence for the study is presented in two parts. Part I addresses the broader picture of the fifth century in Athens from the standpoint of some of its most important epigraphic products, including the Salamis Decree, the Hekatompedon Inscription, and the Athenian Tribute Lists. Part II is a tour-de-force of the identification of specific cutters based on the application of Tracy’s methodology to inscriptions that he considers to be by the same hand. Although Tracy refers to the cutter as workman, letter cutter, inscriber, and “men who specialized in lettering texts on stone” (19), it is worth asking if there could have been any woman so employed. Precious evidence for a woman working in a vase workshop and decorating a volute krater is supplied on the “Caputi Hydria” by the Leningrad Painter, but no such scenes exist of a letter-cutting workshop.
This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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