The case of ILBulg 248: A la recherche des noms perdus
The author proposes a new reading of the Roman epitaph from Lǎdžane near Lovech, Bulgaria. Much of his interpretation of this heavily fragmented text is about various possibilities and relative probabilities of restitution of its lost parts. Beside battered phrases and trivialities the epit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Starinar |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0241/2009/0350-02410959159N.pdf |
| Summary: | The author proposes a new reading of the Roman epitaph from Lǎdžane near
Lovech, Bulgaria. Much of his interpretation of this heavily fragmented text
is about various possibilities and relative probabilities of restitution of
its lost parts. Beside battered phrases and trivialities the epitaph seems to
relate a rather extraordinary case of death in the marital bed, not without
connexion to the myth of Atalante as told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The
author also suggests that the few palpable oddities of language and style may
have had their motive in as many puns intended on the (now mostly lost)
personal names of the deceased and her family members. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0241 2406-0739 |