DOI Artikel:
Rolfe, John Carew; Tarbell, Frank B.; Waldstein, Charles: Discoveries at Plataia in 1889
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8678#0251
234DIOCLETIAN'S EDICT, "DE PBETIIS RERVM VENALLUM."
pieces were chipped off and lost, one containing the last twelve letters
of line 34, as given in our text below, the last eleven of 35, and the
last three of 36 ; the other containing the first letter of 49, the first
two of 50, the first two of 51, and the first three of 52. Mr. Eolfe's
copy and squeeze were made at Plataia; Mr. Tarbell's, at Athens.
Length of stele, 1.35 met.; width at bottom, 0.835 m., at top;
0.80 m.; thickness, 0.18 m.; height of letters, 0.006-0.013 m.
Specimen letters; rare forms in ( ) :
Affyi l,c, ^ d(AA),<z.f, 9; b, kWlJA.m .n m . R XCr,u[^ «a, x
With the help of the two copies of this text previously known
(A and S), the original contents of our stone can be restored. Letters
between parentheses, ( ), are those which appear on this stone, but
not on A or S; those in italics and not between brackets, [ ], are
either lacking in our text and supplied from .4 or S, or substituted
from A or S for the reading of our text; letters between brackets,
[ ], are conjectural restorations, i. e., do not appear on any of the
three stones. In the latter no great confidence can be felt; in no case
where a gap in A and S lias been filled by the Plataian copy has the
conjecture of a previous editor been exactly verified. In numbering
the lines, the original first line has been counted. The sign § is
used to indicate uncut spaces. Three of these (those in lines 12, 28,
44) are in the legible portions of the inscription, and all correspond
with similar vacant spaces in A. We have therefore assumed that, if
our inscription were complete, the correspondence would hold through-
out, and have inserted, on the testimony of A, the sign § in lines 18
and 24. We have inserted it also at the beginning of lines 40 and
52, where A fails us, because the number of letters in the preceding-
lines is insufficient to fill the space. It will be seen that we thus get
a § at the beginning of every sentence, except in lino 6, where there
is no evidence for one (though one is not impossible, the size and dis-
tribution of letters being irregular), and in line 35. Nothing was in-
scribed below line 55, and the remainder of the preamble must there-
fore have been on a second stele.
pieces were chipped off and lost, one containing the last twelve letters
of line 34, as given in our text below, the last eleven of 35, and the
last three of 36 ; the other containing the first letter of 49, the first
two of 50, the first two of 51, and the first three of 52. Mr. Eolfe's
copy and squeeze were made at Plataia; Mr. Tarbell's, at Athens.
Length of stele, 1.35 met.; width at bottom, 0.835 m., at top;
0.80 m.; thickness, 0.18 m.; height of letters, 0.006-0.013 m.
Specimen letters; rare forms in ( ) :
Affyi l,c, ^ d(AA),<z.f, 9; b, kWlJA.m .n m . R XCr,u[^ «a, x
With the help of the two copies of this text previously known
(A and S), the original contents of our stone can be restored. Letters
between parentheses, ( ), are those which appear on this stone, but
not on A or S; those in italics and not between brackets, [ ], are
either lacking in our text and supplied from .4 or S, or substituted
from A or S for the reading of our text; letters between brackets,
[ ], are conjectural restorations, i. e., do not appear on any of the
three stones. In the latter no great confidence can be felt; in no case
where a gap in A and S lias been filled by the Plataian copy has the
conjecture of a previous editor been exactly verified. In numbering
the lines, the original first line has been counted. The sign § is
used to indicate uncut spaces. Three of these (those in lines 12, 28,
44) are in the legible portions of the inscription, and all correspond
with similar vacant spaces in A. We have therefore assumed that, if
our inscription were complete, the correspondence would hold through-
out, and have inserted, on the testimony of A, the sign § in lines 18
and 24. We have inserted it also at the beginning of lines 40 and
52, where A fails us, because the number of letters in the preceding-
lines is insufficient to fill the space. It will be seen that we thus get
a § at the beginning of every sentence, except in lino 6, where there
is no evidence for one (though one is not impossible, the size and dis-
tribution of letters being irregular), and in line 35. Nothing was in-
scribed below line 55, and the remainder of the preamble must there-
fore have been on a second stele.