Jacoby hypothesized the word was an adjective and restored it to κοινῶν, meaning “common, general, ordinary”. This is consistent with Jacoby's theory for the source of the Chronicle’s documents, namely that the author used a variety of selections from diverse materials available in the third century BC. It contains chronicle entries for the years 336/35–299/98 BC. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. In contrast to Jacoby's ideas, a 2012 study maintains that the style of the Chronicle’s entries suggests that the ultimate source of the information in the Parian Chronicle was the archives of the city of Athens. [6] There has been no major study devoted to the entire stele since that time, although a few authors have dealt with specific time periods covered in the tablet. The lack of embellishment is shown, for example, in the entry for Cecrops, which attributes nothing remarkable to him or to his reign, even though in later Greek mythology he was a semi-human creature. Events are listed with little embellishment, and the primary purpose seems to be to give for each event the name of the king or archon ruling in Athens at the time, along with the number of years prior to the base date of the tablet (264/63 BC). The aim of this work is to produce a new digital edition of the so called Marmor Parium (Parian Marble), which is a Hellenistic chronicle on marble coming from the Greek island of Paros. Par.) This appeared in two works: his book Das Marmor Parium published in 1904,[5] and as a part of the Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, first published in 1929. First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510. The Chronicle’s entries for Deucalion, who became the center of many flood-myths, are more consistent with the earliest Greek legends that merely state that he fled from a flooding river in his native Lycoreia near the Gulf of Corinth, arriving at Athens where his son later became king. The Digital Marmor Parium is a project of the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. One large fragment, bought at Smyrna (now İzmir, Tur.) "The Parian Marble uses chronological specificity as a guarantee of truth," Peter Green observed in the introduction to his annotated translation of the Argonautica of Apollonios Rhodios:[3] "the mythic past was rooted in historical time, its legends treated as fact, its heroic protagonists seen as links between the 'age of origins' and the mortal, everyday world that succeeded it."[4]. Young and Steinmann, "Correlation of Select Classical Sources," p. 231. Mar. The Ashmolean Web site then translated this into English as shown above. Lines 46-93 have been in Oxford since 1667. Internet Archive - "The Parian Chronicle". [11] RTI scans are also available as part of the Digital Marmor Parium project. In 1788, Joseph Robertson went to considerable length in arguing that the tablets were of relatively recent date and entirely fraudulent. Young and Steinmann, however, maintain that “The writer of an annalistic history that professes to give exact dates for events would not assure readers of his credibility by saying that his information was derived from the “common” folklore ... For the Parian Marble, such reassurance would be given if the original word, for which the genitive plural ending - νῶν has survived, was not κοινῶν, but Ἀθηνῶν,”[10] i.e. Such framing chronicles are known to have been kept in Rome: the Anno Urbis Conditae, from which events were reckoned. This restoration would give the reader the assurance that the writer of the tablet had an authoritative source for his information, as follows: [From] al[l the public records and histories of Ath]ens I have recorded [the previous times], beginning from Cecrops becoming first king of Athens, until [____]uanax was archon in Paros, and Diognetus in Athens. "Ashmolean Museum: transcriptions and translations", "The Parian Marble at The Ashmolean Museum", Ashmolean exhibit including images and English translation, The Parian chronicle, or The chronicle of the Arundelian marbles; with a dissertation concerning its authenticity, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parian_Chronicle&oldid=961816422, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 June 2020, at 15:24. In 2013, Ben Altshuler of the Institute for Digital Archaeology oversaw reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) of the Parian Marble, revealing significant, previously illegible text. Marmor Parium Images: Fragment A (ll. 1–14, 59–119. in the early 17th century, is at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Eng. usque ad 264 a.C.n. The years are reckoned backward from the archonship of Diognetus and further specified by the reigns of kings or the archons of Athens. One other conjecture for the source of the Parian Chronicle’s information is of historical interest. 46-93) Fragment A (1) (courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) Fragment A (2) (courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) Fragment A (Wikimedia) Fragment B; Fragment B (Wikimedia) Marmor Parium Drawings: Fragment A (ll. (, Rodger C. Young and Andrew E. Steinmann, “Correlation of Select Classical Sources Related to the Trojan War with Assyrian and Biblical Chronologies”.

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