A poet's belongings
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:27 am
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The displayed items were forbidden to be photographed unless first officially published. Last year, the items were presented to a worldwide public by Greek archaeologists and historians as well as Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen University) and Martin West (Oxford University); and thus I can send them now.
They all originate from Athens and are being currently displayed at Piraeus Museum and are dated back to 430 BC (Peloponesian War Era).
It seems that their owner died from the plague that ravaged Athens at the time. He must have been a poet and musician:
The tomb is considered to be extremely important because of the findings; three music instruments, a triangular harpe (the only of its kind to have survived to us) , a tortoise shell (lyre "resonator") and a flute. Also, pieces of papyrus (the oldest one found in Greece), four wooden tablets covered with wax (ready for to be written on), a "pencil case", a bronze pen dip, 6 knuckle- bone games, a sharpener made of iron as well as an iron saw.
On one of the wooden waxed tablets we have managed to read the following, well known Hesiodos' s excerpt «Ολβιος όν τινα Μούσαι φίλωνται» which means "The one loved from the Muses is happy". The papyrus and the tablets are also inscribed with musical notes.
Happiness and health along with all my wishes for a Happy and Fruitful New Year to all of you! Oh, and a lot of music!
Pauline
The displayed items were forbidden to be photographed unless first officially published. Last year, the items were presented to a worldwide public by Greek archaeologists and historians as well as Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen University) and Martin West (Oxford University); and thus I can send them now.
They all originate from Athens and are being currently displayed at Piraeus Museum and are dated back to 430 BC (Peloponesian War Era).
It seems that their owner died from the plague that ravaged Athens at the time. He must have been a poet and musician:
The tomb is considered to be extremely important because of the findings; three music instruments, a triangular harpe (the only of its kind to have survived to us) , a tortoise shell (lyre "resonator") and a flute. Also, pieces of papyrus (the oldest one found in Greece), four wooden tablets covered with wax (ready for to be written on), a "pencil case", a bronze pen dip, 6 knuckle- bone games, a sharpener made of iron as well as an iron saw.
On one of the wooden waxed tablets we have managed to read the following, well known Hesiodos' s excerpt «Ολβιος όν τινα Μούσαι φίλωνται» which means "The one loved from the Muses is happy". The papyrus and the tablets are also inscribed with musical notes.
Happiness and health along with all my wishes for a Happy and Fruitful New Year to all of you! Oh, and a lot of music!
Pauline