An update on yesterday's find.

[chronarchy]

Here is the entire source:

934) P. 123, n° 154; photo, fig. 9. Fragment de stèle de marbre blanc, brisée de tous côtés, sauf à g. : 28 x 20 x 5,5 cm. Le fronton triangulaire était orné de trois rosaces et soutenu par deux colonnes. Ch. ép. sur le bandeau supérieur : 4 x 12 cm. Provient de la nécropole occidentale.
Peregrinus [---] | quod Esus iuben[

Comments

[ceolnamara]

Of course nothing's cooler than research.

Excellent work.

[singingwren]

*bounces* This is really exciting! I don't even know how you do this, or how you discover things like this. But I am glad and amazed, and I look forward to hearing more.

I also look forward to seeing more... ooh, a new picture of Esus is exciting :D

[tlachtga]

I am also excited, though, because I may possibly have found a facsimile copy of the original Berne Commentaries (aka the Berne Scholia) in our local library.

I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU IF YOU GIVE ME A COPY!!!!!

[chronarchy]

*grins*

I thought you might share my enthusiasm.

I'll be going by soon to pick it up, and will let you know if it is what I think it might be.

It's a "facsimile reprint of the Leipzig edition of the Scholia"

Also known as: "Commenta Integra solus codex Bernensis 370 servavit"

My Latin is totally going to be getting a workout. . .

And if it is what I think it is, you don't have to do anything.

A copy will be mailed to you as soon as I can get it copied off. I could hold it until I see you at Summerland, which would be a wonderful way to get you there, I imagine :) But I won't. You'll get it as soon as I can copy it and scrape the postage together.

[tlachtga]

WHOOOHOOOO!!!!

[chronarchy]

These aren't copies of the originals, as I was hoping (it was a distant hope), but yes, they are word-for-word transcriptions of the notes, arranged by line number.

I will certainly be sending you this.

Would you like a copy of the entire poem's commetary, or just the section on those deities, and maybe the bit about the sacred groves (I haven't checked to see yet if there are any on the sacred groves, but this guy is verbose!)

[creature_tamer]

I don't have the background needed to understand the exact significance of all these documents, but they sound exceptionally exciting. More than the hat and more than the globe trotting, I think this is when you most remind me of Indy. :)

[chronarchy]

Now, if only I could get the fast women I hate so much. . .

:)