The Discovery and Interpretation of the Flavia Sophe Inscription:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Discovery and Interpretation of the Flavia Sophe Inscription: "
H. Gregory Snyder

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085353
Doc. No	:	LA128982
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341146‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	H. Gregory Snyder
Title & Author	:	The Discovery and Interpretation of the Flavia Sophe Inscription: [Article] : New Results\ H. Gregory Snyder
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	68/1
Page No	:	1–59
Abstract	:	New archival material relating to the discovery of the Flavia Sophe inscription is presented and arguments made that the inscription was discovered in situ. Careful attention to the epigraphical, palaeographical, and metrical aspects of the poem, as well as its use of nuptial imagery lead to new proposals for reconstructions. Arguments for a date in the second century are re-examined and strengthened. The language of the inscription is placed within the context of other Greek funeral epigrams to show that the writer of the epigram was well aware of the conventions Hellenistic funeral poetry and that the poem artfully subverts many of these conventions. And finally, I claim that for this group of Christians, the “bridal chamber ritual” should be understood as a mortuary rite. New archival material relating to the discovery of the Flavia Sophe inscription is presented and arguments made that the inscription was discovered in situ. Careful attention to the epigraphical, palaeographical, and metrical aspects of the poem, as well as its use of nuptial imagery lead to new proposals for reconstructions. Arguments for a date in the second century are re-examined and strengthened. The language of the inscription is placed within the context of other Greek funeral epigrams to show that the writer of the epigram was well aware of the conventions Hellenistic funeral poetry and that the poem artfully subverts many of these conventions. And finally, I claim that for this group of Christians, the “bridal chamber ritual” should be understood as a mortuary rite.
Descriptor	:	bridal chamber
Descriptor	:	Early Christianity
Descriptor	:	epigraphy
Descriptor	:	Flavia Sophe
Descriptor	:	Gnosticism
Descriptor	:	Marcus
Descriptor	:	Rome
Descriptor	:	Valentinus
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341146‬