Kinyras: The Divine Lyre

  Franklin, John Curtis. 2016. Kinyras: The Divine Lyre. Hellenic Studies Series 70. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_FranklinJ.Kinyras.2016.


Conventions and Abbreviations

To keep the main text as accessible as possible, I have presented all Greek in transliteration (retaining accentuation as several key points depend on this); more specialized philological issues are dealt with in the footnotes, where I have not always translated Greek and Latin.

Following Assyriological convention, Akkadian words are given in italics, Sumerian in expanded spacing, logograms in capital letters, and determinatives in superscript. I have usually not Romanized ancient Greek names; arbitrary exceptions include most place-names.

References to ANE and Greco-Roman sources follow the abbreviations below or are spelled out in full, to be as intelligible as possible for an intended triple audience in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and (Ethno)Musicology. Specific editions of Greco-Roman authors are given only when the text is questionable, or its numeration seemed to need clarification; commentators are sometimes cited by last name only.

I have not achieved absolute consistency in the use of Roman vs. Arabic numerals, commas and full-stops, etc., though any given source should be treated consistently throughout (except for minor discrepancies with Professor Heimpel’s usage in “Balang-Gods”). The treatment of inscription-collections may cause confusion: ICS 94 refers to text 94 in the collection, but ICS:399 to page 399.

All dates are BCE unless otherwise noted. These are mostly conventional, with academic disagreements not affecting the argument unless otherwise noted. For the sake of consistency I have followed Kuhrt 1995 for the ANE (but KH for the Hittites); and the OCD for the Greco-Roman world.

Abbreviations

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MMA = Museum siglum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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MS = Tablet from the Marten Schoyen Collection.

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MSL = Landsberger, B., ed. 1937–2004. Materialien zum sumerischen Lexikon. 17 vols. Rome.

MT = Masoretic Text.

MVN = Materiali per il vocabolario neosumerico. Rome, 1974–.

MY = Linear B tablet from Mycenae.

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Ni = Tablet from Nippur in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul.

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SURS = Clemens, D. M. 2001. Sources for Ugaritic Ritual and Sacrifice. I. Ugaritic and Ugarit Akkadian Texts. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 284/1. Münster.

TCL = Textes cunéiformes. Musées du Louvre. Paris, 1910–.

TGF = Snell, B. et al. 1971–1985. Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta. 4 vols. Göttingen.

TH = Linear B tablet from Thebes.

TM = Tablet from Tell Mardikh/Ebla.

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TR = Pardee, D. 2000. Les Textes rituels. Paris.

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W = Tablet from Warka/Uruk.

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Cultural, Chronological, Linguistic, and Textual:

Akk. = Akkadian

ANE = Ancient Near East(ern)

Ar. = Arabic

Aram. = Aramaic

BA = Bronze Age

Can. = Canaanite

EBA = Early Bronze Age

Ebl. = Eblaitic

EIA = Early Iron Age

ED = Early Dynastic

Gk. = Greek

Hatt. = Hattic

Heb. = Hebrew

Hitt. = Hittite

Hurr. = Hurrian

IA = Iron Age

Lat. = Latin

LBA = Late Bronze Age

LC = Late Cypriot

Lin. B = Linear B

Luw. = Luwian

MA = Middle Assyrian

MB = Middle Babylonian

MBA = Middle Bronze Age

MH = Middle Hittite

MK = Middle Kingdom (Egypt)

Myc. = Mycenaean

N-A = Neo-Assyrian

NE = Near East(ern)

NK = New Kingdom (Egypt)

NK = New Kingdom (Egypt/Hittite)

N-S = Neo-Sumerian

OA = Old Assyrian

OAkk. = Old Akkadian

OB = Old Babylonian

OK = Old Kingdom (Egypt)

Pers. = Persian

Phoen. = Phoenician

P-S = Proto-Semitic

Pun. = Punic

Sum. = Sumerian

Ug. = Ugaritic

WS = West Semitic

Other:

* = reconstructed, hypothetical, or unattested form

| = line division (inscriptions, papyri)

/ = verse division

— /‿ = long/short syllable (verse)

// = phonetic value

√ = radical/root

[ ] = 1) editorial comment. 2) damaged area of tablet, inscription, or papyrus. 3) false attribution to ancient author (in footnotes, = ps.- in main text)

ca. = circa

col. = column(s)

DN = divine/god name

fig. = figure(s)

fl. = floruit/flourished

fr. or F = fragment(s)

κτλ = etc. (in Greek texts)

MS(S) = manuscript(s)

n = note(s)

no. = number(s)

obv. = obverse (of tablet)

p(p). = page(s)

PN = personal name

ps.- = pseudo-

rev. = reverse (of tablet)

Σ = scholion/scholia (to)

s.n. = no name

T = testimonium/a

TN = toponym/place-name

v.l. = variant reading