Charles Thomas Newton

Name: On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively
Author: Charles Thomas Newton

On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

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“On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively”, published in 1878, is a work by Charles Thomas Newton. It explores elements such as Kamiros, Hesychios and Rhodes.

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ Three commissioners are to be at once elected, who are to superintend the carrying out the decree, and are to contract for providing a stelè, for which the lowest tender is to be accepted. The contractor is to inscribe the κτοῖναι on the stelè, to erect it in the Hieron of Athena, and to fix it firmly all round with lead. The Treasurer is to defray the cost of all these operations. The κτοινάται or members of the κτοῖναι are to select out of these κτοῖναι a μάστρος who is to be appointed in the most holy Hieron in the κτοῖνα, according to the law of the Rhodians. ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ The assembly of κτοινάται is to meet in the temple of Athena when the ἱεροποιοί come, and are to inspect the ἱερά of the people of Kamiros. Whether we interpret ἱερά here in its more usual sense "the sacred precincts round temples," or as "sacred rites," the functionaries assembled were evidently invested with the duty of general supervision, for we can attach no other meaning to the word ἀθρεόντω.
In the Lindian inscription, already referred to, the ἱεροποιοί are associated with the ἱερεῖς and ἱεροθύται "sacrificers," standing third in the order of precedence. ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ Schmidt in his recent edition of Hesychios marks this entry with an asterisk, because it is out of its alphabetical order, but, since the discovery of this inscription, there is no ground for stigmatizing this entry. The gloss is somewhat obscure. If the words had been χωρήσεις προγονικῶν ἱερῶν, we might have interpreted them "the setting apart of ancestral rites or of sacred precincts inherited from ancestors," but I cannot find that ἱερεία is ever used in that sense, though in the Septuagint it bears the sense of "festival," "sacrifice." ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ We find from this inscription that some of the κτοῖναι were in the small island of Chalke, which lies on the west of Rhodes, and was probably subject to it at all times; (see Pliny, Hist. Nat. XVII. 4, § 31.) In the matter of registering their κτοινάται at Kamiros, the people of Chalke appear to have been left free, as would be natural if the κτοῖναι were local divisions, having reference to common rites. ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ It is probably the same fortress as that which Strabo calls Ὀχύρωμα, the citadal of lalysos, now called Phileremo.
l. 25. The prohibition of the wearing sandals within the temenos reminds us of the injunction to Moses, Ex. III. 5. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ In the Andania decree regulating the Mysteries of the Great Gods, it is ordered that those who celebrate the Mysteries shall be bare-footed, and in the procession no one is to wear shoes, unless they are made either of felt or of the skins of the victims offered in the festival. ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ No one is to enter the temenos with sandals or any article made of hog's leather; any one transgressing this prohibition will have to purify the Hieron and temenos, and to offer sacrifices, or to be liable to a prosecution for impiety, ἀσέβεια. Any one introducing sheep into the sacred precinct must pay an obolos for each sheep. Any one who thinks proper may denounce such transgressors to the Mastroi.
The goddess Alektrona, whose sacred precinct is thus jealously guarded by this law, is evidently identical with Elektryonè, who, according to Diodoros, v. ”

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Charles Thomas Newton, On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos… (1878)

“ Here these two sacred precincts are clearly distinguished. The Hieron is usually considered to be the sacred ground round the temple ναός, corresponding with the Close of a cathedral. The temenos was probably an outer precinct.
l. 7, λίθου λάρτου. The word λάρτος is unknown to the Lexicographers, but occurs in the slightly modified form, λάρτιος, in two other Rhodian inscriptions; one from Rhodes published by Röhl, in the 'Mittheilungen d. Deutsch. Inst, in Athen,' 1877. p. ”

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