Year
2018
Publisher
De Gruyter
Language
English
Pages
17
Last Update
11-Dec-2025
Keywords
History ; Health Sciences ; Religion
Lists of scriptures or “text catalogues” are common in different literate cultures of the ancient world. Such lists appear in various forms and types, serving different purposes and functions. Especially lists of literary works and authors from the Greco-Roman world, designated in Greek as pinax (plural pinakes; Latin index), display distinct characteristics and developments that can be compared with Mesopotamian text catalogues. The basic meaning of the term pinax is “(wooden or metal) board/tablet” used e.g. for official inscriptions, but the word also refers to lists of various kinds such as chronological lists of the winners in the great Greek...
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