Posted on 10/19/2014 3:45:33 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
The stela is an extraordinary finding that offers a treasure trove of data to historians and philologists.
Excavations around the Hecatomnus Mausoleum in the western province of Mugla’s Milas district have unearthed a written stela that dates back over two millennia.
The stela is an extraordinary finding that offers very important data to historians and philologists, according to academics.
The stela, which is estimated to have been written for the ruler of its era, is in the poetry format and the longest among other similar classical-era findings.
According to information provided by the Milas Uzunyuva Project Epigraph Professor Christian Marek, the writing on the stela has a poetical language in a style called “catalectic trochaic tetrameter.”
There are 121 lines in the stela, although its upper surface has been eroded. It is estimated that the stela was erected at the end of fourth century B.C. or at the beginning of the third century B.C.
But can it be hip-hopped...
Well dang! It doesn’t say in what language but I am assuming Greek. Very little information. What’s the poem about? It would be long before the Turkic tribes arrived, so not in Turkish...? Very interesting, thanks for posting.
poetic ping
The tour guides will say it's "Hellenic," but they won't say "Greek." They refuse to admit that the Greeks ever had anything to do with land that's now Turkey.
Hitite empire?
A bear taking a dump asked a rabbit
"Does poop stick to your fur as a habit?"
"Of course not," said the hare,
"It's really quite rare!"
So the bear wiped his tush with the rabbit.
Thanks SteveH.
Nice, this may be in Carian!
> Scholars believe the tomb belonged to Hecatomnus, the fourth-century B.C. ruler of Caria, a kingdom in what is now southwestern Turkey. Hecatomnus was the father of Mausolus, who was buried in the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. (The architectural term mausoleum is derived from the Carian ruler’s name.)
http://archive.archaeology.org/1101/topten/turkey.html
Stelae!
LOL!
The article says it was written in catalectic trochaic tetrameter
To convert it to hip hop would require fitting the words and catalectic trochaic tetrameter rhythm to eubonic trecidodectic quadrameter. That would be very hard
Little known fact. One reason for Mausolus’ popularity was he rescinded his father’s edict that all schoolchildren memorize this poem. In catalectic trochaic tetrameter.
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