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Tabulae Iliacae in the Collection Froehner, Paris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Nicholas Horsfall
Nicholas Horsfall
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When discussing the Tabulae Iliacae in JHS xcix (1979) 26–48 (hereafter ‘Horsfall’), I followed the usual and unchallenged view in stating that the group includes twenty reliefs and that five bear the signature of the artist Theodorus (26). Both statements prove wrong. Prof. F. Jouan (Paris-Nanterre) most kindly informed me in the summer of 1979 that an unpublished Thèse de Maîtrise by one of his students, Mlle F. Legrand, (Les Tables Iliaques [1976] [hereafter ‘Legrand’]), contained new material on the Tabulae and made a copy of her work available to me. It was immediately apparent (Legrand 160 ff.) that the Tabula which I shall call 21 Froehner was unpublished and when it became clear that no publication in France was intended, I sought and was freely granted access. Examination of Tabula 20Par., also in the Froehner collection, revealed that its verso carried an hitherto neglected signature by Theodorus. Permission to publish Tabulae 20Par. (verso) and 21Fro. was unhesitatingly granted. It is a great pleasure to place on record the enthusiasm and generosity displayed by Prof. Jouan and by the staff at the Cabinet des Médailles.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 103 , November 1983 , pp. 144 - 147
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1983

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References

1 As in, for example, Guarducci, M., Epigrafia Creca (Rome 1974) iii 433Google Scholar.

2 viii. 148 in Froehner's own inventory; the collection has been housed in the Cabinet des Médailles since 1925.

3 Tabula 20Par. recto was apparently first mentioned in print by Weitzmann, K., Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art (Princeton 1951) 100Google Scholar; partly reproduced, fig. 106. Detailed publication: Sadurska, A., Mél. Michalowski (Warsaw 1966) 653 ffGoogle Scholar. Both Sadurska (656) and Legrand (148) state explicitly and inexplicably that the verso bears no inscription; Bua, M. T., Mem. Acc. Lincei viii.16 (1971–1972) 4Google Scholar refers to 20Par. but does not include its verso in her discussion of the Theodorus-inscriptions. It is therefore especially to be regretted that L. Robert only refers to one Tabula in the Froehner collection, and that in the list (p. vi) of inscriptions to be excluded from his Collection Froehner i: Inscriptions Grecques (Paris 1936)Google Scholar. Note that the photograp is enlarged by 50%.

4 I am also most grateful to the British Academy and to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, who financed a visit to study the Tabulae in Paris; also to the Rosa Morison Fund of University College London for the cost of the illustrations.

5 2NY: New York, MMA 24.97.11; 3C; Paris, Bibl. Nat., Cab. des Méd. 3318. Full details: Sadurska, A., Les Tables Iliaques (Warsaw 1964)Google Scholar.

6 5O: Roma, Mus. Cap., Sala delle Colombe 83b; 7Ti. = Thierry, in Mém.Soc.Ant.France xliii (1882) 17 fGoogle Scholar.

7 The formulation by Bua (n. 3) 15 is not applicable to 4N.

8 Cf. Sadurska (n. 3) 654. On the relief, the band dividing Il. xviii and xix runs across the centre of the fragment; Il. xiii–xviii and xix–xxiv balance evenly.

9 Bua (n. 3) 15, an invaluable exegesis.

10 Froehner, notebooks viii.148, proposed supplementing τάξις (cf. the epigram on 2NY, Horsfall 27) or τέχνη. I am particularly grateful to Mlle M.-Ch. Hellmann for showing me Froehner's own description; cf. Sadurska (n. 3) 653 n. 3, J. Babelon, pref. to L. Robert (n. 3) ii.

11 Just over 5·3 cm to include the panel and the outer margin.

12 Bibl. Nat. Cab. des Méd. 3319; Sadurska (n. 5) 55 ff.

13 Cf. the paired bands below the central scene on 1 A, Roma, Mus. Cap. Sala delle Colombe, 83; or the paired bands above and below the central panel on i6Sa., Roma, Bibl. Vat., Museo Sacro, Inv. 0066.

14 viii.146 in Froehner's notebooks; Legrand 161 f.; the catalogue numbers used by Legrand are inexplicable.

15 13 Ta: London, BM 2192.

16 Cf. 12F (Paris Cab. des Méd. 3320) [Ὦ. Λύτρ]α νεκροῦ, Sadurska (n. 5) 65.

17 Froehner: Automedon; on 1A and 12F, Hermes appears in the parallel scenes and Legrand thinks it is Hermes here too, but I do not see a petasos and the lance does rather suggest Automedon.

18 Cf. the excellently preserved mule-cart at the top of 2NY.

19 Contrast the scene as portrayed on 1 A (Sadurska [n. 5] 27]; 2NY (Sadurska 56) is much closer as are some details on 9D (Sadurska 56) and 12F (Sadurska 65). For this scene on the Tabulae, cf. Sadurska 66.

20 Cf., on 1A, the summary, line 102 f. (Sadurska [n. 5] 31).

21 See S. Reinach, RA ser. 4V.1 (1905) 224 ff. and ser. 5 xxii (1925) 140 ff., Dieudonné, A. and Feuardent, G., RNum ser. 4 xxix (1926) 237 ff.Google Scholar, Deetjen, W., NJb iv (1928) 723 ff.Google Scholar, Souvenirs de Froehner, recueillis par la Comtesse de Rohan-Chabot (Paris 1931); preface by F. Cumont; repr., slightly abridged, Revue des Deux Mondes ci.2 (1931) 569 ff., J. Babelon, pref. to L. Robert (n. 3). Not all the factual details, even when F. was himself consulted, are beyond question.

22 Wilamowitz, , Erinnerungen (Leipzig 1928) 85 ff.Google Scholar; see Kern, O., H. Diels u. C. Robert, Bursian Suppl. ccxv (Leipzig 1927) 38Google Scholar on Wilamowitz' preference for the Bonn of Usener and Buecheler. Cf. further Fraenkel, E., Kl.Beitr. ii 567Google Scholar, Schmid, W., Bonner Gelehrte (Bonn 1968) 128Google Scholar, Momigliano, A. D., Riv. Stor. It. lxxxiv (1972) 747Google Scholar.

23 Boeckh and Jahn: cf. (e.g.) Unte, W., AuA xxvi (1980) 173Google Scholar, Wilamowitz (n. 22) 87.

24 Reinach, RA xxii (1925) 141, Flaubert, Letter 1081, Oeuvres Complètes xiv (Paris 1975)Google Scholar; Froehner succeeded in acquiring this letter: Hamilton, A., Elliott Monographs iv (Baltimore 1917) 109 n. 1Google Scholar.

25 Cf. Bedford, Sibylle, A Legacy (Penguin, ed. 1964) 27 fGoogle Scholar.

26 The texts are reprinted in (e.g.) Flaubert, , Oeuvres Complètes ii (Paris 1971) 369 ff.Google Scholar; cf. Letters (n. 24) 1079, 1084, Starkie, Enid, Flaubert the Master (London 1971) 80Google Scholar, Bart, B. F., Symposium xvi (1962) 148 ffGoogle Scholar. and Flaubert (Syracuse 1957) 435Google Scholar; it is not clear that Flaubert was right to suspect that Froehner was only a front.

27 Philol. xix (1863) 135 ff.Google Scholar, Reinach, RA xxii (1925) 144 f.

28 Convenient partial bibliography in Reinach, RA xxii (1925).

29 Cf. Dieudonné and Feuardent (n. 21) for an assessment of his contribution to numismatics.

30 RA xxii (1925) 150.

31 Magna Grecia xv 1–2 (1980) 7Google Scholar; unfortunately Ll.-J. uses the old drawings by Feodor Iwanowich and his archaeological evidence is based on outdated publications; cf. Horsfall 41; it will not do simply to refuse to acknowledge that our perception of the artistic and literary evidence for the Aeneas-legend has altered fundamentally in the last forty years.

32 I am grateful to the Director of the British School at Rome and to the staff of the Musei Capitolini for their help.

33 17M and 19J are unfortunately now set in frames.

34 Cf. Sadurska (n. 5) 19, using the word ‘bibelot’ in her paraphrase of the old and valuable discussion by Mancuso.

35 Sadurska ibid., Legrand 263.

36 Martial xiv 183 ff. lists numerous literary texts given as presents; many were parchment codices, appealingly compact; as on the Tabulae, a taste for miniaturisation is evident. But Martial has serious readers of complete and continuous texts in mind, and that is something Theodorus' clientele were not (Horsfall 34). The emphasis in Martial is repeatedly on the format; not even xiv 190 necessarily refers to an epitome of Livy (pace Galdi, E. in Studi Liviani (Rome 1934) 244Google Scholar, C. Begbie, CQ xvii (1967) 332, etc.). Martial has papyrus rolls of Livy and therefore lacks room for the whole work. The recipient of a Livy in codices has it all and saves space too. The fashions, therefore, are not altogether comparable, and we are really no nearer to knowing the context in which the Tabulae changed hands. Prof. Jouan and a University of Paris-Nanterre lecture audience kindly alerted me to the issue.