Jan-Mathieu Carbon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1663880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan-Mathieu Carbon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan-Mathieu |
| FAMILY NAME | Carbon |
| SIGNATURE | CARBON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1733-693X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Zeus Theopomenos and Theopoma (“Divine Drink (of Water)”?)
In this journal, V. Sauer and E. Olshausen (Sauer - Olshausen, Gephyra, 29, 2025, 56 no. 2) have recently published an interesting Imperial-period dedication (“Votiv- oder Weihinschrift eines Altar”) to a deity which they were not able to identify. Following an attempt to elucidate the text, a brief discussion of the epithet of Zeus revealed by this inscription is offered. This is Theopomenos (Θεοπομηνός), a toponymic epithet which points to an a…
A New Metrical Funerary Curse from Miletoupolis
An inscribed funerary stele probably from Miletoupolis has been recently published by E. Laflı and M.E. Uyar (Laflı – Uyar 2021, 77-79 no. 2). This short note offers a revision of the inscription from the published photograph as well as a brief commentary. The inscription is identified as a pair of elegiac distichs containing a funerary imprecation against any desecrator of the stele. While this curse echoes known formulae, it also contains a few…
The Place of Purity: Groups and Associations, Authority and Sanctuaries
This chapter proposes to look in some detail at a few evocative cases, primarily from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, where associations or other groups, such as bands of worshippers, were especially concerned with purity or where they published inscribed rules of purity. 1 Limited in number partly due to the vicissitudes of epigraphic preservation, partly due to the geographic and chronological specificities of this material – post-Classical …
Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity
Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. Emphasis is placed on the values fostered by the regulations of associations, the complexities of the private-public divide (and that divide's impact on polis institutions) and the dynamics of regional and global networks and group identity. The attested links between rules …
Revisiting the Stephanephoroi of Early Hellenistic Miletos
Altay Coşkun (C.) recently wrote another detailed and rewarding investigation of early Hellenistic history in the pages of this journal (Philia 8, 2022, 23–40). The purpose of this note is only to clarify some key dates provided by the Milesian evidence. Ever since the work of Eugène Cavaignac, it should have been well recognised that the dates of the Milesian stephane¬phoroi, as originally developed by Rehm and maintained since in publications o…
Greek Perceptions and Receptions of Non-Indigenous Birds: Some Case Studies Regarding the Phasianidae
Investigating interactions between animals and humans has become increasingly prominent in the study of the ancient Greek world. How did the Greeks react to non-indigenous species of birds and adapt these into their local environments? As a contribution to this subject, this paper focusses on a series of related avian case studies: domestic fowl ( Gallus gallus), peacocks ( Pavo cristatus), and pheasants ( Phasianus colchicus). Using key pieces o…
The Power of Zeus Bronton: Notes on a New Miracle Narrative
N. Eda Akyürek Şahin and Hüseyin Uzunoğlu have recently published an interesting dedica-tion to Zeus Bronton from the 2nd-3rd century A.D. in this journal (Gephyra 23, 2022, 119-120 no. 19, with phs.). Following an attempt to further elucidate the text, this inscription is here identified as a narrative account of the power of Zeus Bronton. While the inscription finds a place in a growing number of documents about the worship of this god in Phryg…
A New Funerary Inscription from the Kırşehir Museum
The article publishes a new funerary inscription of the Roman Imperial period now located in the Kırşehir Museum (Cappadocia). The stele was erected by a couple for their eight-year-old daughter, who seems to bear the distinctive name Λαζουρη. There follows an epigram in her memory which combines a series of fairly common formulae, though a few particularities or difficulties of interpretation remain
Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms
Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest: purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law, impurity ex…
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), online since 2017
The project issues from the reassessment of a category of inscriptions which have come to fore in the study of ancient Greek religion. These are the texts known as leges sacrae or “sacred laws”, collected by F. Sokolowski in the 1950s and 60s (LSAM, LSS, LSCG), and more recently by E. Lupu in 2005 (NGSL).The validity and the utility of this epigraphical category has been questioned (cf. especially Parker 2004 and see also Harris 2015). Articles p…
Codifying ‘Sacred Laws’ in Ancient Greece
Recent approaches to the thorny subject of ancient Greek 'sacred laws' have raised several conceptual and terminological issues concerning the modern corpus.This collection of inscriptions includes financial accounts and sacrificial calendars, priestly contracts and civic decrees, informal boundary stones and oracles, and several other dossiers of texts.To what extent can these documents properly be called 'sacred laws' except in the most general…
Molpoi
Literally a group of singers and dancers, the molpoi formed one of the principal groups in the city of Miletos from (at least) the late Archaic to the end of Hellenistic period. The group attests to the fact that political authority and religious activity were closely interwoven at Miletos, as well as perhaps in other areas of the Greek world.
Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia
Une tablette contenant une longue inscription de la période archaïque, provenant d’Arcadie et apparue sur le marché des antiquités, a été publiée « préliminairement » en 2015. Le présent article a pour objet : (1) d’offrir une nouvelle édition du texte — après autopsie et en utilisant deux photographies — ainsi que (2) une traduction anglaise. Comme l’inscription contient une multitude de détails linguistiques et rituels, pour certains inusités, …
Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families
International audience
Ritual Problems: Offering and Sacrificing
Much like many other ancient phenomena, the rituals of the Greeks continue to both vex and intrigue through their diverse particularities and their often elusive meanings.The title of the first work under review, Offrir en Grèce ancienne, reflects a misleading definitiveness in that regard: this is not a comprehensive treatise on the notion of 'offering' in ancient Greece. 1 Rather, it is the subtitle that should probably retain one's attention: …
Monographing “Sacred Laws”
dialectales de Sicile II (
Beyond Greek “Sacred Laws”
La recherche récente a régulièrement remis en cause la catégorie moderne de « lois sacrées » désignant des inscriptions grecques qui forment un ensemble mal défini. Cet article entend dépasser le corpus traditionnel des « lois sacrées » en présentant un projet de recueil alternatif de « Normes rituelles grecques » (CGRN pour l’acronyme anglais), qui s’appuie sur des critères plus sélectifs et sera publié en ligne
Les estampages du Fonds Louis Robert, précédé d’une présentation par M. Glen Bowersock, associé étranger de l’Académie
Beyond Greek “Sacred Laws”
La recherche récente a régulièrement remis en cause la catégorie moderne de « lois sacrées » désignant des inscriptions grecques qui forment un ensemble mal défini. Cet article entend dépasser le corpus traditionnel des « lois sacrées » en présentant un projet de recueil alternatif de « Normes rituelles grecques » (CGRN pour l’acronyme anglais), qui s’appuie sur des critères plus sélectifs et sera publié en ligne
Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), online since 2017
The project issues from the reassessment of a category of inscriptions which have come to fore in the study of ancient Greek religion. These are the texts known as leges sacrae or “sacred laws”, collected by F. Sokolowski in the 1950s and 60s (LSAM, LSS, LSCG), and more recently by E. Lupu in 2005 (NGSL).The validity and the utility of this epigraphical category has been questioned (cf. especially Parker 2004 and see also Harris 2015). Articles p…
Codifying ‘Sacred Laws’ in Ancient Greece
Recent approaches to the thorny subject of ancient Greek 'sacred laws' have raised several conceptual and terminological issues concerning the modern corpus.This collection of inscriptions includes financial accounts and sacrificial calendars, priestly contracts and civic decrees, informal boundary stones and oracles, and several other dossiers of texts.To what extent can these documents properly be called 'sacred laws' except in the most general…
Ritual Problems: Offering and Sacrificing
Much like many other ancient phenomena, the rituals of the Greeks continue to both vex and intrigue through their diverse particularities and their often elusive meanings.The title of the first work under review, Offrir en Grèce ancienne, reflects a misleading definitiveness in that regard: this is not a comprehensive treatise on the notion of 'offering' in ancient Greece. 1 Rather, it is the subtitle that should probably retain one's attention: …
Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia
Une tablette contenant une longue inscription de la période archaïque, provenant d’Arcadie et apparue sur le marché des antiquités, a été publiée « préliminairement » en 2015. Le présent article a pour objet : (1) d’offrir une nouvelle édition du texte — après autopsie et en utilisant deux photographies — ainsi que (2) une traduction anglaise. Comme l’inscription contient une multitude de détails linguistiques et rituels, pour certains inusités, …
Les estampages du Fonds Louis Robert, précédé d’une présentation par M. Glen Bowersock, associé étranger de l’Académie
Monographing “Sacred Laws”
dialectales de Sicile II (
Beyond Greek “Sacred Laws”
La recherche récente a régulièrement remis en cause la catégorie moderne de « lois sacrées » désignant des inscriptions grecques qui forment un ensemble mal défini. Cet article entend dépasser le corpus traditionnel des « lois sacrées » en présentant un projet de recueil alternatif de « Normes rituelles grecques » (CGRN pour l’acronyme anglais), qui s’appuie sur des critères plus sélectifs et sera publié en ligne
Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families
International audience
Ritual Problems: Offering and Sacrificing
Much like many other ancient phenomena, the rituals of the Greeks continue to both vex and intrigue through their diverse particularities and their often elusive meanings.The title of the first work under review, Offrir en Grèce ancienne, reflects a misleading definitiveness in that regard: this is not a comprehensive treatise on the notion of 'offering' in ancient Greece. 1 Rather, it is the subtitle that should probably retain one's attention: …
Molpoi
Literally a group of singers and dancers, the molpoi formed one of the principal groups in the city of Miletos from (at least) the late Archaic to the end of Hellenistic period. The group attests to the fact that political authority and religious activity were closely interwoven at Miletos, as well as perhaps in other areas of the Greek world.
Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia
Une tablette contenant une longue inscription de la période archaïque, provenant d’Arcadie et apparue sur le marché des antiquités, a été publiée « préliminairement » en 2015. Le présent article a pour objet : (1) d’offrir une nouvelle édition du texte — après autopsie et en utilisant deux photographies — ainsi que (2) une traduction anglaise. Comme l’inscription contient une multitude de détails linguistiques et rituels, pour certains inusités, …
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), online since 2017
The project issues from the reassessment of a category of inscriptions which have come to fore in the study of ancient Greek religion. These are the texts known as leges sacrae or “sacred laws”, collected by F. Sokolowski in the 1950s and 60s (LSAM, LSS, LSCG), and more recently by E. Lupu in 2005 (NGSL).The validity and the utility of this epigraphical category has been questioned (cf. especially Parker 2004 and see also Harris 2015). Articles p…
Codifying ‘Sacred Laws’ in Ancient Greece
Recent approaches to the thorny subject of ancient Greek 'sacred laws' have raised several conceptual and terminological issues concerning the modern corpus.This collection of inscriptions includes financial accounts and sacrificial calendars, priestly contracts and civic decrees, informal boundary stones and oracles, and several other dossiers of texts.To what extent can these documents properly be called 'sacred laws' except in the most general…
Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms
Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest: purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law, impurity ex…
A New Funerary Inscription from the Kırşehir Museum
The article publishes a new funerary inscription of the Roman Imperial period now located in the Kırşehir Museum (Cappadocia). The stele was erected by a couple for their eight-year-old daughter, who seems to bear the distinctive name Λαζουρη. There follows an epigram in her memory which combines a series of fairly common formulae, though a few particularities or difficulties of interpretation remain
The Place of Purity: Groups and Associations, Authority and Sanctuaries
This chapter proposes to look in some detail at a few evocative cases, primarily from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, where associations or other groups, such as bands of worshippers, were especially concerned with purity or where they published inscribed rules of purity. 1 Limited in number partly due to the vicissitudes of epigraphic preservation, partly due to the geographic and chronological specificities of this material – post-Classical …
Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity
Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. Emphasis is placed on the values fostered by the regulations of associations, the complexities of the private-public divide (and that divide's impact on polis institutions) and the dynamics of regional and global networks and group identity. The attested links between rules …
Revisiting the Stephanephoroi of Early Hellenistic Miletos
Altay Coşkun (C.) recently wrote another detailed and rewarding investigation of early Hellenistic history in the pages of this journal (Philia 8, 2022, 23–40). The purpose of this note is only to clarify some key dates provided by the Milesian evidence. Ever since the work of Eugène Cavaignac, it should have been well recognised that the dates of the Milesian stephane¬phoroi, as originally developed by Rehm and maintained since in publications o…
Greek Perceptions and Receptions of Non-Indigenous Birds: Some Case Studies Regarding the Phasianidae
Investigating interactions between animals and humans has become increasingly prominent in the study of the ancient Greek world. How did the Greeks react to non-indigenous species of birds and adapt these into their local environments? As a contribution to this subject, this paper focusses on a series of related avian case studies: domestic fowl ( Gallus gallus), peacocks ( Pavo cristatus), and pheasants ( Phasianus colchicus). Using key pieces o…
The Power of Zeus Bronton: Notes on a New Miracle Narrative
N. Eda Akyürek Şahin and Hüseyin Uzunoğlu have recently published an interesting dedica-tion to Zeus Bronton from the 2nd-3rd century A.D. in this journal (Gephyra 23, 2022, 119-120 no. 19, with phs.). Following an attempt to further elucidate the text, this inscription is here identified as a narrative account of the power of Zeus Bronton. While the inscription finds a place in a growing number of documents about the worship of this god in Phryg…
A New Metrical Funerary Curse from Miletoupolis
An inscribed funerary stele probably from Miletoupolis has been recently published by E. Laflı and M.E. Uyar (Laflı – Uyar 2021, 77-79 no. 2). This short note offers a revision of the inscription from the published photograph as well as a brief commentary. The inscription is identified as a pair of elegiac distichs containing a funerary imprecation against any desecrator of the stele. While this curse echoes known formulae, it also contains a few…
Zeus Theopomenos and Theopoma (“Divine Drink (of Water)”?)
In this journal, V. Sauer and E. Olshausen (Sauer - Olshausen, Gephyra, 29, 2025, 56 no. 2) have recently published an interesting Imperial-period dedication (“Votiv- oder Weihinschrift eines Altar”) to a deity which they were not able to identify. Following an attempt to elucidate the text, a brief discussion of the epithet of Zeus revealed by this inscription is offered. This is Theopomenos (Θεοπομηνός), a toponymic epithet which points to an a…
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