10.28.2005
epigraphy
This is why I am not an archaologist or an epigraphical scholar:
"In the blazing heat, I went from one end of the row of statues, and I checked all of them out of the hope of finding what every scholar wants something which someone hasn't seen before, something which you could publish, something to make your name. That was the hope, and it took me three hours in the blazing heat during which I confirmed that the original publications were, in fact, excellent and there was nothing at all which I could take. Great frustration."
This, again, from John Ma, who was narrating over pictures of a long row of honorific statues bases in the Amphiaraion, or healing shrine, in Oropos, about 30 minutes from Athens. The statues are long gone, but the bases and their epigraphs remain, and Dr. Ma had gone while on his sabbatical last year. I'm more content to spend my days in libraries than in the blazing heat. To me, archaologists are nuts.
"In the blazing heat, I went from one end of the row of statues, and I checked all of them out of the hope of finding what every scholar wants something which someone hasn't seen before, something which you could publish, something to make your name. That was the hope, and it took me three hours in the blazing heat during which I confirmed that the original publications were, in fact, excellent and there was nothing at all which I could take. Great frustration."
This, again, from John Ma, who was narrating over pictures of a long row of honorific statues bases in the Amphiaraion, or healing shrine, in Oropos, about 30 minutes from Athens. The statues are long gone, but the bases and their epigraphs remain, and Dr. Ma had gone while on his sabbatical last year. I'm more content to spend my days in libraries than in the blazing heat. To me, archaologists are nuts.
