caa a22 4500 378878816 CHVBK 20180305123427.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200304 xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/BYZS.2002.690 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/BYZS.2002.690 Drossoyianni Phane Athens G. KIOURTZIAN, Receuil des inscriptions grecques chrétiennes des Cyclades, De la fin du IIIe au VIIe siècle après J.-C [Elektronische Daten] [Phane Drossoyianni] This is a very good book. It gives 205 inscriptions from ten of the Cycladic islands. A number of them are published here for the first time. In their majority they are either funerary or invocations for divine help. Some are dedicatory. Some are inscriptions on well-paintings identifying the scene or the saint depicted or being themselves dedicatory or invocatory. Some are in praise of God or in thanks to God. Some are exhortations to the faithful or quotations from the Scriptures. Two are boundary stones and two are magical exorcisms. Outstanding among them are the cadastre of the area of Perissa on the island of Thera, the invocations for divine help carved by weatherbeaten seafarers on the rocks of the desert cove of Grammata (= Letters) on the island of Syros, and the intriguing 60-odd funerary inscriptions of the angels, also from Thera, that keep defying explanation. As a whole they give an insight and lead to a close intimacy with the life of the islanders in these early centuries, fortified as they were by the christian faith, toiling on the thin soil of their land and venturing at sea. Some of them raise questions that cannot be easily answered. Others are quite straightforward. © 2002 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, München und Leipzig Byzantinische Zeitschrift Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 95/2(2003-04), 690-696 0007-7704 95:2<690 2003 95 BYZS https://doi.org/10.1515/BYZS.2002.690 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/BYZS.2002.690 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Drossoyianni Phane Athens NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Byzantinische Zeitschrift Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 95/2(2003-04), 690-696 0007-7704 95:2<690 2003 95 BYZS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter