Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5922
(formerly typ/3927)

Ὁ χαλκοῦς ὄφις ὁ ὑπὸ Μωυσέως.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 435-436
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Moses
Tag(s)	Description of an image Miniature Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Die eherne Schlange, (geschaffen) von Moses. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 436
Comment	This verse is an unprosodic dodecasyllable.
Bibliography
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[23300] ὁ χαλκοῦς ὄφις ὁ ὑπὸ \| μωυσέος [12th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 602 [12th c.] (f. 166v) (1 verse) [26859] ὁ χαλκ(...) ὄ\|φις ὁ ὑπὸ μω\|υσέος [12th c.] IZMIR - Euaggelike Schole A-01 [12th c.] (f. 168v) (1 verse) [26858] ὁ χαλκοῦς \| ὄφις \| ὁ ὑπὸ μωσέως [1101-1150] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 746 [1101-1150] (f. 349v) (1 verse)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, VAT43 Vassis ICB 2005, 584: "In imaginem serpentis aenei (Num. 20.4–9)"
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Last modified: 2020-01-27.