title: Unusual meanings of Greek words on the eastern periphery of the Byzantine world: παραθήκη, κατοίκησις, συνοδία
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metadata.value: Vinogradov, Andrey
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metadata.value: 2023-08-22T19:42:09Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-22T19:42:09Z
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metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Vinogradov A. Unusual meanings of Greek words on the eastern periphery of the Byzantine world: παραθήκη, κατοίκησις, συνοδία. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (1), 75–79. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.107
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43844
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metadata.value: The author discusses the newly found Greek inscriptions from Lasica, from the basilica on Machkhomeri Hill near Khobi dated to the 6th c. CE, with three Greek words and expressions having non-standard meanings. The only possible interpretation of the expression ἔχετε ἐν παραθέκῃ (sic) that comes to mind is “to have or keep as a pledge, to have or keep entrusted” i. e. the martyrs must keep the soul of the founder Gorgonios, which he entrusted to them as a pledge of his own salvation. The standard meanings of the term κατοίκησις as “settling” or “dwelling, abode” do not correspond to the context of the list of the benefactors either as an act or as a locus, as well as the early Byzantine meaning “government, administration”. It should mean here a burial, which could be understood as a new dwelling of the body or even a shrine for the relics (probably one of the Forty Martyrs), which appeared in Machkhomeri in connection with the rebuilding of the basilica and which was placed in the martyrium in the eastern end of the southern aisle. Finally, the term συνοδία by its origin meant a “companionship on a journey”, and later became a terminus technicus for caravan; new, Byzantine meanings of this word are “Christian fellowship company of the faithful, local congregation”, “gathering, assembly for worship”, “community of religious”. But here it is an “association of lay people around an institution or an influential person, probably functioning as a group of pilgrims”.
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metadata.value: This study was carried out within the framework of the research project “Epigraphies of Pious Travel:
  Pilgrims’ Inscriptions, Movement, and Devotion between Byzantium and Rus’ in the 5th–15th Centuries
  C. E.” funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 21-59-14005 АНФ_а).
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byzantine epigraphy
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metadata.value: Lazica
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metadata.value: lexicography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pilgrimage
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Unusual meanings of Greek words on the eastern periphery of the Byzantine world: παραθήκη, κατοίκησις, συνοδία
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