An Homeric Dream Oracle from Termessos

Year 2014, Issue: 17, 153 - 180, 01.06.2014

Filiz Cluzeau

Abstract

The inscription constituting the scope of the present article was discovered among the remains north-west of Temple N3 during the research project entitled “Epigraphic-Historical Topography Surveys in the Ancient City of Termessos and its Territory” led jointly by A. V. Çelgin Istanbul University , B. İplikçioğlu Marmara University and G. Çelgin Istanbul University between 1989-1998

Termessos’tan Bir Homeros Rüya Kehaneti

Abstract

Bu makalede Termessos kent alanında bulunmuş yeni bir rüya yazıtı tanıtılmaktadır. Yazıt, içinde onar, oneiros, enhypnion gibi anlamı açık bir rüya kelimesi geçen Termessos’un ilk yazıtıdır; ancak, farklı formuyla diğer rüya yazıtlarından ayrılmaktadır. Kireçtaşından bir blok üzerinde bulunan yazıtın ilk satırında, “rüya” anlamına gelen onar kelimesi tek başına, bir başlık olarak bulunmakta; altındaki dört satırda ise Homeros’tan iki dize Il. 11.163-164 aktarılmaktadır.

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