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Got it, thanks.
DW
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From: "John Dillon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 27. December
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> When the subject of the brothers Graptoi was discussed on this list a
> year ago, I observed that the general assumption is that the verses were
> actually _tattooed_ and, for context, cited the web-based version of
> Mark Gustafson's article, "_Inscripta in fronte_: Penal Tattooing in
> Late Antiquity" at:
> http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ca-free/161/gustafson.161.pdf
> Although the University of California Press no longer has this article
> up at that URL, I was able to access it using the Wayback Machine at:
> http://web.archive.org
> As the latter's address for it is a bit on the long side, I've converted
> that into a TinyURL:
> http://tinyurl.com/cugx3
> Or, you could read it in print at _Classical Antiquity_ 16 (1997), 79-105.
>
> Gustafson's note 30 suggests that "Receding hairlines or forcibly shaved
> heads ... might have aided the lengthy inscriptions."
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
>
>
> On Monday, December 26, 2005, at 4:00 pm, Diana Wright wrote:
>
> > > Theodore and Theophanes (d. 841 & 845) T and T were brothers, born
> > > in Kerak. They grew up in Jerusalem and both became monks at St.
> > > Sabas. They were the lucky ones chosen by the patriarch of
> > Jerusalem> to go tell the emperor to stop his iconoclast policies.
> > The emperor
> > > was not amused: he had them flogged and sent to a cold,
> > > ill-provisioned island at the mouth of the Black Sea. They were
> > > released when Emperor Leo died, but soon scourged and banished again
> > > by a new iconoclast emperor. After two years they were brought to
> > > Constantinople, and when they still persisted in their stand, the
> > > emperor had 12 lines of specially-composed iambic verse carved onto
> > > their faces (a process that took two days). Then they were banished
> > > again. When iconoclasm ended, Theophanes became bishop of Nicaea.
> > > Both brothers are called "Graptoi"---"the written-on."
> >
> > I am just trying to envision how this was done & if the accent
> > marks were
> > included. Did they both get all 12 lines or were the lines split
> > betweenthem?
> >
>
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