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There is a little known fact about the pontoon bridge of Xerxes over the Hellespont, namely that its architect was - like with Dareios earlier bridge - actually a Greek, called Harpalos (Herodot is strangely silent about the name of the architect in his Histories). His name is recorded in the Laterculi Alexandrini, a Ptolemaic papryus found in an Egyptian grave, and edited by one German scholar Diehl in the early 1900s.
In case anyone has access, could you perhaps post the relevant passage here with the exact reference?
Thx
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The reference is:
H. Diels, "Laterculi Alexandrini aus einem Papyrus ptolemaischer Zeit," Abhandlungen der koeniglich-preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1904)
but we don't have it here, I'm afraid.
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I have now Diehls! From a worn 1904 Prussian publication which already look pretty close to the Papyrus it features!
The problem: Diehls did not bother to give a German translation. :?
Is there someone able and willing to translate four - rather short - paragraphs of 2nd century BC Greek into English?
I plan to include the source at Wikipedia in order to give Harpalos the post mortem fame he deserves.
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Please post them or PM Dan.
Kind regards
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In case somebody is interested drop me a pm. It's 20 MB.
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