Chronicle of Edessa

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As a chronicle of Edessa one is late antique Syrian Chronicle called.

The chronicle was written by an anonymous author in the middle of the 6th century and describes the period from 201 to 540. The author apparently used archive materials from the city of Edessa , which is also the focus of the 106 chapters. He also used written documents, including probably a chronicle from Antioch and perhaps a historical work on the Persian War of that time . According to Ludwig Hallier , the Edessa Chronicle was later used by Dionysius von Tell Mahre and Michael Syrus .

The text is based on a single manuscript published by Giuseppe Simone Assemani in 1719.

literature

  • Sebastian P. Brock: Syriac Historical Writing: A Survey of the Main Sources . In: Journal of the Iraqi Academy (Syriac Corporation) 5, 1979/1980, pp. 1-30, here p. 3f.
  • Ludwig Hallier: Investigations on the Edessen Chronicle . Leipzig 1892 (with German translation).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from Ludwig Hallier: Investigations on the Edessen Chronicle . Leipzig 1892, p. 59ff., Who considered a draft around 600 possible. In the more recent research, however (as before Hallier) advocates the middle of the 6th century, see z. B. Andreas Goltz: The “end” of the Western Roman Empire in early Byzantine Syrian historiography . In: Andreas Goltz, Hartmut Leppin , Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen (eds.): Beyond the borders . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, pp. 169–198, here p. 172.
  2. ↑ A brief mention of the kings of Edessa since 133/32 BC. Is embedded in it, see Ludwig Hallier: Investigations on the Edessen Chronicle . Leipzig 1892, p. 84 and p. 88.
  3. ↑ For the sources, see Ludwig Hallier: Investigations on the Edessen Chronicle . Leipzig 1892, p. 39ff.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Hallier: Investigations on the Edessen Chronicle . Leipzig 1892, p. 37f.