PHRYKTORIES presents the book "INTERPRETATION OF THE UNIQUE ARCHAEOTHRACIAN EPIGRAMMA". Decoding and interpretation of the unique Archaeo-Thracian epigram on the gold ring of Ezerovo (5th century BC). "Ammon Publishing House", Athens 2023. Speaker the author CHARALAMPOS X. SPYRIDIS Professor of Music Acoustics, Informatics Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The presentation of the book took place in Athens, at the Society of Greek Writers, on Friday, December 1, 2023. ------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ BOOK PRESENTATION As her assistant professor of Physics of Music at the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the one hand, and on the other as a member of the Congress of the Balkan Union of Physicists, in the late 1980s I had begun to I am dealing with a subject of a Thracian character to present it at the Balkan Physics Congress, which would take place on September 26-28 of the year 1991 in Thessaloniki. Specifically, I had chosen to decode or translate the first and only extant long Thracian written text with 61 consecutive Greek capital letters of the Ionic type, found engraved on the plate of a gold ring. The ring was worn in his grave by the skeleton of a prominent Thracian man of the 5th century BC. Thus, without realizing it, a research Odyssey began for me that lasted 24 whole years; from 1990 until December 30 of the year 2013 , day of the week Monday – an unforgettable milestone! For the Balkan Physics Congress I hypothesized that the inscribed ring tablet presented a musical score (score) of some Thracian hymn to a deity or hero, perhaps the "fame" of the official to whom the skeleton belonged in the tomb. I recorded this score in modern musical notation using the Tables of the ancient Greek philosopher and musician Alypios (4th century BC). With this musical version of the epigram of the ring, performed on cello by the professor of the Contemporary Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Mr. Georgios Manolas, in a world premiere on Saturday evening, September 28, 1991, the Balkan Conference closed in the Ceremony Hall of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I continued my research drawn by the wise linguists, historians and archaeologists of the various states. I formulated the opinion that the inscription is a specific text written in an amalgam of Greek dialects with barbarisms, whose most elementary cells, the syllables of the words, contain traits and qualities of a musical nature. With the help of the Alypius Tables, I resurrected the musicality that existed and lived lethargically inside the epigram for so many centuries, treating it simultaneously as a "libretto" and as a "score" of an ancient musical and technical work, which was performed and sung by my students. -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY Biography of Professor Charalambos X. Spyridis: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gENp... ------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ You can watch all his speeches Mr. Charalambos Spyridis that have been registered by the Fryctories, at the link: • Charalambos Ch. Spyridis - Speeches ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- For any information or complaint, please inform us at the main website: http://www.fryktories.net - -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------