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Lesbos

Lesbos

Isole del Mediterraneo

isola

8B1

nero

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Lesbos [1] - https://elexikon.ch/RE/XII,2_2109.png

Lesbos Ins. (56 C3)

Lesbos

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Kommentar (Talbert):
This name ends below island #85. My inclination is to imagine that it refers to the island to the left with a dab of red on it (thus suggesting a longer, rather than shorter, name). Consequently, I am much less inclined than Miller 603-604 to trust Welser (1598; see Plate 4), who shows that island with the name Icaria, and then a further island to its right named Lesbos; I see no trace of the name Icaria, nor of a further island.

Miller´s lithograph (498) has no justification for coloring the entire island. Rather, there is only a dab of red on it, which probably reflects no more than carelessness on the copyist´s part. Observe similar miscellaneous dabs to the left (above Cortin[.]), and to the right above Blenna (8C2).

Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 604:
Lesbos (Bt, Bg, Ve; Lislos (Pd, Dj), Lisbos (Sch, Ma, Kt), Lesbos, qui et Metilini (Ra); j. Mitylini (Hauptstadt); cf. Conze, Reise auf Lesbos, Hannover 1865.4 (mit Karten und Iss). Iss: CIL III 450. 453-455. 7159 bis 7171. 14198. 14199. CIG 2166-2213.

[T.W:.] Die Inselumrandung ist heute noch, entgegen Talberts Behauptung zu erkennen. Von den Beschriftungsresten ist heute nur "[-?-]os" zu entziffern. Bei Welser findet sich "Lesbos", bei Scheyb "L[...]sbos".
In antiken Quellen sind folgende Namensformen belegt:
Λέσβος (Hdt. 1,151,1; Ps-Skyl. 97)
Lesbos (Mela 2,101; Plin. nat. 5,139)

Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 604;

Bürchner, Ludwig, Lesbos [1], in: RE XII.2 (1925), Sp. 2106-2133.

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