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Headword: *)/akra ko/rumba
Adler number: alpha,953
Translated headword: high-points; fruit-clusters
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the high-posts of ships, the parts projecting out at the stern or prow.[1]
[The places] on which they used to draw/inscribe the totems.[2]
Korumboi [are] berries which hang on the branches in grape-cluster fashion, as there are on ivy plants.
Greek Original:
*)/akra ko/rumba: ta\ a)krosto/lia tw=n new=n, ta\ e)ce/xonta kata\ pru/mnan h)\ prw/ran. e)n oi(=s ta\ sebo/mena e)ne/grafon. ko/rumboi oi( e)pi\ tw=n a)kremo/nwn botrudo\n mete/wroi ko/kkoi, w(s e)pi\ tw=n kissw=n e)/xei.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar entries in other lexica -- prompted by Homer, Iliad 9.241 (web address 1 below), the sole appearance of the phrase (nhw=n) a)/kra ko/rumba. For dispute over its precise meaning see Aristophanes fr.222 Kock, now 233 Kassel-Austin. The cluster-of-fruit (ivy or other) sense, later in the entry, is quite separate. Casson points out (12-13) that the Egyptians had been building rafts and boats out of bundled reeds since the middle of fourth millenium BCE. Later, such crafts were equipped with elegant stem- and sternposts topped with an adornment resembling a lotus bud; cf. Casson (12-13 with figs. 7-9). See generally LSJ s.v. See also alpha 1017.
[2] Literally, 'the things to be revered'. This addendum is also in ps.-Zonaras.
Reference:
L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, (Baltimore & London 1971)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; epic; history; religion; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 March 2001@19:48:54.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; augmented note; added keyword) on 22 March 2001@05:40:29.
Catharine Roth (updated link) on 18 October 2011@23:57:16.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 October 2011@03:17:43.
David Whitehead on 29 January 2012@08:05:19.
Catharine Roth (tweaks) on 6 February 2012@00:17:55.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 17 May 2015@10:14:44.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 22 May 2015@10:36:15.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added keyword) on 1 October 2023@11:21:40.

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