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Excerpt from The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York: A Monograph On the a7th of January I visited the Museum, and spent some time in' making a transcript from the bronze of all that could be easily deciphered. The condition then presented by the inscriptions as far as I observed will be seen in the accompany ing fac-similes (a) (a), with the three exceptions which will be noted below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Augustus Chapman Merriam was the youngest of thirteen children of Ela and Lydia (Sheldon) Merriam. He was born at "Locust Grove, " in Leyden, Lewis County, New York. His ancestor, Joseph Merriam, had come to Massachusetts from Kent, England, in 1638, settling near Concord; his grandfather, Judge Nathaniel Merriam, had moved from Meriden, Connecticut, to Leyden, New York, shortly after 1800.
The boy was prepared for college at the Columbia Grammar School, and both there and in Columbia College, to which he was admitted in 1862, had the advantage of the stimulating teaching of Dr. Charles Anthon. He was graduated at the head of his class in 1866.
After some months spent in Topeka, Kansas, Merriam returned to New York City to teach in the Columbia Grammar School. In 1868 he was appointed a tutor of Greek and Latin in Columbia College, and for eight years gave instruction in both languages. Beginning with 1876, however, he was able to devote all his energies to Greek, and in 1880 was advanced to the post of adjunct professor of the Greek language and literature. His notable edition of The Phaeacian Episode of the Odyssey, published in that year, revealed at once his insight into Homer, the rare charm of his style, and his appreciation of the illuminating contribution to the enjoyment of great poetry which can be made by art and archeology. In fact, from this time on he was more and more captivated by research in archeology and epigraphy, and his published work was such as to gain for him before his death a high international reputation in these fields. In 1883 he wrote a masterly monograph, The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in which, by establishing a new date, he succeeded in bringing for the first time every detail of the inscriptions into accord with already known history. He was then drawn on by his inability to accept Mommsen's ascription of the temple in front of which this obelisk had formerly stood, to write a brilliant paper on "The Caesareum and the Worship of Augustus at Alexandria". The presence of solid scholarship and the absence from his demeanor of everything that could suggest self-adulation greatly endeared him to his associates and helped to make him president of the American Philological Association for the year 1886-87.
His presidential address dealt with the inscriptions published during that year from Naucratis, Crete, Epidaurus, Athens, and Peiraieus, but he was unable to read it in person, having already sailed for Greece to assume the directorship of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. From 1888 to 1894 he was chairman of the committee on the publication of the School at Athens, and from 1891 to 1894 was president of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Death came to him in the fulness of his powers, while he was in Athens on sabbatical leave. A severe cold developed into pneumonia, and the end came swiftly. He was buried in his beloved "City of the Violet Crown, " where a beautiful monument marks his grave.
In Athens, during the year 1887-88, Merriam conducted successful excavations at Sicyon and at Dionyso, definitely proving the latter place to be the site of the deme Icaria, the birthplace of Thespis, founder of Greek tragedy. His distinctive power had by this time been so strikingly shown that in 1890 he was appointed to the newly created chair of Greek archeology and epigraphy at Columbia. He was chairman of the committee on the publication of the School at Athens and president of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Merriam was by nature a productive scholar. In his classroom, through the play of a constructive and delightful imagination, the past lived again, and the beauty and music inherent in great poetry and prose were engagingly made clear.
On July 23, 1869, Merriam married Louise Oley.
25 September 1794 - 11 November 1873
18 August 1800 - 14 October 1886
29 May 1829 - 4 October 1908
25 March 1824 - 18 February 1900
16 May 1841 - 17 November 1911
17 October 1835 - 26 January 1914
14 May 1822 - 22 May 1893
10 May 1827 - 9 December 1912
29 August 1831 - 19 January 1850
4 December 1837 - 6 March 1841
29 April 1833 - 16 August 1886
7 June 1825 - 3 April 1897
