Ein neues Textstück aus den „Scythica Vindobonensia“. Zu den Ereignissen nach der Eroberung von Philippopolis

Abstract

This paper presents the first transcription of a further palimpsest page of the Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on the Gothic incursions on the Balkans in the 3rd century AD, probably written by Dexippus of Athens. The new text (fol. 194r of ms. Vind. Hist. gr. 73) apparently tells us about the hitherto unknown reaction of the Greeks on the news of the seizure by Cniva of Philippopolis (in AD 250), i.e. the organisation of the defence against a possible invasion. A second section reports how a Gothic leader, probably the newly discovered Ostrogotha, decides to try and compete with Cniva's achievement, in an attempt to restore his own reputation among the Goths, and how he sets out to attack Decius and his army.