Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai is an eighth or ninth century patriographic text which records brief notes on the examples of monumental Greco-Roman statuary of Constantinople and the numinous powers imputed to them. The exact circumstances and date of its composition, the identity of its author (or authors), and its purpose and genre remain subjects of contention among scholars. It preserves an image of Constantinople at a particular time in its history; the landscape which emerges is a scarcely-inhabited ruin, overgrown and dotted with enigmatic images invested with power in an antique time, and often filled with curious ex votos; tablets with riddlesome inscriptions, skeletons, strange figurines. Nevertheless, it arguably offers the student of Byzantine religion an opportunity to study the beliefs and powers imputed to Greco-Roman Statues in the medieval period. Moreover, as a text likely composed during the period of Iconoclasm (or just before it) it is notable that it concerns images, and, indeed, argues for their potency and importance (it is notable that even in the case of statues which work maleficent magic, the text cautions against destroying or molesting them). Furthermore, the wholesale reproduction of the Parastaseis in the widely-circulated tenth-century Patria, attests to continued engagement with the text as the centuries wore on.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".