Hellanicus of Lesbos

FGrH 4 F 53 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.470d Converged + audit-sound

Ἑλλάνικος ἐν Αἰγυπτιακοῖς οὕτως γράφει· «Αἰγυπτίων ἐν τοῖς οἴκοις κεῖται φιάλη χαλκῆ καὶ κύαθος χαλκοῦς καὶ ἠθάνιον χάλκεον.»

Hellanikos in the Aigyptiaka writes thus: 'In the houses of the Egyptians there lies a bronze bowl, a bronze ladle, and a bronze strainer.'

Apparatus — BNJ base vs open-corpus witness

Base text after Brill’s New Jacoby / Jacoby (FGrH). The apparatus records differences against the open-corpus witness (Athenaeus, Deipn. 11 (Kaibel grc3)) within the overlapping span; encoding and orthography are folded. Collation codepoint-verified and adversarially audited (2026-06-26).

Lemma / locus	BNJ base	Witness	Type	Note
No substantive differences in the witnessed span — the BNJ base is verbatim against the open-corpus witness (encoding/orthography folded).

Witness: Athenaeus, Deipn. 11 (Kaibel grc3). Verdict: CONVERGED.
Open-corpus witness family: urn:cts:greekLit. This is a BNJ/Jacoby-based edition with an open-corpus apparatus, not a verbatim copy of the witness edition. Source data: explorers/_build/editions/ecoed-hellan-fgrh4-f53.json.