This article investigates the notion of memorization in rabbinic and Roman spatial practices. The Greco-Roman mnemonic technique, in which space was a structuring device for the memorized ideas, words or images, has been extensively studied. Scholars have also demonstrated how such a technique was applied in rabbinic systems of memorization and the arrangement of oral traditions. Nevertheless, very little has been written about the role of mnemonics in the organization of space itself. In the first part of the article I use the comparison between the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum (first to fifth centuries CE collection of illuminated manuals of land survey and urban planning) and tractate Eruvin to explore references to cities in the shape of Greek letters, which are almost identical in the two texts. The fact that a list of cities in the shape of letters was used in the Roman corpus as a mnemonic device for the memorization of urban layouts suggests that the rabbis corresponded with such methods in their spatial formulations of the Sabbath Boundary. In the second part of the article I investigate the rabbinic system of forgotten produce (shikheḥah) that maps fields in order to determine which crops were unintentionally left behind by the farmer and consequently belonged to the poor. As I demonstrate, many of the spatial and visual principles applied by the rabbis in this system echo the mnemonic principles described in the Roman work on memorization Rhetorica Ad Herennium. The primary purpose of the article, however, is not merely to illuminate an instance of cultural exchange, but rather to point to the profound link established by mnemonics between space, image and language. The mechanism of organizing words and ideas spatially and visually affected the ways in which space was perceived and was, itself, organized.

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忘记风景：拉比和希腊罗马助记符的空间

本文研究了拉比和罗马空间实践中的记忆概念。已经广泛研究了希腊罗马助记符技术，其中空间是记忆的想法、单词或图像的结构装置。学者们还展示了如何将这种技术应用于拉比记忆系统和口头传统的安排。然而，关于助记符在空间本身组织中的作用的文章很少。在文章的第一部分中，我使用 Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum（公元 1 至 5 世纪的土地调查和城市规划照明手册集）和 Eruvin 之间的比较来探索对希腊字母形状的城市的引用，它们是两篇文章几乎一模一样。罗马语料库中使用字母形状的城市列表作为记忆城市布局的助记器这一事实表明，拉比在安息日边界的空间表述中采用了这种方法。在文章的第二部分，我调查了被遗忘的农产品 (shikheḥah) 的拉比系统，该系统绘制田地图以确定哪些作物是农民无意留下的，因此属于穷人。正如我所展示的，拉比在这个系统中应用的许多空间和视觉原则与罗马关于记忆修辞学的著作中描述的助记符原则相呼应。然而，这篇文章的主要目的不仅仅是阐明一个文化交流的例子，而是指向空间、图像和语言之间由助记符建立的深刻联系。在空间和视觉上组织文字和想法的机制影响了空间被感知和组织的方式。