A collection of nearly a hundred Ancient South Arabian inscriptions from the site of Najran (Saudi Arabia) has been published by Mohammed Ali al-Hajj in the recent volume (in Arabic): On the history of Najran before Islam. Musnad inscriptions from the site of al-Ukhdud, Chair of Cultural Heritage, College of Tourism and Archaeology, King Saud University, 2018.
Giovedì 10 ottobre 2019, ore 15 Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, Via Zamboni 31 – Bologna
Relaunch of the expanded Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online
RIB Online, the digital library of Roman inscriptions from Britain, has
been relaunched on the anniversary of Claudia Severa’s birthday, with
enhanced existing records and a large number of new texts. 1,508 new
texts have been added, drawn from RIB Volume III and the corpus of
Bloomberg tablets, Roman London’s First Voices (each digitally
published for the first time), as well as new and enhanced digitisations
of the Vindolanda Tablets, some of which are also making their digital
debuts. All the new material includes images where available and
relevant non-textual information from the corpora.
The entire corpus of RIB Online now comprises 3,909 inscriptions in all,
representing a substantial milestone in the aim to make available
digitally every published text from the province of Britannia. Future
instalments will include all eight fascicules of RIB Volume II
(Instrumentum Domesticum), the curse tablets, writing tablets from
Carlisle, and all texts published in the annual updates of the journal
Britannia to date.
By using EpiDoc encoding (XML mark-up designed for epigraphy) and Linked
Open Data this resource enables detailed searching and linking to other
epigraphic and non-epigraphic resources: users can check which
inscriptions are in their local museums, search for Latin words,
assemble references to specific military occupations, for example. All
of this is made possible by the generous support of the European
Research Council (project LatinNow, grant number 715626) and
epigraphers, archaeologists and institutions across the country
(especially MOLA, the Vindolanda Trust, the Centre for the Study of
Roman Documents (Oxford), the British Museum, the Society for the
Promotion of Roman Studies).
RIB Online is part of the ERC research project LatinNow
(https://latinnow.eu/), based at the University of Nottingham.
RIB Online is freely accessible at https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/.
Scott Vanderbilt (RIB Online and LatinNow), Alex Mullen (PI, LatinNow)
Recently published:
“Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta”, edizione, traduzione e commento di C. Ampolo e D. Erdas, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2019, ISBN 978-88-7642-665-0
The volume offers the critical edition of the Greek and Latin inscriptions of ancient Segesta, in their historical and archaeological context, with a commentary, a translation, images and plates. It includes 54 already known and new inscriptions and an appendix of 6 epigraphic texts concerning Segesta and its history. Many among them resulted from the excavations of the Scuola Normale in the Segestan agora. The entire corpus allows us to approach in a new manner the Hellenistic and Roman polis, its history, institutions, town planning and, above all, the ancient Segestans, also offering a contribution to the knowledge of ancient Sicily and beyond.
News from Mireille Corbier:
Mireille Corbier (corbier@msh-paris.fr), directeur de L’Année épigraphique, fait savoir que L’Année épigraphique 2016 (2036 notices et 1206 pages dont 214 pages d’index) a été publiée en août 2019 et est disponible. Les commandes doivent être adressées aux Presses Universitaires de France (revues@humensis.com).
Mireille Corbier (corbier@msh-paris.fr), director of L’Année épigraphique, announces that L’Année épigraphique 2016 (containing 2036 entries, and 1206 pages, including 214 pages of index) was published in August, 2019, and is now available. Orders should be sent to Presses Universitaires de France at revues@humensis.com
Lemnos, September 11-15, 2019
Full programme here.
Programme for the forthcoming conference (posted by Michael Becker):
Camina Latina Epigraphica, 4.-6. September 2019 is a “Themenkonferenz zum Akademienprogramm” of the German Union of the Academies of Science.
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Unter den Linden 8 · 10117 Berlin
Konferenzraum 07W04Mittwoch 4.9.2019
15.30–16.15 Begrüßung
Marietta Horster (BBAW, CIL), Peter Kruschwitz (Univ. Reading), Silvia Orlandi (AIEGL, Rom)
Christian Traditions and Innovations: Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (1)
16.15–17.00 Intertextuelles aus der Metallwerkstatt. Zur Verbreitung metrischer Inschriften auf Objekten der Schatzkunst (9.–13. Jahrhundert)
Clemens M.M. Bayer (Bonn / Lüttich)
17.00–17.45 Versinschriften der Frühen Neuzeit im Corpus „Deutsche Inschriften“ – Rückbesinnung auf antike Formen?
Christine Wulf, Katharina Kagerer (Göttingen)
18.15–19.15 Keynote: Carolingian Epigrams
Cécile Treffort (Poitiers)
ab 19.30 Empfang (Foyer Unter den Linden 8)Donnerstag 5.9.2019
Christian Traditions and Innovations: Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (2)
09.30–10.15 The epigraphic impact of the death of children as represented in the Christian CLE
Maria Teresa Muñoz García de Iturrospe (Leioa)
10.15–11.00 Concerning Fuchs 13: a case study on the characteristics of very late carmina Latina epigraphica from Trier (Augusta Treverorum)
Victoria González Berdús (Sevilla)
11.30–12.15 CLE cristianos en San Lorenzo extramuros (Roma)
María Limón Belén (Sevilla), Javier del Hoyo Calleja (Madrid)
12.15–13.00 A Saint’s Life?: Une nouvelle approche pour le CLE 1356.
Alberto Bolaños Herrera (Sevilla)
North African Cities
14.30–15.30 CLEAfr.: sui vari supplementi, con ulteriori recenti aggiornamenti da Cirta, Simitthus e Thignica
Antonio Corda (Cagliari), Attilio Mastino (Sassari), Paola Ruggeri (Sassari)
15.30–16.00 Pause
16.00–16.45 Unique women in Roman Africa. A case study of Urbanilla (CLE 516)
Concepción Fernández Martínez (Sevilla)
16.45–17.30 Hidden data: recording the metrical errors of the carmina epigraphica into a linguistic database
Nóra Paulus (Budapest)
17.30–18.15 Luxurius und die epigraphische Tradition der Proconsularis
Manfred G. Schmidt (Berlin)Freitag 6.9.2019
Latinitas in the Balkans and the Danube Region
09.15–10.00 Constantius heros – Some notes on CLE 1335 and Pannonia
Petér Kovács (Budapest)
10.00–10.45 Honourands in the Carmina Epigraphica Pannoniae: An Investigation into Local Traditions
Fehér Bence (Budapest)
11.15–12.00 Gli epitaffi metrici (o affettivi) per/di militari tra la Dalmazia e il Danubio
Matteo Massaro (Bari)Italian Carmina, a fresh look and new data
13.30–14.15 Iscrizioni metriche latine da Capua
Cristina Pepe (Caserta)
14.15–15.00 Idem et tibi dii faciant – Versuch einer Ergänzung zu H. Thylander, Inscriptions du port ‘Ostie, A 282
Ekkehard Weber (Wien)
15.00–15.30 Abschlussdiskussionhttps://cil.bbaw.de/
horster@bbaw.de; ehmig@bbaw.de
Dear colleagues,
We invite contributions to a panel proposal to be submitted for consideration for the Classical Association Conference 2020 (Swansea, 17–20 April).
Regional Epigraphic Cultures across the Ancient Globe
Panel convenors: Ilaria Bultrighini and Irene Salvo
Deadline for abstracts: 7 August 2019
Inscriptions can be defined as a wide range of text-bearing objects, rock surfaces, and monuments, and are invaluable sources for our understanding of ancient socio-cultural history. According to their provenance, inscriptions can show peculiarities in their linguistic and material characteristics. “Epigraphic habits” are the result of the combination of local identities with the plurality of exchanges within as well as between different ancient macro- and micro-regions of the ancient world. Moreover, epigraphic practices could travel from and to geographically distant regions.
This panel aims to explore patterns of regionalism, interconnections, and variability in the epigraphic production of the strongly interrelated ancient world across the Mediterranean, Europe, and southwestern Asia. We are interested in inscriptions written in Greek and Latin as well as in other Indo-European and Semitic languages, without excluding language isolates such as Etruscan.
We are seeking papers that engage with the following themes as emerging from the analysis of inscriptions from the Eurasiatic region within a broad chronological framework ranging from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity:
· Regional features;
· Bilingualism and multilingualism;
· Processes of cultural influence;
· Cultural interactions;
· Continuity of local identities and traditions in areas where a conquering culture comes in, e.g. during the Roman Empire;
· Institutional aspects;
· Contextualised religious mentalities;
· Pluralism in expressions of material cultures.
Papers dealing with “off-the-beaten path” and peripheral regions, such as Eastern Europe and the Caucasian region, are particularly welcome.
We invite PhD students, early career researchers, and established academics to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers by Wednesday, 7 August 2019 to Ilaria Bultrighini (i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk) and Irene Salvo (isalvo@uni-goettingen.de).
If the panel will be approved by the Classical Association organising committee, we plan to apply for funding in order to provide financial support to PhD students and ECR with their conference expenses.
With best wishes,
Ilaria Bultrighini (ICS, London)
PROGRAMME
20 JUNIO
9:00 Inauguración del Congreso
9:20 Manuel Ramírez Sánchez (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria):
“El oficio de epigrafista hoy: competencias básicas y avanzadas en epigrafía digital”.
9:40 Silvia Orlandi (Sapienza Università di Roma):
“Digital projects in epigraphy: research needs, technical possibilities and funding problems”.
10:00 Javier Andreu Pintado (Universidad de Navarra):
“Vinum uetus in utres nouos: experiencias investigadoras y de mediación en materia de epigrafía digital”.
10:20 Cristina de la Escosura Balbás (Universidad de Zaragoza):
“Innovación docente y epigrafía digital: un caso de estudio”.
10:40 Rosario Cebrián Fernández (Universidad Complutense):
“El papel de la epigrafía en la divulgación arqueológica”.
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