Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands (Paros, June 23–July 6, 2024)

This course aims at introducing the participants to the study of Greek inscriptions from the Archaic Period to the Roman times with an emphasis on the inscriptions of the Aegean Islands.

Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with the nature of epigraphic documents, will be introduced to the expertise required in the field of Greek epigraphy and will understand how inscriptions are invaluable documents for the knowledge of Ancient History. The course will have a strong on-site element as the students will be asked to study and copy the stones that record ancient Greek inscriptions. A prior knowledge of Ancient Greek is strongly recommended.

The program will start on the island of Paros where classes will take place both at the archaeological museum of Paros, on site outdoors and in the classroom. A day trip to Antiparos and Despotiko is scheduled. Throughout the program, students will have the opportunity to swim in the blue waters of the Aegean Sea and engage in constructive recreation.

From Paros we shall all travel as a group by ferry boat and the program will continue and end with a four day stay in Athens, where the students will pay visits with expert guidance to the Epigraphical Museum of Athens which houses the largest collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions worldwide. In Athens, students will also have time to explore the city and visit archaeological sites on their own.

Application: https://www.herc.gr/the-epigraphy-of-the-aegean-islands-paros/

Application Deadline: 30 April 2024

Experience Required: None, but preference will be given to those with a background in the Classics and Ancient History/Archaeology

Academic Credit: Upon completion of the program, HERC issues an Academic Transcript for those students who have taken a final exam. Credit is offered by participant’s home institution.

Recommended credits: 4

Program Fee: 2,500 Euros (includes tuition, accommodation and field trips)

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Registration and programme of the VIII. Epigraphy.info Workshop, Berlin 3.-5. April 2024

Dear colleagues and friends of digital epigraphy,

The programme of the next Epigraphy.info VIII workshop in Berlin (3-5 April 2024) is officially published and registration is open until 25 March 2024.

You can access the programme here or on the workshop’s website (https://epigraphy.info/workshop_8/). Some parts of the programme can be attended in a hybrid format, but registration is necessary. Due to limited seats for the Hands-on sessions, we recommend that all participants register as soon as possible. You can register through a form linked to the workshop website.

During the Berlin workshop, the election of new members for the Steering Committee will take place and the location for the next workshop will be decided. If you would like to candidate as a member of the Steering Committee or if you would like to host the next Epigraphy.info workshop, please, send your application to info@epigraphy.info.

If you would like to know more about the Epigraphy.info community before the workshop, you can join an orientation meet-up event on 26 March 2024, where you will get a chance to learn what Epigraphy.info is about, to familiarize yourself with the community, its activities, and how you can participate and contribute. We encourage you to participate and ask any questions you may have! Additionally, if you have specific questions or topics you’d like us to cover, please feel free to share them with us in advance at socialmedia@epigraphy.info.

Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Time: 17:00 CET (Central European Time)

Zoom Link:  https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63005807433?pwd=b0t6UmJIcXEzTi9xaFZvbzZaazVJdz09

For any further questions, please, write to the Steering Committee at info@epigraphy.info

We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

The Steering Committee

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Nono Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca

Dal’8 al 10 gennaio 2025 si terrà la nona edizione del Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG IX), che da quindici anni costituisce per la comunità scientifica degli antichisti un’importante occasione di comunicazione, dialogo e confronto sui temi dell’epigrafia greca. Negli anni il SAEG ha segnato significativamente gli studi epigrafici italiani, contribuendo a creare un clima di lavoro vivace, propenso al confronto e aperto al dialogo, sempre volto a una prospettiva di crescita comune, sulla scorta dell’esempio di quelle studiose (T. Alfieri, C. Antonetti, L. Criscuolo, E. Culasso, E. Miranda) che per prime hanno ideato e organizzato il Seminario e che ancora lo animano. Dopo le prime due edizioni tenute all’Università di Bologna, i successivi convegni del SAEG sono stati organizzati dalle sedi universitarie di Napoli, Milano, Torino, Venezia, Roma-Sapienza e Perugia, con un ampio sforzo organizzativo che ha visto la presentazione di 263 relazioni per un totale di 23 giorni di convegno.

Nel 2025 sarà l’Università di Roma Tre a curare l’organizzazione del SAEG IX. Come da tradizione, il principale intendimento è di lasciare ampio spazio alla presentazione delle ricerche di studiose e studiosi in formazione; tuttavia, il nostro auspicio è che, accanto ai loro interventi, le relazioni di ricercatrici e ricercatori di più lunga esperienza creino quel connubio di competenze e prospettive che da sempre ha positivamente animato questi Seminari.

Chi voglia proporre una relazione da presentare al SAEG IX, su un qualunque aspetto inerente all’epigrafia greca dalle origini fino alla tarda antichità, può inviare entro il 15 giugno 2024 la propria candidatura all’indirizzo saeg2025@uniroma3.it, contenente:

  • il titolo dell’intervento;
  • un abstract di massimo 250 parole;
  • un brevissimo CV.

Le richieste verranno sottoposte a valutazione da parte degli organizzatori. La durata di ciascuna relazione sarà di 20 minuti. In base alla quantità di candidature ricevute, si valuterà la possibilità di aprire anche una sezione poster, nel qual caso sarà diramata una circolare dedicata.

Seguiranno comunicazioni ulteriori e dettagliate circa le sedi di svolgimento del convegno e il programma definitivo. Inoltre, è già disponibile la pagina web www.officina-igxiv2.org/saeg-ix-2025 che contiene tutte le informazioni aggiornate relative al convegno a alla quale si potrà fare costante riferimento.

 

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Epigraphy.info Orientation Meet Up Event

To all the digital epigraphers who are new members or interested, but not (yet) members of the Epigraphy.info community,

As mentioned in our previous communication, we are excited to announce the date for our upcoming Epigraphy.info Orientation Meet-up Event.

Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Time: 17:00 CET (Central European Time)

Zoom Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63005807433?pwd=b0t6UmJIcXEzTi9xaFZvbzZaazVJdz09

 

This online orientation meet-up event will provide you with an opportunity to get to know what Epigraphy.info is about, to familiarize yourself with the community, its activities, and how you can participate and contribute. We encourage you to participate and ask any questions you may have!

During the event, we will address general inquiries about Epigraphy.info, discuss ongoing community projects (e.g. the upcoming VIII. Epigraphy.info Workshop), and brainstorm potential future activities and events.

Additionally, if you have specific questions or topics you’d like us to cover, please feel free to share them with us in advance at socialmedia@epigraphy.info.

We believe this orientation session will serve as a valuable introduction to Epigraphy.info and facilitate your integration into our community.

This event is open to those who are interested in becoming part of our community in the near future as well.

Should you have any further questions or require assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Warm regards,

The Social Media Working Group of Epigraphy.info

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L’épigraphie de Gaule Belgique – Journée d’étude – Metz – 12 Mars 2024

A study day on the current state of research and on the desiderata of epigraphy of Gallia Belgica – programme-journee-epigraphie

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Cutting Edge Epigraphy: Squeeze and Rubbing Techniques

The Cutting Edge: discussions in epigraphy

Squeeze and Rubbing Techniques: Making impressions of inscriptions on paper

28 February 2024, 15:00–16:30.
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London.

Led by Gabriel Bodard, Abigail Graham, Benet Salway.

This seminar explores methods for creating accurate records of inscribed surfaces in paper, that are lightweight and portable yet relatively durable. In some cases these records, the result of direct sensory engagement with an inscription, can provide advantages and insights over photographs or autopsy in reading an inscribed text. The bulk of the session involves hands-on experience making squeezes (pressing wet filter paper onto the surface of the stone using a firm brush to create a 3D impression) and rubbings (an image created by rubbing a rendering material over thin paper placed on the surface). We will also discuss the relative advantages of these and other methods, including digital 3D imaging.

Free but booking essential.

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Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2024 Cirencester

Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2024: Corinium Museum, Cirencester, 18-20 June

With the help of expert guidance, participants will gain direct experience of the practical elements of how to record and study inscriptions in museums or in the field (the making of squeezes; imaging and measuring inscribed stones; and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries).  The workshop is aimed primarily at undergraduates who will be entering their third and / or final year of study next September and at graduates in any year, though we will consider applications from others who wish to develop hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material (those in full-time permanent employment may be asked to meet the full cost of participation: please ask for details).  The workshop is open to those with or without previous epigraphic training and participants may choose to work on texts in either Latin or Greek.  The course fee for student participants will be £120 for this three-day event including accommodation on Tuesday and Wednesday nights for those not based in Oxford and food for all participants from lunch on Tuesday to lunch on Thursday.

Closing date for applications and receipt of references: 12.00 on Friday 16 February 2024

Further information is available here:

https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/article/the-call-for-applications-for-the-practical-epigraphy-workshop-2024-is-open.

and the Application Form here:

https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/csad/documents/media/practicalepigraphyworkshop_2024_ad_0.pdf

Please direct all enquiries to Peter Haarer (see Application Form for address)

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New resource: A tale of two wives (and four husbands?): the story of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome

From a recent blog post on the MAPPOLA webpage: There is a new short documentary film which tells the stories of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome as told by two verse inscriptions (in Latin and Greek) preserved at the Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome).

These women, Allia Potestas and Flavia Sophe, though in very different ways, seemingly embraced unconventional marriages and had unconventional relationships, the details of which remain mysterious for us.

The film has been written by Dr Davide Massimo (Classics and Archaeology – University of Nottingham), Dr Chiara Cenati and Mirko Tasso (Ancient History – University of Vienna), who feature in the film. It was directed by Federico Zanotti with the assistance of Daniele Comelli.

The film was funded by the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna and supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture – Museo Nazionale Romano, the University of Nottingham, and the British School at Rome.

It was officially released on the Youtube channel of the University of Nottingham in December 2023.

We really hope that you will enjoy this short film  and that you will share your opinion with us by leaving a comment on Youtube.

If you are a teacher or if you work in a museum, we would also be particularly grateful if you could share with us your experience with your pupils or museum visitors by sending us an email (chiara.cenati@univie.ac.at or davide.massimo@nottingham.ac.uk).

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Invitation to conference ‘Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy.’

The ERC-funded project STONE-MASTERS would like to invite you to a conference titled “Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy.”More information and the programme can be found here.The conference can be followed on Zoom. Please register separately for each day of the conference:Day One: 30 November 2023Day Two: 1 December 2023

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Greek Epigraphy Postgraduate Course (Athens, March/April 2024)

(Posted on behalf of Georgios Mouratidis.)

The British School at Athens is delighted to invite applications for our Greek Epigraphy Postgraduate Course, that will take place 27 March – 5 April 2024 in Athens, Greece.

Application deadline is 8 December 2023.

The BSA Greek Epigraphy course provides training for historians, archaeologists and textual scholars in the discipline of reading and interpreting epigraphic evidence. The course will allow students to deepen their understanding of the value of epigraphic material to the study of Greek history, society and culture, and to develop practical epigraphic skills: students will be guided through the process of producing editions of inscriptions, gaining first-hand experience with the stones as well as instruction in editorial practice and bibliographic skills.

The course will be taught around the BSA’s own Museum collection, which contains a large range of inscribed objects (graffiti, stamps, instrumenta domestica, weights, and weapons) and will also utilise the most significant collections of stone inscriptions around Athens, in particular at the superb facilities of the Epigraphic Museum, where students will each be assigned a stone from which they will create their own epigraphic edition.

The course is directed by Peter Liddel (Manchester) and Polly Low (Durham), with additional lectures and tours offered by guest speakers. Some prior knowledge of Greek is essential, although students with only elementary skills are advised that reading inscriptions is a very good way to advance in the language!

Applicants should make sure that two references are sent to the assistant director at assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk by the application deadline (8 December 2023), with the subject ‘Epigraphy course reference’.

For more information about the course, visit https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/epigraphy/.

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New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy (SCS panel, 2025)

Society of Classical Studies 156th Annual Meeting

 JANUARY 2-5, 2025

PHILADELPHIA

Call for Papers for Joint Panel Sponsored by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and the American Society of Papyrologists

New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century

Organized by James Sickinger (Florida State University) and Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California)

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and the American Society of Papyrologists both represent disciplines that are unique for providing new primary sources for study of the ancient world. Both societies also wish to promote dialogues between these two fields, and we therefore jointly invite proposals for papers reflecting the ongoing contributions of papyrological and epigraphic material by addressing recently discovered epigraphic or papyrological texts, novel reinterpretations of older documents, or new methodological approaches to the study of epigraphic or papyrological texts (or both). Papers may address individual texts or groups of texts, as well as similarities or differences arising from the study of documents on different materials.

Papers should deploy evidence that is preserved either epigraphically (on stone, metal, or other durable material) or on papyri, ostraka, or wooden tablets (in Greek, Latin, Coptic, demotic Egyptian, Arabic, or other pertinent languages). Papers that engage with a combination of different materials (e.g., inscriptions and papyri) or take a comparative approach, as well as multi-authored papers pairing epigraphers and papyrologists, are also welcome.

Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) by email, as a Word or PDF e-mail attachment, to James Sickinger at jsicking [at] fsu [dot] edu or Christelle Fischer-Bovet at fischerb [at] usc [dot] edu by February 15, 2024. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words (excluding bibliography) and suitable for a 20- minute presentation. Ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizers will review all submissions anonymously, and their decision will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by mid-April, with enough time that those whose abstracts are not chosen can participate in the individual abstract submission process for the upcoming SCS meeting. Please note that authors submitting abstracts must be SCS members in good standing and will need to register for the 2025 meeting.

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Postgraduate Course in Epigraphy, Rome, June 27th–July 6th 2024

(Posted on behalf of Courtney Quaintance.)

We are delighted to announce the Sixth Postgraduate Course in Epigraphy at the British School at Rome, June 27th  – July 6th 2024

Based at the British School at Rome, this taught course offers a nine-day introduction to the scholarship, publication and display of epigraphic materials from a variety of different approaches. Intended for postgraduate scholars of ancient history, archaeology, museum studies and the classics, the course examines the numerous contexts in which epigraphy is presented: in situ, museums, private collections, archives and in published formats (e.g. reference works and online databases). How do these contexts and the processes of documenting inscriptions shape our lens of perception? Experiencing epigraphy, in these different formats, is the best way to understand and address both the wonders and the difficulties of these sources.

The course consists of daily lectures, visits and practical activities at many of Rome’s museums, institutions and sites (including a trip to Ostia), with onsite instruction from leading professors and curators in the field. Practical activities such as drawing, squeezes, rubbings, object handling, a carving tutorial and a session at the CIL VI. (La Sapienza) are designed to provide unique hands-on interactions with sources, contexts and scholars in the field. Participants will also have an opportunity to further their own research through an independent project (generally a specific area of his/her epigraphic research) which will be developed during the course and presented in a short paper at the end of the course. Residence at the BSR includes accommodation (breakfast and dinner with residents from the BSR community), access to their collections (with 24-hour access to the library), and a year’s membership to the BSR.

Testimonials, reports and itineraries from previous courses, as well as an information pack for the 2024 course with details of how to apply, can be found on the BSR website: https://bsr.ac.uk/research-practice-courses/.

Queries about the course can also be sent to: Abigail.graham@sas.ac.uk.

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