New Books on Epigraphy and History of Ancient South Arabia

Recent publications by Mounir Arbach and Irene Rossi in the Arabia Antica series provide new contributions to the study of Ancient South Arabian history and epigraphy:

 

The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th–6th centuries BCE)

M. Arbach & I. Rossi. 3 vols., 2022, pp. 242 + 500 + 144, Arabia Antica 17, Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider

Volume I presents a historical synthesis; Volume II gathers the corpus of inscriptions, providing a philological edition; Volume III provides an index of lexical and onomastic items from the texts.

 

An Onomastic Index of the Minaic Inscriptions (6th–1st centuries BCE)

M. Arbach & I. Rossi, 2024, 218 pp., Arabia Antica 18, Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider

An updated and systematic index of names attested in the corpus of Minaic inscriptions, offering a key resource for researchers working on Ancient South Arabian – and more broadly Semitic – onomastics and epigraphy.

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Text, Medium, and Layout

Friday, 11 April 2025, 4 p.m. CET (and online), SALA STEMMI, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo della Carovana, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 PISA

Launch of the volume:

D. Amendola,, C.Carusi, F. Maltomini, E. Rosamilia, TEXT, LAYOUT, AND MEDIUM: Documents from the Greco-Roman World between Epigraphy and Papyrology, Firenze 2024

Introduction by:

Stefania De Vido – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia e Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica

Anna Magnetto – Scuola Normale Superiore

Fabrizio Oppedisano – Scuola Normale Superiore

Remarks by:

Lucia Criscuolo – Alma Mater Università di Bologna

Michele Faraguna – Università di Milano Statale

The editors will be present:

Davide Amendola – Scuola Superiore Meridionale

Cristina Carusi – Università degli Studi di Parma

Francesca Maltomini – Università degli Studi di Firenze

Emilio Rosamilia – Università degli Studi di Perugia

More information at: https://www.sns.it/it/evento/text-layout-and-medium

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First issue of Athīrat: Journal of Ancient Arabia

The inaugural issue of Athīrat: Journal of Ancient Arabia has just been published, under the title “Cultural and Epigraphic Studies on Pre-Islamic Arabia”.

Athīrat is a newly launched, double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Ancient Arabia. It is published by the Hassan bin Mohammed Center for Historical Studies (HBMHC) in collaboration with Brill, and welcomes contributions in fields such as epigraphy, archaeology, linguistics, and history across the Arabian Peninsula.

For full contents, see here.

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Epigraphy.info Workshop IX, Aarhus (2-4/4/25): Final Programme and Registration

The final programme of the 9th Epigraphy.info Workshop, which will take place in Aarhus from April 2nd to 4th 2025, is now online and available here.

Below the programme, you will find a registration form which you need to fill in if you would like to participate.

If you would like to be updated via our mailing list, feel free to join us as a member! The Communication Working Group of Epigraphy.info will organise an online meet-up event a few weeks before the workshop. This virtual event is dedicated especially to new members and people interested in participating to the workshop and/or joining the community.

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CfP: Epigraphy and Mobility (Coimbra, 15-18 July 2025)

CfP: Epigraphy and Mobility: Understanding Patterns of Identity and Migration through Inscriptions in Ancient Societies
at the 16th Celtic Conference in Classics (15-18 July 2025, University of Coimbra)

We welcome submissions from scholars at every career stage by Thursday, 20 February 2025.

Template to submit your abstract is available here: https://www.uc.pt/cech/16-ccc/calls/call-for-papers/

The epigraphic medium represents a source of direct information on issues of mobility and migration in the ancient world. Inscriptions are indeed a well attested mode of communication through a wide geographical and chronologic range, providing us with a privileged viewpoint on the interaction between different writing cultures. The issues of mobility that will be explored in the proposed panel entail the circulation of individual, or groups of individuals, and of material and immaterial goods either within the same community, or across different communities and countries, for economic, social, cultural, gendered, political and religious reasons. In this scenario, private and public inscriptions, both in prose and in verses, provide a window into modes of representation and self-representation of the actors involved in dynamics of connection and transition in antiquity.

This panel welcomes attempts to investigate these dynamics in inscriptions from the Greek and Roman worlds, including provinces and colonies, in the Near East and in traditionally marginalized geographical contexts. Phenomena of mobility that shed light on cultural contacts between Greek – Roman communities and indigenous cultures will be also addressed and examined. Ethnographic and gender perspectives are among the possible angles through which inscriptions can inform our understanding of ancient processes of integration, mobility and exchange. Possible approaches to the themes of the panel include new methodologies (e.g., cognitive humanities, data mining, geospatial technologies, including GIS applications and web mapping, social network analysis) alongside more traditional historical, prosopographical and textual analysis approaches.

Extended version of this call is available at https://www.uc.pt/site/assets/files/1937571/16ccc_cfpapers_epigraphy_and_mobility-understanding_patterns_of_identity_and_migration_through_inscriptions_in_ancient_socie.pdf

Please send a title and an abstract of 300 words, along with a brief scholarly biography, to Federica Scicolone (f.scicolone@ssmeridionale.it) and Roberto Melfi (robertodomenico.melfi@unina.it) by Thursday, 20 February 2025.

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Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros (June 22 – July 5, 2025)

The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands:
Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros
June 22 – July 5, 2025

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 be taught by world experts in the field and to become familiar with the nature of epigraphic documents. They 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.

More about the program: https://www.herc.gr/the-epigraphy-of-the-aegean-islands-paros/

The Hellenic Education & Research Center (HERC) was established in 2006 and is dedicated to the promotion of Hellenic Studies with an emphasis on the Classics.
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Lucia Criscuolo, Egitto ellenistico e altri scritti di storia, economia, istituzioni

Today, in Bologna, aula II via Zamboni 38 and online (17.30 CET)

Michele Faraguna, Alessandro Cristofori, and Carla Salvaterra will present and discuss the book:

Lucia Criscuolo, Egitto ellenistico e altri scritti di storia, economia, istituzioni, a cura di A. Bencivenni, M.E. De Luna, M. Mari, F. Reiter, Berlin-Boston : De Gruyter  2023 [DOI: 10.1515/9783111354262].

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LatinNOW publications

Alex Mullen’s LatinNow project (Latinization of the north-western Roman provinces: sociolinguistics, epigraphy and archaeology) have now produced three edited volumes of work on Latinization, literacy and multilingualism, all open access (and in print from OUP):

Alex adds:

The accompanying data for the newest volume can be found at https://gis.latinnow.eu/. We’d like to thank Scott Vanderbilt for his invaluable post-project work on the data for the GIS, which has been very much appreciated.

These and the other books and digital publications of the LatinNOW project are discussed in more detail at https://latinnow.eu/2023/12/05/latinnow-books/.

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Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca 2025 (SAEG IX) – Programma

È stato pubblicato il programma definitivo del SAEG IX, che si svolgerà a Roma dall’8 al 10 gennaio 2025.

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CARMEN Newsletter November 2024

The CARMEN project (Communal Art – Reconceptualising Metrical Epigraphy Network), a Horizon 2020 International Training Network, that has delivered several major workshops and seven successful PhD theses, have shared a newsletter with updates on their final year.

The CARMEN project is nearing its conclusion. It has provided a valuable opportunity for experienced colleagues, the supervisors, and the Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) to engage in professional networking. The majority of participants were able to adhere to the guidelines set forth by the European funder, providing support for the project at the conclusion of the three-year contract period. This posed a significant challenge, as the majority of participants had no prior experience working on the Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Through the training programmes, they were able to gain expertise in non-book epigraphy, which involved fieldwork, contextualising the texts within their original discovery and installation contexts.

Full newsletter at <https://carmen-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JGU_Carmen_News_5.pdf>

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ENCODING METRICAL INSCRIPTIONS

Workshop – Foggia, 14-15 Novembre

For the program and Zoom link, see Encoding Metrical Inscriptions Workshop, Foggia 14-15 Novembre.

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Appel à candidatures: aide à mobilité, CESCM Poitiers 2025

Dans le cadre de la « Maison de l’épigraphie » au Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM, Université de Poitiers/CNRS, UMR 7302) de Poitiers, un appel à candidatures pour des aides à mobilité 2025 est ouvert (dépôt des candidatures jusqu’au 20 décembre 2024 inclus).

Cette aide à mobilité s’adresse aux doctorants et post-doctorants en histoire, histoire de l’art, archéologie, philologie ou littérature médiévale, d’universités françaises ou étrangères …. more

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