Saturday, 18 November 2023
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London (r. G37) – in person only
Programme
9.30-10.00
Registration & Coffee
10.00-10.30
Andrea Raggi (Pisa) & Pierangelo Buongiorno (Macerata), A new imperial letter from southern Etruria
10.30-11.00
Chiara Battisti (Princeton), The heroised dead and the hero cult in eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Local and regional perspectives
11.00-11.30
Jean-Sébastien Balzat (Mariemont), New epigraphic documents from Roman Sparta
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00-12.30
Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw), STONE-MASTERS: A new ERC-funded project exploring the world of stonecutters and mosaicists in Late Antiquity
12.30-13.00
Annie Burman (Uppsala), Epigraphy’s true colours: Polychromy and the development of laboratory analysis of paint pigment on paper squeezes
13.00 Lunch Break
14.30 AGM (Members only)
15.00-15.30
Federico Ugolini (Siena) & Deborah Cvikel (Haifa), Inscriptions from the timber of the Late Antique Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck
15.30-16.00
Alfredo Tosques (Tübingen), The inscription of Frentrani and Hercules Nouritanus at Lilybaeum (AE 2016, 622 = I.Sicily 4368)
16.00-16.30
Evelien de Graaf (Leuven), Saskia Peels-Matthey & Silvia Stopponi (Groningen), Potential and challenges of AGILe, the first automatic lemmatizer for ancient Greek inscriptions
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00-17.30
Marco Dosi (KCL), The dissemination of Belisarius’ consulship in Ostrogothic Italy, AD 535
17.30-18.00
James Hua (Oxford), Speleopigraphy: The spatiality of inscriptions in ancient Greek caves, ritual, and social identities
18.00-18.15 Short Report
Benet Salway (UCL), A puzzling epitaph from Cyrenaica
18.15 Finale: Posters & Drinks
Chiara Battisti (Princeton), The heroised dead and the hero cult in eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Local and regional perspectives
Jean-Sébastien Balzat (Mariemont), New epigraphic documents from Roman Sparta
Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw), STONE-MASTERS: A new ERC-funded project exploring the world of stonecutters and mosaicists in Late Antiquity
Annie Burman (Uppsala), Epigraphy’s true colours: Polychromy and the development of laboratory analysis of paint pigment on paper squeezes
Federico Ugolini (Siena) & Deborah Cvikel (Haifa), Inscriptions from the timber of the Late Antique Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck
Alfredo Tosques (Tübingen), The inscription of Frentrani and Hercules Nouritanus at Lilybaeum (AE 2016, 622 = I.Sicily 4368)
Evelien de Graaf (Leuven), Saskia Peels-Matthey & Silvia Stopponi (Groningen), Potential and challenges of AGILe, the first automatic lemmatizer for ancient Greek inscriptions
Marco Dosi (KCL), The dissemination of Belisarius’ consulship in Ostrogothic Italy, AD 535
James Hua (Oxford), Speleopigraphy: The spatiality of inscriptions in ancient Greek caves, ritual, and social identities
Benet Salway (UCL), A puzzling epitaph from Cyrenaica
- Charlotte Bell (Liverpool), Senātus Femina: A consideration of the epigraphic evidence for the female senate in Roman Britain
- Thijs Kersten (Nijmegen), Religion and language selection in funerary inscriptions from Roman Imperial Syracusae and Catina, 1-500 CE
- Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen), PPRET: Inscriptions pertaining to the Praetorian Prefects from 284 to 395 AD
Please register to attend the colloquium by emailing i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk by 13 November 2023.
There is a registration fee (£15 for ordinary participants; £10 for student participants; £8 for BES members; £5 for BES student members), which includes light refreshments during the day (tea, coffee & biscuits, but not lunch) and a glass of wine and nibbles at the end of the colloquium.
The Colloquium is generously supported by The Institute of Classical Studies.
