Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-21 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would … Continue reading →

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Provincial identity conference, Seville, May 8-10, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Announced via email from AIEGL: Congreso: “La construcción de una identidad provincial. La experiencia hispana” (Sevilla, 8 al 10 de mayo de 2008) Speakers Include: A. Caballos; P. LeRoux; F. Pini Polo; M. Navarro Caballero; S. Lefebvre; S. Marcos; F. … Continue reading →

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Epigraphy Training, York, June 24-26, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-19 by Gabriel Bodard

Practical Epigraphy Workshop 24-26th June 2008 Yorkshire Museum, York The British Epigraphy Society is pleased to announce a second Practical Epigraphy Workshop in York for those interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material. With expert tuition, participants … Continue reading →

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Ancient Graffiti in Context (call for papers)

Posted on 2008-04-16 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for Papers: Ancient Graffiti in Context Workshop: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester November 8, 2008 This workshop will examine the spatial and social context of graffiti in the Greek and Roman worlds. Graffiti has been … Continue reading →

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Seminar: Onno van Nijf, Liverpool

Posted on 2008-04-12 by Gabriel Bodard

Epigraphy North, Tuesday 15th April 2008, 5.30 pm Professor Onno Van Nijf ‘Public space and political culture in Roman Termessos’ Bosanquet Seminar Room, 12-14 Abercromby Square, The University of Liverpool The Epigraphy North series is suitable also for students wishing … Continue reading →

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BES Spring meeting, Durham

Posted on 2008-04-12 by Gabriel Bodard

British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting, Saturday 3 May 2008 Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham Religion and politics in Greek and Roman epigraphy in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean Main speakers & topics include: Professor P.J. … Continue reading →

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Mouritsen: Quantifying Roman manumission using epigraphic evidence

Posted on 2008-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Henrik Mouritsen has sent me a summary of his paper given at the Cambridge Epigraphy Day in February, which I post below: Henrik Mouritsen (King’s College London) discussed the possibility of quantifying Roman manumission using epigraphic evidence. While acknowledging that … Continue reading →

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BMCR review of SEG 52 (2002)

Posted on 2008-03-07 by Gabriel Bodard

In BMCR 2008.03.10 there is a short review by Georges Rougemont of SEG 2002 (published last year): A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume 52 (2002). Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 905. ISBN 90-04-15508-2. €168.00 … Continue reading →

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BMCR epigraphic titles available (February 2008)

Posted on 2008-03-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Some titles of possible interest to epigraphers available for review, exerpted from BMCR 2008.03.01: Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested … Continue reading →

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Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions online

Posted on 2008-03-02 by Gabriel Bodard

As announced via AIEGL, a preliminary version of Henry Immerwahr’s Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions has been made available online as a downloadable PDF. In a preface to this version, Immerwahr states: This corpus is simply a collection of notes … Continue reading →

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Michael Crawford: Language, geography, and economy in early Italy

Posted on 2008-02-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Epigraphic Saturday, Cambridge, February 16th, 2008. 15:30. Crawford presented some observations based on his research over the past six of compiling the Imagines Italicae corpus of Oscan, Umbrian, and Picene inscriptions. He began with the observation that while Roman colonies, … Continue reading →

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Thomas Corsten: some inscriptions from Kibyra and Olbasa

Posted on 2008-02-16 by Gabriel Bodard

Epigraphic Saturday, Cambridge, February 16th, 2008. 14:15. Corsten presented two inscriptions in this session, both of which he has only begun to work on and are not yet completely interpreted. The first is a fragment (six incomplete lines) of a … Continue reading →

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