Author Archives: Tom Elliott

About Tom Elliott

Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

Epigraphy at APA/AIA 2008

Posted on 2008-01-03 by Tom Elliott

UPDATE: added links to all the abstracts I could find The following sessions at the joint annual meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America look epigraphical: Friday, 4 January Concrete Text: Epigraphy, Elegy, and Poetic … Continue reading →

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ZPE 161 in press

Posted on 2007-12-17 by Tom Elliott

Over at What’s New in Papyrology, Gregg Schwendner noted that Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrafik 161 is now in press, and he provides: ZPE 161 Table of Contents in PDF from the ZPE website ZPE 161 Table of Contents in … Continue reading →

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CIEGL Visual Aids: Advice to Speakers

Posted on 2007-08-22 by Tom Elliott

The organizers of the 13th Epigraphic Congress, to be held 2-7 September in Oxford, have promulgated the following essential information for presenters (digested from an email): Visual materials may be displayed during presentation either via a PowerPoint presentation or transparencies … Continue reading →

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Help us blog CIEGL 2007

Posted on 2007-08-22 by Tom Elliott

The 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy is just over a week away! If you plan to attend the congress in Oxford, the editors of CEp request your help in sharing the event with colleagues who cannot attend, … Continue reading →

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Reflections on an epitaph (CIL I² 1211 = ILS 8403)

Posted on 2007-07-19 by Tom Elliott

Sandrómaca, writing on the Miscellaena Classica blog, provides a text of, and offers some personal reflections on CIL I² 1211 (= ILS 8403), the epitaph of a Roman matron of the second century AD. Noted by way of Antiquitatis Nuntii. … Continue reading →

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BMCR Reviews of Interest

Posted on 2007-07-16 by Tom Elliott

Sara Saba reviews (BMCR 2007.07.27) Katja Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies: City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic World, Studia Hellenistica 43, Leuven: Peeters, 2006, ISBN: 9789042917095 (WorldCat Record; NB: BMCR prints an erroneous ISBN). Ruth Scodel reviews (BMCR … Continue reading →

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An Old Persian text in the Persepolis Fortification Archive

Posted on 2007-06-18 by Tom Elliott

Chuck Jones writes: For the first time, a text has been found in Old Persian language that shows the written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display. The text is inscribed on a damaged clay … Continue reading →

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Call for contributions: workshops and conferences

Posted on 2007-06-14 by Tom Elliott

Recently, we’ve posted announcements and programs for several interesting colloquia and lectures, including: Athletes and Artists in Naples (29 June 2007) Public opinion and forms of communication at Rome (21-23 June 2007) Roman epigraphy in Sardinia (14-15 July 2007) Only … Continue reading →

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New Acquisitions: ASCSA/BSA May 2007

Posted on 2007-06-12 by Tom Elliott

The Ambrosia Union Catalog of the libraries of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the British School at Athens facilitates searches for recently acquired works of interest. The following list (for May 2007) was assembled from the … Continue reading →

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The Culture of Water in Roman Baetica

Posted on 2007-06-12 by Tom Elliott

A post at Noticias de Historia Antigua alerted us to Amalia Rodríguez’s piece, “La Cultura del agua en la Bética Romana” (Anadlucía Investiga, 11 June 2007), which details the newly funded cartographic and epigraphic study: Researchers in the Ancient History … Continue reading →

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Letters of Hadrian to the Dionysian Artists at Alexandreia Troas

Posted on 2007-06-11 by Tom Elliott

A post to Rogue Classicism put us on the trail of the following: three new letters of the emperor Hadrian to the association of Dionysiac artists have been published recently: G. Petzl and E. Schwertheim, Hadrian und die dionysischen Künstler. … Continue reading →

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Job and Phd studentship at Oxford

Posted on 2007-06-08 by Tom Elliott

Noted via a post by Melissa Terras to the Digital Classicist list: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured … Continue reading →

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