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

Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Tom Elliott

Silvia Orlandi has asked me to post notice of the following event: Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Epigrafia, informatica e ricerca storica L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Centro Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre” Via della Lungara, 10 – … Continue reading →

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A Census of Digital Epigraphy

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Tom Elliott

Dear colleagues and friends: (Apologies for cross-postings to lists. Please feel free to forward to colleagues, students and other discussion fora.) Please send me (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) information about digital projects, publications and computer-aided research in epigraphy. This information will be used … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the Columna rostrata

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Tom Elliott

Stephen Chrisomalis has posted on his blog Glossographia some thoughts on (and an image of) the “Elogium of Gaius Duilius” from Rome.

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A New Epigraphy Blog

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Tom Elliott

(reblogged from Ancient World Bloggers Group): Here’s a hearty welcome to the blogosphere for Marion Lamé, whose Épigraphie en réseau debuts with a post entitled “The Athenian Tribute Lists, A First Bibliography.” She describes the blog thus: Modeler l’informatique aux … Continue reading →

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Marcus Nonius Macrinus: the evidence

Posted on 2008-10-17 by Tom Elliott

Over at Bread and Circuses, Adrian Murdoch rounds up the (epigraphic) evidence for M. Nonius Macrinus, whose monumental tomb was recently discovered north of Rome and who supposedly inspired the main character in that Ridley Scott film from 8 years … Continue reading →

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Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence

Posted on 2008-10-02 by Tom Elliott

Charles Watkinson sends word of a new publication from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens: Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence, by Nora M. Dimitrova. 208 pp., 132 b/w figs (Hesperia Suppl. 37, ASCSA 2008) ISBN … Continue reading →

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D. Feissel in Athens: La fin de l’épigraphie latine dans l’Orient grec (29 September)

Posted on 2008-09-23 by Tom Elliott

Noted on the website of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens: La fin de l’épigraphie latine dans l’Orient grec: paléographie et chronologie September 29, 2008 18:00 École française d’Athènes, Salle de Conférences, Didotou 6, 106 80 Athènes SEMINAR … Continue reading →

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A slate fragment with Greek exercises(?) from the Foro della Statua Eroica at Ostia

Posted on 2008-09-18 by Tom Elliott

Among Richard Sadler’s latest additions to the Finds page on the Berlin-Kent Ostia Excavations Blog (18 September 2008), we find a fragment of a slate tablet, preserving 6 or more lines of incised Greek, to judge from the photo (I … Continue reading →

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A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria

Posted on 2008-09-17 by Tom Elliott

Wieland Willker, on his Textual Criticism bulletin board, has posted (and continues to update) pictures, comments and queries on an inscribed cup (rude pop-up advert there), allegedly excavated by Franck Goddio’s team from the harbor at Alexandria earlier this summer … Continue reading →

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On a seminar paper: violence and language on inscribed sling bullets

Posted on 2008-09-17 by Tom Elliott

On his blog Historical Archaeology in the Ancient Mediterranean, Brandon Olson has started writing about a paper he’s recently started working on in which he aims to: compare the glandes Perusinae with Greek examples to examine how each tradition used … Continue reading →

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An epigraphic fragment from the Foro della Statua Eroica at Ostia

Posted on 2008-09-12 by Tom Elliott

Axel Gering and Luke Lavan have just opened up access to the Finds section of their Berlin-Kent Ostia Excavations blog, where they are providing a chronicle of their team’s work-in-progress on “a square porticoed plaza on the main street in … Continue reading →

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More fragments from the Diogenes inscription at Oionanda?

Posted on 2008-08-25 by Tom Elliott

Via Mondo Archeologia Glaucopide alerts us to a terse news item from ANSA: In Licia iscrizioni II secolo dc (with obscure photo; here via Yahoo). It reports the discovery, by an unnamed “team of archaeologists” in Lycia, of 26 fragments … Continue reading →

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