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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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Call for report: The Documents in the Attic Orators and Greek Epigraphy

Posted on 2008-03-06 by Tom Elliott

According to a notice on the American School of Classical Studies in Athens’ website, the Upper House seminar on 17 April will be delivered by Edward Harris on the subject “The Documents in the Attic Orators and Greek Epigraphy.” The … Continue reading →

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Presentation: Epigraphic Interoperability

Posted on 2008-03-05 by Valentina Asciutti

Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (https://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk). First International Workshop. British School at Rome, 28-29 February 2008. Charlotte Tupman and Gabriel Bodard: Epigraphic Interoperability On the occasion of the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica Workshop on geospacial data and interoperability, held in Rome … Continue reading →

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Werner Eck: New perspectives on Hadrian and the Bar Kokhba revolt

Posted on 2008-02-19 by Ben Keim

Epigraphic Saturday, Cambridge, February 16th, 2008. 10.30. Werner Eck began the day by extending his earlier arguments on the nature and extent of the Bar Kokhba revolt (see ‘The bar Kokhba Revolt: The Roman Point of View’, in JRS [1999] … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Thompson: Not Alexander:an inscription from Hello!

Posted on 2008-02-19 by Valentina Asciutti

Epigraphic Saturday, Cambridge, February 16th, 2008. Dorothy Thompson gave a witty and intriguing paper about the history of two Greek inscriptions found in 1995 in Al-Maroqui, in the far west of the oasis of Siwa. The two inscriptions, originally believed … 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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Cambridge Epigraphic Saturday lineup

Posted on 2008-02-13 by Gabriel Bodard

This coming Saturday, February 16th, 2008, Joyce Reynolds is organising an epigraphic seminar at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, starting at 1030 sharp. Werner Eck: New perspectives on Hadrian and the Bar Kochba revolt Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado: a … Continue reading →

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Teaching Languages with Inscriptions

Posted on 2008-02-09 by Gabriel Bodard

At a teaching and learning training day for new lecturers run by the Higher Education Academy’s Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology (26th February 2008, Birkbeck College, London; see PDF poster), is listed a break-out session on ‘Teaching Languages … Continue reading →

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CFP last chance: The Publication and Study of Inscriptions in the Age of the Computer

Posted on 2008-01-16 by Tom Elliott

A reminder that proposals for papers to be included in the following panel are due 1 February 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 ASGLE Joint AIA/APA Panel Philadelphia, PA, January 8-11 2009 The Publication and Study of Inscriptions in the Age … Continue reading →

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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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Paris, 14-15 décembre 2007: Mouvements et Trajectoires dans les nécropole d’Italie

Posted on 2007-12-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Mouvements et Trajectoires dans les nécropoles d’Italie d’époque pré-républicaine et républicaine 14 et 15 décembre 2007, ENS, 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris Full programme.

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