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Babylonian month name in 6th century Greek inscription?

Posted on 2007-06-01 by Tom Elliott

In a post to the ANE-2 list, Chris Bennett is trying to get more information on a cryptic assertion made by a colleague; namely, that there exists “an inscription of the 6th century BC which gives a Babylonian month name … Continue reading →

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New Acquisitions: ASCSA/BSA April 2007

Posted on 2007-06-01 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 April 2007) was assembled from the … Continue reading →

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Keegan reviews Hasegawa’s Familia Urbana

Posted on 2007-05-30 by Tom Elliott

Recently in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review: BMCR 2007.05.37: Peter Keegan reviews Kinuko Hasegawa, The Familia Urbana during the Early Empire: A Study of Columbaria Inscriptions, BAR International Series 1440, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005, ISBN: 1841718769 (worldcat record for book).

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Unpublished Roman Graffiti in basement of US Embassy

Posted on 2007-05-30 by Gabriel Bodard

Mark Handley writes to the Late-Antique discussion list to ask: Trawling the web looking for information on late antique graffiti I came across a project run out of the Swedish Institute at Rome on a building now in the basement … Continue reading →

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BES News ns 17 (Spring 2007)

Posted on 2007-05-24 by Gabriel Bodard

The BES Newsletter for Spring 2007 has been circulated today. The newsletter is in PDF and back issues (from 9 through to 15) can be downloaded from http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/bes/Newsletter.htm. The Contents for the current issue include: Announcements News of members & … Continue reading →

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A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts

Posted on 2007-05-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Charles Crowther points out a VRE award closely related to the Image, Text, Interpretation e-Science award posted yesterday. A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts The Humanities Division at Oxford University has been awarded two years … Continue reading →

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Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents

Posted on 2007-05-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Just announced: Oxford and UCL have won an award to apply e-Science technologies to the reading of the Vindolanda Tablets and other other epigraphic materials. “Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents” Original documents are primary, often unique, resources for … Continue reading →

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New Edition of the Athenian Tribute Lists

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Gabriel Bodard

Bjorn Paarmann, Editing and commenting on the Athenian Tribute Lists in 2007. Saturday 5th May 2007, BES Spring Meeting, Edinburgh. Paarmann spoke about his doctoral dissertation project at Fribourg (due to be awarded Summer 2007) which was to collect, edit, … Continue reading →

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ASGLE News

Posted on 2007-05-07 by Paul Iversen

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy has a new URL: http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/ Membership in ASGLE for one calendar year costs $30 USD for regular faculty, which also automatically enrolls you into the Association Internationationale pour l’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine … Continue reading →

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New Web Address: American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Posted on 2007-05-07 by Tom Elliott

Under its new Secretary/Treasurer Paul Iversen, the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy is moving its website to a new address at Case Western Reserve University, effective immediately: http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/ The old website at UNC-Chapel Hill is still online, but … Continue reading →

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The Heliodorus Stele = ZPE 159 (2007), 191-205

Posted on 2007-05-07 by Tom Elliott

The Epoch Times has run a piece entitled “Historically Important Greek Stele Inscriptions Revealed.” It discusses an inscribed stone block (stele) dating no earlier than August 178 BCE. The stele preserves part of a letter of King Seleucus IV Philopator … Continue reading →

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Inscribed sarcophagus for a dog named Stephanos

Posted on 2007-05-03 by Tom Elliott

Troels Myrup Kristensen has posted a photograph of the sarcophagus, found at Termessos in 1998 and now in the Antalya museum. The verse inscription on it, which he reports to be barely readable to the naked eye, has been published … Continue reading →

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