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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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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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Request for bibliography: Greek inscriptions of Aïn Labakha

Posted on 2007-06-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Françoise Dunand asks: Quelqu’un pourrait-il me dire où et quand ont été publiées les corrections apportées à la publication par G. Wagner des inscriptions grecques d’Aïn Labakha dans ZPE 111, 1996, p. 97-114? Merci d’avance. Please direct replies to Professor … Continue reading →

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ASGLE Newsletter 11.1, 15 May 2007

Posted on 2007-06-01 by Tom Elliott

The latest issue of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Newsletter has arrived. Paul Iversen (secretary-treasurer) informs us via email that he hopes to begin posting newsletter issues, including back issues, on the ASGLE website beginning fall 2007. … Continue reading →

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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 https://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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