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Books available for review from BMCR (September)

Titles of potential interest to epigraphers exerpted from BMCR 2007.09.62, Books Received September 2007: Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested … Continue reading

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Review of Flügel, Spätantike Arztinschriften

Reviewed in BMCR 2007.09.49: Christian Flügel, Spätantike Arztinschriften als Spiegel des Einflusses des Christentums auf die Medizin. Beihefte zum Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft Band 20. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. Pp. 410. ISBN 978-3-89744-258-0. €59.00. Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus, … Continue reading

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Review of Marek, Inschriften von Kaunos

In BMCR 2007.09.11 is a review of: Christian Marek (ed.), Die Inschriften von Kaunos. Vestigia, 55.   München:  C.H. Beck, 2006.  Pp. 416; ills. 240, maps 3.  ISBN 978-3-406-55074-4.  €100.70. Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, Rome The review of this … Continue reading

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BMCR Review of Hispania Epigraphica CD Rom

In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.08.46: Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja, Hispania Epigraphica 1989-2000 (1 al 10). Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006. Pp. CD-Rom. ISBN 84-95215-53-5. €50.00 (individuals). €66.00 (institutions). Reviewed by David Noy, University of Wales Lampeter (d.noy@lamp.ac.uk) In his review of … Continue reading

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BMCR Review of Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess

This week in BMCR 2007.08.43: Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 415; figs. 109, color pls. 27. ISBN 978-0-691-12746-0. $39.50. Reviewed by Catherine M. Keesling, Georgetown … Continue reading

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Review of Trzcionka, Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth-Century Syria

Reviewed today in BMCR 2007.08.06, a volume which includes detailed discussion of inscribed amulets and curse tablets: Silke Trzcionka, Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth-Century Syria. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 227. ISBN 0-415-39242-X. £17.99. Reviewed by Thomas … Continue reading

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Epigraphic titles for review from BMCR

In this months Books Received list in BMCR 2007.08.01, the following titles appear that may be of interest to epigraphers: Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, … Continue reading

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Dmitriev, City Government in Asia Minor in BMCR

A review in BMCR 2007.07.63 of: Sviatoslav Dmitriev, City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 428. ISBN 0-19-517042-3. GBP 45.00. Reviewed by Andrea Raggi, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico, Università … Continue reading

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Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum I.5 in BMCR

In BMCR 2007.07.04 a review by Jean MacIntosh Turfa of: Giovanni Colonna, Daniele F. Maras, Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum, Academiis Litterarum Borussica et Saxonica legatum, Carolus Pauli primum edidit. Voluminis secundi, Instituti Studiis Etruscis et Italicis Provehendis et Academiae Scientiarum Berolinensis … Continue reading

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BMCR Reviews of Interest

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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Wallace’s Intro to Wall Inscriptions

Over at ancienthistory.about.com, N.S. Gill has a short overview piece about: Rex Wallace, An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum, Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 086516570X [worldcat record]

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Epigraphic Books for review at BMCR

A few titles of possible interest to epigraphers have been reproduced below: see the BMCR website for the full list of titles available this month. BMCR 2007.05.44, BMCR Books Received (May). Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. … Continue reading

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