Inscriptions in Historiography, KCL, Sept 28, 2018

Posted on 2018-09-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwarded for the organizers:

KCL International Postgraduate Workshop “Inscriptions in Historiography and Historiography in Inscriptions. Two Sides of the Same Coin: History”

The workshop will take place on 28 September 2018 at the Strand Campus, King’s College London (King’s Building, River Room). Our confirmed keynote speaker will be Dr Paola Ceccarelli (University College London).

To attend the workshop, registration via Eventbrite is mandatory for all attendees (excluding confirmed speakers). The conference is free to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided. The Eventbrite registration for the event will close at 11pm on 25 September 2018.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inscriptions-in-historiography-and-historiography-in-inscriptions-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-history-tickets-48909456501

We are looking forward to welcoming you all in London!

The Organising Committee (Dr Steven Cosnett, Dr Giulia Donelli, Dr Federica Scicolone)
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Attic Inscriptions Online updated

Posted on 2018-09-03 by Alice Bencivenni

Published today:

  • The third volume of Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections, AIUK 3 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), including (section 3) a general introduction to private Attic funerary monuments. More lightly annotated translations, Greek texts and images of the inscriptions are available on the AIO main site.
  • Translations of dedications by public arbitrators. For a full list of the new translations see Publication 3 September 2018.
  • Links to images of squeezes of inscriptions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Krateros).
  • Links to AIO videos about the inscriptions in the Fitzwilliam Museum: see Publication 3 September 2018.
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Visuality of Text, Warwick, October 20, 2018

Posted on 2018-08-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwarded for the organizers. Full programme and registration at conference website.

Visuality of Text: Interdisciplinary approaches to the display of the word

Saturday 20th October 2018, 10:45am- 6pm

IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House, University of Warwick

Schedule here.

Featuring discussion with artist John Newling about his exhibition ‘Journeys with The Wasteland’.

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XXIII Rencontre franco-italienne sur l’épigraphie du monde romain. Venice, 11-13 October 2018

Posted on 2018-08-28 by Lorenzo Calvelli

XXIII RENCONTRE FRANCO-ITALIENNE SUR L’EPIGRAPHIE DU MONDE ROMAIN

in ricordo di Silvio Panciera

Epigrafi di carta, epigrafi di pietra. Il ruolo della tradizione manoscritta nello studio delle iscrizioni genuine e spurie

Venice, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

11-13 October 2018

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Christian Habicht (1926-2018)

Posted on 2018-08-14 by Nikolaos Papazarkadas

 

It is with great sadness that I inform you that Christian Habicht, one of the greatest servants of Greek Epigraphy, passed away on August 6, 2018. A link to the obituary published on the website of the Institute for Advanced Study, where Prof. Habicht served for almost a quarter of a century, can be found here.

Nikolaos Papazarkadas (President of ASGLE)

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Conference on Epigraphic Forgeries. Venice, 10-11 October 2018

Posted on 2018-08-01 by Lorenzo Calvelli

LA FALSIFICAZIONE EPIGRAFICA IN ITALIA.

QUESTIONI DI METODO E CASI DI STUDIO

Venice, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Aula Mario Baratto, 10-11 October 2018

MERCOLEDÌ 10 OTTOBRE 2018

ore 14.30
GIOVANNELLA CRESCI, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Direttore del Dipartimento di Studi umanistici
Indirizzo di saluto

LORENZO CALVELLI, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Principal investigator PRIN «False testimonianze. Copie, contraffazioni, manipolazioni e abusi del documento epigrafico antico»
Considerazioni introduttive

ore 15.00: Le falsae in Italia nord-orientale
presiede TOMMASO GNOLI, Università di Bologna

FULVIA MAINARDIS, Università di Trieste
Per uno studio dei falsi nel manoscritto inglese di Jacopo Valvasone di Maniago (1499-1570)

FRANCO LUCIANI, Newcastle University
CIL V 8796: falsa o genuina?

ANTONIO PISTELLATO, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Digitalizzazione e intelligenza del falso epigrafico. Il caso di un titulus atestino

coffee break

ore 17.00: Le falsae in Italia nord-occidentale
presiede ELENA CIMAROSTI, Università di Genova

MICHELE BELLOMO, Università di Milano; SILVIA GAZZOLI, Università di Milano
Monsignor Biraghi e i falsi di Cernusco

SILVIA GIORCELLI, Università di Torino
Theodor Mommsen e la straordinaria galleria di falsari piemontesi (sec. XVI-XVII)

VIVIANA PETTIROSSI, Università di Genova
I falsi epigrafici di Giuseppe Francesco Meyranesio: ispirazioni e modelli

GIOVEDÌ 11 OTTOBRE 2018

ore 9.00: Produzione e commercio di copie e falsificazioni epigrafiche
presiede SIMONETTA SEGENNI, Università di Milano

ALFREDO BUONOPANE, Università di Verona; SIVIA BRAITO, Institut d’Estudis Catalans
Falsi epigrafici in rete. Una fenomenologia

SILVIA MARIA MARENGO, Università di Macerata
La città e i suoi falsi

MARIA LETIZIA CALDELLI, Sapienza Università di Roma
Copie di iscrizioni urbane nelle collezioni inglesi

ANDREA RAGGI, Università di Pisa; CARLO SLAVICH, Sapienza Università di Roma
Copie di iscrizioni urbane nelle collezioni bolognesi

coffee break

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Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) website down

Posted on 2018-07-30 by Frank Grieshaber

During the height of a massive heat wave in central Europe the air conditioning system in the server room in the building of the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik Heidelberg broke down, so we had to switch off all servers. As a consequence a number of websites hosted by the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik are down, which includes the website of the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH). We are working on the problem, but for the time being, we cannot give any details about when the website will be back online.

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Attic Inscriptions Online updated

Posted on 2018-07-26 by Alice Bencivenni

85 new translations of Attic inscriptions published today!

The new issue includes dedications from the cave of Apollo on the north face of the Acropolis, together with decrees honouring wealthy Athenian benefactors of the later fourth century BC.

https://www.atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypublicationdate/2018-7-26/

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Fleshing Out Words: Poetry on Objects, Warwick, March 9, 2019

Posted on 2018-07-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwarded for the organizers:

Fleshing Out Words: Poetry on Objects, from Classical Epigrams to Modern ‘Light Poems’.

CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Warwick, UK
9th March 2019

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge
Robert Montgomery, London

The conference aims to create cross-disciplinary discussion amongst scholars in Classics, Arts, Comparative Literature, Renaissance.

We therefore welcome proposals engaging with – but not limited to – the following topics:

  • Theoretical/ philosophical perspectives on poetry and materiality;
    The epigram book/ epigram as inscription;
  • Continuities and differences between the conception of object and text in ancient/Renaissance epigrams and the new material expressions of modern poetry
  • (Responses to) the visual context/visuality of epigrams;
  • The extent to which readings of ancient and/or Renaissance epigram might spur new perspectives on the contemporary production and consumption of poetry;
  • The extent to which ‘epigram’ is a useful category/ recognizable poetic form in the modern world;
  • The emergence of the Neo-Latin epigram.

Abstracts for 20-minute papers of no more than 300 words should be sent to fleshingoutwords.warwick@gmail.com by Monday 24th September 2018 (end of the day).

See conference website and full call for papers.

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Tablet with lines from Odyssey found in Greece?

Posted on 2018-07-12 by Gabriel Bodard

As posted on Reuters this week and in several international newspapers today, “Archaeologists in Greece have discovered what they believe to be the oldest known extract of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey” [on a third century CE terracotta tablet from Olympia, Greece].

Two observations on this slightly misleading lede:

  1. The reports are clearly based on the Greek Ministry of Culture press release, with no additional reporting or opinion by the press agency (to the extent that Greek words for “poem”, “book”, “verse” etc. are translated literally rather than using the standard English terms)
  2. If this is indeed a third century inscription, then it is (as other reports make clear) only the oldest physical text of Homer from Greece—there are Homeric fragments on papyri and ostraka found in Egypt several hundred years older than this.

Reuters include this “handout” image of the tablet:

And a higher resolution photograph of the text itself:

Questions for epigraphist and Homerist readers:

  1. Has anyone seen this tablet, or come across a more academic publication of it or the archaeological site, yet?
  2. Can anyone with palaeographic skills confirm the likely date of the text from the photographs above?
  3. How many other inscriptions do we know that preserve Homeric or other verse texts of this kind? Would this likely have been a votive tablet?

Either way, we look forward to the official publications of this material.

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AIEGL grants for epigraphic training

Posted on 2018-07-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Grant Application for Epigraphic Educational and Training Courses and Workshops (2018)

The Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine offers two grants of up to 500 Euros each to support epigraphic educational and training courses and workshops.

The following conditions apply.

  1. Applicants must be AIEGL members.
  2. Due to limited funds, the maximum grant for any event will be 500 Euros.
  3. Applications should be submitted by 31 March and 31 July of each calendar year, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 30 April and 15 September respectively.
  4. Applications will be assessed and ranked by the AIEGL officers and awards will be made on their recommendations, subject to the availability of funds.
  5. Events supported by AIEGL must be open to all qualified applicants and not restricted to students from particular institutions or countries.
  6. AIEGL is keen to support all forms of training in Greek and Latin epigraphy, including the promotion of digital epigraphy, in line with its own objectives and priorities.
  7. Successful applicants must submit a 300-word report within one month of the conclusion of the event, in a format suitable for publication on the AIEGL web-site.

Full terms and conditions, including how to apply, at this link.

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epigraphy.info workshop II

Posted on 2018-07-04 by franciscaferaudi

epigraphy.info workshop II

Zadar, 19-21 September 2018

The dates for the second workshop epigraphy.info have been fixed for 19th-21st September 2018 at the University of Zadar, at the Department of History, at the address Ruđera Boškovića 5. It’s placed in the historical Zadar old town, so called Poluotok (Engl. Peninsula).

For any further information please contact Anamarija Kurilić (akurilic2011@gmail.com) and have a look at epigraphy.info

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