Current Epigraphy

Posted on behalf of Stefania De Vido

The scientific team of the Greek Epigraphy Lab is pleased to announce the launch of AXON, a database of Greek historical inscriptions, financed by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and coordinated by Stefania De Vido.

AXON is a potentially ever growing online edition of a wide selection of epigraphic texts (selected according to the broad notion of “historical inscription”), provided with complete lemma and critical apparatus, Italian translation, commentary, and updated bibliography. This digital anthology will be progressively improved by scholars: a first set of documents is currently available and freely accessible, together with some useful materials: an aid for scholars and students alike. The website is mostly in Italian at the moment, but we are working to provide users with an English translation of its contents.

AXON is a member of Europeana EAGLE Project and is supported by the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica. Our database will contribute to the international panorama of the Digital Humanities: it provides a shared epigraphic vocabulary, a SEG-derived and widely implemented bibliography, and accurate indexing.

For further information, please visit Axon web-site or contact us via e-mail: axon@unive.it.

Scientific Director of the Greek Epigraphy Lab, DSU, Ca’ Foscari: Claudia Antonetti

Project Coordinator (Progetto di Ricerca d’Ateneo 2013): Stefania De Vido

Scientific team: Ivan Matijašić, Silvia Palazzo, Michela Socal, Luigi Tessarolo

Posted on behalf of Irene Rossi.

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only annual international forum for the presentation of the latest academic research on the Arabian Peninsula. The subjects covered include archaeology, history, epigraphy, languages, literature, art, culture, ethnography, geography, etc. from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).

The 50th Seminar for Arabian Studies will be held at the British Museum from Friday 29th July to Sunday 31st July 2016. Abstracts of paper and posters can be sent to seminar.arab@thebfsa.org on or before the 28 February 2016 for consideration by the Steering Committee. See https://www.thebfsa.org/content/papers-and-posters for the guidelines. For further information on booking and accommodation, visit https://www.thebfsa.org/seminar/the-latest-seminar.

Posted on behalf of Stephen Lambert

A substantial new batch of English translations of Attic inscriptions has published on www.atticinscriptions.com, including further important historical inscriptions of the 5th century BC and Athenian decrees datable to 287/6-230/229 BC. To accompany the translations AIO Papers 7, on the last building accounts of the Erechtheion, is also published today:https://www.atticinscriptions.com/papers/. The new material is listed, with links, in the “Updates”, upper right of Home Page.

https://academicpositions.eu/ad/universite-catholique-de-louvain/2016/postdoctoral-fellowship-24-months-ancient-metrology-digital-humanities/73196/
https://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/34057817

The “Pondera Online” project, granted by the F.R.S.-FNRS, aims to collect and study ancient commercial weights from the Hellenistic and Roman Greece and Asia Minor, thanks to a new open access database. The postdoctoral fellow will study ancient weights in their archaeological context, and analyze the development of metrological theories in relation with the building of private and museum collections.

For tax purposes, the candidate should not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (job, studies…) in Belgium for more than 24 months during the last 3 years. She/He should be engaged at the latest exactly 6 years after obtaining her/his PhD degree. The postdoctoral fellowship could start anytime between April 1st and July 1st, 2016.