Postdoc position, Greek inscriptions of Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford)

Posted on 2013-08-05 by Gabriel Bodard

A position is about to be advertized in Greek epigraphy at Oxford, with a salary that would probably suit a newly qualified postdoc. This project looks like it will join the many other excellent EpiDoc corpora produced by the Oxford Classics/CSAD team. If you’re thinking about this, you really should contact Alan Bowman as soon as possible. (See the note from Bowman below.)

Simon Hornblower, Charles Crowther and I are pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding by the AHRC for a 3-year project on inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt. This project will create a corpus of up-to-date editions of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions on stone from Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE), based on material collected and annotated by the late Peter Fraser FBA (1918-2007). The editions will include introductory material, commentaries, translations and digital images and will be made available both in book form and an on-line version. Fraser’s manuscript will be revised and updated, inscriptions published since the mid-1970s will be added, along with editions with translations of the Egyptian sections of bilingual and trilingual texts.

We will be seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the Greek epigraphy for 3 years from October 2013, or as soon as possible thereafter. We expect the maximum possible salary to be in the region of £30,000 (sterling) per annum, depending on experience and qualifications. A formal advertisement will be posted soon. In the meantime, suitably qualified researchers who might wish to indicate possible interest in the position are encouraged to contact Professor Alan Bowman offline by email at alan.bowman@bnc.ox.ac.uk.

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Honouring Joyce Reynolds (Cambridge, Sept 28, 2013)

Posted on 2013-07-29 by Gabriel Bodard

A one-day conference in honour of Joyce Reynolds and celebrating the essential role of epigraphy in the ancient historical disciplines as a whole. (It would be nice to celebrate also Joyce’s central role in innovative and digital publication of epigraphy as well.)

Celebrating Epigraphy in Cambridge: Honouring Joyce Reynolds

The Faculty of Classics in Cambridge is holding a day-conference to celebrate the on-going achievements of Joyce Reynolds and of epigraphy in Cambridge. The over-arching theme is that of Joyce’s life’s work: the contribution of epigraphy to big questions of ancient history.

The conference will take place at Newnham College (Lucia Windsor Room) on Saturday 28 September, 2013. The conference is free to all participants, and a buffet lunch will be provided. But for catering (and other) purposes, it is essential that those wishing to attend register, by sending an e-mail to epigraphy@classics.cam.ac.uk

Programme:

10.30 Coffee, followed by Welcome from Christopher Kelly, Chair of the Classics Faculty

Session One: Chair Mary Beard.

11.00 William Harris: “What do Roman inscriptions tell us about literacy?”

12.00 Silvia Orlandi: “History from square brackets”

Lunch 1.00-2.30

Session Two: Chair Charlotte Roueché

2.30 Paola Ceccarelli “The Idiom of Interstate Communication after Alexander: Texts and Inscriptions”

3.30 Peter Thonemann “Marriage in Roman Anatolia”

The day will conclude with refreshments (tea and/or prosecco) in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, 4.45 – 6.00

On Friday 27 September, as part of the University of Cambridge Alumni weekend, Rupert Thompson will be giving a lecture on ‘Cracking the Linear Code B’ at 3.30 in the Classics Faculty, followed by a reception in the Cast Gallery of the Museum of Classical Archaeology (4:30-5:30pm).

Participants should note that as it is the Alumni weekend, accommodation in Cambridge is in very short supply. We are (regrettably) not able to offer accommodation for those attending the conference, but can give advice on where it might best be found.

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‘Guide de l’épigraphiste’ updated

Posted on 2013-07-14 by Gil Renburg

Those of you who do not each year begin compulsively hitting “refresh” on your internet browser starting in mid-June will likely have missed that the newest online supplement to the Guide de l’épigraphiste has just been posted:

http://www.antiquite.ens.fr/ressources/publications-aux-p-e-n-s/guide-de-l-epigraphiste/article/overview

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NEW: Tyche Sonderband 7

Posted on 2013-07-02 by franciscaferaudi

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen!

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, daß Tyche Sonderband 7 soeben erschienen ist:
Peter Siewert, Hans Taeuber (Hrsg.)
Neue Inschriften von Olympia. Die ab 1896 veröffentlichten Texte 

Sie können den Band direkt beim Verlag (<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at) oder bei Amazon bestellen.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Wien
Im Namen der Tyche
Franziska Beutler

 

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Tyche Special Volume 7 has been published!
Peter Siewert, Hans Taeuber (Hrsg.)
Neue Inschriften von Olympia. Die ab 1896 veröffentlichten Texte 

You can purchase this volume at the publishing house (<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at) or via amazon.

Best wished from Vienna
On behalf of Tyche
Franziska Beutler

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Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions, Oxford

Posted on 2013-05-08 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Alison Cooley:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions)

  • Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford
  • Grade 7: £31,331 p.a.
  • The ‘Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions in Britain’s Oldest Public Museum through Scholarship and Technology’ project is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a full-time, 3-year fixed-term post from 1 October 2013 until 30 September 2016. The project is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant and is directed by Dr Alison Cooley (University of Warwick).
  • The Research Fellow will be based in the Ashmolean Museum and in the Classics Faculty’s Ioannou Centre in central Oxford and will work under the supervision of Dr Cooley and Dr Susan Walker (Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities). The principal responsibility of the Research Fellow will be to fulfil the project’s impact agenda by integrating the Latin inscriptions in the Museum into the Ashmolean’s Online Collections, creating additional web resources tailored to the needs of school students, designing and implementing interactive gallery activities, exploring the creation of resources for the visually impaired, and helping to run inset days illustrating the potential of the new resources for UK teachers.
  • Applicants should have a PhD in Archaeology, Ancient History, Museum Studies, or a relevant field, a demonstrable knowledge of the Social History of the Roman World, experience in working in collaboration with schools, and have proven IT skills.
  • Only applications received before 12.00 noon on 17 May 2013 can be considered.
    Contact Person : Erica Clarke
    Vacancy ID : 107580
    Contact Phone : 01865 288269
  • Closing Date : 17-May-2013
    Contact Email: recruitment@classics.ox.ac.uk

Further particulars to be found at the Oxford recruitment page.

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Epigraphic Saturday (update)

Posted on 2013-05-07 by Simona Stoyanova

Held by Joyce Reynolds at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge, Saturday 18 May 2013.

10.30    Coffee

11.00    Joyce Reynolds will present a number of problematic inscriptions from Cyrenaica, notably a document of 67 BC which appears to talk of some kind of Roman provincial census, a mid-first century BC inscription dealing with civic honours, and a group of Jewish inscriptions involving the or an amphitheatre.

13.00    Lunch

14.15    Four short papers:
Irina Levinskaya, ‘A new inscription from the Black Sea’
Margaret Williams, ‘The Jewish inscriptions of Hierapolis’
Michael Crawford, ‘The Emperor Tiberius and the epigraphy of Umbria’
Benet Salway, ‘The fate of the Roman milestone in late antiquity’

16.00    Tea

If you have not already done so, could you please let Michael Crawford know if you are coming, so that we may have an idea of numbers: imagines.italicae@sas.ac.uk

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EpiDoc on Facebook

Posted on 2013-05-07 by Paola Tomasi

From Laura Löser:

Dear all,
Exciting things are happening in the realms of EpiDoc. Since Thursday, you can find EpiDoc on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EpiDoc
First of all, if you are not a member of Facebook, worry not: any information that we publish on our Facebook page will also reach the Markup List. However, the page was established in order to keep anyone, whether just interested in learning more or established member of the EpiDoc community, up to date with current events and developments in an informal setting.
If you ‘like’ the page, you can show support for EpiDoc and share our news with your friends. Thus, you can make a contribution to promoting the benefits of EpiDoc, which may enlarge our community and thus increase the number of helping hands in the list – we shall regulargy encourage our followers to join the Markup List and make joining less ‘scary’, especially for students and younger scholars to widen access and outreach and raise awareness.

 

 

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BES Spring meeting, Vienna, Saturday May 4, 2013

Posted on 2013-05-01 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwarded for the British Epigraphy Society:

Spring Meeting of the British Epigraphy Society
“Epigraphy and Religion”

Saturday, 4 May 2013
Small Ceremonial Chamber (Kleiner Festsaal)
University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna
bes.univie.ac.at

See attached poster and programme.

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NEW: Tyche Special Volume 5/2

Posted on 2013-04-18 by franciscaferaudi

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen!

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, daß Tyche Sonderband 5/2 soeben erschienen ist.

Claudia Ruggeri (Hrsg.)
Die Antiken Schriftzeugnissse über den Kerameikos von Athen.
Teil 2: Das Dipylongebiet und der Äußere Kerameikos (Inhaltsverzeichnis)

Den Band können Sie direkt beim Verlag bestellen
<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at

Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Wien
im Namen der Tyche,
Franziska Beutler

 

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Tyche Special Volume 5/2 has been published!

Claudia Ruggeri (Hrsg.)
Die Antiken Schriftzeugnissse über den Kerameikos von Athen.
Teil 2: Das Dipylongebiet und der Äußere Kerameikos  (contents)

You can place an order for this volume at the publishing house
<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at/hhshop/buch.wissenschaft/Tyche.htm

Best wished from Vienna,
on behalf of Tyche,
Franziska Beutler

 

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Epigraphic Saturday: Cambridge, May 18, 2013

Posted on 2013-04-05 by Gabriel Bodard

From the BES calendar:

Joyce Reynolds will host another Epigraphic Saturday in Cambridge on May 18. The day will follow a different format to previous ones: as many of you will know, Joyce is currently working on an on-line corpus of the inscriptions of Cyrenaica, and rather than having a main speaker from overseas she would like to present and discuss some of the problem texts from the Greek cities of Cyrenaica. The day will start at 10.30 (with coffee) for 11.00, with Cyrenaican problems before lunch and short papers by others in the first half of the afternoon. The format will be seminar-style round a table; could you please let Michael Crawford know if you would like to come and whether you would like to offer a short paper (imagines.italicae@sas.ac.uk).

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Columna Traiani – International Meeting, Vienna

Posted on 2013-03-25 by franciscaferaudi

TRAJANSSÄULE. Siegesmonument und Kriegsbericht in Bildern

9.-12. Mai 2013

Internationale Tagung anläßlich des 1900. Jahrestages ihrer Einweihung

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Civic Honours, Tours, April 6, 2013

Posted on 2013-03-18 by Gabriel Bodard

CIVIC HONOURS – LES HONNEURS CIVIQUES
The politics of honour in the Greek cities of Roman Imperial times (http://www.honneurs-civiques.org/en/) invites you to a workshop in Tours on 6 April 2013

The collective research project “Civic honours” is concerned with the system of public honours that Greek cities bestowed upon their good citizens and foreign benefactors (praise, crown, statue, prohedria, public funerals, and so on). The aim of the project is to study the development of this system, and in particular the rise of honorific monuments, during the Imperial period (1st-3d c. AD), when the Greek world had become part of the Roman Empire. Co-directed by Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf, this international project brings together scholars from France, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, who employ various approaches and methods: epigraphy, archaeology, literature, linguistic theory. After several workshops in France, Greece and the Netherlands, a final international conference, scheduled for the Spring of 2014, will gather all participants and will be followed by the publication of a collective volume. (See for a report on Athens workshop of 2 February 2013: http://www.honneurs-civiques.org/en/athens/). Continue reading →

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