PhD Studentship in Latin Epigraphy (Warwick)

Posted on 2013-01-22 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Alison Cooley:

AHRC Research Project

‘Facilitating Access to Latin inscriptions in Britain’s oldest public museum through scholarship and technology’

Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/postgrads/epigraphy/ahrcproject

Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship (Home/EU fees + maintenance) in Latin epigraphy, to write a thesis on the topic ‘Literacy and Epigraphy in Britain from Roman to Mediaeval Times (1st-11th C.)’. This is associated with the Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions project, directed by Dr Alison Cooley, in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum and Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford. 1st Oct 2013-30 Sept 2016

How to apply: Please send a letter of application, c.v., and ask two academic referees to submit confidential references on your behalf to: Dr Alison Cooley, Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk. You are very welcome to email for further information.

Deadline for Applications: 12 noon, Monday 11th March 2013.

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EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 22-25, 2013

Posted on 2013-01-11 by Charlotte Tupman

We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London, with support from the British Epigraphy Society and Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg), Simona Stoyanova (KCL) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation.

EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a set of guidelines for using TEI XML (tei-c.org) for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient documentary texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online andCurse Tablets from Roman Britain, Pandektis (inscriptions of Macedonia and Thrace), and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML and markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object description in EpiDoc as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor (papyri.info/editor).

No technical skills are required to apply, but a working knowledge of Greek or Latin, epigraphy or papyrology and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors or professionals.

To apply for a place on this workshop please email gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday March 1st, 2013.

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Two epigraphic fellowships/travel awards

Posted on 2013-01-04 by Gabriel Bodard

With a hat-tip to the BES newsletter, two fast approaching deadlines:

1. The DAI (Deutsche Archäologische Institut) has two bursaries available, one for travel and one for a research visit to the archaeological library in Munich (next deadline January 15th, 2013):

DAI Reisestipendium
https://www.dainst.org/en/scholarship/reisestipendium-2012-2013?ft=all

DAI Wülfing Stipendium
https://www.dainst.org/en/scholarship/w%C3%BClfing-stipendium-201213?ft=all

2. The Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies at Ohio State University is offering short-term fellowships (1-4 months) to visit OSU and use the library and other resources of the center (deadline January 31st 2013):

https://epigraphy.osu.edu/fellowships

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III SAEG Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca

Posted on 2013-01-02 by Lucia Criscuolo

Si terrà a Napoli, per iniziativa di Elena Miranda, il III Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia greca, dedicato alla presentazione e discussione degli studi in corso da parte di giovani ricercatori italiani, con la collaborazione di qualche studioso più esperto. Il Seminario si svolgerà dal 17 al 19 gennaio 2013 con il seguente programma:
SAEG 2013
3° Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca
Programma provvisorio
Giovedì 17 gennaio, ore 14.30 (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Magna)
– Saluti e introduzione
ore 15.00 Lucia Criscuolo: Iscrizioni e papiri: un ‘amore contrastato
ore 15.20 Ezio Attardo: I tempi e i luoghi della trasmissione della scrittura ai Greci
ore 15.40 Giovanni Boffa: ΕΥΛΙΝ. Una proposta di lettura per l’iscrizione dell’Osa.
ore 16.10 Alice Bencivenni e Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: L’edizione digitale delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica: status e prospettive.
ore 16.40 Discussione e pausa
ore 17.20 Eduardo Federico: L’arrivo di Enopione a Chio: una storia riscritta
ore 17.40 Emilio Rosamilia: Un’Artemide tessala a Delos (I.Délos 2381)
ore 18.00 Ornella Salati: I Μιξέλληνες di Olbia: IOSPE I2, 32, latus B
ore 18.20 Discussione
Venerdì 18 gennaio, ore 9.00 (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Magna)
ore 9.00 Daniela Francesca Marchiandi: I periboli funerari come fonte per la storia sociale dell’Attica classica
ore 9.20 Enrica Culasso: Composizione e mobilità sociale delle cleruchie: il contributo dell’epigrafia
ore 9.40 Ilaria Bultrighini: Due iscrizioni “gemelle” dal demo attico di Myrrhinous
ore 10.00 Chiara Lasagni: Le iscrizioni di S. Demetrio Katifori ad Atene: i percorsi del reimpiego
ore 10.20 Discussione e pausa
ore 11.00 Francesca Rocca: La manomissione al femminile: l’apporto degli atti di affrancamento allo studio della capacità economica delle donne in Grecia in età ellenistica
ore 11.20 Michela Nocita: Dall’Italia alla Grecia: corsi e ricorsi di Magnogreci e Italici (II secolo a.C.-I secolo d.C.)
ore 11.40 Paola Grandinetti: Le iscrizioni greche di Firenze
ore 12.00 Alessia Dimartino: Pondera. Pesi in basalto del Museo Archeologico Regionale “A. Salinas” di Palermo
ore 12.20 Discussione
ore 13.00 Pausa pranzo
Venerdì 18 gennaio, ore 14.30
ore 14.30 Lavinio Del Monaco: Le Tavole di Locri: paleografia e tecnica di scrittura
ore 14.50 Giovanna Calabrò: La stele dei Ginnasiarchi di Tauromenion
ore 15.10 Giulio Vallarino: Instrumentum publicum e democrazia a Taranto: rilettura di un’iscrizione vascolare
ore 15. 30 Federico Favi: Il greco in Puglia tra l’età messapica e l’età romana
ore 16.20 Discussione e pausa
ore 17.00 Massimo Nafissi e Roberta Fabiani: Dove onorare uno straniero. Luoghi di pubblicazione dei decreti a Iasos
ore 17.30 Francesco Guizzi: Il culto imperiale a Hierapolis di Frigia. Alcune osservazioni
ore 17.50 Marco Tentori Montalto: L’epigramma di Maratona dalla villa di Erode Attico ad Eva Kinourias
ore 18.10 Discussione
ore 20,30 Cena
Sabato 19 gennaio, ore 9.00 (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Sala conferenze)
ore 9.00 Giulia Tozzi: Il teatro di Dioniso come vetrina delle relazioni internazionali ateniesi nel IV secolo a.C.: la testimonianza delle iscrizioni
ore 9.20 Luca Bortolussi : Vie e città orientali nel III secolo d.C.: un’epigrafe greca dall’Osroene
ore 9.40 Lyuba Radulova: Iura sepulcrorum nella Moesia Inferior
ore 10.00 Elena Miranda De Martino e Diva Di Nanni Durante: Le iscrizioni greche del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
ore 10.30 Discussione e saluti
ore 11,30 Visita ad alcune delle collezioni del Museo Archeologico Nazionale (a cura di Elena Miranda De Martino e Diva Di Nanni Durante).

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Gephyra 9 (2012)

Posted on 2012-12-20 by Fatih Onur

Articles

Book Reviews

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Advertisement: position in Information Studies (TVL 13) at Heidelberg University (EDH / Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik)

Posted on 2012-12-14 by franciscaferaudi

In the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of Heidelberg University, Research projekt Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH / HAW), there is a position to be filled in

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Attic Inscriptions Online (in translation)

Posted on 2012-12-10 by Gabriel Bodard

Sent by Finlay McCourt to the Digital Classicist list:

List members may be interested in a new website designed to make available the inscriptions of Athens and Attica in English translation:

www.atticinscriptions.com

It is being launched with translations of the 281 inscribed laws and decrees of Athens, 352/1-322/1 BC, which have recently been edited by Stephen Lambert as IG II3 1, 292-572.

We plan to develop the site, enhancing its functionality and increasing the range of information supplied, and to expand it in due course to include all Attic inscriptions.

(As McCourt points out, there are so far only a handful of inscriptions, in English translation only [no original text], and with only simple search and browse by bibliographical reference as entry points, but hopefully this will develop into a useful resource for historians and students.)

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RATIARIA Field school 2013

Posted on 2012-11-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Applications for attendance at the 2013 Ratiaria field school in Bulgaria close on November 30, 2012. Students will participate in the dig and have the opportunity to study Latin epigraphy on-site. From the introduction:

In 2013 the archaeological digs will focus on the discovered in course of the last season decumanus maximius and Temple of Asclepius. Along with practical work at the site the students will gain experience in Latin Epigraphy, Art History, Conservation and Restoration of discovered buildings and artifacts. Several experts in Roman Archaeology will give lectures during the course. In addition the students will have chance to visit some of the best preserved Roman towns in the area (including Bulgaria and neighboring Serbia).

Full details, including cost, programme and application forms available at https://www.ratiaria.archbg.net/field_shool_en.html

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BES travel bursaries

Posted on 2012-10-08 by Gabriel Bodard

Information on applying for bursaries for the November 2012 British Epigraphy Society colloquium. Applications from students especially encouraged!

The BES regularly announces bursary schemes for students and post-docs to help with attendance at our own activities or those of other epigraphic bodies. Please watch this space for information on upcoming bursary schemes. Information on how to apply will be released on the opening date indicated with the scheme. The Society’s Steering Committee will endeavour to review your application within two weeks of the closing date and the Secretary will then inform you of the outcome of your application.

Bursary scheme: Travel bursaries for the BES Autumn Meeting in November!

Closing date: Extended: 15 October 2012

To apply for a bursary to help with attendance at the BES Autumn Colloquium in London on 17 November 2012, please send the information listed below via e-mail to the BES Secretary by the closing date of 15 October 2012.

For full details on how to apply, visit https://www.britishepigraphysociety.org/bursaries.html

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New online publication: MAMA XI

Posted on 2012-09-24 by Gabriel Bodard

Please find attached a flyer advertising the online publication of a new corpus of Greek and Latin inscriptions, Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: Monuments from Phrygia and Lykaonia.

MAMA XI is a corpus of 387 inscriptions and other ancient monuments, 292 of which are unpublished, from Phrygia and Lykaonia recorded by Sir William Calder (1881-1960) and Dr Michael Ballance (†27 July 2006) in the course of annual expeditions to Asia Minor in 1954-1957. The monuments have been edited with full commentaries and marked-up in xml using EpiDoc electronic editorial conventions by Peter Thonemann with the assistance of Édouard Chiricat and Charles Crowther.

The full corpus was published online on 14 September 2012 at the following address: https://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk/. A print volume will be published later as a Roman Society monograph.

The MAMA XI project has been funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is based at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford.

Peter Thonemann
Wadham College, Oxford
peter.thonemann@wadh.ox.ac.uk

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XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae

Posted on 2012-09-14 by Paola Tomasi

From Werner Eck:

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

nach Ende des 14. Kongresses für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik in Berlin sende ich Ihnen im Namen des Organisationskomitees die Abschlussrede. Diese E-Mail geht an alle, die sich für den Kongress angemeldet hatten, unabhängig davon, ob sie an der Tagung in Berlin selbst teilnehmen konnten oder nicht.

Abschlussrede:

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

wir sind am Ende dieses 14. Kongresses für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik angekommen. Es waren sehr dicht gefüllte Tage mit einem breiten, sehr unterschiedlichen Programm, das hoffentlich allen etwas gegeben hat. Dass man einem Kongress auch selektiv teilnimmt, ist legitim. Aber viele haben an allen Plenarsitzungen teilgenommen, und am Nachmittag das ausgewählt, was sie besonders interessierte. Dass mancher dabei manches nicht hören konnte, weil uns die Fähigkeit zur Bilokalität noch nicht geschenkt ist, ist eine Normalität eines großen Kongresses, die man nicht vermeiden kann. Sonst wären noch mehr von der aktiven Teilnahme ausgeschlossen gewesen.
Wir als Veranstalter sind Ihnen allen sehr dankbar, dass Sie diesen Kongress so aktiv mitgestaltet haben. Denn nur Sie konnten die Absicht, die mit der Thematik:

ÖFFENTLICHKEIT – MONUMENT – TEXT Continue reading →

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Associations in Context, Copenhagen, October 11-13, 2012

Posted on 2012-09-14 by Gabriel Bodard

ASSOCIATIONS IN CONTEXT

The importance of religion for understanding ancient associations has long been recognised, and many monographs have focused specifically on cult or religious associations. The aim of this symposium is to go beyond so-called religious associations and assess more generally the role of religion in ancient associative life (with a focus on the eastern part of the Mediterranean, from ca. 300 BC to ca. AD 300). Cultic activities, and other religious aspects, such as theophoric names, seem to have been a central concern to private associations of many different kinds. The term ‘religious association’ is regularly used in scholarship, but its use and applicability need to be critically re-assessed. In an attempt to gain a more nuanced approach and a better understanding regarding the formation, organization and aims of ancient associations, this conference moves beyond the confines of religion. In a series of twenty papers on a variety of themes and locations, we shall reconsider the ways in which associations defined themselves, and examine their behaviour and interactions within the social, cultural, and sacred landscape of Hellenistic and Roman poleis.

Program and registration at: https://copenhagenassociations.saxo.ku.dk/symposium-2012/

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