XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae

Posted on 2012-09-12 by Paola Tomasi

Denso di eventi concomitanti, il Congresso berlinese si è articolato ogni giorno in una sessione plenaria, cui sono seguite diverse sessioni tematiche pomeridiane. Punto di partenza è stata la storia dell’epigrafia come disciplina accademica intrecciata strettamente alla temperie politica e culturale di Berlino, le cui tappe ha ripercorso l’intervento iniziale del prof. Stefan Rebenich (University of Bern). Il congresso si è snodato attraverso le varie tematiche tradizionalmente oggetto di studio (https://www.congressus2012.de/kalender/programm.html), che spaziano dall’ambito privato a quello pubblico e riverberano le molteplici sfaccettature delle informazioni veicolate dalle iscrizioni: dalla edilizia pubblica, gli spettacoli, la gestione territoriale, l’esercito, si passa alle iscrizioni in ambito privato, di valenza funeraria, religiosa o anche sapidamente personale (A. Varone, https://www.congressus2012.de/images/kongress/abstracts/abstract_varone.pdf ).
Accanto alla storia dell’indagine epigrafica attraverso le fonti manoscritte, si sono affrontate anche questioni metodologiche e nuovi progetti, quali la riedizione di CIL, V, per non parlare delle iniziative in ambito digitale.
Per il 2012 è tutto: appuntamento a Vienna nel 2017!

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Instrumenta Inscripta V (Verona, Sept 20-21, 2012)

Posted on 2012-09-12 by Gabriel Bodard

INSTRVMENTA INSCRIPTA V
Signacula ex aere

Aspetti epigrafici, archeologici, giuridici, prosopografici, collezionistici

Convegno Internazionale
Università degli Studi di Verona
Polo Zanotto Aula 1.1

Segreteria:
Silvia Braito: instrumentainscriptav.segret@gmail.com

(Full details including programme: Depliant_convegno instrumentainscripta V)

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14th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Berlin 27-31 August 2012

Posted on 2012-09-11 by Tom Elliott

From Stephen Mitchell:

The 14th International Epigraphy Congress (www.congressus2012.de) fittingly marked the continued importance of Berlin as a major center of epigraphic scholarship.  The introductory lecture, given by Professor Stefan Rebenich (University of Bern), traced the history of the two major long-term epigraphic projects, Inscriptiones Graecae and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, from the first origins at the beginning of the nineteenth century through extraordinary political and economic changes until their present thriving state in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. This presentation underlined the combination of vision, professionalism and persistence required to sustain these huge projects at the highest quality through generations of scholarship. The final lecture of the Congress, given by Professor Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Universty of Köln), traced the discovery and publication of the longest of all known Greek epigraphic monuments, the philosophical inscriptions of Diogenes of Oinoanda, with special emphasis on the work which was initiated by Martin Smith in the 1980s, and has now been given a major new impetus by the German Archaeological Institute at Istanbul and Professor Hammerstaedt’s collaboration.  The lecture also offered a remarkable illustration of the Congress’s main theme, summed up in the words PUBLICUM – MONUMENTUM – TEXTUS (Display, Monument and Text).  Contributors to the plenary sessions in particular were asked to use these key concepts as a guide to the interpretation of inscriptions in different public contexts:  the transformation of civic cultures; the confrontation and combination of different languages within a shared epigraphic culture;  inscriptions in rural contexts; and the epigraphy of public entertainment.  The plenary lectures will form the main content of the published record of the Congress, which should appear within two years.  Many of the thematic panels were designed to emphasise the same ideas.  These will be published in summary form.

The Congress was organised on behalf of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL), which held its general assembly during the week.  Unfortunately, as had also happened at the Oxford Congress in 2007, attendance at this meeting fell just below the high quorum that the AIEGL constitution requires to complete elections of officers and comité members for the next quinquennium, and so the vote will have to be completed, probably by a secure on-line process, in the next 4-6 weeks.  AIEGL membership itself had risen from 325 to 395 paying members since the last Congress. One important resolution was reached by consensus, that the 15th Congress in 2017 will be held in another major epigraphic centre, Vienna.

Stephen Mitchell
AIEGL President

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Two New Fascicles of David French’s Corpus of the Milestones of Roman Asia Minor

Posted on 2012-09-11 by Tom Elliott

From Stephen Mitchell:

The British Institute at Ankara has published two new fascicles of David French’s Corpus of the Milestones of Roman Asia Minor as PDF files on the Internet, from which they can be downloaded without charge. They are available on the web-site of the BIAA (Home page: https://www.biaa.ac.uk/home). RRMAM 3.1 (63 pages) contains the Republican milestones from the province of Asia, RRMAM 3.2 (358 pages) the 132 milestones from the province of Galatia. The publications include not only the texts, concordances and other apparatus, but also schematic maps and abundant illustrations (https://www.biaa.ac.uk/home/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=109&Itemid=51#RRMAM32). A fascicle with the texts from Cappadocia is due to be published shortly.

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Special offer: TYCHE print, digital & ebooks

Posted on 2012-09-07 by franciscaferaudi

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

Anläßlich des 14. Internationalen Kongresses für Lateinische und  Griechische
Epigraphik bietet der Verlag Holzhausen die im Anhang  angeführten Angebote für Tyche
Jahresbände sowie Supplement- und  Sonderbände.

https://altegeschichte.univie.ac.at/forschung/zeitschrift-tyche/#c367144

Das Angebot gilt bis November 2012.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Wien

Franziska Beutler

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

On the occasion of the XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae
Graecae et Latinae Holzhausen publishing house presents special offers
of the Journal Tyche and its Supplement as well as Special Volumes.

Please find enclosed these offers valid until November 2012.

https://altegeschichte.univie.ac.at/forschung/zeitschrift-tyche/#c367144

With best wishes from Vienna

Franziska Beutler

—
Mag. Dr. Franziska Beutler
Institut fuer Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde,
Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Universitaet Wien
Universitaetsring 1
1010 Vienna
Austria

 

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NEW: Tyche 26 iBook @ iBookstore

Posted on 2012-09-07 by franciscaferaudi
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! TYCHE Band 26 steht ab sofort auch im Apple iBookstore als digitales Buch zur Verfügung.
Um zum Buch zu gelangen, besuchen Sie bitte den unten stehenden Link.Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Verlag Holzhausen		 Ladies and Gentlemen! We are happy to annouce that TYCHE Vol. 26 is now also avilable on the Apple iBookstore.
To purchase the book, please visit the below link on the iBookstore.Kind regards,
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Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy

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New EDH search interface online!

Posted on 2012-09-04 by franciscaferaudi

Scarcely recognisable but still EDH — and now much improved:

In the interests of user friendliness the internet presence (www.epigraphische-datenbank-heidelberg.de) has been substantially relaunched.

New aspects include …

Improved performance
Search for two or more contiguous words in the text of an inscription is now possible
logical combination of two search words with “AND NOT” is possible
it is possible to combine searching for words in the text as well as all metadata categories
multi select options also possible in the search interface
search results may be sorted

the content of various metadata fields has been reworked and more complex and better
query strategies are now possible (e.g. Material, Engraving technique, Historically relevant data)
cross linking of the three constituent database of EDH (Epigraphic Text Database, Bibliographic Database, Photographic Database)

attractive, modern design
extensive context based online help  with search examples and further explanatory
information
all search results are provided with easy and comfortable print options

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Announcing two online annotated epigraphical bibliographies

Posted on 2012-09-01 by Gil Renburg

Sara Saba and I would like to announce that at the Oxford Bibliographies online site (https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com) our annotated bibliography for Greek epigraphy has recently been joined by the one for Latin epigraphy. While there is a chance that even experts in the use of epigraphical materials may discover the existence of works they had not previously known, our intended audience was scholars with relatively little knowledge of epigraphy, as well as graduate students and the occasional undergraduate. (The bibliographies may well prove useful to those teaching epigraphy courses or seminars that focus on sources and methods for research into the ancient world.)

Following the philosophy and format of the OBO series, these bibliographies are not comprehensive, since there is an overall size limit AND for each section contributors are permitted to provide no more than eight examples, so both bibliographies represent what we believe to be some/most of the important works on a given subject, though certainly not all.

Since OBO is a web-based resource, it should be possible to update the bibliographies over time. Unfortunately, however, OBO’s rules and procedures would make this somewhat time-consuming and burdensome – i.e., it is not simply a matter of typing out the title of a new work, writing a few sentences about it, and sending in the new entry – so we shall be updating the bibliographies sparingly, and only for works that are truly essential. With that said, we would certainly welcome suggestions, given either now or in the future, for what ought to be included when we do update one or both contributions.

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CIEGL 2012 Begins

Posted on 2012-08-28 by Tom Elliott

The Fourteenth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy opened last night in the great “Auditorium Maximum” of the Humboldt University in Berlin. The well-attended opening plenary session began with a series of welcoming remarks by Werner Eck (Chairman of the Organizing Committee), Stephen Mitchell (president of AIEGL), Jan-Hendrick Olbertz (President of Humboldt Univerity), Gunter Stock (President of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Ortwin Dally (General Secretary of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut).

The highlight of the session was an extended, scholarly narrative of the history of Greek and Latin epigraphic study in Berlin, delivered by Stefan Rebenich (Bern University) under the rubric “Berlin und die antike Epigrafik.” I learned much about the history of the discipline, and the formation and challenges faced over time by the great corpora (the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and Inscriptiones Graecae). A key theme throughout Rebenich’s lecture was the effects of epigraphic study and scholarly community — negative at some periods, and positive at others — of national and international politics (and of politics both personal and institutional within the humanities).

This audience member, whose German experience lies almost wholly in the realm of reading and whose practice in same is rather rusty, greatly appreciated the model demonstrated by Prof. Eck and followed by Prof. Rebenich, of displaying the text of their remarks on-screen during the presentation.

The opening plenary was followed by a reception hosted by the publisher De Gruyter, which lasted well into the evening.

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Pavement Signs Typology

Posted on 2012-08-24 by Gabriel Bodard

A typology for recording pavement signs.

Pavement Signs Typology (PDF)

Over many years Charlotte Roueché has been collecting examples of pavement markings, particularly at Aphrodisias and Ephesus: these have conventionally been described as gameboards, although only some of them were definitely intended for this purpose. The late R.C. Bell made a very large collection of such signs, and in 2007 they published a typology to be used for recording pavement markings and gameboards. This has now been enhanced with links to published examples, which are set out in the attached document, to be launched at the 2012 Berlin AIEGL Congress.

Colleagues are invited to provide references to further photographic illustrations, new designs to add to the typology, or any other suggestions or corrections. Please either make your contributions as a comment here, or email charlotte.roueche[at]kcl.ac.uk; the aim is to develop a shared resource, and to enable better practice in the recording of such materials.

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EDH – „Neue Suche“ online!

Posted on 2012-08-24 by franciscaferaudi

Kaum wiederzuerkennen, aber immer noch EDH – und jetzt noch besser:

Zur Optimierung der Benutzerfreundlichkeit ist der Internetauftritt (www.epigraphische-datenbank-heidelberg.de) einem umfassenden Relaunch unterzogen worden. Zu den Neuerungen zählen …

  • Performance-Steigerung
  • Suche nach zwei oder mehr direkt aufeinander folgenden Suchwörtern im Inschrifttext möglich
  • logische Verknüpfung zweier Suchwörter mit „UND NICHT“ wählbar
  • lateinische Suchwörter mit allen Metadaten kombinierbar
  • Mehrfachauswahl in den Optionslisten der Suchmaske möglich
  • Suchergebnisse sortierbar
  • ausgewählte Metadatenfelder inhaltlich überarbeitet / mit verbesserten Abfragemöglichkeiten ausgestattet (u.a. „Material“, „Schreibtechnik“, „historisch relevante Hinweise“)
  • gegenseitige Verlinkungen der drei EDH-Teildatenbanken (Epigraphische Textdatenbank – Epigraphische Bibliographie – Epigraphische Fotothek)
  • ansprechendes, zeitgemäßes Design
  • umfangreiche kontextsensitive Online-Hilfe mit Suchbeispielen und weiteren erklärenden Hintergrundinformationen
  • Bereitstellung der Ergebnisse in komfortablen Druckansichten
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L’Année épigraphique 2009 available

Posted on 2012-08-23 by Tom Elliott

Mireille CORBIER, directeur de L’Année épigraphique (Paris), fait savoir que L’Année épigraphique 2009 (1838 notices, 876 pages dont 177 pages d’index) est parue en août 2012. Les commandes doivent être adressées aux Presses Universitaires de France : revues@puf.com

Mireille CORBIER, director of L’Année épigraphique (Paris), announces that L’Année épigraphique 2009 (containing 1838 entries, and 876 pages including 177 pages of index) was published in August, 2012, and is now available. Orders should be sent to Presses Universitaires de France at revues@puf.com

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