Postgraduate Course in Epigraphy, Rome, June 27th–July 6th 2024

Posted on 2023-11-24 by Gabriel Bodard

(Posted on behalf of Courtney Quaintance.)

We are delighted to announce the Sixth Postgraduate Course in Epigraphy at the British School at Rome, June 27th  – July 6th 2024

Based at the British School at Rome, this taught course offers a nine-day introduction to the scholarship, publication and display of epigraphic materials from a variety of different approaches. Intended for postgraduate scholars of ancient history, archaeology, museum studies and the classics, the course examines the numerous contexts in which epigraphy is presented: in situ, museums, private collections, archives and in published formats (e.g. reference works and online databases). How do these contexts and the processes of documenting inscriptions shape our lens of perception? Experiencing epigraphy, in these different formats, is the best way to understand and address both the wonders and the difficulties of these sources.

The course consists of daily lectures, visits and practical activities at many of Rome’s museums, institutions and sites (including a trip to Ostia), with onsite instruction from leading professors and curators in the field. Practical activities such as drawing, squeezes, rubbings, object handling, a carving tutorial and a session at the CIL VI. (La Sapienza) are designed to provide unique hands-on interactions with sources, contexts and scholars in the field. Participants will also have an opportunity to further their own research through an independent project (generally a specific area of his/her epigraphic research) which will be developed during the course and presented in a short paper at the end of the course. Residence at the BSR includes accommodation (breakfast and dinner with residents from the BSR community), access to their collections (with 24-hour access to the library), and a year’s membership to the BSR.

Testimonials, reports and itineraries from previous courses, as well as an information pack for the 2024 course with details of how to apply, can be found on the BSR website: https://bsr.ac.uk/research-practice-courses/.

Queries about the course can also be sent to: Abigail.graham@sas.ac.uk.

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International Conference «Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean» (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 23-25 November 2023)

Posted on 2023-11-19 by Lorenzo Calvelli

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. WRITING AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IN THE ANCIENT WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (VENICE)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 23-25 November 2023

THURSDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2023
Ca’ Foscari, Aula Mario Baratto

14.30 WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Chair: Giovannella CRESCI

Maria DEL VALLE OJEDA CALVO (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Vice-Rector for Research)
Daniele BAGLIONI (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Director)
Daniele FERRARA (Direzione regionale Musei Veneto, Director)
Silvia ORLANDI (Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine, President)
Mª Dolores DOPICO (Collaborative Project «Aut oppressi serviunt aut recepti beneficio se obligatos putant II», Coordinator)
Lorenzo CALVELLI (Collaborative Project SPIN «SaInAT-Ve. Sacred Inscriptions from the Ancient Territory of Venetia», Coordinator)

15.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Olivier DE CAZANOVE (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Ricomporre la scena cultuale. Fonti documentarie plurime per lo studio dei luoghi di culto preromani e romani

16.00 FIRST SESSION, FIRST PART
COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES FROM THE IBERIAN AND ITALIAN PENINSULAS

Chair: Alfredo BUONOPANE

Mª Dolores DOPICO (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, USC); Armando REDENTOR (Universidad de Coimbra)
Las divinidades politeicas de la Hispania Citerior

Silvia ALFAYE (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Naturaleza, ritual y escritura rupestre en la Hispania romano-céltica

Juan SANTOS (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU); Santiago MARTINEZ (Museo de Segovia)
Religiosidad en la Celtiberia del Duero en época romana: divinidades y paisajes sagrados

Mª Cruz GONZALEZ (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV-EHU)
La integración de las divinidades locales en los panteones cívicos del Noroeste hispano: algunos ejemplos

Discussion

FRIDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2023
Ca’ Dolfin, Aula Magna Silvio Trentin

9.00 FIRST SESSION, SECOND PART
COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES FROM THE IBERIAN AND ITALIAN PENINSULAS

Chair: Claudia ANTONETTI

Adriano MAGGIANI (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Gian Luca GREGORI (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Un dio…tanti nomi. Divinità e devoti etruschi e romani nel santuario terapeutico di San Casciano dei Bagni

Maria Cristina BIELLA (Sapienza Università di Roma); Federico CORRADI (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Da Equi a Romani. Processi di ‘romanizzazione’ religiosa

Discussion

11.15 SECOND SESSION
POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Chair: Federica Fontana

14.30 THIRD SESSION
COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR STUDYING ANCIENT EPIGRAPHIC CULTURES

Chair: Alison COOLEY

Mike DONNELLY, Mark WILLIAMS (University of Warwick)
Applied 3D Scanning and 3D Printing in Cultural Heritage

Alex ATTRIDGE (University of Warwick)
3D Visualisation and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality

Cecilia MOSCARDO (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Per una mappatura digitale delle iscrizioni sacre della Venetia

Discussion

16.15 FOURTH SESSION, FIRST PART
THE VENETIA REGION FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES TO THE ROMAN WORLD

Chair: Stefania DE VIDO

Lorenzo CALVELLI, Giovannella CRESCI, Franco LUCIANI, Anna MARINETTI, Sabrina PESCE, Luca RIGOBIANCO, Patrizia SOLINAS
Scrivere nei santuari: oggetti, formule e azioni

Angela RUTA SERAFINI, Luigi SPERTI, Luca ZAGHETTO
Le pratiche performative collettive e individuali

Giovanna GAMBACURTA, Silvia GARAVELLO, Mauro ROTTOLI
Il ruolo dei sacrifici e delle offerte

Discussion
Discussant: Sabina CRIPPA

SATURDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2023
Ca’ Foscari, Sala Marino Berengo

9.00 FOURTH SESSION, SECOND PART
THE VENETIA REGION FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES TO THE ROMAN WORLD

Chair: Loredana CAPUIS

Giovanna GAMBACURTA, Emanuela MURGIA, Angela RUTA SERAFINI, Margherita TIRELLI
La manutenzione periodica dei santuari

Tomaso LUCCHELLI, Cecilia MOSCARDO
Il metallo e la moneta nei santuari

Lorenzo CALVELLI, Giovannella CRESCI, Franco LUCIANI, Anna MARINETTI, Sabrina PESCE, Luca RIGOBIANCO, Patrizia SOLINAS
Scrivere nei santuari: l’atto della scrittura e il suo insegnamento

Discussion
Discussant: Sabina CRIPPA

12.00 CLOSING REMARKS

Sylvia ESTIENNE, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

If you wish to attend the Conference as an online participant, please register here:
https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpceCprDMvE9VUYQ-0oouP6Dx5shF-gGhD

International Conference Writing and Religious Traditions poster web

 

 

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BES Autumn Colloquium and AGM 2023

Posted on 2023-11-06 by irenesalvo

Saturday, 18 November 2023

Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London (r. G37) – in person only

Programme

​9.30-10.00
Registration & Coffee
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10.00-10.30
Andrea Raggi (Pisa) & Pierangelo Buongiorno (Macerata), A new imperial letter from southern Etruria

10.30-11.00
Chiara Battisti (Princeton), The heroised dead and the hero cult in eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Local and regional perspectives

11.00-11.30
Jean-Sébastien Balzat (Mariemont), New epigraphic documents from Roman Sparta

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00-12.30
Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw), STONE-MASTERS: A new ERC-funded project exploring the world of stonecutters and mosaicists in Late Antiquity

12.30-13.00
Annie Burman (Uppsala), Epigraphy’s true colours: Polychromy and the development of laboratory analysis of paint pigment on paper squeezes

13.00 Lunch Break

14.30 AGM (Members only)

15.00-15.30
Federico Ugolini (Siena) & Deborah Cvikel (Haifa), Inscriptions from the timber of the Late Antique Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck

15.30-16.00
Alfredo Tosques (Tübingen), The inscription of Frentrani and Hercules Nouritanus at Lilybaeum (AE 2016, 622 = I.Sicily 4368)

16.00-16.30
Evelien de Graaf (Leuven), Saskia Peels-Matthey & Silvia Stopponi (Groningen), Potential and challenges of AGILe, the first automatic lemmatizer for ancient Greek inscriptions

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00-17.30
Marco Dosi (KCL), The dissemination of Belisarius’ consulship in Ostrogothic Italy, AD 535

17.30-18.00
James Hua (Oxford), Speleopigraphy: The spatiality of inscriptions in ancient Greek caves, ritual, and social identities

18.00-18.15 Short Report
Benet Salway (UCL), A puzzling epitaph from Cyrenaica

18.15 Finale: Posters & Drinks

  • Charlotte Bell (Liverpool), Senātus Femina: A consideration of the epigraphic evidence for the female senate in Roman Britain
  • Thijs Kersten (Nijmegen), Religion and language selection in funerary inscriptions from Roman Imperial Syracusae and Catina, 1-500 CE
  • Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen), PPRET: Inscriptions pertaining to the Praetorian Prefects from 284 to 395 AD​

Please register to attend the colloquium by emailing i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk by 13 November 2023. 

There is a registration fee (£15 for ordinary participants; £10 for student participants; £8 for BES members; £5 for BES student members), which includes light refreshments during the day (tea, coffee & biscuits, but not lunch) and a glass of wine and nibbles at the end of the colloquium.

​The Colloquium is generously supported by The Institute of Classical Studies.

More information about the Colloquium and the British Epigraphy Society can be found at this link.

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Erased from Existence? Reading Revisionist History on the Urban Landscape (London, November 8, 2023)

Posted on 2023-10-18 by Gabriel Bodard

The Cutting Edge: discussions in epigraphy.
8 November 2023, 17:00 – Senate House, Institute of Classical Studies (in person only)

Erased from Existence? Reading Revisionist History on the Urban Landscape
Led by Abigail Graham

Monumental erasures often represented with double brackets [[ ]] in published texts and/or described as “damnatio memoriae” (a modern term) can present an image of uniformity in purpose, function, and outcome. In reality, however, erasures could have very different appearances, aims, and outcomes on the monumental landscapes: some were complete, some partial, and others reinscribed. Some erasures remained legible, some rough and others polished. The physicality of an erasure played a key role in how it was interpreted by a broader audience of viewers. Rather than forgetting or obfuscating the past, the shadows cast by erasures were often more visible and likely to catch the eye of passing viewers, regardless of literacy. Do erasures present an image of uniformity, or might they reveal more about the limitations and practicalities of this process? How might these acts impact ancient viewers and their memories? Who carried out these erasures? Between the brackets, there is a great deal we don’t know about this phenomenon.

In this interactive workshop, we will explore the physicality and variations in monumental erasures in a series of case studies, primarily from Roman Ephesus, that assess the many faces of condemnation (in inscriptions, accompanying art and historical accounts) as well as practical constraints in the process. In closing, we will also consider longer-term consequences and reception in modern cultural heritage.

Free to attend, but registration essential. Book at: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/cutting-edge-discussions-epigraphy-erased-existence-reading-revisionist-history-urban

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Call for Papers: Epigraphy.info VIII Workshop (Berlin)

Posted on 2023-10-04 by davideibeck

CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS

The eighth Epigraphy.info workshop will take place in Berlin (Germany), from 3-5 April 2024, hosted by the Department of Digital History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and with the courtesy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).

We are planning an open meeting to discuss and try different tools related to Digital Epigraphy. If you are already part of the Epigraphy.info community or just interested in Digital Epigraphy, we warmly invite you to come to our meeting in Berlin. During the workshop, we will explain the objectives and expectations of Epigraphy.info and invite new members to get involved. The meeting is ideally planned as an in-person event, especially to present a paper or poster, but you can attend and discuss remotely. We might record some of the presentations and talks and later make them available via the Epigraphy.info Youtube channel and place the posters on the Epigraphy.info website.

The meeting will include presentations and training sessions. Part of it will be related to current Digital Epigraphy projects worldwide and we encourage scholars who work on Digital Epigraphy to present proposals adapted to a wide variety of formats:

  • Panels for those scholars who want to discuss a topic or have a specific agenda. We will provide space to promote academic discussion.
  • Papers for scholars who want to present their project or results of a Project Research.
  • Posters to present news, education projects, updates on existing projects etc.
  • Hands-on sessions. We are exploring different options such as hackathons, and presentations of a new tool followed by training (20 minutes presentation + 20 minutes training). If a group thinks it would be useful for the community, we encourage to present a proposal. If you would like to provide more extended training, please, reach out, so we can accommodate you.

For those interested, please send your abstract (around 200 words for papers and posters, 400 words for panels and hands-on sessions) before November 30th to the Steering Committee at info@epigraphy.info. We will notify selected participants and circulate a provisional program by the end of December.

The Steering Committee of Epigraphy.info

Call for Papers as PDF: Call_for_Papers_Epigraphy_Workshop_8

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L’Année épigraphique 2020

Posted on 2023-09-18 by Tom Elliott

Mireille Corbier (corbier@msh-paris.fr), directeur de L’Année épigraphique, fait savoir que L’Année épigraphique 2020 (1720 notices et 1043 pages dont 234 pages d’index) a été publiée en août 2023 et est disponible. Les commandes doivent être adressées aux Presses Universitaires de France (revues@humensis.com).

Mireille Corbier (corbier@msh-paris.fr), director of L’Année épigraphique, announces that L’Année épigraphique 2020 (containing 1720 entries, and 1043 pages, including 234 pages of index) was published in August, 2023, and is now available. Orders should be sent to Presses Universitaires de France at revues@humensis.com

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Digital Epigraphy vacancy, Maynooth, Ireland

Posted on 2023-09-15 by Gabriel Bodard

The OG(H)AM project, based in Maynooth (near Dublin), Ireland is currently advertising a 9-month research position from 1 Nov 2023, focusing on encoding ogham inscriptions (IRL & UK) using EpiDoc for a database (EXist-db) on ogham. The work will probably also include some fieldwork assistance in recording ogham stones using photogrammetry. Please help to spread the word to anyone who might be interested to apply and note that although the advertisement says that knowledge of early Irish is essential, this is actually more desirable than essential and experience in EpiDoc, EXist-db and digital epigraphy generally would be equally desirable.  Application details.

Contact Dr Nora White with any queries at the email address below.

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CfP: Voiceless writing? Epigrams, performance and oral poetry

Posted on 2023-09-12 by Alice Bencivenni

Università di Bologna, FICLIT, 30th-31st May 2024

(posted on behalf of the organizers, Flavia Licciardello and Stella Sacchetti)

Whereas the most recent debate on epigrams focused on their relationship with their material context (see e.g. Petrovic-Petrovic-Thomas 2019), in our workshop we wish to investigate the relationship between epigrams, orality and performance, from a diachronic perspective from the archaic age, through Hellenistic and imperial time up to late antiquity.

We would like to invite proposals that can address, but are not limited to, the following questions:

– What is the relationship of epigrams with famous ‘oral’ genres beyond epos and elegy, such as theatre and lyric poetry in general? Do e.g. dialogic epigrams stage a dramatic exchange in miniature and are there recognisable references to and/or points in common with tragedy, comedy or dithyramb? Do epigrams consciously compete with epinicians and in presenting themselves as an alternative or complement to these what do they retain from their oral performance? How do epigrams explicitly or allusively address their writtenness and its limit (or potential) as opposed to oral poetry?

– What form of performance can we imagine for symposial epigrams? Do the texts maintain some elements that reveal an original performance? Do, for instance, slightly different versions of a poem signal that the text had been adapted to suit different circumstances and occasions of performance? What is the relationship with popular oral genres connected to the universe of symposial epigrams (e.g. the paraklausithyron)?

– What spaces and occasions can we imagine for the performance of epigrams beyond the Hellenistic time, in Imperial Rome or in late antiquity?

– What is the relationship between books of epigrams and oral performance? Do epigrammatic papyri preserve some elements that betray, at least for some of them, their use for some form of performance (e.g. in a symposium)? Is it possible to imagine that some collections of epigrams were formed and circulated for performative contexts?

– Were some inscribed epigrams specifically destined to be read aloud and was their reading maybe part of a ritual? Were there other occasions for such performance that were analogous to those suggested by Petrovic (2016) for the oral performance of casualty lists and commemorative verse-inscriptions?

Full text of the Call for papers – deadline 30th September 2023

 

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International Digital Epigraphy Association small grants

Posted on 2023-09-04 by Alice Bencivenni

IDEA call for small grants 2023 is now open. Also this year IDEA  will be able to support up to two 1.000 EUR grants and the deadline to submit your proposals is September 17th, 2023.

The grant will be assigned to small projects submitted by members of the association – info about membership here – and coherent with the scope of IDEA’s activities, as stated in the Article 5 of the Charter:

Art. 5 – “The goal of the association is the promotion of the use of advanced methodologies in the research, study, enhancement, and publication of “written monuments,” beginning with those of antiquity, in order to increase knowledge of them at multiple levels of expertise, from that of specialists to that of the occasional tourist. In order to reach its statutory goals, the association promotes, organizes, and manages conventions, conferences, exhibits (including virtual exhibits), prizes, and training courses (including online courses); it conducts editorial activities; it promotes and supports the maintenance and efficiency of the portal created by the European project EAGLE (European network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy); it participates in and promotes the participation of its members in projects and initiatives, including in collaboration with third parties; it promotes initiatives in the interest of its members; it performs and encourages studies and research; it collects data and news of interest to the activity of its members; it carries out consultations in favor of its members; it more generally carries out all activities useful for the achievement of the goals that the association proposes.”

Every application should include a budget breakdown and an explanation of how their project fits IDEA’s priorities.

The Board will evaluate all the proposals received by the deadline and communicate the winner of the grant two to three weeks after the deadline.

Looking forward to receiving your proposals at: idea-association@aedeka.com

Alice Bencivenni

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Studying Written Artefacts: Hamburg, September 27–29 2023

Posted on 2023-08-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Conference ‘Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives’ (Hamburg, 27-29 September 2023)

The Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (Universität Hamburg) is glad to announce its main conference ‘Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives’. This is an in-person event. The conference will take place over three days of panel presentations structured in three parallel sessions, on 27–29 September 2023. It will provide a unique forum for sharing experiences and views among the international community working on written artefacts, showcasing pioneering research, and developing new ideas.

As for written artefacts we take the broad working definition of any artificial or natural object that have written or pictorial (visual) signs. This definition includes the traditional notion of manuscript, in all attested book forms, and inscription, and at the same time goes well beyond these broad categories. Mirroring the multifaceted research of the Cluster and encouraging a comparative perspective in geographical and chronological terms, the conference will draw attention to emerging research topics and innovative methodological approaches from within the humanities and natural and computer sciences. Contributions will focus, for instance, on the study of creation, transmission, and archiving of written artefacts; on single written artefacts important for their revealing features or their challenging typology and categorisation; on small and large scale theoretical reflections on written artefacts; on the ethical aspects of research on written artefacts.

The full programme and the link for registration can be found here: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/uwa2023.html

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us (giulia.dovico@uni-hamburg.de).

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“Support PHI” Petition

Posted on 2023-08-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Most readers will probably have seen the petition posted on the Change.org platform by a team of scholars, aiming to demonstrate the importance of the Searchable Greek Inscriptions database, hosted by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), and calling upon PHI to adopt a more open and collaborative approach to its maintenance and longterm upkeep.

For the original petition and updates, including a brief PHI response, see https://www.change.org/p/support-and-expand-the-packard-humanities-institute-s-greek-inscriptions-database.

The editorial boards of Current Epigraphy take no collective position on this matter.

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Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions (Dec 4–7, 2023, Köln)

Posted on 2023-07-24 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for applications
International Workshop “Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions”

December 4th – 7th, 2023 | University of Cologne (and online)

The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Cologne invites applications for the International Workshop “Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions”, organised in the framework of the project “DiBS – Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. For more information on this project see https://uni.koeln/NXPQU.Assoc. Prof. Tsvetan Vasilev and Dr. Dimitar Iliev from the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia will introduce the audience to the fascinating world of post-Byzantine church murals and their accompanying texts. Topics like the place of the text in the iconographic programme of an Orthodox religious building, text reuse and intertextuality, church inscriptions as a part of cultural code and group identity on the Balkans during the Ottoman period, language contact and multilingualism, etc., will be discussed. The participants will also be introduced to the digital methods of encoding and visualisation of such inscriptions, including EpiDoc XML, front-end tools, indices and authority files.Structure: The workshop will be hybrid and will take place from December 4th to 7th at the University of Cologne. Remote participation is not only possible but strongly encouraged. To ensure the workshop runs smoothly, the number of participants is limited to 15.Eligibility: Postgraduate (Master or PhD) students in the fields of Byzantine Studies, Classics, Medieval History, or Digital Humanities, or early career researchers (less than three years since defense of the thesis) in the same fields. Prior training in epigraphy is not a prerequisite, though desirable.Application: Please fill in the application form by October 6th. Successful applicants will be informed by mid-October. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Martina Filosa at martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de.  The full call for application can be found here: https://uni.koeln/M6KQG.

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