BES Autumn Meeting, Nov 19, 2011

Posted on 2011-05-27 by Gabriel Bodard

The British Epigraphy Society
Autumn Colloquium and AGM 2011

Saturday, 19 November 2011
Institute of Classical Studies
Senate House, London (G22/26)

10.00-11.00 Registration and Morning Coffee
11.00-12.00 Morning Session I
Prof. Robin Osborne (Cambridge), The epigraphic history of Thespiai

12.00-13.00 Morning Session II
Prof. Silvia Orlandi (Rome), Re-editing CIL VI, Inscriptiones in Amphitheatro Flavio repertae: new methods and results

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Epigraphic talks in the British Museum (choice of one):
a) The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, 9th c. BC (Dr K. Radner)
b) The bronze mirror showing Herekele and Mlacuch, 5th c. BC (Dr J. Clackson)
c) The Oscan inscription from the Porta di Nola at Pompeii, 2nd c. BC (Prof. M. Crawford)
d) The ossuary of Nikanor of Alexandria, c. 1st c. BC/ 1st c. AD (Dr M. Williams)
e) Two imperial letters to Ephesus, 2nd c. AD (Dr B. Salway)

14.30 AGM (Members only)

15.00 Afternoon Session I
Prof. Thomas Corsten (Vienna), Epigraphic sidelights on the history of Lycia
16.00 Virtual Epigraphy
– Dr Karen Radner (UCL): ‘SAA Online’
– Prof. Silvia Orlandi (Rome): ‘EAGLE/EDR’
– Dr Gabriel Bodard (KCL): ‘IOSPE (Black Sea)’
16.30 Afternoon Tea

17.00 Afternoon Session II
Prof. Michael Crawford (UCL), Does Diocletian’s Prices Edict tell us anything about the ancient economy?

18.00 Field Epigraphy
– Dr Nicholas Milner (Beckenham): ‘News from Oinoanda’
– Prof. Thomas Corsten (Vienna): ‘Epigraphic news from the Kibyratis’

18.30 Finale: Young epigraphy – Posters and drinks

Programme and registration form

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Two new volumes of Making of Roman Inscriptions

Posted on 2011-05-13 by Gabriel Bodard

Two new volumes of Richard Grasby’s magesterial Processes in the Making of Roman Inscriptions series have appeared from the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, priced at £5.00 each. Study 1, CIL VI 960; Study 2, RIB 330. (Studies 8-11 are already available; 3-7 are forthcoming.)

I attach the order form as a PDF to this post.

Please contact margaret.sasanow@classics.ox.ac.uk for more information.

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Practical Epigraphy Workshop, Corbridge, 28-30 June 2011

Posted on 2011-04-15 by Charlotte Tupman

A Practical Epigraphy Workshop is taking place for those who are interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material. The workshop is aimed at graduate students, but other interested parties are welcome to apply, whether or not they have previous experience. With expert tuition, participants will learn the practical aspects of how to record and study inscriptions. The programme will include the making of squeezes; photographing and measuring inscribed stones; and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries. Space on this workshop is limited by the size of the available study area to eight places, and on this occasion we shall be offering Roman epigraphy only. Instructors will include Roger Tomlin and Charlotte Tupman.

Course fees will be in the region of £70 – £90 but, as in previous years, we hope to be able to offer a number of generous bursaries. Participants on the course will stay in Bed & Breakfast accommodation in Corbridge (we will book this for you but regret that the cost is not included in the course fee).

If you wish to apply for a place on this course, or for further details, please contact Charlotte Tupman by e-mail as soon as possible: charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is 6th May.

The Practical Epigraphy Workshop is sponsored by the British Epigraphy Society, an independent ‘chapter’ of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine.

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Epigraphic papers at Triennial Conference

Posted on 2011-03-29 by Gabriel Bodard

Registration open for Triennial Conference, University of Cambridge, 25-28 July 2011

Hosted by the Faculty of Classics, the Celebration of Classics will see a remarkable line up of international scholars brought together in a novel format for such an event. There will, of course, be some very distinguished plenary lecturers, and there will also be two outreach evenings with well-known figures from the media and literary world. But the centre of the event is a set of seminars where leading classicists will be presenting their cutting edge work in a seminar format with extensive opportunities for discussion (each paper will have at least 45 minutes for comment and questions). Each day has only two such seminar slots, but there will be papers of interest and relevance to epigraphers on every day:

  • Jonathan Prag ‘The spread of epigraphic culture in the Hellenistic West’.
  • Kristina Milnor ‘The Epistolary Habit: Letters and Letter-writing in Pompeian Graffiti’.
  • Robin Osborne ‘The citizen club and other myths about classical Athens’.
  • Peregrine Horden ‘Charity begins at Rome?’.
  • Peter van Dommelen ‘Connected Communities: Migration and Rural Settlement in the Ancient Western Mediterranean’.
  • Catherine Steel ‘The Senate in late Republican Rome: who, what and why?’.
  • Dominic Rathbone ‘Roman economic history: the (ab)use of Egypt’.

There will also be plenty of time for debate as well as meeting old and new friends. We are hoping that you will want to come to Cambridge and participate in this event.

For more information about the conference please go to https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/faculty/seminars_conferences/triennial_conference/.

Professor Stephen Oakley
Chair, Organising Committee

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Hispania Epigraphica 16 (2007)

Posted on 2011-03-08 by Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja

El Archivo Epigráfico de Hispania de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid  dedica este nuevo volumen  a la memoria de J. Corell i Vicent y de F. López Pardo y en él se recopilan las referencias a inscripciones publicadas principalmente en el año 2007, aunque también se contemplan algunas otras hasta el año 2010.
En total,  se recogen 680 entradas, correspondientes a epígrafes paleohispánicos, latinos, griegos, cristianos y visigodos, que se relacionan según su procedencia (609 de España y 71 de Portugal); 494 se consideran inéditos y 196 presentan comentario.
Entre los conjuntos epigráficos que se han tenido en cuenta están los corpora de la Colonia Norba Caesarina, publicado por J. Esteban Ortega; de la civitas Igaeditanorum, de A. M. de Sá; de los carmina béticos, de C. Fernández Martínez et alii; y el de los graffiti segobricenses, de J. M. Abascal y R. Cebrián. Entre las inscripciones inéditas, destaca la que menciona a Betatun, nueva divinidad ibérica, procedente de Fuerte del Rey, Jaén (nº 446); el altar a Júpiter de Lamego, dedicado por la civitas Coilarnorum (nº 678); el ara a Ilurbeda, procedente de San Martín de Trevejo, Cáceres (nº 129); las dedicatorias imperiales a Tiberio de Corduba (nº 165) y Minas de Riotinto (nº 440) así como sus dos miliarios, de las inmediaciones de Segobriga. También son reseñables la nueva statera de Valencia (nº 577); una dedicación a Marte que documenta un procurator Augusti provincia Lusitaniae inédito (nº 12); dos carmina funerarios reutilizados en el circo de Segobriga (nn. 177 (en la portada) y 178); el epitafio de la nutrix Amma Nova de Villalpando, Zamora (nº 599); las pizarras esgrafiadas de Minas de Riotinto, que debieron de pertenecer a un archivo contable (nn. 431-438); los nuevos graffiti rupestre del santuario de Peñalba de Villastar, con una dedicación a Lugoobos (nº 568a); la nueva edición y análisis del ara dedicada a Denso, procedente de Felgar, Bragança (nº 613); y el estudio de la famosa inscripción de Antonius Flavinus, de Monsaraz, Évora, que vuelve a ser considerada falsa (nº 655). Entre las llamadas «paleohispánicas», son mencionables el colgante de Sabadell (nº 49); la nueva lectura del plomo de Penáguila, Alicante (nº 5); el análisis lingüístico e interpretación del plomo de Castilleja de Iniesta (?), Cuenca (nº 151); la nueva edición del plomo procedente de Grau Vell, en Sagunto (nº 573).
Se incluyen, como es habitual, unos detallados índices epigráficos (págs. 245-303) -que permiten búsquedas rápidas y completas -, listados con la bibliografía referida (págs. 307-344) y con las principales novedades aparecidas entre 2009 y 2010.
La dirección del Archivo Epigráfico de Hispania es: Escuela Universitaria de Estadística, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid; tlfno. 913943953, e-mail: archivoepigrafico@filol.ucm.es. .
Los fondos del Archivo (que incluyen una exhaustiva información sobre las cerca de 24.000 inscripciones de Hispania), abierto a investigadores y estudiosos, están siendo incluidos en una gran base de datos europea, en el marco del programa de la U.E. Culture 2000; una muestra de la misma se puede ver en Hispania Epigraphica Online

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Epigraphic Summer Academy at DAI in Rome

Posted on 2011-03-01 by Gabriel Bodard

BERLIN-BRANDENBURGISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
SEMINAR FÜR ALTE GESCHICHTE UND EPIGRAPHIK, UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG
KOMMISSION FÜR ALTE GESCHICHTE UND EPIGRAPHIK DES DAI

AUSSCHREIBUNG FÜR EINE

EPIGRAPHISCHE SOMMERAKADEMIE

ROM, 21. BIS 31. JULI 2011

Die internationale Akademie richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Studierende (in der Regel nach der ersten Zwischenprüfung) sowie an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden der Alten Geschichte und der benachbarten altertumswissenschaftlichen und historischen Fächer. Sie soll der Vertiefung der Kompetenzen von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern in der lateinischen Epigraphik dienen.

Aus dem Programm: Praktische Arbeiten an Inschriften im Museo Nazionale Romano und auf dem Forum Romanum, Epigraphische Spaziergänge durch Rom, Vorstellung großer Inschriftenprojekte, Diskussion über aktuelle Fragestellungen zum epigraphic habit und zur Funktion von Inschriften in der politischen Kommunikation, Besuch von Ostia etc. Ein detailliertes Programm der Veranstaltung (mit Themenliste für Referate) wird den Teilnehmern rechtzeitig zugestellt. Anreisetag ist Donnerstag, der 21. Juli 2011; Abreisetag Sonntag, der 31. Juli 2011.

Leitung und Durchführung: Rudolf HAENSCH (Komm. f. Alte Geschichte des DAI, München), Manfred G. SCHMIDT (CIL, Berlin), Christian WITSCHEL (Universität Heidelberg); in Kooperation mit der Abt. Rom des DAI sowie der Università ,La Sapienza’ di Roma.

Von den Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern werden gute Kenntnisse des Lateinischen erwartet, außerdem Grundkenntnisse in der Epigraphik (in der Regel durch Nachweis der Teilnahme an einem einschlägigen universitären Kurs). Unterrichtssprache ist in der Regel Deutsch (gegebenenfalls aber auch Englisch und Italienisch). Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 12 beschränkt. Zu den Reisekosten wird ein Zuschuß (voraussichtlich ca. 80,- Euro pro Person) gewährt; die Übernachtungskosten werden von den Veranstaltern übernommen.

Bewerbungen (mit Lebenslauf, Zwischenprüfungs- oder Abschlußzeugnis, Nachweis über absolvierte Seminare oder Übungen mit epigraphischen Inhalten, Interessensschwerpunkte, ggf. auch Projektskizzen zu Examens-/Magisterarbeiten oder Dissertationen) richten Sie bitte bis zum 15. April 2011 an:

Prof. Dr. Christian Witschel
Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik
der Universität Heidelberg
Marstallhof 4
69117 Heidelberg
E-mail: christian.witschel@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de

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epigraphic titles available for review from BMCR

Posted on 2011-03-01 by Gabriel Bodard

In titles available from BMCR this month, a few (some major) epigraphic titles stand out:

*Baumbach, Manuel, Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic (edd.). Archaic and classical Greek epigram. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 439 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521118057.

*Butz, Patricia A. The art of the Hekatompedon Inscription and the birth of the stoikhedon style. Monumenta Graeca et Romana 16. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. xxiii, 172 p. $179.00. ISBN 9789004183087.

*Cotton, Hannah M., Leah Di Segni, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Israel Roll and Ada Yardeni (edd.). Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume 1: Jerusalem, Part 1: 1 – 704. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae. A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xxiv, 694 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110222197.

*Eck, Werner. Monument und Inschrift: gesammelte Aufsätze zur senatorischen Repräsentation in der Kaiserzeit (herausgegeben von Walter Ameling und Johannes Heinrichs). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd 288. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xii, 442 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110246940.

*Wiegels, Rainer. Kleine Schriften zur Epigraphik und Militargeschichte der germanischen Provinzen (edited by Krešimir Matijević and Wolfgang Spickermann). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 643 p. € 82.00. ISBN 9783515097321.

If interested, contact BMCR (not this blog).

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Seminario “Epigrafía, sociedad y cultura en la antigua Roma”

Posted on 2011-02-28 by Tom Elliott

Over at e-pigraphia, we learn about a seminar on “Epigraphy, society and culture in ancient Rome.” It is organized by the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica and will be held 2-4 March 2011.

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Cambridge Epigraphic Saturday

Posted on 2011-02-22 by Gabriel Bodard

Epigraphic Saturday in Cambridge on 19 March 2011: a day of lectures and shorter presentations in Room G.21 of the Classics Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

10.00 Coffee
10.30-11.00 Nicholas Milner: New Hypsistos dedications from Oenoanda
11.00-11.30 Branka Migotti and Marguerite Hirt: About a stone from Certissia
11.30-12.30 Manfred Schmidt (Brandenburg-Berlin Academy): The goblets from Vicarello (CIL XI 3281-3284): their date and purpose
12.30-2.00 Lunch (available in Newnham College cafeteria)
2.00-2.30 Michael Crawford: What would a rescript look like if one met one in a pub?
2.30-3.00 Ulrike Roth: Sexing ancient weavers (not in a pub)
3.00-3.30 Muriel Moser: Golden statues for a Praetorian Prefect: re-asserting Imperial authority in Late Antiquity
3.30-4.00 Francesco Trifilo: Representing age in the Roman Empire. Stages of life and life approximation on epitaphs from Italy, Africa and key provinces of the Western Empire
4.00 Tea

Full details online.

Could anyone interested in attending please let Dorothy Thompson know by e-mail (djt17@cam.ac.uk).

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Greek Epigraphic Society

Posted on 2011-02-22 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Nikolaos Papazarkadas:

I think that followers of Current Epigraphy would be interested to know that the Greek Epigraphic Society (Ελληνική Επιγραφική Εταιρεία) has recently launched its website:

https://www.greekepigraphicsociety.org.gr

The website includes, amongst others, epigraphic news (from discoveries of inscriptions to announcements of epigraphic events) and information on the periodical HOROS and the Society’s other publications (Horos Supplements, monographs, Festschrifts, etc.), which have hitherto been rather hard to find.

Nikolaos Papazarkadas
UCB, Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy

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CIEGL 2012 Berlin, Newsletter & CFP

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Gabriel Bodard

The first newsletter for the 2012 Congressus Internationionalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae to be held in Berlin (27-31 August, 2012) is being circulated, and includes the call for papers and posters, and a list of suggested panel topics, including:

  • Harbours: infrastructure and society
  • The world of the Military
  • Inscriptions in private space
  • Inscriptions and the digital world
  • History of epigraphic scholarship
  • The measurement of space
  • Sanctuaries and cults
  • Inscriptions and Christian cult places
  • The dialogue of the living and the dead: tombs and their inscriptions
  • Space, image and inscription

The deadline for submission of short papers under these topics is March 31, 2011. Full details in the newsletter (below).

Newsletter_01_110216.pdf

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BMCR review of Maurin/Navarro

Posted on 2011-02-16 by Gabriel Bodard

In BMCR 2001.02.41, Hagith Sivan reviews:

Louis Maurin, Milagros Navarro Caballero, Inscriptions latines d’Aquitaine (ILA): Bordeaux. Pessac: Ausonius, 2010. Pp. 688. ISBN 9782356130259. €70.00.

At the end of this review, Sivan asks the now increasingly common question:

Let me end with a question. In this age of rapid expansion of electronic databases do we really need a very hefty (15 pounds? 20?) and rather expensive volume of local inscriptions of a city that even in the fond terms of its successful son ranked no higher than twentieth in the order of famous cities (and would have ranked lower by less biased observers)? I am asking not only because epigraphic databases have become widespread and accessible but also because I narrowly avoided a major injury to my feet when I accidentally dropped this large volume on the floor. Over a decade ago John Drinkwater had asked the same question when reviewing another volume in this series (CR 50.2 (2000), 685). It is to be hoped that this contribution will become available soon in a digital format.

I leave readers to answer that question (discussion in comments here welcome).

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