Practical Epigraphy Workshop, Oxford 12-14 April 2011

Posted on 2011-02-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Classics Subject Centre Practical Epigraphy Workshop for University Lecturers/Postdoctoral staff
12-14 April 2011 Classics Centre/Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

A Practical Epigraphy Workshop is taking place for those who are interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material (Greek and Latin). The workshop is aimed at lecturers in post and postdoctoral status academics in UK HE institutions, whether or not they have previous experience of epigraphy. With expert tuition provided by members of the British Epigraphy Society, participants will learn the practical aspects of how to record and study inscriptions. The programme will include the making of squeezes; photographing and recording inscribed stones; reading and transcribing squeezes; and the production of editions (transcriptions, lemmata, translations and commentaries).

The workshop will take place in Oxford and be based in the Classics Centre, with the support of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Classics Faculty, University of Oxford), and work with the epigraphical collection in the recently re-opened Ashmolean Museum (Department of Antiquities).

The workshop will start on Tuesday 12th April 2011 at 14.00 and run until 14.00 Thursday 14th April; there will be two early evening talks on the Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Workshop will provide lunches on Wednesday and Thursday; an evening meal Tuesday for all those involved in the Workshop; bed and breakfast accommodation at St John’s College; and the materials required to complete the workshop.

The Workshop is supported by the Classics Subject Centre. The cost of the workshop for participants (to include accommodation and meals) is £50. Those who would otherwise be prevented from attending by the cost should mention this in their application, as bursaries may be available.

Those interested in taking part should write to Sarah Francis (classhea@liverpool.ac.uk) at the Classics Subject Centre explaining briefly how participation in the Workshop will enhance the applicant’s teaching and research profile and how experience on this workshop might enable the Higher Education environment in which the participant is operating to develop the teaching of epigraphy. Participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts and should state their preference.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 3rd March 2011.

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Linguaggio politico e lessico storiografico in età ellenistica, 21-23 febbraio 2011, program of an international conference in Rome

Posted on 2011-02-13 by Lucia Criscuolo

Linguaggio politico e lessico storiografico
in età ellenistica

Lunedì 21 febbraio 2011, Aula Odeion, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma – piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
Ore 15.00 Saluti delle autorità accademiche e introduzione dei lavori
Ore 15.30-16.30 Relazioni:
Manuela Mari (Università di Cassino) Introduzione
Giovanni Salmeri (Università di Pisa) Storia delle mentalità e lessico politico greco
Guido Schepens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Hellenistic Historiography: an Introduction
16.30 Pausa
17.00-17.40 Relazioni:
Leone Porciani (Università di Pavia) Koinos: aspetti della nozione di “comune”, “collettivo” e “generale” tra politica, società e storiografia
Mario Mazza (Sapienza Università di Roma) L’atto di nascita dell’Ellenismo? Considerazioni sulla c.d. “Lettera di Aristotele ad Alessandro sulla politica verso le città”
17.40-18.30 Discussione

Martedì 22 febbraio 2011, Università Europea di Roma – Via degli Aldobrandeschi 190
Ore 9.30 Saluti delle autorità accademiche
Ore 9.45-10.45 Relazioni:
Cinzia Bearzot (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Paolo Andrea Tuci (Università Europea di Roma), Il lessico della collaborazione e dell’opposizione politica in Polibio
Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh), Expressions of power in Polybius’ Histories
10.45 Pausa
11.15-12.15 Relazioni:
Paolo Desideri (Università di Firenze), Terminologia imperiale in Polibio
Laura Mecella, Umberto Roberto (Università Europea di Roma), Isotimia tra Roma e la Persia: una testimonianza dell’età di Alessandro Severo
12.15-13.15 Discussione
13.15 Pranzo

Ore 15.00-16.00 Relazioni
Giuseppe Zecchini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Aderiton in Polibio
John Thornton (Sapienza Università di Roma), Tragedia, emozioni e verità nella polemica di Polibio contro Filarco
Paola Lombardi (Sapienza Università di Roma), Parole nuove per nuovi equilibri: su alcuni termini del lessico epigrafico politico di età ellenistica
16.00 Pausa
16.30-17.15 Relazioni
Biagio Virgilio (Università di Pisa), Linguaggi e forme della comunicazione e del potere fra re ellenistici e città
Daniela Motta (Università di Palermo), I soldati nelle città: sul lessico della ‘buona condotta’ in decreti ellenistico-romani
17.15-18.00 Discussione

Mercoledì 23 febbraio 2011, Aula Odeion, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma – piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
Ore 9.30-10.40 Relazioni
Pierre Carlier (Université Paris X – Nanterre), Il linguaggio della Pace del Re
Stefania De Vido (Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari), Stratego, tiranno, re. Le ambigue parole del potere nella Sicilia di IV secolo
Stefano Ferrucci (Università di Siena-Grosseto), L’ambigua virtù. Philotimia nell’Atene degli oratori
10.40-11.15 Pausa
11.15-12.00 Relazioni
Miltiadis Hatzopoulos (K.E.R.A., Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation), Le vocabulaire de la prise de décision dans les sources littéraires et épigraphiques de la Macédoine antique
Anna Magnetto (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa – École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), Presbeis e presbeis autokratores in età classica ed ellenistica
12.00-13.00 Discussione
13.00 Pranzo

Ore 15.00-15.45 Relazioni
Paschalis Paschidis (K.E.R.A., Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation), “Being a friend of…”. Philoi and philia between poleis and royal courts in the Hellenistic period
Andrea Raggi (Università di Pisa), Il lessico dei privilegi in età ellenistica e romana
15.45-16.15 Pausa
16.15-17.15 Relazioni
Adolfo La Rocca (Sapienza Università di Roma), Apuleio e gli ekklesiastai
Angelos Chaniotis (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton), Emotional language in Hellenistic decrees and Hellenistic histories
17.15-18.15 Discussione
18.15 John K. Davies (University of Liverpool), Conclusioni

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Research fellowship, Warwick

Posted on 2011-01-27 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwared for Alison Cooley. (I understand that applications from epigraphers are especially welcome.)

Dept of Classics and Ancient History, Warwick invites applications for a research fellowship in Classics. £27,319 – £35,646 pa, Fixed Term Contract for 3 years from October 2011. The successful candidate will research on any aspect of the ancient Greek and Roman world compatible with departmental interests and undertake limited teaching. Requires a PhD in a relevant field and a record of quality work in Greek and Roman studies, preferably with a background in epigraphy or numismatics/ancient economy.

Application deadline: Wednesday 23 February 2011; Interview date: early to mid March 2011

https://secure.admin.warwick.ac.uk/webjobs/jobs/research/job22640.html

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Report on EpiDoc/SoSOL training workshop in Bologna

Posted on 2011-01-24 by Tom Elliott

Over at the Sito Italiano di Epigrafia Greca (SITEG), Alice Bencivenni reports on an EpiDoc/SoSOL training workshop held at the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 10-14 January 2011.

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Some new inscriptions found in Rome

Posted on 2011-01-19 by Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja

Prof. Alfredo Valvo (Univ. Cattolica di Milano) reports in Il Sussidiario (17/01/2011) on new inscriptions brought out in the area between Piazza Venezia and the Fori Romani by the works for Rome’s new Underground line. Valvo mentions two pieces: in p.zza Venezia, an inscription from the praef. Urbis F. Felix Passifilus Paulinus (a.D. 473); and in front of the Pal. Madonna dei Loreto, several fragment which could pertain to Hadrian’s dedicatory parentibus suis in the temple of divus Traianus and diva Plotina (CIL VI, 31215 = ILS 306; news of this were circulated two weeks ago by a post in flickr). Valvo also writes both findings are forthocming in a special issue of Bollettino d’arte (2010).

(with thanks to Prof Encarnação (U. Coimbra) for forwarding the news).

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2011 Latium Vetus Program: Summer Course on Epigraphy and Archaeology

Posted on 2011-01-18 by Tom Elliott

Dates: 25 May – 1 July 2011
Location: University of Roma Tor Vergata
More information: https://sites.tufts.edu/latiumvetus/

From Monica Berti:

The 2011 Latium Vetus Program, as part of a collaborative project between Tufts University and Roma Tor Vergata, will allow students to learn the techniques of modern epigraphic study, including digital transcription and documentation of inscriptions, and they will have the unique opportunity to work on unpublished texts from the huge corpus of inscriptions of Ancient Latium and to contribute to the ongoing project of digitizing and publishing these inscriptions.

As an intensive course of first-hand epigraphic and archaeological site and museum study based at the campus of Tor Vergata University and led by Monica Berti of Roma Tor Vergata and J. Matthew Harrington of Tufts University, this program will combine close study of epigraphic remains with exploration of the archaeological contexts and analysis of relevant Latin sources from the sites of Latium and Campania: Rome, Ostia, Pompeii, Tivoli, Praeneste, Veii, Lanuvium, Albano Laziale, Cerveteri, Herculaneum, Nemi, Anzio, Tusculum, Falerii Novi, Sutri, Tarquinia, Napoli, Paestum, Lucus Feroniae, Boscoreale, Oplontis, and more.

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Review of Feraudi, Latin on Stone

Posted on 2011-01-12 by Gabriel Bodard

In this week’s Bryn Mawr Classical Review there is a thoughtful review by Caillan Davenport of Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais (ed.), Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives. Roman Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. (Announced here a few months ago.)

(Full disclosure: I have a chapter in this book, about which Davenport writes fairly positively.)

This is a mixed review, with some criticism of individual chapters and some perhaps unnecessarily sniffy comments about publishing work on a digital topic in a printed book, but otherwise constructive commentary on the subject matter and some useful discussion of epigraphic research from a Digital Humanities perspective.

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Eck: Documents on Bronze: A Phenomenon of the West?

Posted on 2011-01-06 by Tom Elliott

Today, at the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in San Antonio, Texas, Werner Eck presented a keynote address entitled “Documents on Bronze: A Phenomenon of the West?” I offer the following summary largely from memory, hoping that other readers present will correct errors and supplement deficiencies.

Eck’s thesis is that we can discern an essential difference in epigraphic habit across the Roman empire: normative documents of public import (i.e., publicae constitutiones) were customarily inscribed on bronze in Latin-speaking areas, whereas stone was the preferred material in Greek-speaking provinces. Bronze was clearly used everywhere, for a variety of epigraphic purposes, but with regard to public legal documents divergeant practice is argued. Eck posits that these opposing patterns were set long before the empire came into existence and were so strongly established that even centuries of Roman rule caused little erosion of the Greek pattern.

The paper begins with a helpful consideration of the range of inscribed materials and documentary types reflected in the historical record and the low survival rates for same. This theme carries on throughout the paper, and appropriate examples are marshaled to support the thesis. Some highlights: Inscriptions on wood may have constituted 90% of the inscribed documents (most intended as ephemera and now almost entirely lost). Less than one percent of military diplomata (on bronze) survive. These are found in both Latin- and Greek-speaking areas, and many have clearly appeared through at the hands of metal detectorists. As the mode of discovery is similar for many celebrated Western bronze leges, we would expect the same pattern in the east, but don’t see it. Bronze likely suffers loss disproportionately (it could be melted down for reuse, and generally was); therefore, we must imagine a disproportionate loss of normative, public texts from the West. The few Roman-period examples of normative public documents on bronze in the East are explained either as having been so specified in the originating document itself (there is evidence for such provision), or the product of Roman (pro-)magistrates doing things the way they were accustomed to do them.

Afterward, some audience members challenged Eck’s characterization of the Greek-speaking east as a place where some public documents were traditionally inscribed on wood and stone, citing examples from Argos, Athens and elsewhere during the Archaic and Classical periods. Eck maintained his thesis, seeking distinctions between the examples offered and the types of texts he feels were distinctively “on bronze” in the West, but expressed interest in getting more details that might affect his approach.

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2° Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca

Posted on 2011-01-01 by Lucia Criscuolo

On 7 and 8 of January the 2nd Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG) is taking place in Bologna. Here is the program and Happy New Year !

Venerdì 7 gennaio, mattina, ore 9.00

– Saluti e introduzione

ore 9.30 Gabriella BEVILACQUA – Sara CAMPANELLI, Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae (IGUR): un nuovo progetto di lavoro

ore 9.50 Elena MIRANDA DE MARTINO –  Diva DI NANNI – Valentina DE MARTINO, I Sebasta di Napoli: ultimi aggiornamenti

ore 10.20 Lavinio DEL MONACO, Iscrizioni greche d’Italia. Locri Epizefirii

ore 10.40 Pausa

ore 11.00 Filippo BATTISTONI – Alessia DI MARTINO, I rendiconti finanziari di Tauromenion: una nuova edizione

ore 11.20 Francesca LABONIA, Un’iscrizione sepolcrale greca da Parentium

ore 11.40 Monica L’ERARIO, I dischi di terracotta da Taranto: novità e conferme nella tradizione onomastica tarantina

ore 12.00 Franca FERRANDINI – Daniela VENTRELLI, Le matrici iscritte di Taranto

ore 12.20 Discussione

ore 13.00 pausa

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Recent BMCR Reviews of Epigraphical Works

Posted on 2010-12-28 by Gil Renburg

Reviving an earlier tradition here at “Current Epigraphy,” I’m posting links to recent BMCR entries on works with significant epigraphical content, going back three months:

Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’Occidente Romano, VII: Baetica, Tarraconensis, Lusitania Vetera 17 (with the collaboration of Javier Garrido).   Rome:  Edizioni Quasar, 2009.  Pp. 313.  ISBN 9788871403779.  €47.00.

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-11-15.html

“It has now been over twenty years since the first volume of the series Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’Occidente Romano, hereafter EAOR, was published. The founding editor, Patrizia Sabbatini Tumolesi, was convinced that a systematic collection and re-examination of the epigraphic documentation needed to be done in order to investigate properly many fundamental and sometimes neglected aspects of gladiators and gladiatorial spectacles (cf. EAOR I, 7). The latest volume is devoted to the three provinces of the Iberian Peninsula: Tarraconensis, Baetica, and Lusitania. There are two main parts: the catalogue of inscriptions (35-201) and 16 synoptic tables followed by a general discussion (203-224). The volume is rounded up with detailed indices (225-270), a line-drawn map of the Peninsula (273), and 40 plates (274-313)….  Although virtually all the Spanish inscriptions had already been published elsewhere, Gómez-Pantoja has been able to examine personally most of them and to republish them all according to much more rigorous criteria than we could have expected from Hübner and the other pioneers of Hispanic epigraphy.”

Andrej Petrovic, Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 282.   Leiden/Boston:  Brill, 2007.  Pp. xv, 345.  ISBN 9789004151536.  $134.00.

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-11-52.html

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CIIP I 1 released

Posted on 2010-12-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae

A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad

Volume 1

Jerusalem, Part 1: 1-704

Ed. by Cotton, Hannah M. / Di Segni, Leah / Eck, Werner / Isaac, Benjamin / Kushnir-Stein, Alla / Misgav, Haggai / Price, Jonathan / Roll, Israel / Yardeni, Ada

In collab. with Heimbach, Marfa / Schneider, Naomi
With contrib. by Lupu, Eran

Hardcover | RRP Euro [D] €129.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 182.00.
ISBN 978-3-11-022219-7

erscheint Dezember 2010
Auch erhältlich als eBook

Weitere Informationen unter: https://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/at/detail.cfm?id=IS-9783110222197-1

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Scholarship for Epigraphic student/scholars, Cologne

Posted on 2010-11-11 by Gabriel Bodard

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung announces two to three scholarships for non-German postgraduates or non-German scholars with a PhD to conduct research at the Historisches Institut, Abt. Alte Geschichte, University of Cologne

Scholarships are for periods ranging between 6 and 24 months. Recipients of the scholarships will receive amounts that correspond with those granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (currently about 1.200 € monthly for a postgraduate, 1.800 € monthly for a scholar with a PhD.).

The scholarships are for all projects from all disciplines of classical studies that pertain to the general topic of “centre and periphery”, but projects in Greek or Latin epigraphy from the Imperial period and late antiquity are especially encouraged.

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