Epigraphy and the Greek Historian (London, Spring 2010)

Posted on 2009-11-16 by Gabriel Bodard

EPIGRAPHY AND THE GREEK HISTORIAN

Institute for Classical Studies
Ancient History Seminar

Thursdays at 4.30 pm
G 22/26 South Block, Senate House
Spring term 2010
Organiser: Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck)
c.constantakopoulou@bbk.ac.uk

14 January Graham Oliver (Liverpool) Destroying inscriptions: the authorised and unauthorised removal of inscribed documents in the Greek world

21 January Angelos Chaniotis (Oxford) Moving stones: the study of emotions in Greek inscriptions

28 January Robin Osborne (Cambridge) The letter: a diplomatic history

4 February Riet van Bremen (UCL) A Hellenistic list of donors (?) and some other puzzling lists

11 February Irene Polinskaya (KCL) A new corpus of ancient inscriptions from the northern Black Sea

25 February Stephen Lambert (Cardiff) Priests and priestesses in Athenian honorific decrees

4 March Polly Low (Manchester) Constructing lives from stone: inscriptions and biographical traditions

11 March Claire Taylor (Trinity College, Dublin) Graffiti or inscriptions? Some problems from Attica

ALL WELCOME.

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Posted on 2009-11-16 by franciscaferaudi

Zur Neubesetzung einer IT-Mitarbeiterstelle an der Forschungsstelle Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) sucht die Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (HAW) zum 1. Januar 2010 zunächst befristet für zwei Jahre (mit der Möglichkeit der Verlängerung) eine/n

Technische/n Anwendungsbetreuer/in / Technical Application Owner
(halbtags)

für die Pflege/Wartung und Optimierung des wissenschaftlichen Nutzungspotentials der Epigraphischen Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH).

Aufgaben:
Administration der Datenbanken einschließlich ihrer Schnittstellen und Eingabemasken
Administration und Weiterentwicklung der eingesetzten Suchmaschinen
Aufbau einer Testumgebung für die Suchmaschinen
Gestaltung und Betreuung der EDH-Homepage
Systembetreuung der an der Forschungsstelle eingesetzten Rechner (Linux/Windows)

Anforderungen:
Erfahrung in der Anwendungsprogrammierung mit Java, Perl
Erfahrung im Umgang mit diversen Entwicklungstools wie z.B. XForms
Erweiterte Kenntnisse in der Datenbank-Administration von DB2 und MySQL
Kenntnisse und Erfahrungen in der Administration von Linux und Windows
Erfahrung im Einsatz von Web-Content-Management-Systemen wie z.B. Imperia
Selbstständige lösungs- und teamorientierte Arbeitsweise, intelligente eigene Priorisierung und die Fähigkeit, sich bedarfsorientiert und flexibel in neue Problemstellungen einzuarbeiten
Bereitschaft, mit dem wissenschaftlichen Projektpersonal technische Lösungsmöglichkeiten zu diskutieren und in der Systemarchitektur umzusetzen
Gute Englischkenntnisse wünschenswert.

Die Vergütung erfolgt nach TV-L (bis zur Entgeltgruppe 13).
Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt eingestellt.

Bewerbungen sind bis zum 11.12.2009 zu richten an den Leiter der Forschungsstelle EDH, Prof. Dr. Christian Witschel, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik der Universität Heidelberg, Marstallhof 4, 69117 Heidelberg.

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CSAD blog

Posted on 2009-11-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Caillan Davenport reports:

The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) at Oxford University has started a new blog to update students, scholars and the general public on the centre’s research projects.

https://cairo.csad.ox.ac.uk/users/csad/

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Seminar in Cassino on Law and Economy

Posted on 2009-11-04 by Lucia Criscuolo

Dates: 3-4 December. Organizer: Manuela Mari

Diritto ed economia nella Grecia antica. Norme e riflessione giuridica su proprietà, transazioni, scambi commerciali.

Incontro di studi.

Università di Cassino

Aula Magna – Facoltà di Ingegneria – via G. Di Biasio, 43 – Cassino

Giovedì 3 dicembre.

Ore 15. Apertura dei lavori.

Ore 15.30.

Laura Boffo (Università di Trieste). Leggi e mercanti nel mondo greco.

Anna Magnetto (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa). La città e il mercante: incentivi e agevolazioni nel mondo greco di età classica ed ellenistica.

Manuela Mari (Università di Cassino), John Thornton (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”). Riassetti di proprietà e cittadinanza, staseis e rapporti tra re e città nella Grecia ellenistica.

Edward E. Cohen (University of Pennsylvania). Commercial contracts with slaves: legal and economic significance at Athens.

Donatella Erdas (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa). Garanti, appalti pubblici e economia della città: alcune osservazioni.

Ugo Fantasia (Università di Parma). I magistrati dell’agora e i prezzi del grano nelle città greche.

Ore 18.30.

Discussione.

Venerdì 4 dicembre.

Ore 9.30.

Francesco Guizzi (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”). Case e patrimoni: Gortina.

Stefano Ferrucci (Università di Siena-Grosseto). Case e patrimoni: Atene.

Michele Faraguna (Università di Trieste). Diritto, economia, società: tombe e periboloi ad Atene.

Adele Scafuro (Brown University, Providence). The Economics of the Athenian Court System.

Lucia Criscuolo (Università di Bologna). A proposito di en patrikois.

Alice Bencivenni (Università di Bologna). Prostagmata di Seleuco IV.

Ore 12.30.

Discussione.

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Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2010

Posted on 2009-11-03 by Charlotte Tupman

22-24th June 2010, Great North Museum, Newcastle

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. Participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts.

The course fee is £100 but we hope to be able to provide bursaries to participants to assist with the cost. Accommodation will be extra, but we are arranging B&B nearby for around £30-40.

Places on the workshop are limited and applications will be accepted until 31st March. For further details please contact: charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk.

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

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Foreign Epigraphy (Oxford, November 21, 2009)

Posted on 2009-10-30 by Gabriel Bodard

British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium

FOREIGN EPIGRAPHY
or “Epigraphy, but not as we know it”
&
XIII Annual General Meeting

Saturday, 21 November 2009, MBI Al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

10.30 (coffee) – 17.30 (close)

Full programme at BES website (although older events seem not to be archived, so this may disappear).

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I contesti magici nell’antichità (Roma, November 4-6, 2009)

Posted on 2009-10-30 by Gabriel Bodard

We receive short notice of an international congress on ancient magic, to be held in Rome next week: Contextos Magicos / Contesti Magici. Full programme is online at the Italian Culture Ministry: announcement.

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Sito Italiano di Epigrafia Greca (SITEG)

Posted on 2009-10-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Lucia Criscuolo writes from Bologna with an announcement of a new Italian site for news and discussion of Greek epigraphy (https://www.siteg.it), which includes listings of news items and of meetings and colloquia (it is not clear from the website if RSS/Atom feeds are available for these news streams). The site describes itself as follows:

Il Sito Italiano di Epigrafia Greca (SITEG) intende offrire un luogo di incontro virtuale per quanti desiderino informare ed informarsi sulle attività che tanti studiosi svolgono in Italia nell’ambito degli studi epigrafici greci. L’epigrafia greca, vivacemente coltivata e anche solidamente presente in molti atenei italiani, ha spesso trovato difficoltà nel fare conoscere a studiosi e studenti i contributi che fornisce alla conoscenza delle civiltà greca e romana. L’obiettivo è quindi di facilitare la diffusione delle ricerche e dei risultati che vengono raggiunti, se possibile anche al di fuori dell’ambiente accademico, e moltiplicare le occasioni di discussione e confronto, nel rispetto delle idee, del lavoro e della verità.

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Decoding Pasts, Building Futures (KCL, Oct 23)

Posted on 2009-10-22 by Gabriel Bodard

You are cordially invited to a triple-decker inaugural lecture at King’s
College London: “Decoding Pasts, Building Futures”:

  • Richard Beacham, Professor of Digital Culture
  • Charlotte Roueche, Professor of Late Antique & Byzantine Studies
  • Harold Short, Professor of Digital Humanities

Centre for Computing in the Humantities & Classics/Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies

Friday 23 October 2009, 17.30 Edmond J. Safra Theatre, Strand Campus.

Tea will be served from 16.45, and the lecture will be followed by a
reception, with a chance to visit the Arts and Humanities Research Fair

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/week/arts/pastfuture.html

Enquiries/responses to: cch@kcl.ac.uk

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ASGLE News

Posted on 2009-10-17 by Paul Iversen

– The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) will sponsor the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy on 5 January 2011 in San Antonio, TX one day before the annual APA/AIA meetings. At our annual Business Meeting in Anaheim, CA in early January 2010 we will decide on fees, deadlines, and abstract submission guidelines, which will be posted on the ASGLE website.

-The 2010 ASGLE APA Panel will be held in Anaheim, CA on Saturday,  January 9 from 8:30 – 11:00 AM.

Greek and Latin Inscriptions: New Discoveries
Organizers:  Paul Iversen and Stephen V. Tracy

The line-up of speakers includes:

-Nikolaos Papzarkadas, University of California, Berkeley and D. Sourlas. “A New Fragment of IG I³ 1149 (Epitaph for the Argives Killed at the Battle of Tanagra).”

-Gerald V. Lalonde, Grinnell College. “Two ‘New’ Horos Inscriptions of the Boule of the Areiopagos: Epigraphy and Topography.”

-John D. Morgan, University of Delaware. “Athens and the Aleuads.”

-Nora Dimitrova and Kevin Clinton, Cornell University. “Maroneia Honors Q. Lutatius Catulus in Samothrace.”

-Christopher Wallace, University of Toronto. “Murder, Mayhem and Salt: IPriene 111 and the publicani in Roman Asia.”

-Steven L. Tuck, Miami University. “Fistulae and Freedmen: Lead Water Pipes and Shifting Imperial Realities on the Bay of Naples.”

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In memoriam Lidio Gasperini

Posted on 2009-10-12 by Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja

Prof. Lidio Gasperini (Università di Roma II) passed away last Friday after surgical procedure in a Rome hospital.
Here is an  early obituary with some details.

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Object, Artefact and Script: digital approaches to inscribed objects

Posted on 2009-10-05 by Gabriel Bodard

October 8-9, 2009, e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Organisers: Gabriel Bodard and Stuart Dunn

Programme:  https://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Object_Artefact_Script

The text upon an object is both evidence for and part of its form and therefore its function; just as the construction and purpose of an object gives context to and aids in the interpretation of text. Indeed, the form of an object effects the placement and design of text and decoration upon it. Non-verbal decorations drawn or painted on an object fall somewhere between (2-D) text and (3-D) physical object: like the text they are added by the scribe or artist, they have semantic (if not verbal) connotation, and are often taken out of the material context of the object; like the object, however, they are considered as artistic and visual content, and are hard to digitize meaningfully. Nevertheless they sometimes come closest to crossing the artificial boundary and may be studied by both philologists and archaeologists. Text may also be constrained by the placement of decoration on a surface, or vice versa.

This conference will bring together scholars from a variety of fields who study objects and texts side by side to discuss the ways in which advanced computer science methods can enhance both their own work and the nature of their collaborations with other researchers working on the same objects.

Methods to be considered will include (but need not be restricted to):

  • Linking/connecting text and images of objects within digital editions/projects, or making object description an intrinsic part of a text edition;
  • Advanced imaging (3D surface scanning, multi-spectral imaging, non-invasive volumetric scanning, stereographic/photogrammetric imaging) to bring lost or damaged text/engraving out of objects;
  • Automated text/character analysis; identification of text fields/columns/lines;
  • Reconstruction and visualization of damaged, unclear or complex text-bearing objects;
  • Digital placing of objects in historical and archaeological contexts to highlight textual/non-textual features.
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