Epigraphy Workshop, University of Oxford (Hilary Term 2009)

Posted on 2009-01-26 by Mat Carbon

An informal discussion group, Mondays, 1-2 pm (bring a sandwich).

Venue:  first floor seminar room, Ioannou Classics Centre, 66 St Giles.

  • January 26: Michael Crawford, “Imagines Italicae” 
  • February 2: Dimosthenis Papamarkos, “The honorary decree for Sotas (I. Priene 17)”
  • February 9: Peter Thonemann, “Alexander’s edict to Priene (I. Priene 1)”
  • February 16: Thomas Corsten, “A New Imperial Letter from Olbasa”
  • February 23: Angelos Chaniotis, “Epigraphic Tidbits from Aphrodisias”
  • March 2: No meeting.
  • March 9: TBA.

Convenors: Charles Crowther, Jonathan Prag.

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Enhancing and Exploring Epigraphic and Archaeological Data through e-Science

Posted on 2009-01-22 by Charlotte Tupman

The organizers would like to bring to the attention of interested colleagues this upcoming event dedicated to the digital publication of a new corpus of Ancient Inscriptions from the Northern Coast of Black Sea (IOSPE = Inscriptiones Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini).

Enhancing and Exploring Epigraphic and Archaeological Data through e-Science

In Association with eSI Thematic Programme: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities

10 February 2009, 09:30 AM – 11 February, 04:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Organisers: Stuart Dunn, Irene Polinskaya and Gabriel Bodard

The meeting will bring technical and editorial researchers participating in, or otherwise engaged with, the IOSPE (Inscriptiones Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini = Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea Coast) project together with researchers in related fields, both historical and computational. Existing projects, such as the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica and Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, have explored the digitization of ancient inscriptions from their regions, and employed the EpiDoc schema as markup. IOSPE plans to expand this sphere of activity, in conjunction with a multi-volume publication of inscription data. This event is a joint workshop funded in part by a Small Research Grant from the British Academy, and in part by the eSI through the Arts and Humanities e-Science theme. The workshop will bring together domain experts in epigraphy, and specialists in digital humanities, and e-science researchers, which will provide a detailed scoping of the research questions, and the research methods needed to investigate them from an historical/epigraphic point of view.

Further details and programme can be found here. 

Inquiries may be directed to the co-organizer:

Dr. Irene Polinskaya

Department of Classics

King’s College London

University of London

Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Tel. (0)20 7848 1762/Fax (0)20 7848 2545

irene.polinskaya@kcl.ac.uk

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AIEGL training grants

Posted on 2009-01-21 by Gabriel Bodard

The Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine offers grants of up to 1000 Euros to support Epigraphic Educational and Training Courses and Workshops.

The following conditions apply.

  1. Applicants must be AIEGL members.
  2. Due to limited funds, the maximum grant for any event will be 1000 Euros. Applications for smaller sums are encouraged and may have a better chance of success.
  3. Applications should be submitted by 28 February and 31 July, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 15 April and 15 September respectively.
  4. Applications will be assessed and ranked by a commission of three AIEGL members (IIIviri praemiis dandis), to be appointed by the AIEGL officers. Awards will be made by the AIEGL officers on their recommendations, subject to sufficient funds being available.
  5. Events supported by AIEGL must be open in principle to any participant with appropriate and relevant qualifications and not restricted to students from particular institutions or countries.
  6. AIEGL is keen to support all forms of training in Greek and Latin Epigraphy, including the promotion of digital epigraphy, in line with its own objectives and priorities.
  7. Successful participants must submit a 300-word report within one month of the conclusion of the event in a format suitable for publication on the AIEGL web-site.

This bursary does not yet seem to be advertised on the AIEGL website; check back for updates. In the meantime, perhaps contact Angela Donati for further information.

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Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge?

Posted on 2009-01-13 by Tom Elliott

The preliminary program has just been posted for the August 2009 conference in Berlin of the Fédération internationale des Associations d’études classiques / International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies. Among the panels listed there, we find one on the topic “Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge?”

I take the liberty of reproducing the list of speakers, with titles and links to abstracts in pdf:

Invited speakers:

Francisco Beltrán Lloris:
Angelos Matthaiou: Palmyra

zugelassene Bewerber in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:

Alejandr García González (Universidad de Valladolid, España)
Los ‘otros’ epitafios y dedicaciones greco-latinos: inversiones, burlas y parodias

Anja Knebusch (Berlin, Deutschland)
Die metrischen Inschriften Germaniens als Spiegelbild provinzieller Bildung

Aleksandr Koptev (Helsinki, Finlandl):
A possible lacuna in the Roman Fasti Consulares

Sophia Kravaritou (Archaeological Institute for Thessalian Studies, Greece):
Greek “Calendars”: ancient documents through modern consideration

Luca Maurizi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Autorappresentazione senatoria nell’agorà di Atene e un nuovo proconsul Achaiae

Vladimir P. Petrovic (Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Serbia)
Les erreurs dans l’interpretation scientifique de Tabula Peutingeriana: L’emplacement de la station balnéaire de Aquae Bas sur la route Naissus-Lissus

Cecilia Ricci (Università del Molise, Italia)
Le coorti urbane: braccio armato del potere senatorio a Roma o polizia al servizio della città? Una riflessione

José Vela Tejada (Universidad de Zaragoza, España)
Koine Eirene and the Satraps’ Revolt in the Inscription of Argos (IG IV 556=SIG3 182): Historical Reality or Panhellenical Propaganda?

Gustavo Veneciano (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
La inscripción IvO 7

Update: I also notice the following papers of probable epigraphic interest listed in other sections:

Silvia Barbantani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italia)
The symbol of the spear in funerary or honorary epigrams/inscriptions for Ptolemaic philoi and soldiers

Rebecca R. Benefiel (Washington and Lee University, USA):
Pompeii and her Neighbors: ancient graffiti and civic identity

Danijela Stefanovic (Serbian Society for Ancient Studies, Serbia):
Roman Funerary Stelae from Egypt – An Overview

Jessica Piccinini (Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Great Britain)
Geographical provenance and social status of the customers of the oracle of Dodona

Judith Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (, Université de Lille, France):
AE 1928.73 (Epitaph of Petale Sulpicia) and Ovid, Tristia 3.7: Gender, Class and Roman Women’s Poetry

Michael Johnson (Davidson College, USA):
Mommsen lecture notes at Rutgers University

Burak Takmer (Akdeniz Üniversitesi Antalya, Turkey)
Lex Portorii Provinciae: Zollinschrift aus Andriake von neronischer Zeit

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Diocletian workshop: January 30th, Athens

Posted on 2009-01-13 by Gabriel Bodard

The British School at Athens
invites you to a colloquium on:
Diocletian’s Prices Edict: Genesis and Diffusion
to honour Joyce M. Reynolds on her 90th birthday
at 10.00 on Friday, January 30th
Upper House, 52 Odos Souedias

Opening Remarks

10.00

Mr. Robert Pitt (BSA), An introduction to the Greek fragments of the Prices Edict
Dr. Erkki Sironen (University of Helsinki), Greek Scripts in the Context of the Edict of Diocletian

Coffee Break

12.00

Dr. Benet Salway (UCL), The Slave chapter of the Edict
Dr. Amelia Brown (ASCSA), Diocletian’s Inscriptions as Proof of Peloponnesian Civic Life
Prof. Michael Crawford (UCL), The Edict in Context

Closing Remarks and a buffet lunch reception

For further information contact Robert Pitt (assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk)

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Advanced Seminar in Greek Epigraphy (Bologna, 15-17 January 2009)

Posted on 2009-01-06 by Tom Elliott

Lucia Criscuolo writes to alert us to the following event:

Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca

Bologna, 15-17 gennaio 2009
Novotel Bologna Fiera
via Michelino 73

Alma Mater Studiorum
Università di Bologna
Istituto di Studi Superiori

L’Istituto di Studi Superiori dell’Università di Bologna, che comprende l’Istituto di Studi Avanzati e il Collegio Superiore, organizza il primo SAEG, Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca.

Il Seminario è un’iniziativa volta innanzitutto a dottorandi, assegnisti e giovani ricercatori che intendano approfondire la propria formazione in tematiche relative alla disciplina epigrafica greca, allargare le proprie esperienze nel campo delle scienze storiche antiche o presentare eventualmente le proprie ricerche nel settore. L’occasione si prefigge inoltre di favorire un incontro tra studiosi, al fine di discutere in modo costruttivo il proprio lavoro scientifico e di confrontare i risultati delle ricerche in corso.

Per informazioni:

Lucia Criscuolo
Dipartimento di Storia Antica
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
lucia.criscuolo@unibo.it

Alice Bencivenni
Dipartimento di Storia Antica
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
alice.bencivenni2@unibo.it

[full program follows – TRE.]

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Upcoming ASGLE Events

Posted on 2009-01-05 by Paul Iversen

Dear All, 

There are several upcoming ASGLE events:

-ASGLE Annual Business Meeting at the APA/AIA Meetings (Philadelphia, PA),  Friday, January 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Room 413 of the Loews hotel (across the street from the Marriott).  All are welcome to attend.  Items to discuss include progress towards non-profit status and a possible North American conference on Epigraphy sponsored by ASGLE.

-ASGLE Joint APA/AIA Panel, “The Study and Publication of Inscriptions in the Age of the Computer,” organized by Tom Elliott and Paul Iversen.  Saturday, January 10, 8:30-11:00 a.m. in Independence I of the Marriott Hotel.  Speakers and topics include:

            1.  “Publishing Image and Text in Digital Epigraphy.” Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross).

            2.  “Topic Maps and the Semantics of Inscriptions.” Marion Lamé (Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italy and Université  de  Provence, Aix-Marseille 1, France).

            3.  “An Efficient Method for Digitizing Squeezes & Performing Automated Epigraphic Analysis.” Eleni Bozia, Angelos Barmpoutis and Robert S. Wagman (University of Florida).

            4.  “Opportunities for Epigraphy in the Context of 3-D Digitization.” Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London) and Ryan Baumann (Univ. of Kentucky).

-“The Etruscan Objects Speak: New Linguistic and Socio-Historical Approaches to Etruscan Epigraphy.”  Saturday, January 10, 1:30-4:30 p.m. in Independence I of the Marriott Hotel.

-CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2010 ASGLE Joint APA/AIA meetings in Anaheim, CA:  “Greek and Latin Inscriptions: New Discoveries.”  Organized by Stephen V. Tracy and Paul Iversen.

            As archaeological artifacts that preserve writing from the ancient past, inscriptions constitute one of our most valuable primary sources of evidence for the ancient Mediterranean world.  Their importance cannot be stressed too much.  The Society seeks to create a panel that will offer to the audience new and ex-citing discoveries about Greek and Latin inscriptions. The Society, therefore, welcomes papers that present new texts, new joins, new archaeological find spots, new readings, new interpretations or new methodologies.  We are particularly interested in papers that discuss truly new and important texts or really innovative interpretations or methodologies.

            Abstracts will be adjudicated anonymously by a committee of ASGLE and should not be longer than one page.  Please follow the instructions for the format of Individual Abstracts that will appear in the Program Guide of the October issue of the APA Newsletter.  Abstracts should be sent electronically in either Word 97-2004 for-mat with a .doc extension or as a PDF to: Stephen Tracy, Vice-President, ASGLE at stracy@ias.edu. The deadline is February 1, 2009.

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Epigraphic Saturday, Cambridge, February 28, 2009.

Posted on 2008-12-31 by Gabriel Bodard

A message from Dorothy Thompson:

For many years Joyce Reynolds has run an Epigraphic Saturday in the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge. What in the past has been a solo enterprise will this year be a Faculty undertaking in honour of Joyce, who celebrated her ninetieth birthday on 18 December 2008. This celebratory meeting is planned for Saturday 28 February 2009 starting at 10.30 am and ending at around 6.00 pm (with drinks). Lunch will be provided in the Cast Gallery of the Classics Faculty on the Sidgwick Site.

The programme for this Super Epigraphic Saturday is now nearly fixed. Once the programme is finalised details will be available on the Faculty website: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/.

We also hope, on the regular pattern of these Epigraphic Saturdays, to have some time for a few short Announcements or Queries, i.e. reports on new projects or specific queries and questions where a group of specialist may be able to help with a problem (10 minutes maximum). If you would like to offer such a short announcement or presentation please would you contact me with details as soon as possible.

You are most cordially invited to this event. In order to get the numbers for lunch I would ask you please to let me know if you are able to come as soon as possible and by 15 February at the latest.

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Libyan Epigraphy Colloquium, February 2009, London

Posted on 2008-12-19 by Gabriel Bodard

Roman Libya: epigraphy, geography and archaeology

The Society for Libyan Studies and the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project are organising a joint colloquium and workshop, 13-14 February 2009, at King’s College London.

The Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project (https://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk) which is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, aims to publish, online, the inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica collected by Joyce Reynolds, together with related geographical data, provided by the Pleiades project (https://pleiades.stoa.org/) and illustrative material from the Ward-Perkins Archive at the British School at Rome. An associated project, Concordia, (https://concordia.atlantides.org) is producing an electronic reprint of Joyce Reynolds and John Ward-Perkins, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania.

The aim of the colloquium/workshop is to bring together scholars working on the history, archaeology and geography of Roman Libya; we plan to describe and compare our projects, and to discuss ways in which we can help and support one another, particularly by exploiting new media.

For more information and to book see the Colloquium website.

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Epigraphic titles at BMCR (December 2008):

Posted on 2008-12-04 by Gabriel Bodard

Some titles of possible interest to epigraphists and available for review this month from BMCR:

Chaniotis, A., T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud and R.A. Tybout (edd.). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LIV (2004). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xxxiii, 916 p. $256.00. ISBN 9789004166875.

Dimitrova, Nora M. Theoroi and initiates in Samothrace: the epigraphical evidence. Hesperia Supplement, 37. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008. xiv, 280 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780876615379.

Duhoux, Yves and Anna Morpurgo Davies (edd.). A companion to linear B: Mycenaean Greek texts and their world, Volume 1. Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de linguistique de Louvain. Antiquité; 120. Louvain-la-Neuve; Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2008. x, 448 p. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042918481.

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (ed.). Greek colonisation: an account of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas, Volume Two. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 193. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. xviii, 566 p. $232.00. ISBN 9789004155763.

Vial, Claude. Inscriptions de Délos. Index, tome II: les Déliens. Paris: De Boccard, 2008. 150 p. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782877542029.

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Sacred Law and Women’s Festivals (Carbon, November 2008)

Posted on 2008-12-03 by Gabriel Bodard

This is a report by Shane Brennan (Exeter) on a paper given at the BES Autumn meeting, November 22, 2008:

Mathieu Carbon (Oxford), Sacred Law and Women’s Festivals, From Aristophanes to Mylasa

The final paper at the 2008 BES Autumn Colloquium was given by Mathieu Carbon. Restricted in time by a slight overrun on the programme, he nonetheless was able to engage the gathering with his work on the topical subject of sacred law and women’s festivals. Continue reading →

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Inscribed evidence for illegal behaviour at the Roman grave (Tupman, November 2008)

Posted on 2008-12-02 by Gabriel Bodard

This is a report by Duncan Taylor, King’s College London, of a paper given at the BES Autumn meeting, November 22, 2008:

Charlotte Tupman (KCL), “Protecting the dead? Inscribed evidence for illegal behaviour at the Roman grave”

The first paper of the day was given by Charlotte Tupman, of King’s College London, whose contribution sought the ‘inscribed laws’ of the colloquium’s theme not in the ‘official’ pronouncements of the representatives of ancient states, but in the more personal genre of funerary epigraphy. Tupman provided an intriguing and thought provoking survey of a number of funerary inscriptions drawn from two very different urban centres within the Roman Empire: Rome itself, and Aphrodisias in Karia. These texts shared an explicit concern for the future mistreatments that might befall the grave sites and funerary monuments of which they formed a part. A wide variety of possible acts of desecration were anticipated by their composers and admonitions to the reader to refrain from such activities were supported by threats of retribution. Tupman’s paper emphasised the diversity of these elements, with a particular interest in the broader differences between the conventions of the two sites, but also the patterns and themes, which can be observed among them, and are suggestive, at the least, of many aspects of their legal and social contexts. Continue reading →

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