Autumn Colloquium of the British Epigraphy Society, 22 November

Posted on 2008-11-11 by Gabriel Bodard

The theme for the Colloquium is “Inscribed Laws” and the event will be held in Strand Campus Room 2C at King’s College, London (directions to follow).  The programme for the Autumn Colloquium is as follows:

10.30: Coffee & Registration

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

11.45: Benet Salway (UCL), “Form and function in Roman legal texts”.

12.30: Lunch

13.45: Short Reports

[14.30: Annual General Meeting of the British Epigraphy Society]

15.30: Tea

15.45: Mathieu Carbon (Oxford), “Sacred Laws and Women’s Festivals: Some Perspectives from Mylasa to Aristophanes”.

16.30: Reception.

Registration fees for the day are two pounds for members of AIEGL or the BES, and seven pounds for non-members. A sandwich lunch may be booked for three pounds by writing BEFORE 19 November to peter.haarer@classics.ox.ac.uk (please specify any special dietary requirements).

Further details of the programme, and offers of short reports may be sent to Dr. Charlotte Tupman (charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk)

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Epigraphic seminars (a little late)

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Gabriel Bodard

Two sets of seminars of interest to epigraphers (I’m a little late passing on the first one):

Epigraphy North:

All students and teaching staff are welcome to this ongoing series of talks on epigraphical subjects. The seminars are particularly useful for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are interested in learning about inscriptions and epigraphical methods.

Tuesday 28th October 17.30 – Liverpool
Bosanquet Seminar Room 12-14 Abercromby Square, The University of Liverpool
Graham Oliver (Liverpool): Another look at the Priests of Poseidon (Syll.3 1020)
There will a strong teaching element with working from squeezes and photographs.

Tuesday 25th November 17.00 – Manchester
Room 3.211, University Place, Oxford Road, Manchester
Ted Kaizer (Durham) The epigraphy of Palmyra

For further details please contact Graham Oliver gjoliver@liv.ac.uk

I assume there must be some epigraphy in at least some of these seminars in the Classical Archaeology series:

Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Room N336, 17:00

October 29 Maria Stamatopoulou The sanctuary of Pasikrata in the southern cemetery of Demetrias

December 3 Milena Melfi Patrons, worshippers and generals: reconsidering Early Roman presence in the sanctuaries of Greece.

March 11 Olga Palagia Philip’s Eurydice in the Philippeion at Olympia

For more information: c.riva@ucl.ac.uk

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Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Tom Elliott

Silvia Orlandi has asked me to post notice of the following event:

Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Epigrafia, informatica e ricerca storica

L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Centro Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre”
Via della Lungara, 10 – 00165
Rome

7-8 November 2008

Program:

COMITATO ORDINATORE: François BERARD (F), Carlo CARLETTI (I), Kevin CLINTON (USA), Angela DONATI (I), Andrea GIARDINA (I), Joaquin GÓMEZ-PANTOJA (E), Gian Luca GREGORI (I), Tito ORLANDI (I), Silvio PANCIERA (I), Charlotte ROUECHÉ (UK), Christian WITSCHEL (D), Fausto ZEVI (I).
PARTECIPANTI: Antonella Daniela AGOSTINELLI (I), Géza ALFÖLDY (D), Giovanna ASDRUBALI PENTITI (I), Lucio BENEDETTI (I), François BERARD (F), Maria Letizia CALDELLI (I), Lorenzo CALVELLI (I), Giuseppe CAMODECA (I), Carlo CARLETTI (I), Marcella CHELOTTI (I), Laura CHIOFFI (I), Gemma CORAZZA (I), Giovannella CRESCI MARRONE (I), Antonella DE CARLO (I), Barbara DE NICOLÒ (I), Ginette DI VITA-EVRARD (F), Angela DONATI (I), Silvia EVANGELISTI (I), Lanfranco FABRIANI (I), Donato FASOLINI (I), Antonio Enrico FELLE (I), Francisca FERAUDI-GRUÉNAIS (D), Antoine GAILLIOT (F), Andrea GIARDINA (I), Joaquin GÓMEZ-PANTOJA (E), Maria Grazia GRANINO (I), Gian Luca GREGORI (I), Antonio IBBA (I), Nicolas LAUBRY (F), Marion LAMÉ (F), Fulvia MAINARDIS (I), Silvia Maria MARENGO (I), Giovanni MENNELLA (I), Guido MIGLIORATI (I), Ilaria MILANO (I), Silvia ORLANDI (I), Tito ORLANDI (I), Gianfranco PACI (I), Silvio PANCIERA (I), Viviana PETTIROSSI (I), Valentina PISTARINO (I), Anita ROCCO (I), Charlotte ROUECHÉ (UK), Antonio SARTORI (I), Kurt SCHALLER (E), John SCHEID (F), Marina SILVESTRINI (I), Maria Carla SPADONI (I), Nicolas TRAN (F), Stefania VALENTINI (I), Alfredo VALVO (I), Marina VAVASSORI (I), Christian WITSCHEL (D), Claudio ZACCARIA (I), Fausto ZEVI (I), Enrico ZUDDAS (I).

Avvertenza: il Convegno non prevede una lettura pubblica delle relazioni (i cui testi sono accessibili a tutti sul sito https://www.terraitalia.altervista.org), ma solo un dibattito generale intorno alle stesse ed ai temi da queste trattati, aperto a tutti i partecipanti, iscritti o no.

Venerdì 7 novembre
14.00 Indirizzi di saluto
14.15 Silvio Panciera, EAGLE: perché un convegno?
14.30-16.30 EAGLE: PROGRESSI, DIFFICOLTÀ, SOLUZIONI
Introduce: Giovanni Mennella
Moderano: Géza Alföldy, Gianfranco Paci
16.30 Intervallo
17.00 – 19.00 NUOVE BANCHE FEDERATE, COLLABORAZIONI, SINERGIE
Introduce: Claudio Zaccaria
Moderano: Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, John Scheid
Sabato 8 novembre
8.30-9.30 I FINANZIAMENTI IERI, OGGI E DOMANI
Introduce: Silvio Panciera
Moderano: Angela Donati, Christian Witschel
9.30-10.30 SCELTE INFORMATICHE E ORGANIZZATIVE
Introduce: Tito Orlandi
Moderano: Silvia Orlandi, Charlotte Roueché
10.30 Intervallo
11.00 – 12.00 PROGRAMMI E PREVISIONI A BREVE, MEDIO E LUNGO TERMINE
Introduce: Carlo Carletti
Moderano: Giuseppe Camodeca, Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja
12.00-12.45 EPIGRAFIA, INFORMATICA, DIDATTICA E RICERCA STORICA
Introduce: Giovannella Cresci Marrone
Moderano: Andrea Giardina, Fausto Zevi
12.45 Congedo
Segreteria: silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it, marialetizia.caldelli@uniroma1.it, anastasi@lincei.it

Program online (MS Word version)

Testi aggiornati (pdf or doc)

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Epigraphic titles from BMCR, October

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Gabriel Bodard

From BMCR October 2008:

Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested author in the subject line. They should state their qualifications (both in the sense of degrees held and in the sense of experience in the field concerned) and explain any previous relationship with the author.

*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.

*Grammenos, Dimitrios V. and Elias K. Petropoulos (edd.). Ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea 2 (2 vols.). BAR international series; 1675 (1-2). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007. viii, 1262 p. £ 140.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407301105.

*Binder, Vera, Martin Korenjak and Beate Noack (ed., trans., comm.). Epitaphien: Tod, Totenrede, Rhetorik; Auswahl, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Subsidia classica, Bd. 10. Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2007. 358 p. € 39.80 (pb). ISBN 9783867571821.

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Inscribed Roman Altar from Dalheim

Posted on 2008-10-31 by Gabriel Bodard

David Meadows alerts us to the reports of a newly discovered Roman altar from the archaeological work at Dalheim in Luxembourg:

Copyright MNHAFollowing previous archaelogical discoveries at the Dalheim dig (see https://www.station.lu/newsDetails.cfm?id=21601, another artefact has been discovered. The site of the former Gallo-Roman baths has now produced what is described as an “exceptional archaeological discovery”. The National Museum of History and Art (MNHA), led by the young German archaeologist Heike Posch and overseen by the curator John Krier, has uncovered fragments of a large 1.3m high limestone altar. The discovery dates from the 3rd century AD and has a Latin inscription showing that the altar was dedicated to the goddess Fortuna. The text over 10 lines mentions not only the people of Ricciacum vicus, but it also describes the return of the portico of the building baths, destroyed ‘by violent barbarians’, probably during an incursion by Germans. The curator of the work undertaken at that time was a soldier of the 8th Augusta legion stationed in Strasbourg. The fragments have been transferred to the MNHA workshop in Bertrange where they will be restored. Other major surprises are not excluded in further excavation work at the site.

(Larger photograph on the original site. Obviously we should leave the preliminary transcription to whoever plans to publish this, but does anyone have any more epigraphic information on this find?)

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A Census of Digital Epigraphy

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Tom Elliott

Dear colleagues and friends:

(Apologies for cross-postings to lists. Please feel free to forward to colleagues, students and other discussion fora.)

Please send me (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) information about digital projects, publications and computer-aided research in epigraphy. This information will be used to update or inform multiple resources including:

  • The “ASGLE links” resource (currently out of date): https://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/links.html
  • A section on “digital epigraphy” in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Latin Epigraphy
  • A review of the state of the discipline to be presented at the ASGLE-sponsored session of the Joint Meetings of the APA/AIA in Philadelphia in January 2009

I am interested in any undertaking that involves computational approaches or digital data, whether it has resulted in publication or not. Any subdiscipline of epigraphy (Latin, Greek, other) is of interest. Information about papyrological and palaeographical projects whose methodology, technology or content has direct application in epigraphic study is also welcome.

The ASGLE links update will include a software upgrade, and will be carried out in collaboration with the editorial board of Current Epigraphy and the leadership and appropriate committees of the Association Internationale d’ Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. All information presented in the resulting “new” links collection will be released to the public under terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license so that it can be re-used freely by others. All information sent to me will be assumed to be the intellectual property of the person submitting it, and will be treated under terms of the CC license.

Ideally, I would like to have as much of the following information as possible (please feel free to use your native language):

  • Title of project, resource or publication
  • Principal investigator(s), author(s) or editor(s)
  • Intitutional affiliation(s)
  • URLs for websites
  • Publication citation(s)
  • A short description
  • Status (e.g., experimental, complete, published, in progress, continuing, private)
  • Technologies, methodologies used
  • Sources of funding (past and present)
  • Contact email address

Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.

Best,
Tom
—
Tom Elliott
Associate Director for Digital Programs
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University
https://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/

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Thoughts on the Columna rostrata

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Tom Elliott

Stephen Chrisomalis has posted on his blog Glossographia some thoughts on (and an image of) the “Elogium of Gaius Duilius” from Rome.

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A New Epigraphy Blog

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Tom Elliott

(reblogged from Ancient World Bloggers Group):

Here’s a hearty welcome to the blogosphere for Marion Lamé, whose Épigraphie en réseau debuts with a post entitled “The Athenian Tribute Lists, A First Bibliography.” She describes the blog thus:

Modeler l’informatique aux exigences des Sciences de l’Antiquité et transformer les outils de recherche de l’Antiquisant pour les adapter aux outils d’édition, conservation, communication et traitement de l’information modernes.

I’ve just added the blog’s feed to Maia Atlantis.

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ASGLE News

Posted on 2008-10-22 by Paul Iversen

Here is the latest news from the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy:

– CALL FOR PAPERS, 2010 ASGLE Joint APA/AIA Panel, Orange County (Anaheim), CA January 6-9, 2010 (Wed. – Sat.)

Greek and Latin Inscriptions: New Discoveries, organizers: Stpehen 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 exciting 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 format with a .doc extension or as a PDF to: Stephen Tracy, Vice-President, ASGLE at stracy@ias.edu. The deadline is February 1, 2009.

– ASGLE has money for Dissertation Research Awards. These awards consist in travel money for a student working on an epigraphical dissertation to visit a collection somewhere. Send in a proposal to the Secretary-Treasurer (paul.iversen@cwru.edu) with a letter of support from your advisor. All applicants should be members of ASGLE and will be required to write up a report.

– The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University offers short-term fellowships (of one to four months duration) to support visitors pursuing post-doctoral research in Greek and Latin history and epigraphy. See the Center’s web page for the application guidelines.

– The University of Cincinnati Classics Department offers research support with their Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program. For more information and application guidelines, see here.

– The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at the Ohio State University offers a summer course in Greek epigraphy July 27 – August 7, 2009. For more information, see here.

– The Vergilian Society will be sponsoring some summer 2009 tours. See the Society’s web page for more information.

– Rex Wallace, UMass Amherst, recently published Zikh Rasna, A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions.

–The ATHENIANS PROJECT is pleased to announce the recent publication of 2 more volumes of Persons of Ancient Athens.

Volume 16: Sym- to Tychonides, xviii + 481pp ISBN 978-0-0685232-9-2

Volume 17: U- to Philostratos, xviii + 399pp ISBN 978-0-9810250-0-1

All volumes 1-17 are in print and available at ATHENIANS, Victoria College, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7, Canada. Website: chass.utoronto.ca/attica. A special discount is granted to members of ASGLE and to their affiliated institutions.

For more information on how to become a member of ASGLE, see the Society’s web page.

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Marcus Nonius Macrinus: the evidence

Posted on 2008-10-17 by Tom Elliott

Over at Bread and Circuses, Adrian Murdoch rounds up the (epigraphic) evidence for M. Nonius Macrinus, whose monumental tomb was recently discovered north of Rome and who supposedly inspired the main character in that Ridley Scott film from 8 years back …

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Survey results in Boubon (Cibyratis, northern Lycia)

Posted on 2008-10-15 by Gabriel Bodard

From Christina Kokkinia:

Survey results in Boubon (Cibyratis, northern Lycia) 2004-2006.

This website offers a preliminary presentation of the results of three survey campaigns conducted in Boubon and its territory in 2004-2006 as part of the Cibyratis Project of the University of Heidelberg under the direction of Thomas Corsten in collaboration with the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity (IGRA/ΚΕΡΑ) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens (NHRF/ΕΙΕ). It includes a corpus of the inscriptions found in Boubon and its territory, 15 of which are published here for the first time. Though our main interest lay in the epigraphy of the region, we have attempted, on the evidence of surface finds, to document the archaeological remains as thoroughly as possible.

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More British Epigraphic seminars

Posted on 2008-10-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Following on from the earlier partial summary—seminars that may be of interest to epigraphers:

University of Exeter, Classics, Oct 30, 2008, 16:00
Barbara Borg (Exeter)
What’s in a Tomb? Roman Death Public and Private

University of Exeter, Classics, Nov 6, 2008, 16:00
Ivana Petrovic (Durham)
Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo and Greek Metrical Sacred Regulations

University of Exeter, Classics, Nov 27, 2008, 16:00
Nick Fisher (Cardiff)
Festivals, the Charities and Social Cohesion in Greek City States

Accordia (London): January 13th 2009, 17:30 (ICS, Senate House, Room N336)
Dr John Patterson, Magdalene College, Cambridge
The City of Rome as Imperial Capital

Accordia (London): March 3rd 2009, 17:30 (ICS, Senate House, Room N336)
Dr Gillian Shepherd, University of Birmingham
Interactions and identities: burial and elite society in archaic Sicily

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