Current Epigraphy

The 2004 volume of Praktika tes en Athenais Archaiologikes Etaireias (ISSN 1105-0969) has just been published. Petros Themelis’ report on the excavations of Messene (p. 27-53) includes 10 new inscriptions and a detailed mention of a long (184 lines) text recording an arbitration between Messene and Megalopolis in 185/4 BC.

Since it seems not to have reached the libraries yet, let me signal the following publication (in Greek, with a summary in German):

Pantelis M. Nigdelis, Ἐπιγραφικὰ Θεσσαλονίκεια. Συμβολὴ στὴν πολιτικὴ καὶ κοινωνικὴ ἱστορία τῆς ἀρχαίας Θεσσαλονίκης, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2006, 646 p., ISBN: 9601215506.

It is a publication of 75 inscriptions from Thessaloniki (of which 59 previously unpublished, if I counted correctly) and 66 testimonia epigraphica, with copious commentaries.

Announcement circulated by AIEGL; this publication apparently makes frequent reference to epigraphic evidence:

M. Mortarino, M. Reali, G. Turazza, Genius loci. Storia e antologia della letteratura latina, 3 volumi, Loescher, Torino, 2007.

Il link sottostante rimanda alla pagina di presentazione del volume, sul sito web Loescher.it:

http://www.loescher.it/catalogo/index.jsp?dx=02&entry=6669

The latest issue (345: February 2007) of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research is devoted to epigraphic matters. The table of contents (pdf) lists the following articles:

• Ryan Byrne, “The Refuge of Scribalism in Iron I Palestine,” 1-31.
• Aaron Demsky, “The MPQD Ostracon from Tel ‘Ira: A New Reading,” 33-38.
• Esther Eshel, et al., “Aramaic Scribal Exercises of the Hellenistic Period from Maresha: Bowls A and B,” 39-62.

Gregg Schwenderer alerts us via What’s New in Papyrology to the following article (not seen by me):

• Wolfgang Luppe, “Zu einer Inschrift auf Thasos,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 52.2 (2006), 133-134.

The Ambrosia Union Catalog of the libraries of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the British School at Athens facilitates searches for recently acquired works of interest. The following list (for March 2007) was assembled (using the catalog, Zotero, WorldCat and a custom XSLT stylesheet) from the results of a keyword search for “( blg0307 or gen0307 or bsa0307 ) and ( epigraph? or inscription? )”:

• Patrice Brun, Imperialisme et democratie a Athenes : inscriptions de l’epoque classique, c. 500-317 av. J.-C., Paris: Colin, 2005, ISBN: 9782200269289, WorldCat record.
• Domenico Caiazza, Italica ars : studi in onore di Giovanni Colonna per il premio I Sanniti, Alife: Banca Capasso Antonio/Arti Grafiche Grillo, 2005, WorldCat record.
• Francesca Fiori, Costantino Hypatos E Doux Di Sardegna, Quaderni della Rivista di bizantinistica, Bologna: Scarabeo, 2001, ISBN: 8884780373, WorldCat record.
• Adolf Hoffmann (ed.), Ägyptische Kulte und ihre Heiligtümer im Osten des römischen Reiches : Internationales Kolloquium 5. 6. September 2003 in Bergama (Türkei), Istanbul: Ege Yaylnlarl, 2005, ISBN: 9789758071050, WorldCat record.
• Βούλα Ν Μπαρδάνη, Συμπλήρωμα Τών Επιτυμβίων Μνημείων Της Αττικής, Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 241, Αθήναι: Η έν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία, 2006, ISBN: 9608145538, WorldCat record.
• Jean-Pierre Patznick, Die Siegelabrollungen und Rollsiegel der Stadt Elephantine im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. : Spurensicherung eines archaologischen Artefaktes, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005, ISBN: 9781841716855, WorldCat record.
• Fotini Skenteri, Herodes Atticus reflected in occasional poetry of Antonine Athens, Lund (Sweden): [Lund University Press], distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2005, ISBN: 9789122021377, WorldCat record.

Jacquelene Riley has posted a list of New Acquisitions (March 2007) by the Burnam Classical Library at the University of Cincinnati. As usual, this list contains much of interest. The most obviously epigraphic of the titles are glossed below:

• Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, Gli statuti municipali, Pubblicazioni del CEDANT 2, Pavia: IUSS Press, 2006, ISBN: 9788873580317, WorldCat record.
• Lukas de Blois, Peter Funke and Johannes Hahn (eds.), The impact of imperial Rome on religions, ritual and religious life in the Roman Empire : proceedings of the fifth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 B.C.-A.D. 476), Munster, June 30-July 4, 2004, Impact of Empire 5, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006, ISBN: 9789004154605, WorldCat record.
• Christophe Feyel, Les artisans dans les sanctuaires grecs aux epoques classiques et hellenistique a travers la documentation financiere en Grece, Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d’Athenes et de Rome 318, Athenes: Ecole franc’aise d’Athenes, 2006, ISBN: 9782869581692, WorldCat record.
• Harriet Flower, The art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in Roman political culture, Studies in the history of Greece and Rome, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780807830635, WorldCat record.
• Joan Gomez Pallares, Poesia epigrafica llatina als paisos catalans : edicio i comentari, Barcelona Spain: Institut D’Estudis Catalans Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2002, ISBN: 9788472836525, WorldCat record.
• Andreas Kakoschke, Die Personennamen in den zwei germanischen Provinzen : ein Katalog, Rahden Westf.: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2006, ISBN: 9783896460325, WorldCat record.
• Marici Magalhaes, Stabiae romana : la prosopografia e la documentazione epigrafica : iscrizioni lapidarie e bronzee, bolli laterizi e sigilli, Castellammare di Stabia (Na) [i.e. Naples Italy]: N. Longobardi, 2006, ISBN: 9788880902348, WorldCat record.
• Zahra Newby, Art and inscriptions in the ancient world, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN: 9780521868518, WorldCat record.
• Susanne Pilhofer, Romanisierung in Kilikien? : das Zeugnis der Inschriften, Munchen: Utz, 2006, ISBN: 9783831605385, WorldCat record.
• Steven Tuck, Latin inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum : the Dennison and De Criscio collections, Kelsey Museum studies 5, Ann Arbor Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2005, ISBN: 9780472115167, WorldCat record.