Françoise Dunand asks:
Quelqu’un pourrait-il me dire où et quand ont été publiées les corrections apportées à la publication par G. Wagner des inscriptions grecques d’Aïn Labakha dans ZPE 111, 1996, p. 97-114?
Merci d’avance.
Please direct replies to Professor Dunand, or to the PAPY list, or leave a comment on this post.
Recently noted:
The ASGLE Newsletter is not currently available online. Lupu’s book:
A new text is offered by Prof. Elias Kapteanopoulos (Dept. of History, Central Connecticut State University). It has appeared in the following locations:
Please note: text on the latter web page claims that Greek is rendered in “Athenian (+Unicode [rarely, Attika: V])”; however, it does not display as Unicode Greek in the browsers I have tried.
The latest issue of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Newsletter has arrived. Paul Iversen (secretary-treasurer) informs us via email that he hopes to begin posting newsletter issues, including back issues, on the ASGLE website beginning fall 2007.
Table of contents:
In a post to the ANE-2 list, Chris Bennett is trying to get more information on a cryptic assertion made by a colleague; namely, that there exists “an inscription of the 6th century BC which gives a Babylonian month name in Greek.”
Can any CEp readers confirm this assertion and provide publication details?
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 April 2007) was assembled from the results of a keyword search for “( blg0407 or gen0407 or bsa0407 ) and ( epigraph? or inscription? )”:
Previous post: New Acquisitions: ASCSA/BSA March 2007
A few titles of possible interest to epigraphers have been reproduced below: see the BMCR website for the full list of titles available this month.
BMCR 2007.05.44, BMCR Books Received (May).
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.
- Orlandi, Silvia, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’occidente romano. VI. Roma. Anfiteatri e strutture annesse con una nuova edizione e commento delle iscrizioni del Colosseo. Vetera, 15. Roma: Quasar, 2004. Pp. 600; pls. 28. EUR 84.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7140-265-9.
- Panciera, Silvio, Epigrafi, epigrafia, epigrafisti. Scritti vari editi e inediti (1956-2005) con note complementari e indici. 3 vols. Vetera, 16. Roma: Quasar, 2006. Pp. 2187. EUR 270.00. ISBN 978-88-7140-306-9.
- *Tataki, Argyro B., The Roman Presence in Macedonia. Evidence from Personal Names. MELETHMATA, 46. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 667; map 1. EUR 88.00 (pb). ISBN 960-7905-30-X.
- *Edmondson, Jonathan, Granite Funerary Stelae from Augusta Emerita. Monografi/as Emeritenses 9. Me/rida: Artes Gra/ficas Rejas, S. L., 2006. Pp. 303. (pb). ISBN 84-8181-313-3.
- *Fourrier, Sabine, and Antoine Hermary, Amathonte VI: Le sanctuaire d’Aphrodite. des origines au de/but de l’e/poque impe/riale. E/tudes Chypriotes XVII. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 218; figs. 508, pls. 50, plan 1. EUR 100.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-220-X.
The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (U.S.A.) has installed a display featuring a Roman military diploma issued to one Marcus Herennius Polymita during the reign of the Emperor Trajan (dating to 109 CE), along with a replica of the diploma for visitors to handle, as well as other items. The exhibition (March 2007 – March 2008) is entitled “Two Ancient Roman Plates: Bronze Military Diplomas and Other Sealed Documents” and has been accompanied by significant coverage online:
Two articles about the diploma were published in BYU Studies (I cannot tease out volume and year because of the way the website is arranged):
Provenance and editions
The online, free access materials are not explicit on this matter, saying only that the diploma was discovered in Dacia and its metallurgical makeup is consistent with ores mined in Sardinia and the Iberian peninsula and smelted during the first century of the Roman Empire. It would appear to me, however, that this diploma was cataloged in:
According to Roxan, the diploma was discovered in 1986 at Ranovac (now in Serbia and Montenegro), ca. 30km south of the Roman legionary fortress at Viminacium (modern Kostolac = BAtlas 21 D5), “allegedly with three others.”
The diploma is also registered in the Epigraphic Databank Heidelberg (text, bibliography), albeit without a reference to Roxan:
I am not aware of an online translation of this diploma.
Readers may also be interested in the now venerable (1998!), website for the Roman Military Diploma from Slavonski Brod, which includes photographs, text and discussion of another diploma for which the original seals (and protective covering) are preserved.
Thanks to Gregg Schwender at What’s New in Papyrology who points out the two following
(easily missed) epigraphic titles from Journal of Juristic Papyrology 36 (2006):
The full table of contents of JJP 36 available in PDF, or at Gregg’s blog.
Recently in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review:
Mark Handley writes to the Late-Antique discussion list to ask:
Trawling the web looking for information on late antique graffiti I came across a project run out of the Swedish Institute at Rome on a building now in the basement of the American Embassy. This building has produced Christian and Jewish graffiti of Late Antique date which were being studied by Anna Blennow (see https://www.isvroma.org/projects/graffiti.html). I can not find any information on these (as far as I know unpublished) graffiti other than a short one page note in the US State Department’s Newsletter in September 2003 (see https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/23769.pdf at page 15).
Does anyone know more about these graffiti, or have the contact details for Anna Blennow? Any help greatly appreciated.
Do any CE readers have any information on these graffiti? Please reply either to Mark Handley, or leave a comment to this post.
The BES Newsletter for Spring 2007 has been circulated today. The newsletter is in PDF and back issues (from 9 through to 15) can be downloaded from https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/bes/Newsletter.htm. The Contents for the current issue include:
Announcements
News of members & other notices
Forthcoming Events, incl. AGMReports
BES 10th AGM
Cambridge Epigraphy Day
Joint BES / SPHS Meeting
Argos Archive Lecture, Oxford
BES Spring ColloquiumSociety matters
BES Subscription and Gift Aid Forms
(Note: some of the reports have previously appeared in this blog.)
