Current Epigraphy

The recent publication of Jean-Paul Rey-Coquais, Inscriptions Grecques et Latines de Tyr (BAAL supplement III, Beyrouth 2006) has just come to my notice. This volume contains some 412 inscriptions, most illustrated with photographs, squeezes, and/or sketches; all carefully edited and briefly commented upon; those of any substance translated (into French). There are Greek and Latin indices, a general index, a preface and table of contents in Arabic at the back (from our point of view!), but the one obvious missing feature is a concordance of publications. A nice-looking corpus, however.

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It is a publication of 75 inscriptions from Thessaloniki (of which 59 previously unpublished, if I counted correctly) and 66 testimonia epigraphica, with copious commentaries.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

https://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.