CIL Online

Posted on 2007-03-30 by Gabriel Bodard

As just reported by AIEGL, the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum have launched a website available in German and English at http://cil.bbaw.de/. The site appears to contain:

  • Searchable database of CIL numbers, listing photographs, squeezes, and bibliography among the results
  • Sample indices of Latin words in Republican Inscriptions (CIL I² 2, 4) and Milestone Inscriptions (CIL XVII 4, 1), with detailed “keyword in context” features
  • PDF versions of the Addenda and Corrigenda to the Internal Concordance to the CIL
  • A glossary of terms and metadata used in the editions of inscriptions (Latin and German)
  • Archivum Corporis Electronicum: an Anthology of Latin verse inscriptions from Roman Africa (German only). It doesn’t look as if there are any texts here; there is a clickable map of North Africa, but selecting Lepcis Magna (for example) returns the result “Zu Ihrer Abfrage sind keine Daten vorhanden”.

This is an attractive and, at first glance, professionally put together site, although the data inside it is a trifle thin. I can only hope that this is the beginnings of a growing electronic dissemination project, rather than a meagre attempt to advertise the paper produce. I can also only hope and appeal that any future plans to put epigraphy online will be done in a format compatible with the EAGLE and EpiDoc standards.

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Literary Epigraphy workshop

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Peter Liddell and Polly Low (Manchester University) have been working for a couple of years now on a collection of inscriptions “quoted or mentioned in ancient Greek and Latin literary texts”. For reference purposes, a prototype database showcasing some of their data and ideas for presentation has been made available. They now ask:

There appear to be two options for the next stage. One possibility is that we put together a major grant application to the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support an open-access database, based possibly in Manchester. The other possibility is collaboration with [an academic publisher]. Whichever option we decide on, the establishment of an editorial board which would oversee contributions by scholars working on assigned literary texts is a desideratum.

We would like to establish what other scholars would like to see in such a database, the kinds of fields and search-options that would be useful, how the management of such a database would work, and who would be willing to be involved on an editorial board.

With this in mind, we would like to invite [a small group] to a workshop to discuss the design and running of such a database. We intend to hold a meeting at the forthcoming 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Oxford in September 2007 at 4pm on Friday 7th of September. We would be very grateful for any advice that you are willing to offer, and if you were to extend this invitation to others who may be interested in the project.

The first question that I can think of, of course, is how to make sure that this collection becomes compatible with AIEGL-approved archival and interchange standards such as EpiDoc and the EAGLE databases.

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Two reviewed: Sicilia cristiana

Posted on 2007-03-26 by Tom Elliott

R.J.A. Wilson has reviewed for BMCR (2007-03-37)

  • Francesco Paolo Rizzo, Sicilia cristiana dal I al V secolo. Volume Primo. Testimonia Siciliae Antiquae I.14; Supplementi a Kokalos 17. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2005. ISBN 88-7689-191-9 (worldcat record here).
  • Ibid., Gli albori della Sicilia cristiana. Secoli I-V. Temi e luoghi del mondo antico 17. Bari: Edipuglia, 2005. ISBN 88-7228-443-0 (worldcat record here).
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LGPN IV reviewed

Posted on 2007-03-23 by Tom Elliott

Zosia Archibald has reviewed for BMCR (2007-03-32):

  • Peter M. Fraser, Elaine Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. IV. Macedonia, Thrace, Northern Regions of the Black Sea. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927333-2 (worldcat record here).
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New list: Apparatus Criticus

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Tom Elliott

By way of a post to the Classics List, Chris Weimer alerts us to the launch of a new, moderated listserv called Apparatus Criticus:

Apparatus Criticus is an academic email list which focuses on the study of manuscripts and textual criticism. This includes the study of manuscript traditions, critical apparatuses, palaeography (paleography), epigraphy, the restoration of fragmentary texts, emendation proposals, and text-critical methods and applications.

Note that access to the lists’ archives are restricted to members only.

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New Epigraphic Finds at Xanthos: 2006 Season

Posted on 2007-03-19 by Tom Elliott

The directors of the 2006 Survey Season at Xanthos (BAtlas 65 B5 = Pleiades Place 639166) report significant progress on three major goals:

  • organization and inventory of all inscribed blocks in the Letoon storehouse and elsewhere on the site
  • topographic and cartographic survey of the site, to include the recording of locations (using GPS) for all inscribed blocks
  • general survey of the higher (so-called “Roman”) acropolis

In the course of this work, 24 new documents were identified (none previously published):

  • 4 honorific bases
  • 1 epitaph
  • 14 uncategorized fragments
  • 5 inscribed architrave blocks (1-3 letters each)

These discoveries bring the project’s total epigraphic inventory to 361 documents, of which only 58 were previously published in Tituli Asiae Minoris (76 other inscriptions published in TAM have not been located on the site).

The full 2006 survey report has not been published yet, but will be linked from the Overview of the 2006 Season (whence this information) in due course.

Continue reading →

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AIEGL Prize / Premio AIEGL: Rinvio scadenza 31/03 a 30/05/2007

Posted on 2007-03-16 by franciscaferaudi

Fonte (Secretariato dell’AIEGL, 16/03/07):

Su richiesta di alcuni Soci la scadenza per la presentazione delle domande é
rinviata al 30 maggio 2007.
Il bando é stato reso noto nell’ottobre 2006 in “Epigraphica” e nel sito
della AIEGL; all’inizio del mese di marzo é stato inviato  un messaggio
e-mail con l’indicazione della originaria scadenza al 31 marzo, che va ora
modificata.

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International Summer Course in Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Posted on 2007-03-13 by Tom Elliott

The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at the Ohio State University has announced a summer Epigraphy course, to be held 30 July – 10 August 2007 in Columbus Ohio USA. The application deadline (with 2 letters of recommendation) is 16 April 2007.

The full announcement includes information about fees (which are subsidized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy), a course overview and the syllabus from the 2005 version of the course.

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BSA Postgraduate Taught Course

Posted on 2007-03-12 by Gabriel Bodard

Announcement just seen on Classicists:

In case anyone would like to incorporate the course into their PG training programme undertakings to the AHRC for particular individual graduate students, here is an early warning of the Sixth Biennial British School of Athens Postgraduate Taught Course:

The History, Archaeology, and Epigraphy of the Greek Sanctuary

This eight-week residential course will take place from January to March 2008 under the direction of Professor J.K. Davies and the incoming BSA Director, Professor C.A. Morgan. The course is specifically designed for graduate students at United Kingdom universities, who are taking either a Master’s degree course or a research degree in Classics, Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and related subjects. Course demands are flexible and adapted to individual students, and it is possible for students with limited classical languages successfully to complete the course.

Formal teaching for the course will involve 48 hours of on-site teaching at archaeological sites and museums and 12 hours of seminar teaching.

Students will be expected to make occasional presentations at sites, to give a 20-minute seminar paper, and to produce (normally) one substantial piece of written work on a topic chosen by them in discussion with Course Director. A variety of ‘training needs’ can be met, including training in epigraphy and Modern Greek.

Please bring this to the notice of any would-be Master’s or Ph.D student who would benefit. Professor Davies will be happy to answer any detailed queries about the content of the course. A ‘course template’ is available (from ro225@cam.ac.uk) should any department need one. The template is designed particularly for departments which have modular Masters’ schemes, to allow students to gain the appropriate credit.

Applications forms will be made available on the BSA website in June and a further circular will be made to alert you to this.

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Phil Harland’s Epigraphy Series

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Tom Elliott

In blogging the unveiling of Current Epigraphy (thanks!), Phil Harland mentioned his interesting series of posts on Greek Epigraphy.

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AIEGL Prize

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Gabriel Bodard

The A.I.E.G.L. Scientific Committee approved the President’s and Bureau’s proposal to award two prizes for epigraphic publications at the next International Epigraphic Conference in Oxford: one will be awarded to a work in the field of Greek epigraphy, the other to a work in the field of Latin epigraphy. Each prize will consist of 3000 Swiss Francs.

The prizes are reserved to works almost ready for publication but not published yet. The works may consist in a corpus of inscriptions or in a study essentially concerned with epigraphic material; the prizes intend to support young researchers and therefore authors must be under age 40 when they submit their works.

The complete manuscripts should be sent in two copies, by registered mail and by the end of March 2007, to the Secretary general (Prof. Angela Donati, Dipartimento di Storia Antica, Via Zamboni, 38, I-40126 Bologna), together with a letter of recommendation by a member of A.I.E.G.L. and a letter of acceptance written by the editor of a scientific series or from a publishing house.

The Bureau will appoint two Committees of specialists, who will examine the works and will appoint the winners; the prizes will be awarded during the meeting of the A.I.E.G.L. which will be held in Oxford on September 7th, 2007; the works, once published, should acknowledge the financial support of A.I.E.G.L.

Manuscripts will not be returned.

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ISSN Assigned for CE:

Posted on 2007-03-08 by Tom Elliott

The ISSN UK Centre has issued an International Standard Serial Number for Current Epigraphy, effective 8 March 2007:

ISSN 1754-0909 (Online)

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