Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Posted for Alison Cooley:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions)

• Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford
• Grade 7: £31,331 p.a.
• The ‘Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions in Britain’s Oldest Public Museum through Scholarship and Technology’ project is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a full-time, 3-year fixed-term post from 1 October 2013 until 30 September 2016. The project is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant and is directed by Dr Alison Cooley (University of Warwick).
• The Research Fellow will be based in the Ashmolean Museum and in the Classics Faculty’s Ioannou Centre in central Oxford and will work under the supervision of Dr Cooley and Dr Susan Walker (Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities). The principal responsibility of the Research Fellow will be to fulfil the project’s impact agenda by integrating the Latin inscriptions in the Museum into the Ashmolean’s Online Collections, creating additional web resources tailored to the needs of school students, designing and implementing interactive gallery activities, exploring the creation of resources for the visually impaired, and helping to run inset days illustrating the potential of the new resources for UK teachers.
• Applicants should have a PhD in Archaeology, Ancient History, Museum Studies, or a relevant field, a demonstrable knowledge of the Social History of the Roman World, experience in working in collaboration with schools, and have proven IT skills.
• Only applications received before 12.00 noon on 17 May 2013 can be considered.
  Contact Person : Erica Clarke
  Vacancy ID : 107580
  Contact Phone : 01865 288269
• Closing Date : 17-May-2013
  Contact Email: recruitment@classics.ox.ac.uk

Further particulars to be found at the Oxford recruitment page.

Held by Joyce Reynolds at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge, Saturday 18 May 2013.

10.30    Coffee

11.00    Joyce Reynolds will present a number of problematic inscriptions from Cyrenaica, notably a document of 67 BC which appears to talk of some kind of Roman provincial census, a mid-first century BC inscription dealing with civic honours, and a group of Jewish inscriptions involving the or an amphitheatre.

13.00    Lunch

14.15    Four short papers:
Irina Levinskaya, ‘A new inscription from the Black Sea’
Margaret Williams, ‘The Jewish inscriptions of Hierapolis’
Michael Crawford, ‘The Emperor Tiberius and the epigraphy of Umbria’
Benet Salway, ‘The fate of the Roman milestone in late antiquity’

16.00    Tea

If you have not already done so, could you please let Michael Crawford know if you are coming, so that we may have an idea of numbers: imagines.italicae@sas.ac.uk

From Laura Löser:

Dear all,

Exciting things are happening in the realms of EpiDoc. Since Thursday, you can find EpiDoc on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EpiDoc

First of all, if you are not a member of Facebook, worry not: any information that we publish on our Facebook page will also reach the Markup List. However, the page was established in order to keep anyone, whether just interested in learning more or established member of the EpiDoc community, up to date with current events and developments in an informal setting.

If you ‘like’ the page, you can show support for EpiDoc and share our news with your friends. Thus, you can make a contribution to promoting the benefits of EpiDoc, which may enlarge our community and thus increase the number of helping hands in the list – we shall regulargy encourage our followers to join the Markup List and make joining less ‘scary’, especially for students and younger scholars to widen access and outreach and raise awareness.

Forwarded for the British Epigraphy Society:

Spring Meeting of the British Epigraphy Society
“Epigraphy and Religion”

Saturday, 4 May 2013
Small Ceremonial Chamber (Kleiner Festsaal)
University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna
bes.univie.ac.at

See attached poster and programme.

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen!

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, daß Tyche Sonderband 5/2 soeben erschienen ist.

Claudia Ruggeri (Hrsg.)
Die Antiken Schriftzeugnissse über den Kerameikos von Athen.
Teil 2: Das Dipylongebiet und der Äußere Kerameikos (Inhaltsverzeichnis)

Den Band können Sie direkt beim Verlag bestellen
<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at

Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Wien
im Namen der Tyche,
Franziska Beutler

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Tyche Special Volume 5/2 has been published!

Claudia Ruggeri (Hrsg.)
Die Antiken Schriftzeugnissse über den Kerameikos von Athen.
Teil 2: Das Dipylongebiet und der Äußere Kerameikos  (contents)

You can place an order for this volume at the publishing house
<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at/hhshop/buch.wissenschaft/Tyche.htm

Best wished from Vienna,
on behalf of Tyche,
Franziska Beutler

From the BES calendar:

Joyce Reynolds will host another Epigraphic Saturday in Cambridge on May 18. The day will follow a different format to previous ones: as many of you will know, Joyce is currently working on an on-line corpus of the inscriptions of Cyrenaica, and rather than having a main speaker from overseas she would like to present and discuss some of the problem texts from the Greek cities of Cyrenaica. The day will start at 10.30 (with coffee) for 11.00, with Cyrenaican problems before lunch and short papers by others in the first half of the afternoon. The format will be seminar-style round a table; could you please let Michael Crawford know if you would like to come and whether you would like to offer a short paper (imagines.italicae@sas.ac.uk).

TRAJANSSÄULE. Siegesmonument und Kriegsbericht in Bildern

9.-12. Mai 2013

Internationale Tagung anläßlich des 1900. Jahrestages ihrer Einweihung

CIVIC HONOURS – LES HONNEURS CIVIQUES
The politics of honour in the Greek cities of Roman Imperial times (http://www.honneurs-civiques.org/en/) invites you to a workshop in Tours on 6 April 2013

The collective research project “Civic honours” is concerned with the system of public honours that Greek cities bestowed upon their good citizens and foreign benefactors (praise, crown, statue, prohedria, public funerals, and so on). The aim of the project is to study the development of this system, and in particular the rise of honorific monuments, during the Imperial period (1st-3d c. AD), when the Greek world had become part of the Roman Empire. Co-directed by Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf, this international project brings together scholars from France, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, who employ various approaches and methods: epigraphy, archaeology, literature, linguistic theory. After several workshops in France, Greece and the Netherlands, a final international conference, scheduled for the Spring of 2014, will gather all participants and will be followed by the publication of a collective volume. (See for a report on Athens workshop of 2 February 2013: http://www.honneurs-civiques.org/en/athens/). (more…)

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen!

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, daß Tyche 27 erschienen ist.
Das Inhaltsverzeichnis finden Sie im Anhang.

Den Band können Sie entweder direkt beim Verlag bestellen
<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at/hhshop/buch.wissenschaft/Tyche.htm

oder ab nächste Woche auch über Amazon beziehen
<http://www.amazon.de

Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Wien

Im Namen der Tyche

Franziska Beutler

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Tyche 27 has been published!
Please find the table of contents attached.

You can either place an order for this volume at the publishing house
<https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at/hhshop/buch.wissenschaft/Tyche.htm

or from next week on via amazon
<http://www.amazon.de

Best wished from Vienna

on behalf of Tyche

Franziska Beutler

Tommaso Gramigni writes to alert us to the publication of a catalogue of medieval inscriptions from Florence and its surroundings, which derives from his PhD research at University of Florence. It is presently openly available online (PDF) and will soon appear in print from Firenze University Press: Iscrizioni medievali nel territorio fiorentino fino al XIII secolo.

Tommaso also alerts us to his blog, Epigrafia Medievale.

A reminder that we are inviting applications for a training event in digital encoding of epigraphy and papyrology at the Institute for Classical Studies, London, April 22-5, 2013 (see full announcement here).  Thanks to the generosity of the British Epigraphy Society and Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, we now have a limited number of bursaries available to assist students with attending this workshop.

If you would like to apply for financial support in attending the EpiDoc workshop, please note in your application email that you would like to be considered for a bursary, approximately how much you expect the trip to cost you, and what other sources of funding you have. If you have already applied for the training, please just send an additional email asking to be considered, and we’ll add a note to this effect to your application. A decision will be made shortly after the closing date on March 1st.

Posted for Alison Cooley:

AHRC Research Project

‘Facilitating Access to Latin inscriptions in Britain’s oldest public museum through scholarship and technology’

Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/postgrads/epigraphy/ahrcproject

Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship (Home/EU fees + maintenance) in Latin epigraphy, to write a thesis on the topic ‘Literacy and Epigraphy in Britain from Roman to Mediaeval Times (1st-11th C.)’. This is associated with the Facilitating Access to Latin Inscriptions project, directed by Dr Alison Cooley, in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum and Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford. 1^st Oct 2013-30 Sept 2016

How to apply: Please send a letter of application, c.v., and ask two academic referees to submit confidential references on your behalf to: Dr Alison Cooley, Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk. You are very welcome to email for further information.

Deadline for Applications: 12 noon, Monday 11th March 2013.

We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London, with support from the British Epigraphy Society and Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg), Simona Stoyanova (KCL) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation.

EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a set of guidelines for using TEI XML (tei-c.org) for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient documentary texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online andCurse Tablets from Roman Britain, Pandektis (inscriptions of Macedonia and Thrace), and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML and markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object description in EpiDoc as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor (papyri.info/editor).

No technical skills are required to apply, but a working knowledge of Greek or Latin, epigraphy or papyrology and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors or professionals.

To apply for a place on this workshop please email gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday March 1st, 2013.

With a hat-tip to the BES newsletter, two fast approaching deadlines:

1. The DAI (Deutsche Archäologische Institut) has two bursaries available, one for travel and one for a research visit to the archaeological library in Munich (next deadline January 15th, 2013):

DAI Reisestipendium
http://www.dainst.org/en/scholarship/reisestipendium-2012-2013?ft=all

DAI Wülfing Stipendium
http://www.dainst.org/en/scholarship/w%C3%BClfing-stipendium-201213?ft=all

2. The Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies at Ohio State University is offering short-term fellowships (1-4 months) to visit OSU and use the library and other resources of the center (deadline January 31st 2013):

http://epigraphy.osu.edu/fellowships

Si terrà a Napoli, per iniziativa di Elena Miranda, il III Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia greca, dedicato alla presentazione e discussione degli studi in corso da parte di giovani ricercatori italiani, con la collaborazione di qualche studioso più esperto. Il Seminario si svolgerà dal 17 al 19 gennaio 2013 con il seguente programma:
SAEG 2013
3° Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca
Programma provvisorio
Giovedì 17 gennaio, ore 14.30 (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Magna)
- Saluti e introduzione
ore 15.00 Lucia Criscuolo: Iscrizioni e papiri: un ‘amore contrastato
ore 15.20 Ezio Attardo: I tempi e i luoghi della trasmissione della scrittura ai Greci
ore 15.40 Giovanni Boffa: ΕΥΛΙΝ. Una proposta di lettura per l’iscrizione dell’Osa.
ore 16.10 Alice Bencivenni e Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: L’edizione digitale delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica: status e prospettive.
ore 16.40 Discussione e pausa
ore 17.20 Eduardo Federico: L’arrivo di Enopione a Chio: una storia riscritta
ore 17.40 Emilio Rosamilia: Un’Artemide tessala a Delos (I.Délos 2381)
ore 18.00 Ornella Salati: I Μιξέλληνες di Olbia: IOSPE I2, 32, latus B
ore 18.20 Discussione
Venerdì 18 gennaio, ore 9.00 (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Magna)
ore 9.00 Daniela Francesca Marchiandi: I periboli funerari come fonte per la storia sociale dell’Attica classica
ore 9.20 Enrica Culasso: Composizione e mobilità sociale delle cleruchie: il contributo dell’epigrafia
ore 9.40 Ilaria Bultrighini: Due iscrizioni “gemelle” dal demo attico di Myrrhinous
ore 10.00 Chiara Lasagni: Le iscrizioni di S. Demetrio Katifori ad Atene: i percorsi del reimpiego
ore 10.20 Discussione e pausa
ore 11.00 Francesca Rocca: La manomissione al femminile: l’apporto degli atti di affrancamento allo studio della capacità economica delle donne in Grecia in età ellenistica
ore 11.20 Michela Nocita: Dall’Italia alla Grecia: corsi e ricorsi di Magnogreci e Italici (II secolo a.C.-I secolo d.C.)
ore 11.40 Paola Grandinetti: Le iscrizioni greche di Firenze
ore 12.00 Alessia Dimartino: Pondera. Pesi in basalto del Museo Archeologico Regionale “A. Salinas” di Palermo
ore 12.20 Discussione
ore 13.00 Pausa pranzo
Venerdì 18 gennaio, ore 14.30
ore 14.30 Lavinio Del Monaco: Le Tavole di Locri: paleografia e tecnica di scrittura
ore 14.50 Giovanna Calabrò: La stele dei Ginnasiarchi di Tauromenion
ore 15.10 Giulio Vallarino: Instrumentum publicum e democrazia a Taranto: rilettura di un’iscrizione vascolare
ore 15. 30 Federico Favi: Il greco in Puglia tra l’età messapica e l’età romana
ore 16.20 Discussione e pausa
ore 17.00 Massimo Nafissi e Roberta Fabiani: Dove onorare uno straniero. Luoghi di pubblicazione dei decreti a Iasos
ore 17.30 Francesco Guizzi: Il culto imperiale a Hierapolis di Frigia. Alcune osservazioni
ore 17.50 Marco Tentori Montalto: L’epigramma di Maratona dalla villa di Erode Attico ad Eva Kinourias
ore 18.10 Discussione
ore 20,30 Cena
Sabato 19 gennaio, ore 9.00 (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Sala conferenze)
ore 9.00 Giulia Tozzi: Il teatro di Dioniso come vetrina delle relazioni internazionali ateniesi nel IV secolo a.C.: la testimonianza delle iscrizioni
ore 9.20 Luca Bortolussi : Vie e città orientali nel III secolo d.C.: un’epigrafe greca dall’Osroene
ore 9.40 Lyuba Radulova: Iura sepulcrorum nella Moesia Inferior
ore 10.00 Elena Miranda De Martino e Diva Di Nanni Durante: Le iscrizioni greche del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
ore 10.30 Discussione e saluti
ore 11,30 Visita ad alcune delle collezioni del Museo Archeologico Nazionale (a cura di Elena Miranda De Martino e Diva Di Nanni Durante).