Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

UPDATE: added links to all the abstracts I could find

The following sessions at the joint annual meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America look epigraphical:

Friday, 4 January

• Concrete Text: Epigraphy, Elegy, and Poetic Inscriptions (Columbus Hall IJ; 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.; Teresa Ramsby and Samuel Huskey, organizers)
  • Lucretius at Cumae: Epicureanism in an Early Imperial Epitaph [pdf] (Stephen L. Tuck, Miami University)
  • Epigraphic Markers and Epitaphic Gestures in Latin Poetry [pdf] (Martin Dinter, University of London)
  • The Echo of Epitaph: Latin Elegy and an Inscribed Greek Epigram (SGO I 01/01/07) [pdf] (Johanna Hanink, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Manipulative Inscriptions in Ovidian Elegy and the Creation of Social Memory [pdf] (Anja Bettenworth, University of Muenster)
  • Respondent: Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    

Saturday, 5 January

• The Objects of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, sponsored by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Regency B; 9:00 a.m. - noon; Catherine M. Keesling, organizer; evidently no abstracts available online)
  • Inscribing Laws and the Emergence of Monumental Writing in Ancient Greece (Julia Lougovaya, Columbia University)
  • Graffiti Inscriptions on Pottery from Azoria, Crete: Mixed Ethnicities? (William C. West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Instructions on Stone: Leges Sacrae on Stone Offering Boxes (Thesauroi) (Isabelle A. Pafford, San Francisco State University)
  • The Uses of Sundials (George W. Houston, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • How to Read an Ossuary Inscription (Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University)
  • Recommended by Doctors: Writing Change in Roman Britain (Carolynn Roncaglia, University of California, Berkeley)
• Italian Epigraphy (Columbus Hall IJ; 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.; Clifford Ando, presider)
  • Property Ownership by Women in Rome and Roman Italy (Christer Bruun, University of Toronto; no abstract?)
  • Fish Farming and Fraud: Rational Economic Strategies for Roman Landowners? [pdf] (Cynthia J. Bannon, Indiana University)
  • Advertising for Sex in Ancient Pompeii (Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University; no abstract?)
  • Faith or Family? Jewish Epitaphs from Rome [pdf] (Megan Nutzman, The University of Chicago)

I’ll blog later today about geographical space-and-place talks, as well as sessions touching on digital humanities. That will be over at horothesia.