Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Announcement of the forthcoming Epigraphic Congress in Berlin, 2012. (The website is available in multiple languages.)

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

der 14. Internationale Kongress für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik wird auf Einladung der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Verbindung mit dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut vom 27. bis zum 31. August 2012 in Berlin stattfinden. Die Internetseite des Kongresses ist unter

http://www.congressus2012.de

zu erreichen. Über den jeweils neuesten Stand der Kongressvorbereitung wird mit einem Newsletter informiert werden. Bitte melden Sie uns unter

http://www.congressus2012.de/de/newsletter.html

dass Sie den Newsletter erhalten wollen; auf diese Weise erhalten wir auch ihre neueste E-Mail Adresse. Die Anmeldung für den Newsletter ist noch keine Anmeldung zum Kongress.

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In der Hoffnung, dass sehr viele von Ihnen unserer Einladung nachkommen,
mit freundlichen Grüßen
Werner Eck

Workshop “Dalla pietra all’immagine digitale. Tecniche e metodologie del rilievo e della ricostruzione digitale dei monumenti iscritti”

18-22 ottobre 2010, Aquileia (Udine, Italia)

Il corso intende far conoscere e imparare ad utilizzare le moderne tecnologie disponibili per il rilievo, la riproduzione fotografica e in 3D, la ricostruzione virtuale e la diffusione su supporto informatico dei monumenti epigrafici e delle scritte su instrumentum domesticum.

Programma: http://www.units.it/epilab/Workshop_Bando.doc

Le domande devono essere fatte pervenire entro il 16 settembre 2010 preferibilmente come allegato di un e-mail all’indirizzo: zacclau@units.it, oppure per fax al numero +39 040 5582814.

Il Formulario per l’iscrizione: http://www.units.it/epilab/Workshop_Formulario.doc

Eventuali comunicazioni epistolari possono essere inviate a : Prof. Claudio Zaccaria, Dipartimento di Storia e Culture dall’Antichità al Mondo Contemporaneo, Università di Trieste, Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 6, 34123 Trieste (Italia).

posted for Mark Handley:

Today I am launching a new website.

http://handley-inscriptions.webs.com/

It is devoted to Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West (roughly A.D. 300-900) – ranging from Ireland, to North Africa, to the Balkans, and all regions in between.

The website has two main functions:

1) Regionally-specific pages of links to articles, books, PhDs, websites, and databases on late antique and early medieval inscriptions covering:

• Britain / Anglo-Saxon England / Ireland;
• Gaul and the Rhineland;
• Iberia;
• Italy;
• North Africa; and
• the Latin-speaking Balkans.

This is limited to what is freely available on-line, but currently there are over 470 live links to scholarly and reference material; and

2) A New Publications page, devoted to trying to list all new publications in the area. So far this covers the years 2008-2010, and has about 100 publications.

Feedback is very welcome.

New from the Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches catalogue:

Feraudi-Gruénais, Francisca (ed.), Latin on Stone: epigraphic research and electronic archives, Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2010. Pp. xvii + 174. ISBN 978-0-7391-4590-6. $60.00.

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Dalla matita al laser scanner: rilievo e ricostruzione digitale delle iscrizioni

Lunedi 7 giugno 2010 – ore 9.00
Odeion del Museo dell-Arte Classica
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5

(For full programme see attached flyer or contact manacord@uniroma3.it.)

We are happy to announce a significant upgrade of the Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project site: http://www.brown.edu/iip. The site, which aims to collect all the published inscriptions of the region now known as Israel/Palestine that date from the Persian, Greek, and Roman periods, now contains some 1300 texts. Any comments or contributions, of course, would be welcome.

Michael Satlow
Project Director
Brown University

The Greek Epigraphic Society and the BSA will host from 21st – 23rd May a conference in honour of Prof. H. B. Mattingly entitled Η ΤΩΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ ΑΡΧΗ. The Athenian Empire: old and new problems. The papers will include:

H. B. Mattingly, The Chalkis decree (IG I(3) 40).
A. L. Boegehold, Most Is Not All: Thucydides’ Use of Some Superlatives
J. K. Davies, Kimon, Kleon, and Kleophon: the logic of an inherited agenda
P. J. Rhodes, What Remains of Periclean Imperialism?
R. S. Stroud, Dating Greek Inscriptions by Letterforms: A Vice
Adele Scafuro, Penalty and punishment formulae in fifth century Attic decrees
C. V. Crowther, Justice for Phaselis: IG I(3) 10 (EM 6918) revisited
Akiko Moroo, Three Mysterious Inscriptions Concerning Erythrai
R. K. Pitt, The decree on Hestiaia IG I(3) 41
N. Papazarkadas, Reassessing IG I(3) 17: Athens, Sigeion, and the Politics of Approbation in the Ionian War
A. P. Matthaiou, New fragments and old problems
M. Piérart, The Missing List. Old and New Problems
B. Paarmann, The Historian and the Epigraphist. Considerations on ATL and IG I(3) 259-290
Nike Makres, The Hephaistia inscription (IG I(3) 82) revisited
Mariko Sakurai, The Date of IG I(3) 136 and the Cults of Bendis in Athens in the Fifth Century
Kevin Clinton, The Athenian Cleruchy on Lemnos (the paper will be read by L. Threatte)
G. Stainhauer, The Loukou Erechtheis Stele
D. Sourlas – N. Papazarkadas, A new fragment of the Argives Casualty List
A. P. Matthaiou – G. Kavvadias, A new fifth century Inscription from the North Slope of Akropolis

For further information see www.bsa.ac.uk

The Summer 2010 EpiDoc training workshop will now take place in London, at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, from June 28 – July 1. Thanks to the generosity of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL) we have €500 available for bursaries to help students attend this event. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL) and James Cowey (Heidelberg). There will be no charge to attend this workshop.

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Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context
Conference – 2nd Call for Papers

September 22-23, 2010
Institute of Classical Studies
University of London

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/accordia/Conf.Etr.Literacy.htm for for details and call for papers (page seems to be one large image, so we can’t copy any details here).

(posted for Stephen Mitchell)

Historical and Archaeological Atlas of Ancient Asia Minor Project

International symposium
Université de Franche-Comté/ Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité
Besançon (France)
November 26th and 27th, 2010

Call for papers (deadline: June 30th, 2010)

Since the nineteenth century, numerous and varied historical and archaeological works have been launched in Asia Minor – essentially in Turkey – by international teams, but the scientific data, which are complex and numerous too, have been published in total dispersion. The Anatolian area is a crossroad of several famous civilizations and of many populations and cultures (Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Urartu kingdom for example) from Europe (Thracians, Celts, Greeks, Macedonians, Romans), from Asia (Persians, Mesopotamians) and from Africa (Egypt), often in connection with city-states of Mesopotamia and the Near-East, with ancient Iran, the Caucasian area, Egypt and Greece.

The meeting that will be held in Besançon (France) on November 26th and 27th, 2010 is open to all the persons who want to carry on the researches on ancient Asia Minor differently, with a collective and a positive spirit. Yet the Historical and Archaeological Atlas of Ancient Asia Minor and its launching will be discussed. After the most complete statement as possible on the recent researches (discoveries, prospections), the detailed discussions will deal with the scientific organization of the project, with the future research trails, and with all the actual and expected partnerships. Then the results of the meeting will be published as soon as possible.

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Practical Epigraphy Workshop

FINAL CALL

22-24 June 2010, Great North Museum, Newcastle

A Practical Epigraphy Workshop is taking place for those who are interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material. The workshop is aimed at graduate students, but other interested parties are welcome to apply, whether or not they have previous experience. With expert tuition, participants will learn the practical aspects of how to record and study inscriptions. The programme will include the making of squeezes; photographing and measuring inscribed stones; and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries. Participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts.

The course fee is £100 but we hope to be able to provide bursaries to participants to assist with the cost. Accommodation will be extra, but we are arranging B&B nearby for around £30-40.

If you wish to apply for a place on this course please contact Dr Charlotte Tupman by e-mail immediately. The closing date is 31 March but we shall consider applications which have been received by 10.00 a.m. on Tuesday 6 April.

For further details please contact Dr. Charlotte Tupman: charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk.

The Practical Epigraphy Workshop is sponsored by The British Epigraphy Society, an independent ‘chapter’ of the Association Internationale d’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine.

(Paper given at the Ancient History Seminar, London, March 11th, 2010. Brief report by Caroline Barron.)

Graffiti or Inscriptions? The Epigraphic Habit in Attica
Claire Taylor

Dr Taylor’s talk focussed on the problems that arise through the categorisation of some inscriptions as Graffiti. She suggested that by making such a stark categorisation, some ‘marks’ have not received the attention that that might deserve, and that, therefore, their full potential as not been realised. These categories also encourage us to view the texts in a certain way. In the modern world, graffiti is often considered part of an illicit subculture, with a common critical response. By referring to these marks and texts as graffiti, we are therefore imposing the judgement that they too are illicit, as well as unconsciously (or consciously?) comparing them less favourably with other epigraphic forms. This is further complicated by the variety of texts and marks that are called graffiti: Individual Letters, Names, Trademarks, Commercial notations, Dedications, Sexual references and pictures. Dr Taylor argued that each mark must be considered in terms of the context in which it appeared eg. A commercial notation on is an important communication for both the buyer and the seller. That it was added to the pot later on, and by a different hand, shouldn’t become more important than the trade information that it relates. Equally, the sexual graffiti found in Pompeii is entirely appropriate for the place in which it was found – a brothel. So, while there is very little that connects the Greek pot’s commercial notation and Pompeii’s sexual graffiti, they are both found in the same category of Graffiti.

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Xe Table ronde de l’épigraphie grecque et latine

Debrecen, 30-31. 03. 2009.

Debreceni Egyetem Főépület III. em. 316.

A konferencia plakátja innen letölthető.

More information: http://delfin.unideb.hu/~history/okor/X_epigraphicai_kerekasztal.html

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(Paper given at the Ancient History Seminar, London, March 4th, 2010. Brief report by Susan Fogarty.)

Constructing Lives from Stone: Inscriptions and Biographical Traditions
Dr. Polly Low, Manchester

This lively seminar set out to explore whether the development of literary biography in the 4th C can be seen to be reflected in the epigraphic practice of the period. There is a change in style detected in the epigraphic material in the Classical and early Hellenistic periods and, concentrating on mostly Athenian examples, Dr. Low certainly posed some very interesting questions.

In exploring how an epigraphic text may be classed as biographical, Dr. Low looked at honorific decrees which concentrate on the moral qualities of the individual – for example IG i³ 158 (honours for Corinthios) the honorand is simply an ἀνὴρ ἀγαθός, or IG i³ 97 (Eurytion and his father) shows a shift to abstraction in describing them as possessing ἀνδραγαθία. These moral qualities are presented as paradigms of behaviour. The publication formula states the reason for the publication: “so that all other men may know”. This method and intention is seen in literary texts also: Isocrates’ Evagoras describes his individual characteristics (ἐυσεβία, σοφία) in order that he be emulated by the young (Evagoras 73-77). Therefore there is an overlap between the literary and the epigraphic with regard to individual character but this is not the same thing as biography. Dr. Low stated that it is the interaction between the abstract and the individual that is biographical and while Greek epigraphy is a good source for character at this stage, it is less so for action.

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(Paper given at the Ancient History Seminar, London, February 25th, 2010. Brief report by Caroline Barron.)

Athenian Decrees Honouring Priests and Priestesses to 20/19BC.
Stephen Lambert, Cardiff University

In this seminar Stephen Lambert presented a series of Inscriptions from the forthcoming IG II³, which are concerned with Athenian decrees honouring Priests and Priestesses from the early Classical period to 20/19BC.

Dr Lambert highlighted that the decrees honouring the Priests and Priestesses were inscribed on stone, thus indicating the worth of the individual, or individuals, being honoured. They are presented as being worthy of praise in the eyes of the citizens, and in the eyes of Athens, and therefore, in the eyes of the gods.

The presentation was divided into three sections, the outlines of which are detailed below:

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