Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Posted for Nikolaos Papazarkadas:

I think that followers of Current Epigraphy would be interested to know that the Greek Epigraphic Society (Ελληνική Επιγραφική Εταιρεία) has recently launched its website:

http://www.greekepigraphicsociety.org.gr

The website includes, amongst others, epigraphic news (from discoveries of inscriptions to announcements of epigraphic events) and information on the periodical HOROS and the Society’s other publications (Horos Supplements, monographs, Festschrifts, etc.), which have hitherto been rather hard to find.

Nikolaos Papazarkadas
UCB, Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy

The first newsletter for the 2012 Congressus Internationionalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae to be held in Berlin (27-31 August, 2012) is being circulated, and includes the call for papers and posters, and a list of suggested panel topics, including:

• Harbours: infrastructure and society
• The world of the Military
• Inscriptions in private space
• Inscriptions and the digital world
• History of epigraphic scholarship
• The measurement of space
• Sanctuaries and cults
• Inscriptions and Christian cult places
• The dialogue of the living and the dead: tombs and their inscriptions
• Space, image and inscription

The deadline for submission of short papers under these topics is March 31, 2011. Full details in the newsletter (below).

Newsletter_01_110216.pdf

In BMCR 2001.02.41, Hagith Sivan reviews:

Louis Maurin, Milagros Navarro Caballero, Inscriptions latines d’Aquitaine (ILA): Bordeaux. Pessac: Ausonius, 2010. Pp. 688. ISBN 9782356130259. €70.00.

At the end of this review, Sivan asks the now increasingly common question:

Let me end with a question. In this age of rapid expansion of electronic databases do we really need a very hefty (15 pounds? 20?) and rather expensive volume of local inscriptions of a city that even in the fond terms of its successful son ranked no higher than twentieth in the order of famous cities (and would have ranked lower by less biased observers)? I am asking not only because epigraphic databases have become widespread and accessible but also because I narrowly avoided a major injury to my feet when I accidentally dropped this large volume on the floor. Over a decade ago John Drinkwater had asked the same question when reviewing another volume in this series (CR 50.2 (2000), 685). It is to be hoped that this contribution will become available soon in a digital format.

I leave readers to answer that question (discussion in comments here welcome).

Classics Subject Centre Practical Epigraphy Workshop for University Lecturers/Postdoctoral staff
12-14 April 2011 Classics Centre/Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

A Practical Epigraphy Workshop is taking place for those who are interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material (Greek and Latin). The workshop is aimed at lecturers in post and postdoctoral status academics in UK HE institutions, whether or not they have previous experience of epigraphy. With expert tuition provided by members of the British Epigraphy Society, participants will learn the practical aspects of how to record and study inscriptions. The programme will include the making of squeezes; photographing and recording inscribed stones; reading and transcribing squeezes; and the production of editions (transcriptions, lemmata, translations and commentaries).

The workshop will take place in Oxford and be based in the Classics Centre, with the support of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Classics Faculty, University of Oxford), and work with the epigraphical collection in the recently re-opened Ashmolean Museum (Department of Antiquities).

The workshop will start on Tuesday 12th April 2011 at 14.00 and run until 14.00 Thursday 14th April; there will be two early evening talks on the Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Workshop will provide lunches on Wednesday and Thursday; an evening meal Tuesday for all those involved in the Workshop; bed and breakfast accommodation at St John’s College; and the materials required to complete the workshop.

The Workshop is supported by the Classics Subject Centre. The cost of the workshop for participants (to include accommodation and meals) is £50. Those who would otherwise be prevented from attending by the cost should mention this in their application, as bursaries may be available.

Those interested in taking part should write to Sarah Francis (classhea@liverpool.ac.uk) at the Classics Subject Centre explaining briefly how participation in the Workshop will enhance the applicant’s teaching and research profile and how experience on this workshop might enable the Higher Education environment in which the participant is operating to develop the teaching of epigraphy. Participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts and should state their preference.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 3rd March 2011.

Forwared for Alison Cooley. (I understand that applications from epigraphers are especially welcome.)

Dept of Classics and Ancient History, Warwick invites applications for a research fellowship in Classics. £27,319 – £35,646 pa, Fixed Term Contract for 3 years from October 2011. The successful candidate will research on any aspect of the ancient Greek and Roman world compatible with departmental interests and undertake limited teaching. Requires a PhD in a relevant field and a record of quality work in Greek and Roman studies, preferably with a background in epigraphy or numismatics/ancient economy.

Application deadline: Wednesday 23 February 2011; Interview date: early to mid March 2011

https://secure.admin.warwick.ac.uk/webjobs/jobs/research/job22640.html

In this week’s Bryn Mawr Classical Review there is a thoughtful review by Caillan Davenport of Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais (ed.), Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives. Roman Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. (Announced here a few months ago.)

(Full disclosure: I have a chapter in this book, about which Davenport writes fairly positively.)

This is a mixed review, with some criticism of individual chapters and some perhaps unnecessarily sniffy comments about publishing work on a digital topic in a printed book, but otherwise constructive commentary on the subject matter and some useful discussion of epigraphic research from a Digital Humanities perspective.

Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae

A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad

Volume 1

Jerusalem, Part 1: 1-704

Ed. by Cotton, Hannah M. / Di Segni, Leah / Eck, Werner / Isaac, Benjamin / Kushnir-Stein, Alla / Misgav, Haggai / Price, Jonathan / Roll, Israel / Yardeni, Ada

In collab. with Heimbach, Marfa / Schneider, Naomi
With contrib. by Lupu, Eran

Hardcover | RRP Euro [D] €129.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 182.00.
ISBN 978-3-11-022219-7

erscheint Dezember 2010
Auch erhältlich als eBook

Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/at/detail.cfm?id=IS-9783110222197-1

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung announces two to three scholarships for non-German postgraduates or non-German scholars with a PhD to conduct research at the Historisches Institut, Abt. Alte Geschichte, University of Cologne

Scholarships are for periods ranging between 6 and 24 months. Recipients of the scholarships will receive amounts that correspond with those granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (currently about 1.200 € monthly for a postgraduate, 1.800 € monthly for a scholar with a PhD.).

The scholarships are for all projects from all disciplines of classical studies that pertain to the general topic of “centre and periphery”, but projects in Greek or Latin epigraphy from the Imperial period and late antiquity are especially encouraged.

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Along the many Greek manuscripts recently digitized by the British Library and made freely available online is one very nice Eighteenth Century notebook full of sketches and transcriptions of Greek and Latin inscriptions made by Joseph Ames (described as “bibliographer and antiquary” in the catalogue). Many of these inscriptions seem to have been on display in the English countryside, and are presumably well-known. (All page scans may be seen here.)

We’ve long been thinking about how to publish epigraphic notebooks of this kind (the example of Deering’s sketches from Aphrodisias was one suggestion for how to go about this). The fact that museums and libraries are starting to make these manuscripts available as-is–without additional commentary or scholarship–is already valuable.

LA INTERPRETACIÓN DE LOS MONUMENTOS EPIGRÁFICOS EN CONTEXTOS SECUNDARIOS: Uso, reutilización y falsificación

16-18 de Noviembre 2010

Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos
C/Serrano 107.— Madrid. Tlf. 915617236

http://fundacionpastor.e.telefonica.net

Organización científica:
J. Carbonell Manils (UAB)
H. Gimeno Pascual (Centro CIL II. UAH)
J. L. Moralejo Álvarez (UAH)

Full programme and registration (PDF)

Several local (around Britain and Ireland) series of seminars have been announced recently, and the following are those individual paper which seem to be of particular epigraphic interest. Please let us know (in a comment) if I’ve missed anything.

5th October, 2010
Dr Graham Oliver (University of Liverpool)
Memory creation by inscription: autobiography, Lycurgus, and the shaping of Athenian history
Tuesday at 5-6.30 pm in the Bosanquet Seminar Room, 12 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool

October 6th, 2010
Penny Goodman, University of Leeds
Urbis et orbis: the Boundaries of the City of Rome
Wednesday at 3pm, Room 101, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds

8 October 2010
Dr Nikolaos Papazarkadas (Berkeley)
‘The Epigraphy of the Athenian Empire: Politics of Approbation in the Ionian War’
Friday at 4.05 p.m. in School 5, in St Salvator’s quad, University of St Andrews

11 Oct 2010
Sophie Minon (Paris)
‘The “bilingual” inscription from Sigeion (IG 1[3] 1508): a linguistic and historical analysis’
Mon (3-5pm) Senate House G35, Malet Street, London WC1

28 October 2010
Dr Francesco Trifilo, University of Kent,
‘Traffic, congestion and the creation of public space in cities of the Roman Empire: the archaeology of the platea’
Thursday. 5.15 p.m., Cornwallis NW SR 10, University of Kent

28 Oct 2010
Ted Kaizer (Durham)
‘‘Familiar strangers’ – gods and worshippers away from home in the Roman Near East’
Thursday at 4.30pm in Senate House, South Block, room G22/26

4 Nov 2010
Massimo Osanna (Matera/Heidelberg)
From rulers’ dwellings to sanctuaries in Southern Italy: culture contact and cross-cultural trade in the hinterland of the Ionian coast’
Thursday at 4.30pm in Senate House, South Block, room G22/26

1 Nov 2010
James Clackson (Cambridge)
‘Local languages and resistance to Rome in Republican Italy’
Mon (3-5pm) Senate House G35, Malet Street, London WC1

11 November 2010
Dr Kyle Erickson / Trinity St David
‘The Origins of Seleucid Ruler Cult in Asia Minor’
5.15pm. University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter campus), Roderic Bowen Reading Room

19 November 2010
Robert Walker, Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
Favour-seeking behaviour in Hittite and ancient Greek oracular inquiry: Didyma and Hittite duddumar (‘favour’)
4.30 p.m., Senate House G35 (Postgraduate seminar, staff welcome only by arrangement with speaker)

26 November 2010
Luigi Prada, (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Extinction and syncretism: Egyptian and Greek cultural interaction in the temples of Roman Egypt
4.30 p.m., Senate House G35 (Postgraduate seminar, staff welcome only by arrangement with speaker)

6 Dec 2010
Michael Crawford (London)
‘Could we ever write Das italische Staatsrecht?’
Mon (3-5pm) Senate House G35, Malet Street, London WC1

9 December 2010
Drs Ivana & Andrej Petrovic / Durham
‘Greek metrical sacred regulations and issues of authority’
5.15pm. University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter campus), Roderic Bowen Reading Room

14 Dec. 2010
Dr John Pearce (KCL)
Death and burial in Roman London
Tuesday at 5.15pm in Room B6, Classics Department, King’s College London

25 January 2011
Dr Christina Haywood, University College Dublin
Tomb-cult and social identity in the Greek polis. A case study from Kephalonia
Tuesday at 5.30pm in K217, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield Dublin 4.

Forwarded for Dr. Markus Scholz (markus.scholz@rgzm.de)

Ductus
Association internationale pour l’étude des inscriptions mineures

‘Lesen und Schreiben in den römischen Provinzen –
Ein Überblick über die schriftliche Kommunikation im Alltagsleben’
‘Lire et écrire et dans les provinces de l´Empire romain -
Un tour d´horizon de la communication à la vie quotidienne’

16.-17. Juni 2011
Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Kurfürstliches Schloss
Colloquium II de DUCTUS sous le patronage de l’Association internationale d´épigraphie grecque et latine (A.I.E.G.L)

Einladung und Bitte um Beiträge (Vorträge oder Poster)
Invitation et demande des contributions : conférences ou poster

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L’Anatolie des peuples, cités et cultures
(IIe millénaire av. J.-C.-Ve siècle ap. J.-C.)
Autour du projet d’Atlas historique et archéologique de l’Asie Mineure antique
Colloque international
Besançon, 26-27 novembre 2010
Université de Franche-Comté / Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité (EA 4011)
Grand salon (E14), 18 rue Chifflet, 1er étage, UFR SLHS

Full programme in PDF here.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The 14th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humboldt University, Berlin, will take place in Berlin from 27 to 31 August 2012. The web-site address of the Congress is http://www.congressus2012.de

Updated information about the preparations for the Congress will be provided in a Newsletter. Please contact us at http://www.congressus2012.de/en/newsletter.html if you would like to receive this Newsletter. This will also provide us with your most recent e-mail address. However, subscribing to the Newsletter does not constitute an application to attend the Congress.

We would be grateful if you would send this e-mail on to other interested individuals and institutions, especially to younger colleagues. We would also be grateful if you could pass the details to any colleagues without a personal e-mail address. We will of course send information by post to any who request this.

In the hope that very many of you accept out invitation, and with warm greetings on behalf of the local Organising Committee,

Werner Eck

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.

Wir wären Ihnen sehr dankbar, wenn Sie diese E-Mail an alle Interessenten und Institutionen weiterleiten würden, besonders an jüngere Kollegen und solche, die über keinen eigenen E-Mail-Anschluß verfügen. Falls diese uns entsprechend schreiben, werden wir ihnen die Informationen auf normalem postalischem Weg zusenden.

Wir bitten um Entschuldigung, falls Sie diese E-Mail mehrfach erhalten sollten.

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