By way of Silvia Orlandi comes this announcement from Silvio Panciera of a newly-formed Association for the Development and Dissemination of the Study of Roman Italy:
TERRA ITALIA ONLUS
Associazione per lo sviluppo e la diffusione degli studi sull’Italia Romana
Si segnala che, da parte di un gruppo di studiosi della Sapienza - Università di Roma, una nuova Associazione con questo nome è stata costituita in Roma il 14 maggio 2008, con atto notarile registrato il 10 giugno successivo. Nello Statuto e Atto costitutivo consultabile sul sito dell’Associazione (vedi sotto) si troveranno i nomi dei suoi promotori e responsabili pro tempore, insieme con l’indicazione delle sue motivazioni e finalità, nonché della struttura pensata per la stessa dopo una breve fase d’avvio che si concluderà con il prossimo anno.
Alcuni adempimenti amministrativi in corso (codice fiscale, riconoscimento Onlus, apertura conti correnti), che richiederanno due o tre mesi, consigliano di rinviare le iscrizioni all’inizio del 2009. Ma sembra importante far conoscere l’Associazione già da ora ed avviare una raccolta di adesioni di massima alla stessa, con la conseguente creazione di un indirizzario di simpatizzanti da utilizzare in futuro. Si consiglia di manifestare tale adesione di massima (non impegnativa) accedendo al sito dell’Associazione, che sarà utile anche per altre informazioni http://terraitalia.altervista.org, e seguendo le istruzioni ivi fornite. Altrimenti l’adesione stessa potrà essere comunicata, fornendo generalità, qualifiche e recapiti (postali, elettronici, telefonici, fax) ad uno dei seguenti indirizzi di posta elettronica:
Una qualche forma di raccordo con altre Associazioni similari, ma con finalità non identiche, come l’Associazione Italiana di Epigrafia, è allo studio. Siamo grati fin d’ora dell’inoltro di questa lettera ad altre persone che si ritengano interessate.
Cordiali saluti
Il Consiglio Direttivo Provvisorio
Gregg Schwendner has posted the newly-released table of contents for the latest issue of ZPE (with plenty of epigraphic content, of course).
Last Saturday, Daniel Tompkins started an interesting discussion on the Classics-L list by asking:
What was the language of the ancient Macedonians? … I’d be very interested in hearing about epigraphic remains in geographic Macedonia, and in analyses of them, that might have a bearing on this question.
He’s had several helpful responses, but CurEp readers may have more to add (or may be interested in some of the sources and secondary work cited already). To see replies, select “next in topic” on the Classics-L archive page.
From Simon Mahony via the Digital Classicist list:
Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work-in-Progress
Seminar, Summer 2008
Friday 20th June at 16:30, in B3, Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London
please note - this is a different room. Stewart House is the building on the Russell Square side of Senate House.
Dot Porter (University of Kentucky)
‘The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool’
ALL WELCOME
I shall discuss the Son of Suda On Line (SoSOL), a proposed web-based, fully audited, version-controlled editing environment being built for the papyrological community but designed for applicability to other editing communities. It will enable the collaborative editing of texts in a framework of rigorous and transparent peer-review and credit mechanisms and strong editorial oversight.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or
Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html
Alicia Canto forwarded the following notice, originating with AIEGL, to the inscriptiones-l list:
Instrumenta Inscripta Latina II: Akten des 2. Internationalen Kolloquiums, Klagenfurt, 5. - 8. Mai 2005
Herausgegeben von Manfred Hainzmann und Reinhold Wedenig
Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten
«Aus Forschung und Kunst» Band 36 (Redaktion: Gernot Piccottini)
Klagenfurt 2008
Preis:
- Subskriptionspreis bis 31. 10. 2008: 46 € + Versandkosten
- Normalpreis: 69 € + Versandkosten
The following index was appended in PDF form:
- VORWORT
- G. BARATTA – Pelles scriptae: Inschriften auf Leder und Lederwaren.
- T. BEZECZKY – Amphorae from the West. Evidence of the long distance trade connection with Ephesus.
- A. BINSFELD – Aussagemöglichkeiten von Ziegelstempeln am Beispiel des Materials aus der frühchristlichen Kirchenanlage in Trier.
- J. BLÄNSDORF – Die Defixionum tabellae des Mainzer Isisund Mater-Magna-Heiligtums.
- G. CICALA – Bolli su terra sigillata italica da Ascoli Piceno. I materiali della Collezione Civica del Museo Archeologico Statale.
- M. DOHNICHT – Gemmen, Inschriften und ein nachgelassenes Manuskript.
- U. EHMIG – Kleininschriften auf Amphoren im historischen Raum: das Beispiel Mogontiacum – Mainz und sein Umland.
- P. FUNARI – The role of the Instrumenta Inscripta Latina in discussing the Roman Economy: Britain as a case study.
- R. GARRAFFONI – Funerary Commemoration and Roman Graffiti: How Epigraphy can Contribute to Rethink Gladiators.
- G. GLÖCKNER – Inschriften auf römischen Glasgefäßen aus Österreich.
- K. GOSTENČNIK – Beinfunde als Schriftträger: Die Beinfunde aus der Stadt auf dem Magdalensberg und ihre Kleininschriften.
- M. HAINZMANN – Variae lectiones: Ein Vorschlag zur Kennzeichnung von Neulesungen und Korrekturen.
- J. KRIER – BANNA-Schälchen. Zu Verbreitung, Datierung und Funktion eines rätselhaften Fundobjekts der frühen Kaiserzeit.
- D. MANACORDA – Populonia e l’instrumentum inscriptum: i bolli laterizi.
- Y. MARION, F. TASSAUX – Tuiles et amphores estampillées de Loron (Croatie).
- M. MAYER – Opercula, los tapones de ánfora: un indicador económico controvertido.
- M. MÜLLER – Römische Augensalbenstempel – der aktuelle Forschungsstand.
- J. REMESAL RODRÍGUEZ, P. BERNI MILLET, A. AGUILERA MARTÍN – Amphorenschriften und ihre elektronische Bearbeitung.
- V. RIGHINI – I materiali fittili pesanti nella Cisalpina. Produzione e commercializzazione dei laterizi. I. Lateres publici e II. Figlinae.
- G. THÜRY – Die erotischen Inschriften des instrumentum domesticum: ein Überblick.
- R. TOMLIN – Dea Senuna: a new goddess from Britain.
- R. WEDENIG – Geschirrgraffiti mit Frauennamen aus Noricum.
- St. WEISS-KÖNIG – Ritzinschriften auf Keramik aus der Colonia Ulpia Traiana/Xanten – Eine Zusammenfassung.
- G. WESCH-KLEIN – Glück- und Segenswünsche auf Ziegeln.
- C. ZACCARIA – Instrumenta inscripta Latina: potenziale informativo e importanza dei corpora elettronici. Alcuni esempi dalla Regio X orientale.
- REGISTER
- AUTORENVERZEICHNIS
We also glean the following additional details from the PDF file:
- Format A 4, ca. 350 Seiten, zahlreiche Farbabbildungen, Hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-85454-112-0
- Vertrieb: Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, Museumgasse 2, A-9020 Klagenfurt
- Tel.: ++43 –463/536-30573
- FAX: ++43 –463/536-30550
- E-mail: geschichtsverein@landesmuseum-ktn.at
Jeff Becker just drew my attention to this announcement on Archeoblog:
Il giorno 28 maggio 2008 con una brillante operazione, gli uomini del Comando di Tenenza della Guardia di Finanza di Colleferro, agli ordini del Ten. Giancarlo Urciuoli, hanno recuperato in località Rossilli nel Comune di Gavignano un’architrave in calcare, appartenente quasi sicuramente ad un edificio funerario in cui è riportata l’iscrizione latina su due righe
PAVLAE HORDEONIAE L F
NASONIS
The article provides a rather full account of the find and its general context.
A posting on inscriptiones-l alerts us to a website change for the Centre d’Études Épigraphiques et Numismatiques “Fanula Papazoglou” of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade: http://www.moesia-superior.rs/ (caen@f.bg.ac.yu). At present the website is devoted to information about the Centre’s flagship publication, the Inscriptions de la Mésie Supérieure (IMS) . Note: the above link will present you with a “splash page.” To access site content, click through either the corpus title (a graphic of large, Roman capitals) or the drawing of the coin.
CurEp will soon play host to a virtual seminar on some unpublished Greek and Latin inscriptions from Corinth. The seminar will be directed by Donald Laing and Paul Iversen, with collaboration from Gabriel Bodard and myself. These inscriptions were unearthed on Temple Hill during excavations conducted under Henry Robinson† in the 1970s. We are particularly grateful to Guy Sanders (Director of the ASCSA dig at Corinth) and Charles Watkinson (Chair, ASCSA Publications Committee) for their support of this project.
Starting in mid to late May, about every two weeks throughout the summer Iversen and Laing will upload a preliminary text of an unpublished Greek or Latin inscription along with a photo. They will then invite comments and suggestions for restorations, context, date, etc. The ideas that result from this virtual seminar will then be incorporated into the final print article for Hesperia, with proper attribution to those who proposed any particular idea or reading. Elliott and Bodard will also work up an EpiDoc version of the resulting texts.
The idea behind the seminar is to promote a new model of collaboration and publication of epigraphical texts with the following benefits: a preliminary text will be made available very quickly; scholars or those interested will be able to “attend” the seminar at their leisure from anywhere in the world with an internet connection; students will see how epigraphers work and it may raise more interest in the discipline; the project will introduce epigraphers to the advantages of EpiDoc; there should be more interest in the final print version, which will include comments on this experiment.
Those who monitor CurEp via a feed reader will receive automatic notification whenever a new inscription is posted. The editors of CurEp will also post a corresponding notice to the Inscriptiones-l discussion list.
Simon Corcoran writes:
A second copy of the letter of Licinius on military privileges, previously known from the Brigetio Tablet (dated 10 June 311), has been identified on a bronze tablet in a Bulgarian private collection.
He provides a link to the Volterra Projet’s page with transcription and further details (including information about a forthcoming full publication from Luca Fezzi):
Archaeology in Europe and rogueclassicism both alerted us to David Ottewell’s piece in the Manchester Evening News (10 April 2008) concerning an inscribed altar — tentatively dated to the late 1st century AD — found in Manchester. An image of the inscribed face of the altar is included.
The humanities components of the National Hellenic Research Foundation have released Pandektis: Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture.
Readers of CurEp will be particularly interested in the collection entitled “Ancient Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Upper Macedonia, Aegean Thrace and Achaia,” an online and updated publication of three of the corpora of inscriptions the Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA) has produced over the years, namely:
- EAM = A. Rizakis and J. Touratsoglou, Επιγραφές άνω Μακεδονίας (Ελίμεια, Εορδαία, Νότια Λυγκηστίς, Ορεστίς) (Inscriptions of Upper Macedonia), Athens: Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων, 1985-)
- IThrAeg = L. Loukopoulou et al., Επιγραφές της Θράκης του Αιγαίου : μεταξύ των ποταμών Νέστου και Έβρου, Νομοί Ξάνθης, Ροδόπης και Έβρου (Inscriptions of Aegean Thrace), Athens: Κέντρον Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητος, Εθνικό ‘Ιδρυμα Ερευνών; ΙΘ΄ Εφορεία Προΐστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων, 2005
- Achaïe II = A. Rizakis, Achaïe II: la cité de Patras, épigraphie et histoire (Inscriptions of Patras), Athens: Κέντρον Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητος, Εθνικόν Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, 1998
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David Meadows notes a report in Marsalace (“Ritrovata un epigrafe in lingua latina nel parco archeologico di Capo Boeo: ieri la presentazione al Baglio Anselmi”, 27 March 2008) regarding the discovery of a Latin inscription to Hercules, likely to have originated in a temple but discovered in conditions of reuse in Marsala (ancient Lilybaeum = BAtlas 47 A3).
CurEp readers with more information on this find, the content of the text, or photos are encouraged to post details or links in a comment.
In a recent post to inscriptiones-l, B. Alexandru sought contact with other scholars regarding letter shapes in ancient greek alphabets. The context: current work on “some dacian incisions with greek graphemes made on numerous stone blocks from the archeologicall site of
Gradistea Muncelului - Sarmizegetusa-Regia.”
CurEp readers with relevant experience or suggestions for Alexandru are encouraged to reply via inscriptiones-l, or contact the author directly via email.
In a recent post to inscriptiones-l, Gil Renberg asks:
I am wondering whether anyone has a list of Latin and Greek dedications to Jupiter/Zeus Sabazius published since the appearance of CCIS. I am working on a restoration of a Latin inscription that might be for Sabazius and need to check for comparanda for certain epithets.
Gil is particularly interested in inscriptions that might have escaped citation in one of the standard annual round-ups. Anyone with suggestions is invited to post a comment here, or reply to Gil on-list.
In a recent post to inscriptiones-l, Denis Rousset drew our attention to the republication, in four volumes, of the annual Bulletin épigraphique for the years 1987-2001. The PDF file he attached to his note was stripped by the Yahoo Groups filters on the list, but Gregg Schwenderer has posted what I take to be the content at What’s New in Papyrology. Details are available on the website of Les Belles Lettres, under the rubric epigraphica.
I offer here the volume details (with COiNS metadata for Zotero users):
- Bulletin épigraphique 1987-1989, Epigraphica 3 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44333-1.
- Bulletin épigraphique 1990-1993, Epigraphica 4 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44334-8.
- Bulletin épigraphique 1994-1997 , Epigraphica 5 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44335-5.
- Bulletin épigraphique 1998-2001, Epigraphica 6 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44336-2.