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.
According to a notice on the American School of Classical Studies in Athens’ website, the Upper House seminar on 17 April will be delivered by Edward Harris on the subject “The Documents in the Attic Orators and Greek Epigraphy.” The editors of CurEp would be grateful for a report from a participant in this — and any other — epigraphic seminar.
My query about a Hadrianic boundary marker from Bulgaria was occasioned by a demo that Sean Gillies and I (mostly Sean) worked up for online epigraphic image annotation using some free, open-source software called OpenLayers. Sean blogged about the demo, and this has provoked some inquiries from folks in the geospatial computing community, like this one from Paul Ramsey:
What’s the use case for digitized inscriptions? I don’t comprehend.
I thought readers of CurEp might be interested in the demo. I also hope I can encourage a discussion on the potential merits and pitfalls of digitally tracing and annotating inscriptions. Can we answer Paul’s question, both for him and ourselves?
Yesterday I posted an article on my blog entitled “Demarcation between the T(h)races and Moesi“. I have a photograph of an inscribed boundary marker — which clearly belongs to a well-documented instance of boundary demarcation in AD 135 — but have not been able to find a corresponding publication of this particular text. I do know of 8 other relevant published markers.
I’m hoping CurEp readers can help.
Wendy Watkins writes to alert us to the following:
Our College of Humanities people have our new web site up and running. It is now at www.epigraphy.osu.edu. All the info is there, but some changes will need to be made.
The old site at omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/epigraphy is no longer functional, and HTTP redirects have evidently not been put in place to forward traffic to the new site.
Garrucci, Raffaele. 1852. Classis Praetoriae Misenensis Piae Vindicis, Gordianae, Philippianae Monumenta Quae Exstant. Neapoli: ex tipis J. Cataneo, OCLC: 23501474
Online:
This work appears (worldcat) to only be held in North America at Michigan and Harvard, but fortunately it is now available in digital format from Michigan and Google Books.
Théophile Homolle, Les archives de l’intendance sacrée à Délos (315-166 av. J.-C.), Paris : E. Thorin, 1887, OCLC: 7036183.
Digitized October 13, 2005:
Kyriakos S. Pittakés, L’ancienne Athènes, ou, La description des antiquités d’Athènes et de ses environs, Athènes, E. Antoniades, 1835, OCLC: 10216999.
Digitized June 6, 2007:
Ludwig Ross, Alte lokrische inschrift von Chaleion oder oeantheia, Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1854, OCLC: 30556781
“mit den Bemerkungen von I. N. Oekonomides”
Digitized December 27, 2006:
Charles Ernest Beulé, L’Acropole d’Athènes, 2 vols., Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1853-1854, OCLC: 8259327
Includes appendix: Sculptures et inscriptions trouvées dans les fouilles de 1852-1853
Digitized October 15, 2007:
M. Gustave Julliot, Catalogue des inscriptions du Musée gallo-romain de Sens, Sens: C. Duchemin, 1865, OCLC: 23424132.
Digitized October 13, 2006:
Iohannes Cholodniak (I I Kholodniak), Carmina sepulcralia latina, Petropoli, Typis academicis, 1897, OCLC 24469385.
Digitized July 19, 2006:
The University of Michigan has just announced the digitization of the “millionth” book in their collaborative project with Google. I wondered: what epigraphic works have they scanned to date that are also available in full text. And so begins a series of blog posts where we explore the results of the following library catalog queries at the University of Michigan:
- W-subjects= inscriptions AND W-subjects= latin and W-Type= CF | CE
- W-subjects= inscriptions AND W-subjects= greek and W-Type= CF | CE
Only results providing full-text access will be presented. All articles in this series will be tagged into the mbooks category.
