Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Forwarded for Stephen Mitchell:

The Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine offers grants of up to 1000 Euros to support Epigraphic Educational and Training Courses and Workshops.

The following conditions apply.

1. Applicants must be AIEGL members.
2. Due to limited funds, the maximum grant for any event will be 1000 Euros. Applications for smaller sums are encouraged and may have a better chance of success.
3. Applications should be submitted by 28 February and 15 August, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 15 April and 15 September respectively.
4. Applications will be assessed and ranked by a commission of three AIEGL members (IIIviri praemiis dandis), to be appointed by the AIEGL officers. Awards will be made by the AIEGL officers on their recommendations, subject to sufficient funds being available.
5. Events supported by AIEGL must be open in principle to any participant with appropriate and relevant qualifications and not restricted to students from particular institutions or countries.
6. AIEGL is keen to support all forms of training in Greek and Latin Epigraphy, including the promotion of digital epigraphy, in line with its own objectives and priorities.

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To all members of AIEGL
1 July 2009
Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine

Dear colleagues,

The new AIEGL web-site has now been launched and can be accessed at the following URL http://www2.bbaw.de/aiegl. Or you can go the existing site at http://www.aiegl.com and click on the link there. The hosting of the web-site is being transferred to the server of the Berlin Academy, and we hope that this will provide stability for the future, extending beyond the individual terms of the Association’s officers. I am very grateful to Nora Unger, one of the assistants at CIL, for undertaking the necessary design and development work on the site. We hope that you will already find it useful, but in particular we would like your help in building up its resources.

We have introduced a new feature to the site which will enable all members to post information relating to conferences, workshops, new publications and other matters.

To do this you need to log-in to the site and become registered as a user. Access to this part of the site is restricted to paid members of AIEGL. We will check applications against the current subscription list, and then authorize access. Similarly the content of the information that you send will be quickly checked by one of the officers for suitability and relevance to AIEGL’s purpose, before posting. In due course we may be able to automate the first of these processes.

Many of you have been sending notices about conferences, publications, andf other matters to the secretary, Angela Donati, for distribution through our e-mail list. We are not discontinuing this service, but will run the two methods of advertising in parallel, at least up to the Berlin Congress in 2012. Members may want to put out information using both methods,

Personally I would urge members to use the web-site as much as possible. The more use it receives, the greater its utility becomes, and it has the potential to generate a comprehensive electronic calendar of coming epigraphic events. As with every web-site, there may be initial flaws and faults that need attention, but your use of the site should bring these to our attention quickly.

Our hopes for the future still include introducing a search engine to the site, which provide direct access to the various on-line epigraphic data bases, which are an increasingly important to our subject, and we will be holding further discussions with interested parties to this end.

If you have questions and comments about the web-site I would be glad to hear from you by e-mail: s.mitchell@ex.ac.uk

Yours ever

Prof. Stephen Mitchell FBA
AIEGL President

Announcement
EpiDoc Training Sessions 2009
London 20-24 July
Rome 21-25 September

The EpiDoc community has been developing protocols for the publication of inscriptions, papyri, and other documentary Classical texts in TEI-compliant XML: for details see the community website at http://epidoc.sf.net.

Over the last few years there has been increasing demand for training by scholars wishing to use EpiDoc. We are delighted to be able to announce two training workshops, which will be offered in 2009. Both will be led by Dr Gabriel Bodard. These sessions will benefit scholars working on Greek or Latin documents with an interest in developing skills in the markup, encoding, and exploitation of digital editions. Competence in Greek and/or Latin, and knowledge of the Leiden Conventions will be assumed; no particular computer skills are required.

London session, 20-24 July 2009. This will take place at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, 26-29 Drury Lane. The cost of attendance will be £50 for students; £100 for employees of universities or other non-profit institutions; £200 for employees of commercial institutions. Those interested in enrolling should apply to Dr Bodard, gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by 20 June 2009.

We hope to be able to offer some follow-up internships after the session, to enable participants to consolidate their experience under supervision; please let us know if that would be of interest to you.

Rome session, 21-25 September 2009. This will take place at the British School at Rome. Thanks to the generous support of the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, the British School and Terra Italia Onlus, attendance will be free.

Those interested in enrolling should apply to Dr Silvia Orlandi, silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it by 30 June 2009.

Practical matters
Both courses will run from Monday to Friday starting at 10.00 am and ending at 16.00 each day.

Participants should bring a wireless-enabled laptop. You should acquire and install a copy of Oxygen *and* either an educational licence ($48) or a 30-day trial licence (free). Don’t worry if you don’t know how to use it!

The Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine offers grants of up to 1000 Euros to support Epigraphic Educational and Training Courses and Workshops.

The following conditions apply.

1. Applicants must be AIEGL members.
2. Due to limited funds, the maximum grant for any event will be 1000 Euros. Applications for smaller sums are encouraged and may have a better chance of success.
3. Applications should be submitted by 28 February and 31 July, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 15 April and 15 September respectively.
4. Applications will be assessed and ranked by a commission of three AIEGL members (IIIviri praemiis dandis), to be appointed by the AIEGL officers. Awards will be made by the AIEGL officers on their recommendations, subject to sufficient funds being available.
5. Events supported by AIEGL must be open in principle to any participant with appropriate and relevant qualifications and not restricted to students from particular institutions or countries.
6. AIEGL is keen to support all forms of training in Greek and Latin Epigraphy, including the promotion of digital epigraphy, in line with its own objectives and priorities.
7. Successful participants must submit a 300-word report within one month of the conclusion of the event in a format suitable for publication on the AIEGL web-site.

This bursary does not yet seem to be advertised on the AIEGL website; check back for updates. In the meantime, perhaps contact Angela Donati for further information.

The International association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy has new officers for the period 2008-2012. Angela Donati (Bologna) continues in the office of Secretary-General. Stephen Mitchell (Exeter University, UK) was elected President, with Manfred Schmidt (Berlin Academy) as Vice-President, Christian Witschel (Heidelberg) as Deputy Secretary General, and Prof. Anne Kolb (Zurich) as treasurer.

The officers had a first meeting at the end of June 2008. The main objective was to establish policy objectives for AIEGL over the next quinquennium, until the 14th Congress, which is scheduled to held in Berlin in 2012.

Three aspects of AIEGL’s activities were discussed at length.

1) The role of the International Association needs re-definition, so that it can respond to the needs to the epigraphic community today. When it was founded, late 1970s AIEGL’s main priority was to promote effective links between scholars in the countries of eastern Europe, who faced many economic and political restrictions on their activities, and those of western Europe and the USA. Circumstances are now very different, but the Association’s overriding purpose, to promote communication, dialogue and active cooperation between its members, remains the same. In practice, this requires the Association to be flexible and innovative, and supportive of new initiatives which will advance this purpose.

2) Since the EAGLE initiative, which was launched in 1997 by AIEGL’s then president, Prof. S. Panciera (Rome), digital epigraphy has been a central item on the AIEGL agenda. It is now a particular priority to facilitate initiatives in this area, above all those that try to establish communications between the very many separate digital epigraphic projects. At a modest level this can be done simply by helping these projects to keep in touch with each other. The holy grail would be to develop AIEGL’s own web-site in such a way that it could serve as a portal to many diverse epigraphic projects, providing access with search possibilities to many existing initiatives. It is unlikely that AIEGL itself, with limited resources of finance and woman-power, could achieve this, but it may have a significant role to play in helping other centres to realising an aim of this sort. After the formal meeting in June, the officers had an extended discussion of these issues with Charlotte Roueché, who was present and could up-date us on the progress of the EPIDOC community, and with Tom Elliott (deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) communicating by Skype from an Internet cafe in New York, who gave invaluable guidance from a wider perspective, including the interlinking of epigraphic digital projects with those in related disciplines.

3) AIEGL has modest funds from accumulated membership subscriptions. As with many organisations, the membership list is in need of revision, and it requires hard work on the part of the treasurer to ensure that members pay their annual dues. The British Epigraphy Society is a model in this respect, in that members’ subs. are paid as a lump sum, with full details of subscribing individuals, making the task for AIEGL immeasurably easier. The current AIEGL officers are acutely aware of the need to maintain membership and subscriptions. There is equally a need for an effective and transparent procedure for disbursing funds to deserving epigraphic causes. There was general agreement that one priority should be the funding of events and workshops designed to train postgraduate students or early career scholars, and I hope that very shortly we can finalise an application procedure, so that organisers of training events and workshops can apply for modest support funding for these events.

We hope that these general objectives will be regarded as desirable and relatively uncontroversial, although they are not necessarily easy to realize. Comments and suggestions from the Current Epigraphy community are warmly welcomed!

Silvia Orlandi has asked me to post notice of the following event:

Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Epigrafia, informatica e ricerca storica

L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Centro Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre”
Via della Lungara, 10 – 00165
Rome

7-8 November 2008

Program:

COMITATO ORDINATORE: François BERARD (F), Carlo CARLETTI (I), Kevin CLINTON (USA), Angela DONATI (I), Andrea GIARDINA (I), Joaquin GÓMEZ-PANTOJA (E), Gian Luca GREGORI (I), Tito ORLANDI (I), Silvio PANCIERA (I), Charlotte ROUECHÉ (UK), Christian WITSCHEL (D), Fausto ZEVI (I).
PARTECIPANTI: Antonella Daniela AGOSTINELLI (I), Géza ALFÖLDY (D), Giovanna ASDRUBALI PENTITI (I), Lucio BENEDETTI (I), François BERARD (F), Maria Letizia CALDELLI (I), Lorenzo CALVELLI (I), Giuseppe CAMODECA (I), Carlo CARLETTI (I), Marcella CHELOTTI (I), Laura CHIOFFI (I), Gemma CORAZZA (I), Giovannella CRESCI MARRONE (I), Antonella DE CARLO (I), Barbara DE NICOLÒ (I), Ginette DI VITA-EVRARD (F), Angela DONATI (I), Silvia EVANGELISTI (I), Lanfranco FABRIANI (I), Donato FASOLINI (I), Antonio Enrico FELLE (I), Francisca FERAUDI-GRUÉNAIS (D), Antoine GAILLIOT (F), Andrea GIARDINA (I), Joaquin GÓMEZ-PANTOJA (E), Maria Grazia GRANINO (I), Gian Luca GREGORI (I), Antonio IBBA (I), Nicolas LAUBRY (F), Marion LAMÉ (F), Fulvia MAINARDIS (I), Silvia Maria MARENGO (I), Giovanni MENNELLA (I), Guido MIGLIORATI (I), Ilaria MILANO (I), Silvia ORLANDI (I), Tito ORLANDI (I), Gianfranco PACI (I), Silvio PANCIERA (I), Viviana PETTIROSSI (I), Valentina PISTARINO (I), Anita ROCCO (I), Charlotte ROUECHÉ (UK), Antonio SARTORI (I), Kurt SCHALLER (E), John SCHEID (F), Marina SILVESTRINI (I), Maria Carla SPADONI (I), Nicolas TRAN (F), Stefania VALENTINI (I), Alfredo VALVO (I), Marina VAVASSORI (I), Christian WITSCHEL (D), Claudio ZACCARIA (I), Fausto ZEVI (I), Enrico ZUDDAS (I).

Avvertenza: il Convegno non prevede una lettura pubblica delle relazioni (i cui testi sono accessibili a tutti sul sito http://www.terraitalia.altervista.org), ma solo un dibattito generale intorno alle stesse ed ai temi da queste trattati, aperto a tutti i partecipanti, iscritti o no.

Venerdì 7 novembre
14.00 Indirizzi di saluto
14.15 Silvio Panciera, EAGLE: perché un convegno?
14.30-16.30 EAGLE: PROGRESSI, DIFFICOLTÀ, SOLUZIONI
Introduce: Giovanni Mennella
Moderano: Géza Alföldy, Gianfranco Paci
16.30 Intervallo
17.00 – 19.00 NUOVE BANCHE FEDERATE, COLLABORAZIONI, SINERGIE
Introduce: Claudio Zaccaria
Moderano: Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, John Scheid
Sabato 8 novembre
8.30-9.30 I FINANZIAMENTI IERI, OGGI E DOMANI
Introduce: Silvio Panciera
Moderano: Angela Donati, Christian Witschel
9.30-10.30 SCELTE INFORMATICHE E ORGANIZZATIVE
Introduce: Tito Orlandi
Moderano: Silvia Orlandi, Charlotte Roueché
10.30 Intervallo
11.00 – 12.00 PROGRAMMI E PREVISIONI A BREVE, MEDIO E LUNGO TERMINE
Introduce: Carlo Carletti
Moderano: Giuseppe Camodeca, Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja
12.00-12.45 EPIGRAFIA, INFORMATICA, DIDATTICA E RICERCA STORICA
Introduce: Giovannella Cresci Marrone
Moderano: Andrea Giardina, Fausto Zevi
12.45 Congedo
Segreteria: silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it, marialetizia.caldelli@uniroma1.it, anastasi@lincei.it

Program online (MS Word version)

Testi aggiornati (pdf or doc)

Dear colleagues and friends:

(Apologies for cross-postings to lists. Please feel free to forward to colleagues, students and other discussion fora.)

Please send me (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) information about digital projects, publications and computer-aided research in epigraphy. This information will be used to update or inform multiple resources including:

• The “ASGLE links” resource (currently out of date): http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/links.html
• A section on “digital epigraphy” in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Latin Epigraphy
• A review of the state of the discipline to be presented at the ASGLE-sponsored session of the Joint Meetings of the APA/AIA in Philadelphia in January 2009

I am interested in any undertaking that involves computational approaches or digital data, whether it has resulted in publication or not. Any subdiscipline of epigraphy (Latin, Greek, other) is of interest. Information about papyrological and palaeographical projects whose methodology, technology or content has direct application in epigraphic study is also welcome.

The ASGLE links update will include a software upgrade, and will be carried out in collaboration with the editorial board of Current Epigraphy and the leadership and appropriate committees of the Association Internationale d’ Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. All information presented in the resulting “new” links collection will be released to the public under terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license so that it can be re-used freely by others. All information sent to me will be assumed to be the intellectual property of the person submitting it, and will be treated under terms of the CC license.

Ideally, I would like to have as much of the following information as possible (please feel free to use your native language):

• Title of project, resource or publication
• Principal investigator(s), author(s) or editor(s)
• Intitutional affiliation(s)
• URLs for websites
• Publication citation(s)
• A short description
• Status (e.g., experimental, complete, published, in progress, continuing, private)
• Technologies, methodologies used
• Sources of funding (past and present)
• Contact email address

Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.

Best,
Tom
–
Tom Elliott
Associate Director for Digital Programs
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/

Just circulated via AEIGL:

Mireille CORBIER fait savoir que L’Année épigraphique 2005 est sortie au Mois d’août 2008 et peut être commandée à la maison d’édition

Presses Universitaires de France
6 avenue Reille
75685 Paris Cedex
revues@puf.com

Une remise de 20% est accordée aux membres de l’AIEGL sur présentation d’un justificatif.

(Publisher’s website at http://www.puf.com/wiki/Revues:L’année_épigraphique_vol_2005 –but no mention of the discount and apparently no online purchase option.)

BOOK-SALES of 20% for members of AIEGL

An email has just been circulated announcing the results of the AIEGL elections:

A norma dello Statuto, per il periodo 2008-2012, il Bureau sarà così composto

Presidente Stephen MITCHELL
Vice-Presidente Manfred SCHMIDT
Segretario Generale Angela DONATI
Segretario Generale aggiunto Christian WITSCHELL
Tesoriere Anne KOLB

I’ve not seen this information on the AIEGL website yet (where is the AIEGL website anyway?–the three options thrown up by Google all seem either out of date or non-functional; I suppose aiegl.com is the most promising).

The organizers of the 13th Epigraphic Congress, to be held 2-7 September in Oxford, have promulgated the following essential information for presenters (digested from an email):

• Visual materials may be displayed during presentation either via a PowerPoint presentation or transparencies on a conventional overhead projector; 35mm slides will not be supported
• Printed handouts should be prepared in advance by speakers (200 copies for plenary talks; 30 for thematic sessions)
• Posters concerning epigraphic organizations or events are welcome
• See specific requirements (including advance preparation) below

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The 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy is just over a week away! If you plan to attend the congress in Oxford, the editors of CEp request your help in sharing the event with colleagues who cannot attend, as well as interested students and enthusiasts around the world.

How can you help? By committing to submit brief reports on one or more papers or sessions you attend via the CEp website. The basic requirements for a post here are minimal:

1. speaker’s name and affiliation
2. title of paper
3. a brief summary or judgment

Of course, additional material can be added, and would be very welcome (we’ll send you some guidelines if you volunteer).

So, if you can lend your hand, please contact Gabriel Bodard or Tom Elliott and we’ll get you one of those snazzy “I’m blogging CIEGL at currentepigraphy.org” badges to wear with pride!

The Photographic Database, a subsidiary database of the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg has gone online.

See Content / Search

Bertinoro (Italia), 21-23 giugno 2007 – Informazioni e programma

Circulated by AIEGL:

13th Epigraphy Congress – urgent accommodation and programme news

Dear Colleagues

We should like to urge you to complete your booking arrangements for the 13^th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 2-8 September 2007. The lower-price accommodation is St Edmund Hall is now almost entirely reserved, and there is only a limited number of double rooms still available at Christ Church. For these reasons we strongly advise you to complete your reservations now. The Congress registration fee is £100.

Congress Programme – Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences

We are delighted with the full programme, which will provide a comprehensive overview of the state of scholarship in Greek and Latin epigraphy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

• There will be 14 plenary lectures by leading scholars concerned with major historical themes in Greek and Latin epigraphy: ancient government, religion, population and demography, language, and economics.
• Lectures on the roles of information technology, paedagogy and the presentation of epigraphic texts in museum collections.
• Plenary sessions will report the progress of the major international epigraphy projects.
• Plenary meeting of the International Epigraphy Association (AIEGL) concerning elections and future organisation
• There will be 42 thematic panels containing over 160 presentations.
• Five panels are devoted to the epigraphy of Attica, and two each to the epigraphy of the Black Sea region, Rome’s north-western provinces, Roman military epigraphy, Greek Christian epigraphy, and instrumentum domesticum.
• Other panels cover the Latin inscriptions from the Balkans, Ephesus, Greek cult, ancient accounting, customs and tolls, the Roman administration of Asia, new inscriptions from Greece, memory and identity, and many other topics.
• More than 50 posters have been accepted to date.

Supporting programme and activities

• Reception hosted by Oxford University Press
• Musical concert
• Exhibition of epigraphic manuscripts in the Bodleian Library
• Visits and excursions to country houses near Oxford
• Expert guided tours of Oxford
• Access to the Bodleian and Sackler Classical libraries
• Full conference handbag containing summaries of lectures and other literature
• Displays and discounted sales by leading Classical publishers, including OUP, CUP, De Gruyter and Blackwell publishing.

Accommodation and Catering

The charges for accommodation in St Edmund Hall and Christ Church cover the cost of bed, breakfast and lunch for each day of the Congress. The cost of this accommodation, including the meals provided, is cheaper than in Oxford hotels and guest houses. Accommodation in Christ Church offers outstanding facilities; please check the college’s own web-site, http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/. You will be located in the heart of the city and will have a guaranteed experience of life in one of Oxford’s most famous and historic colleges.

• Extensive en-suite rooms
• Access to Oxford’s 12^th century cathedral
• Breakfast and lunch in the hall made famous by the ‘Harry Potter’ films
• Free access to the Christ Church picture gallery
• Use of computer and internet facilities

Please check these and further details, and complete your registration and accommodation bookings as soon as possible on the Congress web-site http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/.

If you have any questions regarding the booking arrangements, please contact Jackie Bowman (jackie.bowman@classics.ox.ac.uk).

We look forward to seeing you in Oxford in September,

Yours sincerely

Professor Stephen Mitchell

Chairman, Congress Organising Committee