Course fees will be in the region of £70 – £90 but, as in previous years, we hope to be able to offer a number of generous bursaries. Participants on the course will stay in Bed & Breakfast accommodation in Corbridge (we will book this for you but regret that the cost is not included in the course fee).

If you wish to apply for a place on this course, or for further details, please contact Charlotte Tupman by e-mail as soon as possible: charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is 6th May.

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

Eck’s thesis is that we can discern an essential difference in epigraphic habit across the Roman empire: normative documents of public import (i.e., publicae constitutiones) were customarily inscribed on bronze in Latin-speaking areas, whereas stone was the preferred material in Greek-speaking provinces. Bronze was clearly used everywhere, for a variety of epigraphic purposes, but with regard to public legal documents divergeant practice is argued. Eck posits that these opposing patterns were set long before the empire came into existence and were so strongly established that even centuries of Roman rule caused little erosion of the Greek pattern.

The paper begins with a helpful consideration of the range of inscribed materials and documentary types reflected in the historical record and the low survival rates for same. This theme carries on throughout the paper, and appropriate examples are marshaled to support the thesis. Some highlights: Inscriptions on wood may have constituted 90% of the inscribed documents (most intended as ephemera and now almost entirely lost). Less than one percent of military diplomata (on bronze) survive. These are found in both Latin- and Greek-speaking areas, and many have clearly appeared through at the hands of metal detectorists. As the mode of discovery is similar for many celebrated Western bronze leges, we would expect the same pattern in the east, but don’t see it. Bronze likely suffers loss disproportionately (it could be melted down for reuse, and generally was); therefore, we must imagine a disproportionate loss of normative, public texts from the West. The few Roman-period examples of normative public documents on bronze in the East are explained either as having been so specified in the originating document itself (there is evidence for such provision), or the product of Roman (pro-)magistrates doing things the way they were accustomed to do them.

Afterward, some audience members challenged Eck’s characterization of the Greek-speaking east as a place where some public documents were traditionally inscribed on wood and stone, citing examples from Argos, Athens and elsewhere during the Archaic and Classical periods. Eck maintained his thesis, seeking distinctions between the examples offered and the types of texts he feels were distinctively “on bronze” in the West, but expressed interest in getting more details that might affect his approach.

http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/congress.html

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

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

The current programme has an epigraphy session scheduled for Sunday 19th of December 2010, 9.00-12.00 am. The following papers may be of particular interest to epigraphists:

• Marc Mayer (Bacelona): La presenza degli Antonini nell’epigrafia delle città africane
• Roger Hanoune (Paris): Le poème épigraphique de Sétif AE 1916, 7-8

People interested in this conference, and for more information,  should contact the Department of History by the end of July 2010 (Dipartimento di Storia – Università degli Studi di Sassari (Viale Umberto n. 52 – I – 07100 SASSARI — fax 079 2065241; e-mail: africaromana@uniss.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 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.

(application form follows the jump)

Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine

Grant Application form for Epigraphic Educational and Training Courses and Workshops. The deadline for this application is 15 August 2009

Please complete this form and e-mail it to the Secretary General, Professor Angela Donati angela.donati@unibo.it

1. Name, Institution and contact details of applicant.

2. Title, location, and purpose of the meeting.

3. The expected numbers, status (e.g. undergraduate student, postgraduate student, postdoc.), and nationalities of parttcipants that are expected to attend.

4. Outline of the programme and teaching staff.

5. Outline Budget.

6. What use will you make of the AIEGL grant?

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.

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

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.