Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

A reminder that proposals for papers to be included in the following panel are due 1 February 2008:

CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 ASGLE Joint AIA/APA Panel
Philadelphia, PA, January 8-11 2009

The Publication and Study of Inscriptions in the Age of the Computer
Organized by Paul Iversen and Tom Elliott

The computer age has unleashed powerful new technologies that enhance the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions, yet most scholars, academic institutions and publishing houses are still not comfortable with the idea of publishing inscriptions in a form that takes full advantage of the new possibilities. The Society, therefore, welcomes papers that discuss current or possible future computer-enhanced initiatives in the areas of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. We are particularly interested in papers that discuss theoretical applications of new technologies to the field of epigraphy and the formulation of international standards and protocols of publication and institutional credit, especially digital projects that go well beyond the mere encoding of the appearance of epigraphical sigla and indicia (which is akin to putting old wine into new wineskins) to include the en-coding of semantic and/or observational distinctions.

Abstracts will be adjudicated anonymously by a committee of ASGLE and should not be longer than one page. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that will appear in the October issue of the APA Newsletter. Abstracts should be sent to: Paul A. Iversen, ASGLE Secretary-Treasurer, Department of Classics, Case Western Reserve University, 11201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7111 or paul.iversen (at) cwru.edu. The deadline is February 1, 2008.

UPDATE: added links to all the abstracts I could find

The following sessions at the joint annual meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America look epigraphical:

Friday, 4 January

• Concrete Text: Epigraphy, Elegy, and Poetic Inscriptions (Columbus Hall IJ; 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.; Teresa Ramsby and Samuel Huskey, organizers)
  • Lucretius at Cumae: Epicureanism in an Early Imperial Epitaph [pdf] (Stephen L. Tuck, Miami University)
  • Epigraphic Markers and Epitaphic Gestures in Latin Poetry [pdf] (Martin Dinter, University of London)
  • The Echo of Epitaph: Latin Elegy and an Inscribed Greek Epigram (SGO I 01/01/07) [pdf] (Johanna Hanink, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Manipulative Inscriptions in Ovidian Elegy and the Creation of Social Memory [pdf] (Anja Bettenworth, University of Muenster)
  • Respondent: Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    

Saturday, 5 January

• The Objects of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, sponsored by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Regency B; 9:00 a.m. - noon; Catherine M. Keesling, organizer; evidently no abstracts available online)
  • Inscribing Laws and the Emergence of Monumental Writing in Ancient Greece (Julia Lougovaya, Columbia University)
  • Graffiti Inscriptions on Pottery from Azoria, Crete: Mixed Ethnicities? (William C. West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Instructions on Stone: Leges Sacrae on Stone Offering Boxes (Thesauroi) (Isabelle A. Pafford, San Francisco State University)
  • The Uses of Sundials (George W. Houston, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • How to Read an Ossuary Inscription (Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University)
  • Recommended by Doctors: Writing Change in Roman Britain (Carolynn Roncaglia, University of California, Berkeley)
• Italian Epigraphy (Columbus Hall IJ; 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.; Clifford Ando, presider)
  • Property Ownership by Women in Rome and Roman Italy (Christer Bruun, University of Toronto; no abstract?)
  • Fish Farming and Fraud: Rational Economic Strategies for Roman Landowners? [pdf] (Cynthia J. Bannon, Indiana University)
  • Advertising for Sex in Ancient Pompeii (Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University; no abstract?)
  • Faith or Family? Jewish Epitaphs from Rome [pdf] (Megan Nutzman, The University of Chicago)

I’ll blog later today about geographical space-and-place talks, as well as sessions touching on digital humanities. That will be over at horothesia.

The latest issue of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Newsletter has arrived. Paul Iversen (secretary-treasurer) informs us via email that he hopes to begin posting newsletter issues, including back issues, on the ASGLE website beginning fall 2007.

Table of contents:

• New Website URL & Online Payment
• Election Ballots: Vice President (Tracy, Lupu) and Member-at-Large (Bodel, write-in)
• 2008 ASGLE Joint APA/AIA Panel, Chicago, IL January 3-6
• ASGLE has some money for Research Awards
• The Ohio State University Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies Summer Course in Greek and Latin Epigraphy
• The XIIIth International Epigraphical Conference
• Announcements and Notes
• An Epigraphical Puzzler
• Elias Kapteanopoulos provides a new text of IG II² 1069
• Eran Lupu has “More Corrections and Some Second Thoughts” on his book: Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL), Leiden 2005

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy has a new URL:

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

Membership in ASGLE for one calendar year costs $30 USD for regular faculty, which also automatically enrolls you into the Association Internationationale pour l’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL). Students, retirees and independent scholars who do not wish to belong to AIEGL may pay $10 USD.

For those of you who wish to renew your membership or join for the first time, if you go to the Membership Page you will see that for a modest service fee you can now pay dues online with a credit card using PayPal. My understanding is that PayPal will accept multiple currencies, so those of you who wish to pay with other legal tender besides the USD and are willing to use a credit card, should be able to do so now. Neither I nor any other member of ASGLE will ever see your financial information. Of course for those who are more comfortable with the postal service, snail-mail is still available as well.

Those who register in the next few days will be eligible to receive a hard copy of the ASGLE Spring Newsletter, which is ready to go in the post and will contain Election Ballots for the offices of Vice President and Member-at-Large, a new text of IG II² 1069 by Elias Kapetanopoulos, and an epigraphical puzzler involving a Gothic painting, religion and sex!

Best,

Paul A. Iversen
Secretary-Treasurer, ASGLE
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
Case Western Reserve University

Under its new Secretary/Treasurer Paul Iversen, the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy is moving its website to a new address at Case Western Reserve University, effective immediately:

• http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/

The old website at UNC-Chapel Hill is still online, but is significantly out of date. It will be taken down this week and replaced with URL-redirects. Website maintainers are advised to update their links now. The new site includes updated information about officers of the society, membership and more, so it’s worth a visit now.

We are currently finalizing plans to move the old ASGLE links pages (an extensive collection of links to online epigraphical resources) from the ASGLE site to Current Epigraphy. This change will facilitate renewed editing and updating of the content, which will proceed collaboratively under the direction of the editors of CE and of Dr. Iversen, with the involvement of all CE authors and the old links pages editorial board. A separate announcement will be forthcoming when this change is immanent; meantime, the old links pages have been moved to the new ASGLE site.

This transition marks the end of my tenure as Web Information Coordinator for ASGLE. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who assisted me in that guise over the last 9 years, and to wish the new team the best of luck!