Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Announcement of the forthcoming Epigraphic Congress in Berlin, 2012. (The website is available in multiple languages.)

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.

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In der Hoffnung, dass sehr viele von Ihnen unserer Einladung nachkommen,
mit freundlichen Grüßen
Werner Eck

The British School at Athens
Post Graduate Training Course in Greek Epigraphy
26th June – 10th July 2011
Athens

Whether publishing new inscriptions, reinterpreting old ones, or critically analysing editions, this course provides training for historians, archaeologists and textual scholars alike in the discipline of reading and interpreting epigraphic evidence. Students will be guided through the process of producing editions of inscriptions, gaining practical first hand experience with the stones as well as instruction in editorial and bibliographic skills. Guest lectures on historical and thematic subjects will explore the ways in which epigraphic evidence can inform a wide range of Classical subjects. The course will be taught at the BSA and will utilise the most significant epigraphic collections around Athens, where students will be assigned a stone from which they will create a textual edition. The importance of seeing inscriptions within their archaeological and topographical contexts will be explored during site visits around Athens, Attica, and Delphi. Some prior knowledge of Greek is essential, although students with only elementary skills are advised that reading inscriptions is a very good way to advance in the language!

The course fee of £700 includes accommodation in shared rooms at the BSA, where self catering facilities are available, as well as 24 hour access to the superb library, entry to all sites and museums, and BSA membership for one month. Free membership for the remainder of the session will be offered to students wishing to remain at the BSA after the course to continue their research. Travel to and from Greece is the sole responsibility of the course participant.

The course is limited to 12 places, and open to students of any university pursuing Masters or Post-graduate degrees. Students are recommended to apply to their universities for financial support; a number of BSA-administered bursaries are available for students who would otherwise be unable to attend.

Further information can be obtained from the BSA website. Completed application forms and an academic reference letter should be emailed to the Assistant Director (assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk) no later than January 14th 2011.

Workshop “Dalla pietra all’immagine digitale. Tecniche e metodologie del rilievo e della ricostruzione digitale dei monumenti iscritti”

18-22 ottobre 2010, Aquileia (Udine, Italia)

Il corso intende far conoscere e imparare ad utilizzare le moderne tecnologie disponibili per il rilievo, la riproduzione fotografica e in 3D, la ricostruzione virtuale e la diffusione su supporto informatico dei monumenti epigrafici e delle scritte su instrumentum domesticum.

Programma: http://www.units.it/epilab/Workshop_Bando.doc

Le domande devono essere fatte pervenire entro il 16 settembre 2010 preferibilmente come allegato di un e-mail all’indirizzo: zacclau@units.it, oppure per fax al numero +39 040 5582814.

Il Formulario per l’iscrizione: http://www.units.it/epilab/Workshop_Formulario.doc

Eventuali comunicazioni epistolari possono essere inviate a : Prof. Claudio Zaccaria, Dipartimento di Storia e Culture dall’Antichità al Mondo Contemporaneo, Università di Trieste, Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 6, 34123 Trieste (Italia).

This is just a reminder that abstracts for ASGLE’s First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy are due on June 15, 2010. For submission directions and guidelines, see here.

Dalla matita al laser scanner: rilievo e ricostruzione digitale delle iscrizioni

Lunedi 7 giugno 2010 – ore 9.00
Odeion del Museo dell-Arte Classica
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5

(For full programme see attached flyer or contact manacord@uniroma3.it.)

Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to present you the final program and the poster of the symposium “L’épigramme dans tous ces états: épigraphiques, littéraires, historiques” which will take place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Sciences-site Jacques Monod), the 3rd and 4th June.

See link to webpage:
ÉPIGRAMME DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS
The poster: here
and the program below.

Please ensure to this initiative the widest possible diffusion in your respective research Institutes.

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Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context
Conference – 2nd Call for Papers

September 22-23, 2010
Institute of Classical Studies
University of London

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/accordia/Conf.Etr.Literacy.htm for for details and call for papers (page seems to be one large image, so we can’t copy any details here).

(posted for Stephen Mitchell)

Historical and Archaeological Atlas of Ancient Asia Minor Project

International symposium
Université de Franche-Comté/ Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité
Besançon (France)
November 26th and 27th, 2010

Call for papers (deadline: June 30th, 2010)

Since the nineteenth century, numerous and varied historical and archaeological works have been launched in Asia Minor – essentially in Turkey – by international teams, but the scientific data, which are complex and numerous too, have been published in total dispersion. The Anatolian area is a crossroad of several famous civilizations and of many populations and cultures (Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Urartu kingdom for example) from Europe (Thracians, Celts, Greeks, Macedonians, Romans), from Asia (Persians, Mesopotamians) and from Africa (Egypt), often in connection with city-states of Mesopotamia and the Near-East, with ancient Iran, the Caucasian area, Egypt and Greece.

The meeting that will be held in Besançon (France) on November 26th and 27th, 2010 is open to all the persons who want to carry on the researches on ancient Asia Minor differently, with a collective and a positive spirit. Yet the Historical and Archaeological Atlas of Ancient Asia Minor and its launching will be discussed. After the most complete statement as possible on the recent researches (discoveries, prospections), the detailed discussions will deal with the scientific organization of the project, with the future research trails, and with all the actual and expected partnerships. Then the results of the meeting will be published as soon as possible.

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The Department of History and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Roman Provinces at the University of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy), together with the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e per l’Oriente are pleased to announce the XIX International Conference on “Roman Africa”. The conference will be held in Sassari on 16-19 of December 2010 and the main theme of the Conference will be: “Trasformazioni dei paesaggi del potere nell’Africa settentrionale fino alla fine del mondo antico. Scontri, integrazioni, transizioni e dinamiche insediative. Nuove prospettive dalla ricerca”. The conference will therefore focus on the change of power in the Roman provinces of North Africa throughout the ancient world.

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).

S emin a r i o  I n t e r n a z i o n a l e  d i  S t u d i
“Gli Ateniesi fuori dall’attica
Modi d’intervento e di controllo del territorio”
Torino, 8-9 Aprile 2010
Biblioteca Centrale della Facoltà di Lettere
Università degli Studi di Torino
Via Po 17, Torino

8 APRILE
10.00-10.30: INTRODUZIONE a cura di M. Moggi (Università di Siena)
10.30-11.10: D. Knoepfler (Collège de France), L’occupation athénienne du territoire d’Oropos en diverses
périodes : une clérouquie délibérément dissimulée?
11.10-11.50: O. Philaniotou (K’ Ephoria, Mitilene,Grecia), Données nouvelles sur les récentes fouillesarchéologiques à Lemnos
11.50-12.10: PAUSA
12.10-12.40: D. Marchiandi (Università di Torino),Considerazioni sulla topografia di Myrina
12.40-13.10: L. Ficuciello (Università di Napoli “Orientale”), Il territorio di Myrina: indizi archeologici
sull’occupazione e sullo sfruttamento delle risorse
13.10-13.50: DISCUSSIONE
13.50-15.30: PAUSA PRANZO
15.30-16.00: C. Bearzot (Università Cattolica di Milano), Lemno, gli oratori e il “nuovo Iperide”
16.00-16.30: A. Correale (Università di Napoli “Orientale”), Il santuario in proprietà Lazaridis a Efestia
16.30-16.50: PAUSA
16.50-17.20: R. Leone (Università di Torino), Tra Lemno e Samotracia: il santuario degli dei Cabiri
17.20-17.50: F. Rocca (Università di Torino), Le iscrizioni di manomissione dal Cabirio di Lemno
17.50-18.20: DISCUSSIONE
9 APRILE
9.30-10.00: E. Culasso Gastaldi (Università di Torino), L’epigrafia ateniese dell’isola di Lemno
10.00-10.30: L. Gallo (Università di Napoli “Orientale”), Problemi della terra a Lemno
10.30-11.00: F. Landucci Gattinoni (Università Cattolica di Milano), La cleruchia ateniese di Samo nelle fonti letterarie
ed epigrafiche
11.00-11.20: PAUSA
11.20-11.50: W. Held – B. Ruhl (Università di Marburg), The Athenians on Imbros
11.50-12.20: K. Rhomioupoulou (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Atene), The Athenians in Potidea-Chalkidike
12.20-13.10: DISCUSSIONE
13.10-15.30 PAUSA PRANZO
15.30-16.00: M. Mari (Università di Cassino), Atene, l’impero e le apoikiai. Riflessioni sui primi tredici anni di vita
di Anfipoli
16.00-16.30: S. Gallotta (Università di Napoli “Orientale”), Atene e il Chersoneso
16.30-17.00: C. Lasagni (Università di Torino), Histiaia- Oreos e l’insediamento ateniese
17.00-17.30: CONCLUSIONI a cura di M. Lombardo (Università di Lecce)

The Department of Ancient History (ELTE University, Budapest) and the board of trustees of the Non omnis moriar Foundation (to commemorate late Prof. István Hahn) invite you with deep respect to the ceremony and the international colloquium of the

2nd István Hahn Lecture (2010)

Venue:
István Hahn Seminar Room
ELTE BTK Múzeum krt. 6–8. Rm 138.
Date: 10 AM, 29 March 2010

10.00. Opening:
Tamás Dezső, Dean of the Faculty

10.20. Honorary lecture:
Ioan Piso (Klausenburg): Capitolia, epulum Iovis und dies Iovis. Die Beispiele von Dakien, Pannonien und Hispania Tarraconensis

11.00. Conference
Marc Mayer (Barcelona): La céramique avec inscriptions de La Maja (La Rioja, España).

11.20. Radu Ardevan (Klausenburg): Die Verteilung der römischen Provinz Dakien in der Geschichtschreibung

11.40. Giulia Baratta (Macerata): Riefelsarkophage und Bildersprache.

12.00. Élodie Cairon (Paris): Présentation du numéro 18 d’Hungarian Polis Studies : Les épitaphes métriques hellénistiques du Péloponnèse à la Thessalie

12.20. Péter Kató (Budapest-Heidelberg): Philoi kai symmachoi: Polis-Netzwerke und der Krieg in der hellenistischen Zeit

12.40. Discussion

The Fundación Uncastillo and UNED Tudela have announced the first colloquium on the archaeology and ancient history of Los Bañales: ‘Las Cupae Hispanas: Origen, Difusión, Uso, Tipologia’, which will be held from 16-18 April 2010 at Uncastillo (Zaragoza).

This colloquium investigates the phenomenon of the cupae, which are roughly semi-cylindrical or barrel-shaped tomb monuments found at various sites across the Iberian Peninsula from the first to the third centuries A.D. Many are inscribed with funerary texts in Latin. Scholars from many areas of the Peninsula as well as elsewhere in Europe are gathering for the three-day colloquium at Uncastillo to discuss a number of questions relating to these monuments: their origins, which remain a source of contention; their diffusion across the Peninsula; their practical and symbolic uses by members of different social groups; and their typology, which has thus far proved difficult to establish. This is the first conference to be devoted to this enigmatic type of funerary monument.

Further information and the conference programme can be found here:

Las Cupae Hispanas

This year one of the strands in the programme of the Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School is an EpiDoc training workshop, which may be of interest to epigraphists (please circulate this announcement widely, especially to students):

This course will introduce attendees to EpiDoc markup, an XML schema for epigraphic and papyrological editions. The workshop is targeted at Classical scholars: we shall assume knowledge of Greek and/or Latin and some experience in Classical history or adjacent disciplines, but no technical expertise is required. We shall introduce students to the use of EpiDoc markup to record the distinctions expressed by the Leiden Conventions and traditional critical editions, and some of the issues in translating between EpiDoc and the major epigraphic and papyrological databases. Students will also be given hands-on experience in the use of the “Son of SOL” editing tool, currently implemented by the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, which facilitates the creation of validating EpiDoc XML via a ‘tags-free’ interface.

Registration for the summer school costs €300 students / €400 staff.
Subsidized/free places are available for members of Irish universities,
and we hope that a few bursaries will also be available for EpiDoc
students. Please get in touch with <gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk> if you want more information.

Announcement: DHO Summer School registration now open

Epigraphic Saturday in Cambridge on 27 March

A day of lectures and shorter presentations in Room G.21 of the Classics Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, starting (with coffee) at 10.00 am. (Lunch will be available in Newnham College opposite).

The first speaker will be Richard Gordon on “Putting the gods to work: the new prayers for justice in Latin from Moguntiacum / Mainz”.

Anyone who would like to offer a paper or make a short presentation is asked to get in touch with Joyce Reynolds (jmr38@cam.ac.uk with a copy please to djt17@cam.ac.uk) as soon as possible so a programme can be finalised. This will then be posted on the Faculty website. It would also be helpful but not essential to have some idea of numbers in advance (to djt17@cam.ac.uk).

The following lecture (in New York) has just been announced:

Rediscovering the inscriptions of Campa (Vietnam)
Speaker: Arlo Griffiths
Location: 2nd Floor Lecture Room
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E 84th St
New York, NY
Date: Monday, March 8 2010
Time: 6:00 p.m.

The aim of this lecture is to inform the interested New York public on recent developments in the study of the written records of ancient ‘Indianized’ polities in Southeast Asia. We will take as example the epigraphic corpus of the ancient Campa kingdom(s), which lay in what is now central and southern Vietnam. The study of Campa epigraphy involves texts in Sanskrit and in the poorly known vernacular Old Cam language, which belongs to the Austronesian language family. This field of research once flourished in French colonial times, then all but died out after WW II, and has only recently been resuscitated from a coma that lasted for decades. Newly discovered inscriptions have started to be published again, and a census of Campa inscriptions was undertaken last September-October in museums and archaeological sites of Vietnam. The aim of the census was to up-date the general inventory of Campa inscriptions, whose last published installment dates to 1942, and to record essential data of previously known and newly discovered epigraphical documents. The presentation will discuss general aspects of Southeast Asian epigraphy, as well as specific aspects of the Campa corpus and the history of its study. Some new inscriptions, which throw interesting new light on the history of Campa and its place within the larger scale development of Southeast Asian history, will be selected for close inspection.

Arlo Griffiths holds a PhD in Sanskrit from Leiden University. After holding a position as lecturer in Indian Religions at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and holding the chair of Sanskrit at Leiden University, he joined the French School of Asian Studies (L’École française d’Extrême-Orient) in 2008 as Professor of Southeast Asian history. His main fields of interest are Hindu religious/ritual literature in Sanskrit, on the one hand, and inscriptions of Southeast Asia in Sanskrit and vernacular languages, on the other. His approach to the (ancient) history of Southeast Asia is primarily epigraphic, and he is currently involved in projects concerning the inscriptions of ancient Cambodia, ancient Indonesia, and Campa.