Everyone who used to toil through the paper-based SEG concordances will rejoice upon finding out that the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Seminar für Alte Geschichte of the Münster University, have developed a quick-as-lightning IG – SEG concordance. Check it out at:
We are happy to announce a significant upgrade of the Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project site: http://www.brown.edu/iip. The site, which aims to collect all the published inscriptions of the region now known as Israel/Palestine that date from the Persian, Greek, and Roman periods, now contains some 1300 texts. Any comments or contributions, of course, would be welcome.
Michael Satlow
Project Director
Brown University
The Greek Epigraphic Society and the BSA will host from 21st – 23rd May a conference in honour of Prof. H. B. Mattingly entitled Η ΤΩΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ ΑΡΧΗ. The Athenian Empire: old and new problems. The papers will include:
H. B. Mattingly, The Chalkis decree (IG I(3) 40).
A. L. Boegehold, Most Is Not All: Thucydides’ Use of Some Superlatives
J. K. Davies, Kimon, Kleon, and Kleophon: the logic of an inherited agenda
P. J. Rhodes, What Remains of Periclean Imperialism?
R. S. Stroud, Dating Greek Inscriptions by Letterforms: A Vice
Adele Scafuro, Penalty and punishment formulae in fifth century Attic decrees
C. V. Crowther, Justice for Phaselis: IG I(3) 10 (EM 6918) revisited
Akiko Moroo, Three Mysterious Inscriptions Concerning Erythrai
R. K. Pitt, The decree on Hestiaia IG I(3) 41
N. Papazarkadas, Reassessing IG I(3) 17: Athens, Sigeion, and the Politics of Approbation in the Ionian War
A. P. Matthaiou, New fragments and old problems
M. Piérart, The Missing List. Old and New Problems
B. Paarmann, The Historian and the Epigraphist. Considerations on ATL and IG I(3) 259-290
Nike Makres, The Hephaistia inscription (IG I(3) 82) revisited
Mariko Sakurai, The Date of IG I(3) 136 and the Cults of Bendis in Athens in the Fifth Century
Kevin Clinton, The Athenian Cleruchy on Lemnos (the paper will be read by L. Threatte)
G. Stainhauer, The Loukou Erechtheis Stele
D. Sourlas – N. Papazarkadas, A new fragment of the Argives Casualty List
A. P. Matthaiou – G. Kavvadias, A new fifth century Inscription from the North Slope of Akropolis
For further information see www.bsa.ac.uk
(Paper given at the British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting, Dublin, April 24th, 2010. Brief report by Charlotte Tupman.)
Formality and informality in Attic epigraphy
Graham Oliver
In the first paper of the day, Graham Oliver applied the theme of the colloquium (formality and informality in epigraphy) to a selection of inscribed materials ranging from the Archaic to the Imperial period. Noting that the method of categorising inscriptions in traditional corpora tends to prevent us from fully examining the potentially complex nature of those inscriptions, Oliver introduced three topics through which we might begin to interpret the subject of formal and informal epigraphy: authority, institutions and location; the formalities of formal and informal epigraphy; and genre.
CALL FOR PAPERS
ASGLE FIRST NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS OF GREEK AND LATIN EPIGRAPHY
5 January 2011, San Antonio, Texas
The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) invites abstracts for the First North American Epigraphical Congress, to be held on January 5th, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas at the Marriott Riverwalk, over the course of a single day, immediately before the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA) and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The topic will be broadly defined as Greek and Latin Epigraphy.
Abstracts will be adjudicated anonymously by a committee of ASGLE; they should include the title but not the author’s name and they should not be longer than one double-spaced page. There is a limit of one abstract per person. The abstracts themselves, along with a completed abstract submission form, should be sent electronically as pdf files to: Nora Dimitrova, Vice-President, ASGLE, at nmd5@cornell.edu. The deadline is June 15, 2010.
Registration for the Congress must be made online here. The registration fee before December 1, 2010 is $35 for student and $50 for non-student participants, which includes a group dinner. After December 1, 2010 the rate will be $50 for students and $70 for non-students. ASGLE full members receive a $10 discount and ASGLE student/retirees a $5.00 discount. To become a member of ASGLE, see here. There will be a stipend available for at least one student whose abstract is accepted.
In the future, these congresses are expected to be held immediately before the APA/AIA meetings. This should have the additional benefit of attracting a large number of Classicists and archaeologists to the audience of the congress and promoting epigraphy among graduate students attending the meetings.
Interested scholars from all countries are encouraged to participate.
Please cross-post this announcement.
Xe Table ronde de l’épigraphie grecque et latine
Debrecen, 30-31. 03. 2009.
Debreceni Egyetem Főépület III. em. 316.
A konferencia plakátja innen letölthető.
More information: http://delfin.unideb.hu/~history/okor/X_epigraphicai_kerekasztal.html
Dr Michael Metcalfe writes with the sad news, widely reported in the Italian press, of the death in Ferbruary of Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. Here is one obituary, selected at random: http://www.ilmattino.it/articolo.php?id=91116&sez=NAPOLI .
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Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies
Issues 1-2-3-4 / 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Archeomatica is a new, multidisciplinary journal, printed in Italy, devoted to the presentation and the dissemination of advanced methodologies, emerging technologies and techniques for the knowledge, documentation, safeguard, conservation and exploitation of cultural heritage.
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Paper delivered at the British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium, November 21st, 2009, Oxford. Report by Emma Rix.
‘Inscriptions, Landscape, and the Built Environment in the Eastern Mediterranean and Iran in Late Antiquity’ (Oxford, November 2009)
Matthew Canepa, Oxford, November 21
In this paper, Professor Canepa demonstrated how the rulers of the Sassanian Empire used monumental sculpture and inscriptions to create and emphasise their cultural and racial decent from the Achaemenids, as well as simultaneously interacting with and differentiating themselves from their more recent predecessors, the kings of the Hellenistic Seleucid empire. A crucial feature of this interaction and hence of Canepa’s study was the way in which rock reliefs and other inscriptions interact with and become part of the landscape or building on which they are placed; this interaction can be a key part of their significance.
Paper delivered at the British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium, November 21st, 2009, Oxford. Report by Charlotte Tupman.
Claiming Space and Memory: the Development of Priestly Inscriptional Practices in Late New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1190-715 BC)
Elizabeth Frood, Oxford, November 21
Dr. Elizabeth Frood of St. Cross College, Oxford, began with a paper which showed that although “epigraphy” does not exist as a discrete discipline within Egyptology, and there are elements to the study of Egyptian texts which do not pertain to the study of inscriptions in Greek and Latin, there is much that is familiar to the classical epigrapher.
Frood introduced a new project, currently in its development phase, to study the epigraphy of Egyptian temple environments. There were three elements to Frood’s paper: an overview of epigraphy in a temple context; a description of the nature and range of this inscribed material; and a case study of one particular inscription that could affect the way in which we understand Egyptian temple environments.
Zur Neubesetzung einer IT-Mitarbeiterstelle an der Forschungsstelle Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) sucht die Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (HAW) zum 1. Januar 2010 zunächst befristet für zwei Jahre (mit der Möglichkeit der Verlängerung) eine/n
Technische/n Anwendungsbetreuer/in / Technical Application Owner
(halbtags)
für die Pflege/Wartung und Optimierung des wissenschaftlichen Nutzungspotentials der Epigraphischen Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH).
Aufgaben:
Administration der Datenbanken einschließlich ihrer Schnittstellen und Eingabemasken
Administration und Weiterentwicklung der eingesetzten Suchmaschinen
Aufbau einer Testumgebung für die Suchmaschinen
Gestaltung und Betreuung der EDH-Homepage
Systembetreuung der an der Forschungsstelle eingesetzten Rechner (Linux/Windows)
Anforderungen:
Erfahrung in der Anwendungsprogrammierung mit Java, Perl
Erfahrung im Umgang mit diversen Entwicklungstools wie z.B. XForms
Erweiterte Kenntnisse in der Datenbank-Administration von DB2 und MySQL
Kenntnisse und Erfahrungen in der Administration von Linux und Windows
Erfahrung im Einsatz von Web-Content-Management-Systemen wie z.B. Imperia
Selbstständige lösungs- und teamorientierte Arbeitsweise, intelligente eigene Priorisierung und die Fähigkeit, sich bedarfsorientiert und flexibel in neue Problemstellungen einzuarbeiten
Bereitschaft, mit dem wissenschaftlichen Projektpersonal technische Lösungsmöglichkeiten zu diskutieren und in der Systemarchitektur umzusetzen
Gute Englischkenntnisse wünschenswert.
Die Vergütung erfolgt nach TV-L (bis zur Entgeltgruppe 13).
Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt eingestellt.
Bewerbungen sind bis zum 11.12.2009 zu richten an den Leiter der Forschungsstelle EDH, Prof. Dr. Christian Witschel, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik der Universität Heidelberg, Marstallhof 4, 69117 Heidelberg.
Caillan Davenport reports:
The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) at Oxford University has started a new blog to update students, scholars and the general public on the centre’s research projects.
Lucia Criscuolo writes from Bologna with an announcement of a new Italian site for news and discussion of Greek epigraphy (http://www.siteg.it), which includes listings of news items and of meetings and colloquia (it is not clear from the website if RSS/Atom feeds are available for these news streams). The site describes itself as follows:
Il Sito Italiano di Epigrafia Greca (SITEG) intende offrire un luogo di incontro virtuale per quanti desiderino informare ed informarsi sulle attività che tanti studiosi svolgono in Italia nell’ambito degli studi epigrafici greci. L’epigrafia greca, vivacemente coltivata e anche solidamente presente in molti atenei italiani, ha spesso trovato difficoltà nel fare conoscere a studiosi e studenti i contributi che fornisce alla conoscenza delle civiltà greca e romana. L’obiettivo è quindi di facilitare la diffusione delle ricerche e dei risultati che vengono raggiunti, se possibile anche al di fuori dell’ambiente accademico, e moltiplicare le occasioni di discussione e confronto, nel rispetto delle idee, del lavoro e della verità.
- The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) will sponsor the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy on 5 January 2011 in San Antonio, TX one day before the annual APA/AIA meetings. At our annual Business Meeting in Anaheim, CA in early January 2010 we will decide on fees, deadlines, and abstract submission guidelines, which will be posted on the ASGLE website.
-The 2010 ASGLE APA Panel will be held in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, January 9 from 8:30 – 11:00 AM.
Greek and Latin Inscriptions: New Discoveries
Organizers: Paul Iversen and Stephen V. Tracy
The line-up of speakers includes:
-Nikolaos Papzarkadas, University of California, Berkeley and D. Sourlas. “A New Fragment of IG I³ 1149 (Epitaph for the Argives Killed at the Battle of Tanagra).”
-Gerald V. Lalonde, Grinnell College. “Two ‘New’ Horos Inscriptions of the Boule of the Areiopagos: Epigraphy and Topography.”
-John D. Morgan, University of Delaware. “Athens and the Aleuads.”
-Nora Dimitrova and Kevin Clinton, Cornell University. “Maroneia Honors Q. Lutatius Catulus in Samothrace.”
-Christopher Wallace, University of Toronto. “Murder, Mayhem and Salt: IPriene 111 and the publicani in Roman Asia.”
-Steven L. Tuck, Miami University. “Fistulae and Freedmen: Lead Water Pipes and Shifting Imperial Realities on the Bay of Naples.”
Prof. Lidio Gasperini (Università di Roma II) passed away last Friday after surgical procedure in a Rome hospital.
Here is an early obituary with some details.
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