Current Epigraphy
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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

Es freut uns, Ihnen bekanntgeben zu dürfen, dass die TYCHE Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik ab sofort auch online als “digital edition” zur Verfügung stehen.

Alle TYCHE-Jahresbände von 19 bis 24 können artikelweise als pdf heruntergeladen werden. Die Gebühr pro Artikel beträgt EUR 6,00. Die Bezahlung erfolgt mittels Kreditkarte. Nach der Bezahlung werden die gekauften Files im Bereich “Ihr Konto” automatisch als Download-Link zur Verfügung gestellt.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

We are pleased to introduce TYCHE Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy, which is now available online as a “digital edition”. All TYCHE annual volumes 19-24 are downloadable as digital articles in pdf format. The fee per item is EUR 6.00.

The digital items can be paid with a credit card. After payment, the purchased file will be provides in the section “Your Account”, on your Shop-Homepage automatically.

For further details on TYCHE digital edition, please visit our Shop at:
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An announcement from Charlotte Roueché, Catherine Dobias-Lalou and Lucia Criscuolo:

We are delighted to announce a new project to develop and co-ordinate research on the Greek and Roman epigraphy of Libya. The collaborative undertaking involves scholars at King’s College London (Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Digital Humanities), the Universities of Bologna and Macerata, and the University of Paris IV–Sorbonne (Centre de recherche sur la Libye Antique).

We propose to develop a publication portal for several digital corpora of inscriptions from Libya. The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (IRT) were republished in 2009; the first volume of Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) is scheduled for publication in 2011; the Greek Inscriptions of Cyrenaica are under preparation (IGCyr). All these corpora are prepared in EpiDoc. The portal will offer access to all these publications; it will provide a common bibliography, a shared search facility, shared indices, and draw on a shared geographic database. It is our hope that other scholars publishing material from Libya will make use of this opportunity to present their material.

Multiple language versions of this announcement can be found at Sito Italiano di Epigrafia Greca.

Two new volumes of Richard Grasby’s magesterial Processes in the Making of Roman Inscriptions series have appeared from the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, priced at £5.00 each. Study 1, CIL VI 960; Study 2, RIB 330. (Studies 8-11 are already available; 3-7 are forthcoming.)

I attach the order form as a PDF to this post.

Please contact margaret.sasanow@classics.ox.ac.uk for more information.

Posted for Nikolaos Papazarkadas:

I think that followers of Current Epigraphy would be interested to know that the Greek Epigraphic Society (Ελληνική Επιγραφική Εταιρεία) has recently launched its website:

http://www.greekepigraphicsociety.org.gr

The website includes, amongst others, epigraphic news (from discoveries of inscriptions to announcements of epigraphic events) and information on the periodical HOROS and the Society’s other publications (Horos Supplements, monographs, Festschrifts, etc.), which have hitherto been rather hard to find.

Nikolaos Papazarkadas
UCB, Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy

Prof. Alfredo Valvo (Univ. Cattolica di Milano) reports in Il Sussidiario (17/01/2011) on new inscriptions brought out in the area between Piazza Venezia and the Fori Romani by the works for Rome’s new Underground line. Valvo mentions two pieces: in p.zza Venezia, an inscription from the praef. Urbis F. Felix Passifilus Paulinus (a.D. 473); and in front of the Pal. Madonna dei Loreto, several fragment which could pertain to Hadrian’s dedicatory parentibus suis in the temple of divus Traianus and diva Plotina (CIL VI, 31215 = ILS 306; news of this were circulated two weeks ago by a post in flickr). Valvo also writes both findings are forthocming in a special issue of Bollettino d’arte (2010).

(with thanks to Prof Encarnação (U. Coimbra) for forwarding the news).

On 7 and 8 of January the 2nd Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG) is taking place in Bologna. Here is the program and Happy New Year !

Venerdì 7 gennaio, mattina, ore 9.00

- Saluti e introduzione

ore 9.30 Gabriella BEVILACQUA – Sara CAMPANELLI, Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae (IGUR): un nuovo progetto di lavoro

ore 9.50 Elena MIRANDA DE MARTINO -  Diva DI NANNI – Valentina DE MARTINO, I Sebasta di Napoli: ultimi aggiornamenti

ore 10.20 Lavinio DEL MONACO, Iscrizioni greche d’Italia. Locri Epizefirii

ore 10.40 Pausa

ore 11.00 Filippo BATTISTONI – Alessia DI MARTINO, I rendiconti finanziari di Tauromenion: una nuova edizione

ore 11.20 Francesca LABONIA, Un’iscrizione sepolcrale greca da Parentium

ore 11.40 Monica L’ERARIO, I dischi di terracotta da Taranto: novità e conferme nella tradizione onomastica tarantina

ore 12.00 Franca FERRANDINI – Daniela VENTRELLI, Le matrici iscritte di Taranto

ore 12.20 Discussione

ore 13.00 pausa

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Reviving an earlier tradition here at “Current Epigraphy,” I’m posting links to recent BMCR entries on works with significant epigraphical content, going back three months:

Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’Occidente Romano, VII: Baetica, Tarraconensis, Lusitania Vetera 17 (with the collaboration of Javier Garrido).   Rome:  Edizioni Quasar, 2009.  Pp. 313.  ISBN 9788871403779.  €47.00.

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-11-15.html

“It has now been over twenty years since the first volume of the series Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’Occidente Romano, hereafter EAOR, was published. The founding editor, Patrizia Sabbatini Tumolesi, was convinced that a systematic collection and re-examination of the epigraphic documentation needed to be done in order to investigate properly many fundamental and sometimes neglected aspects of gladiators and gladiatorial spectacles (cf. EAOR I, 7). The latest volume is devoted to the three provinces of the Iberian Peninsula: Tarraconensis, Baetica, and Lusitania. There are two main parts: the catalogue of inscriptions (35-201) and 16 synoptic tables followed by a general discussion (203-224). The volume is rounded up with detailed indices (225-270), a line-drawn map of the Peninsula (273), and 40 plates (274-313)….  Although virtually all the Spanish inscriptions had already been published elsewhere, Gómez-Pantoja has been able to examine personally most of them and to republish them all according to much more rigorous criteria than we could have expected from Hübner and the other pioneers of Hispanic epigraphy.”

Andrej Petrovic, Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 282.   Leiden/Boston:  Brill, 2007.  Pp. xv, 345.  ISBN 9789004151536.  $134.00.

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-11-52.html

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The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung announces two to three scholarships for non-German postgraduates or non-German scholars with a PhD to conduct research at the Historisches Institut, Abt. Alte Geschichte, University of Cologne

Scholarships are for periods ranging between 6 and 24 months. Recipients of the scholarships will receive amounts that correspond with those granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (currently about 1.200 € monthly for a postgraduate, 1.800 € monthly for a scholar with a PhD.).

The scholarships are for all projects from all disciplines of classical studies that pertain to the general topic of “centre and periphery”, but projects in Greek or Latin epigraphy from the Imperial period and late antiquity are especially encouraged.

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The Final Program of the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in San Antonio, TX on January 5, 2011 is set. For a copy of the program and information about registration, deadlines, membership, etc., see:

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

I guess this listing by BMCR solves the mystery of why there was no June/July supplement to the “Guide” this year:

Bérard, François, Denis Feissel, Nicolas Laubry, Pierre Petitmengin, Denis Rousset and Michel Sève. Guide de l’épigraphiste: bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales. Quatrième édition entièrement refondue. Guides et inventaires bibliographiques 7. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm / Presses de l’École normale supérieure, 2010. 448 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728804436.

For those of us in the U.S., what would be the best way of obtaining a copy? Thirty Euros is about $41, but Schonhof’s wants $72. (I am informed that this disparity should not be blamed on Schonhof’s.)

Rather oddly, the ENS press’s website still lists the old edition, so it seems this new one isn’t available for sale just yet.

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:

http://www.ig.uni-muenster.de/igseg.dll/

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.

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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.