Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Available for review from BMCR 2008.05.02 (titles of possible interest to epigraphers):

Bernabé Pajares, Alberto and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal. Instructions for the netherworld: the Orphic gold tablets. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 162. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xii, 379 p. $188.00. ISBN 9789004163713.

Kruschwitz, Peter (ed.). Die metrische Inschriften der roemischen Republik. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. x, 397 p. $145.00. ISBN 9783110184839.

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

Tsagalis, Christos C. Inscribing sorrow: fourth-century Attic funerary epigrams. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes v. 1. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2008. xiv, 368 p. $118.00. ISBN 9783110201321.

The humanities components of the National Hellenic Research Foundation have released Pandektis: Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture.

Readers of CurEp will be particularly interested in the collection entitled “Ancient Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Upper Macedonia, Aegean Thrace and Achaia,” an online and updated publication of three of the corpora of inscriptions the Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA) has produced over the years, namely:

• EAM = A. Rizakis and J. Touratsoglou, Επιγραφές άνω Μακεδονίας (Ελίμεια, Εορδαία, Νότια Λυγκηστίς, Ορεστίς) (Inscriptions of Upper Macedonia), Athens: Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων, 1985-)
• IThrAeg = L. Loukopoulou et al., Επιγραφές της Θράκης του Αιγαίου : μεταξύ των ποταμών Νέστου και Έβρου, Νομοί Ξάνθης, Ροδόπης και Έβρου (Inscriptions of Aegean Thrace), Athens: Κέντρον Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητος, Εθνικό ‘Ιδρυμα Ερευνών; ΙΘ΄ Εφορεία Προΐστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων, 2005
• Achaïe II = A. Rizakis, Achaïe II: la cité de Patras, épigraphie et histoire (Inscriptions of Patras), Athens: Κέντρον Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητος, Εθνικόν Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, 1998

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In a recent post to inscriptiones-l, Denis Rousset drew our attention to the republication, in four volumes, of the annual Bulletin épigraphique for the years 1987-2001. The PDF file he attached to his note was stripped by the Yahoo Groups filters on the list, but Gregg Schwenderer has posted what I take to be the content at What’s New in Papyrology. Details are available on the website of Les Belles Lettres, under the rubric epigraphica.

I offer here the volume details (with COiNS metadata for Zotero users):

• Bulletin épigraphique 1987-1989, Epigraphica 3 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44333-1.
• Bulletin épigraphique 1990-1993, Epigraphica 4 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44334-8.
• Bulletin épigraphique 1994-1997 , Epigraphica 5 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44335-5.
• Bulletin épigraphique 1998-2001, Epigraphica 6 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-2-251-44336-2.

Some titles of possible interest to epigraphers available for review, exerpted from BMCR 2008.03.01:

Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested author in the subject line. They should state their qualifications (both in the sense of degrees held and in the sense of experience in the field concerned) and explain any previous relationship with the author.

*Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.), Egypt in the Byzantine World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 464; figs. 74. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87137-2.

*Bispham, Edward, From Asculum to Actium. The Municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 566. $180.00. ISBN 978-0-19-923184-3.

*Dobbins, John J., and Pedar W. Foss (edd.), The World of Pompeii. The Routledge Worlds. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xli, 662; maps 4; figs. passim. $240.00. ISBN 978-0-415-17324-7.

*Howgego, Christopher, Volker Heuchert, and Andrew Burnett (edd.), Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 228; maps 5, pls. 32. $70.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-923784-5.

*Larrañaga, Koldo, El hecho colonial romano en el área circumpirenaica Occidental. Anejos de Veleia. Series maior, 12.
Vitoria: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del Pai/s Vasco, 2007. Pp. 773; maps 12. EUR 60.00 (pb). ISSN 0213-2095.

*Lightfoot, J.L. (trans. and comm.), The Sibylline Oracles. With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 613. $220.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921546-1.

*Matthews, Elaine (ed.), Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics. Proceedings of the British Academy, 148. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 241. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-19-726412-6.

*Oltean, Ioana A., Dacia. Landscape, Colonisation, Romanisation. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xii, 248; figs. 79. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0.

*Sgarlata, Mariarita, and Grazia Salvo, La Catacomba di Santa Lucia e l’Oratorio dei Quaranta Martiti. Siracusa: Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2006. Pp. 113. (pb). ISBN 88-7260-171-1.

*Sundell, Michael G., Mosaics in the Eternal City. ACMRS Occasional Publications, 3. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2007. Pp. ix, 211; figs. 71. $39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86698-376-1.

[See full list to be sure, as this selection was exerpted by one epigrapher whose conceptions of the interests of the epigraphic community as a whole may be eccentric.]

As announced via AIEGL, a preliminary version of Henry Immerwahr’s Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions has been made available online as a downloadable PDF. In a preface to this version, Immerwahr states:

This corpus is simply a collection of notes taken over the years from publications and illustrations, with some autopsy where possible. It is not complete, nor is it a finished product, and the information has to be used with caution. It has been made available by circulating hard copy in a few places and by CD’s distributed individually. The Beazley Archive in Oxford has made extensive use of it, but without giving the corpus numbers. Since these have been quoted in a number of articles, I thought it only fair to make it generally available as a website. I have made a minimal revision; Rudolf Wachter is preparing a more thoroughly revised version.

The use of Courier font makes this publication a little ugly, but the content will no doubt be useful to many, especially for reference and citation purposes. I should welcome clarification on two points, however:

1. What are the license terms of this publication? Can I print this document and circulate it among my colleagues and/or students? Can I copy the file and post it to my website or blog (with full attribution, of course)? Can I cite the commentary that appears within it? (See Creative Commons for a suggested means of specifying these terms in a legally-binding way.)
2. What is the long-term status of this version of the file? Will it be permanently archived at this address (or, better, in a digital repository somewhere)? Will it still exist in this form when Wachter’s full edition appears (presumably on paper)?

[Postscript: after the first 33 pages of this huge file there appears to be a technical problem with the PDF, and 2146 blank pages follow.]

Only five U.S. libraries (and the same number of European libraries in Worldcat) receive Ephemeris Napocensis, which is an important journal for the study of Roman Dacia and includes much epigraphical content:

Title: Ephemeris Napocensis
Published: Cluj
Language: Romanian
OCLC: 35818737
ISSN: 1220-5249

Last week, Intute added to the Classics and Archaeology categories a record for Études épigraphiques, a series published by the École Française d’Athènes, with four volumes online (and open access) from between 1994 and 1997 (Decourt’s Inscriptions de Thessalie I, Cabanes et al. Corpus des inscriptions grecques d’Illyrie méridionale et d’Épire I & II, and Bielman’s Retour à la liberté). The pages are low-quality JPEGs and there doesn’t seem to be a way to download the texts complete, but it’s good to have this stuff freely available if you know what page you’re looking for, say.

(Who do we have to write to to ask for PDFs and a better table of contents?)

[corrected 2008-02-11]

Announced via AIEGL:

Tengo el placer de comunicarte que ya está disponible en la página web de Liceus, y dentro del Área de Epigrafía Latina (http://www.liceus.com/cgi-bin/aco/arqu/tema_2.asp#linguistica) un Manual de Fundamentos de Epigrafía Latina que, seguro, será útil para vuestras clases y como material de apoyo para el estudio de los alumnos. Coordinado por Javier Andreu, en él han participado también otros jóvenes investigadores como Pablo Ozcáriz, Eva Tobalina y Ángel Jordán. Me consta que el resultado es un trabajo serio, riguroso, con abundante aparato gráfico y actualizadísima bibliografía. En el documento “Presentación” -de descarga gratuita- podréis acercaros a la filosofía del trabajo. Pronto, además, el Manual será editado en papel dentro de una colección de manuales universitarios que está preparando Liceus E-Excellence con la vocación de servir al mejor estudio de las Humanidades.

The introduction (9 pages PDF in Spanish) is downloadable for free, other chapters cost between 1-3 Euro each. (I don’t see an option to purchase the entire volume in one file, but presumably there must be one?

Garrucci, Raffaele. 1852. Classis Praetoriae Misenensis Piae Vindicis, Gordianae, Philippianae Monumenta Quae Exstant. Neapoli: ex tipis J. Cataneo, OCLC: 23501474

Online:

• U. Michigan: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015028343963
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015028343963

This work appears (worldcat) to only be held in North America at Michigan and Harvard, but fortunately it is now available in digital format from Michigan and Google Books.

Théophile Homolle, Les archives de l’intendance sacrée à Délos (315-166 av. J.-C.), Paris : E. Thorin, 1887, OCLC: 7036183.

Digitized October 13, 2005:

• U. Michigan Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015028534348
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015028534348

Kyriakos S. Pittakés, L’ancienne Athènes, ou, La description des antiquités d’Athènes et de ses environs, Athènes, E. Antoniades, 1835, OCLC: 10216999.

Digitized June 6, 2007:

• U. Michigan On-line: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030329216
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015030329216

Ludwig Ross, Alte lokrische inschrift von Chaleion oder oeantheia, Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1854, OCLC: 30556781
“mit den Bemerkungen von I. N. Oekonomides”

Digitized December 27, 2006:

• U. Michigan Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005903599
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015005903599

Charles Ernest Beulé, L’Acropole d’Athènes, 2 vols., Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1853-1854, OCLC: 8259327

Includes appendix: Sculptures et inscriptions trouvées dans les fouilles de 1852-1853

Digitized October 15, 2007:

• U. Michigan Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068356396
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015068356396

M. Gustave Julliot, Catalogue des inscriptions du Musée gallo-romain de Sens, Sens: C. Duchemin, 1865, OCLC: 23424132.

Digitized October 13, 2006:

• U. Michigan Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015017652507
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015017652507

Iohannes Cholodniak (I I Kholodniak), Carmina sepulcralia latina, Petropoli, Typis academicis, 1897, OCLC 24469385.

Digitized July 19, 2006:

• U. Michigan Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019218810
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?vid=UOM39015019218810