Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Manuel Ramírez reports on the publication of Cultura Escrita & Sociedad vol. 9 2009, entitled Epigrafía y cultura escrita en la Antigüedad clásica.

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Call for Papers 2010

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.

The journal aims to publish papers of significant and lasting value written by scientists, conservators and archaeologists involved on this field with the diffusion of specific new methodologies and experimental results. Archeomatica will also emphasize fruitful discussion on the best up-to-date scientific applications and exchanging ideas and findings related to any aspect of the cultural heritage sector.

Archeomatica is intended also to be a primary source of multidisciplinary and divulgatia information for the sector of cultural heritage.

The journal is divided in three sections Documentazione (Survey and documentation), Rivelazioni (Analysis, diagnostics and monitoring), Restauro (Materials and intervention techniques).

The issues are also published on line at the website <www.archeomatica.it

Archeomatica invites submissions of high-quality papers and interdisciplinary works for the next issues in all areas related to science and technology in cultural heritage, particularly on recent developments.

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The papers will be subject to review by the scientific board after which they are accepted or rejected in order to maintain quality. Applicants will be notified by email as to their acceptance.

Topics and trends relevant to the Archeomatica Issues include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Methodologies and analytical techniques for the characterization and for the evaluation of the preservation state of historical masterpieces
• On-site and remotely sensed data collection
• Digital artefact capture, representation and manipulation
• Experiences in cultural heritage conservation
• Methods for data elaboration and cataloguing
• Setting of historical architectures
• Intelligent tools for digital reconstruction
• Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
• Applications in Education and Tourism
• Archaeological reconstruction
• Electronic corpora
• XML and databases and computational interpretation
• Three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds
• Image capture, processing, and interpretation
• 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis
• Technology
• Metadata of material culture
• Optical 3D measurement
• Cultural heritage recording
• Terrestrial laser scanning
• Virtual reality data acquisition
• Photogrammetric processing
• GPS
• GIS
• Remote sensing
• Culture portals
• Advanced systems for digital culture in museums, archives and art institutions
• Digitalization of cultural property
• Web 2.0 and development of social networks on the top of cultural heritage portals
• Applications of mobile technologies for digital culture and cultural heritage
• Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
• Methodologies and approaches to digitization
• Augmented reality, virtual reality and digital culture
• Access to archives in Europe
• Books and electronic publishing
• 2/3/4D Data Capture and Processing in Cultural Heritage
• Web-based museum guides
• Applications of Semantic Web technologies in Cultural Heritage
• Non-Destructive analytical techniques for the study of the composition and decay of cultural heritage components
• Management of heritage knowledge and data
• Visualization for cultural heritage

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The journal is published quarterly a year

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December 27, 2009

Renzo Carlucci

Editorial Director

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PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS
STUDIES BY R.D. GRASBY: SEPTEMBER 2009

The Studies present inscriptions at various stages of their making from draft text to carefully constructed letters set out on the stone itself, brush painted and carved. It is possible to draw a significant amount of forensic evidence of these stages from the stones themselves. Through measurement and an understanding of the processes of making, some epigraphists may find in these Studies another approach to the reconstruction of fragmentary inscriptions.

See the attached Flyer and Order Form for more information.

This afternoon, Chuck Jones alerts us to the re-appearance of the journal Τεκμήρια (ISSN 1106-661x).  It is now operating as “a peer reviewed open access journal” under the auspices of the Ινστιτούτο Eλληνικής και Pωμαϊκής Aρχαιότητος (Κ.Ε.Ρ.Α.). Back issues are available on the site (built with the Open Journal Systems publishing system), and in many cases the articles are available in page-scan PDFs and OCR’d PDFs. Information about the reconstituted journal and its submission and review policies are also available. The table of contents for the new issue (vol. 9 = 2008) is worth a look!

My congratulations to the editors and advisers is tempered only by two factors: the discovery that the OCR PDFs seem to employ a custom (non-unicode) font encoding, and a lack of clarity about copyright and license. The non-standard encoding constitutes an unfortunate choice that undermines long-term digital preservation. On the copyright front, the site lacks a clear statement of what the editors and the sponsoring organization mean by “open access”. Though copyright is asserted via a simple statement at the  bottom of each web page (“Copyright © EKT“), one misses an increasingly standard feature of “open-access” publications: a Creative Commons license (or other) statement indicating what users may (and may not) do with the material presented.

Chuck Jones has the details.

Contributions are invited for the vol. 4 of the Voprosy epigrafiki [Problems of Epigraphy] collection. Articles submitted before 31 August 2009 will be considered.

The Voprosy epigrafiki series is published since 2006 under the aegis of the Dmitry Pozharsky private university in Russia. Second volume has been published in 2008 and vol. 3 is forthcoming. Contributions by Russian and foreign scholars on the wide range of sub-disciplines of epigraphy (Ancient Near East, Greco-Roman, Mesoamerican, Muslim, Slavonic and Old Russian) from the most ancient inscribed monuments to the Modern age are invited. Articles in Russian, English, German and French are accepted.

The editorial board consists of Prof. A.I. Ivantchik (Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences), Prof. L.A. Beliaev, Prof. D.V. Deopik, Prof. O.L. Gabelko, Prof. S.Yu. Saprykin (Chair of Ancient History Department, Moscow State University). The editor-in-chief is Dr A.G. Avdeev (St Tikhon’s Orthodox University).

Further information on the series and its editorial conventions is available from the editor-in chief, avdey57@mail.ru.

Slightly delayed (the Global Crisis has also hit us), the Archivo Epigráfico de Hispania (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) announces a new issue of Hispania Epigraphica (ISSN 1132-6875), a cooperative effort of several Spanish and Portuguese scholars who list and comment new epigraphic finding and bibliography from Roman Spain.

The serial’s 14th annual issue (2008) deals with inscriptions published during the year 2005, although it also includes some selected pieces published in following years. This issue contains 462 references to new or revised inscriptions (mostly Latin but also some written in Greek and in several Paleohispanic languages), sorted by modern place of finding; in total, 51 documents from Portugal and 411 from Spain, to which the editors often add comments, amends or further bibliography.

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E-Mail: epigraphik@uni-hamburg.de
Datum: 24. April 2009

Dear colleagues,
The Institute for Ancient History of the University of Hamburg has been working on and preparing an epigraphic database over the past years, in which all Greek and Latin insc-riptions of several different regions from ancient Asia Minor are collected. Primarily the Hamburg epigraphic database fulfilled a supporting function in the wider context of the “PHI-Greek Epigraphy Project”, sponsored by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), which aims at creating an electronic corpus of all ancient Greek inscriptions and papyri. The Hamburg project now offers the results of the work to science gradually on a website of its own:

www.epigraphik.uni-hamburg.de

The database is enlarged continuously. At the moment several regions from the Roman province Galatia are available.

Hoping to arouse brisk interest, I remain with kind regards,

sgnd. Prof. Dr. Helmut Halfmann

A PDF version of the last published issue of Hispania Epigraphica (13, 2007) is now available for free download at the UCM’s Journals server . The issue covers years 2003-2004.

A new textbook (in Spanish) on Epigraphy  under Dr. Andreu’s editorial  direction  has just came out.

More information on the publisher’s website.

Dear colleagues and friends:

(Apologies for cross-postings to lists. Please feel free to forward to colleagues, students and other discussion fora.)

Please send me (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) information about digital projects, publications and computer-aided research in epigraphy. This information will be used to update or inform multiple resources including:

• The “ASGLE links” resource (currently out of date): http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/links.html
• A section on “digital epigraphy” in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Latin Epigraphy
• A review of the state of the discipline to be presented at the ASGLE-sponsored session of the Joint Meetings of the APA/AIA in Philadelphia in January 2009

I am interested in any undertaking that involves computational approaches or digital data, whether it has resulted in publication or not. Any subdiscipline of epigraphy (Latin, Greek, other) is of interest. Information about papyrological and palaeographical projects whose methodology, technology or content has direct application in epigraphic study is also welcome.

The ASGLE links update will include a software upgrade, and will be carried out in collaboration with the editorial board of Current Epigraphy and the leadership and appropriate committees of the Association Internationale d’ Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. All information presented in the resulting “new” links collection will be released to the public under terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license so that it can be re-used freely by others. All information sent to me will be assumed to be the intellectual property of the person submitting it, and will be treated under terms of the CC license.

Ideally, I would like to have as much of the following information as possible (please feel free to use your native language):

• Title of project, resource or publication
• Principal investigator(s), author(s) or editor(s)
• Intitutional affiliation(s)
• URLs for websites
• Publication citation(s)
• A short description
• Status (e.g., experimental, complete, published, in progress, continuing, private)
• Technologies, methodologies used
• Sources of funding (past and present)
• Contact email address

Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.

Best,
Tom
–
Tom Elliott
Associate Director for Digital Programs
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/

From Christina Kokkinia:

Survey results in Boubon (Cibyratis, northern Lycia) 2004-2006.

This website offers a preliminary presentation of the results of three survey campaigns conducted in Boubon and its territory in 2004-2006 as part of the Cibyratis Project of the University of Heidelberg under the direction of Thomas Corsten in collaboration with the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity (IGRA/ΚΕΡΑ) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens (NHRF/ΕΙΕ). It includes a corpus of the inscriptions found in Boubon and its territory, 15 of which are published here for the first time. Though our main interest lay in the epigraphy of the region, we have attempted, on the evidence of surface finds, to document the archaeological remains as thoroughly as possible.

Just circulated via AEIGL:

Mireille CORBIER fait savoir que L’Année épigraphique 2005 est sortie au Mois d’août 2008 et peut être commandée à la maison d’édition

Presses Universitaires de France
6 avenue Reille
75685 Paris Cedex
revues@puf.com

Une remise de 20% est accordée aux membres de l’AIEGL sur présentation d’un justificatif.

(Publisher’s website at http://www.puf.com/wiki/Revues:L’année_épigraphique_vol_2005 –but no mention of the discount and apparently no online purchase option.)

Charles Watkinson sends word of a new publication from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens:

Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence, by Nora M. Dimitrova. 208 pp., 132 b/w figs (Hesperia Suppl. 37, ASCSA 2008) ISBN 978-0-87661-537-9 Pb $55.00

The core of this work is an edition of all documents pertaining to sacred ambassadors (theoroi) and initiates (mystai and epoptai) in Samothrace. These documents, which constitute the majority of all Samothracian inscriptions, form a crucial body of evidence for the Samothracian Mysteries of the Great Gods, the most famous mystery cult in antiquity after the Eleusinian Mysteries. All 169 inscriptions that concern theoroi and initiates, both published and unpublished texts, are presented here. The presentation of each document includes the following elements, in accordance with standard epigraphical publications: a physical description of the stone, bibliography, text, epigraphical commentary, and general commentary. Part I comprises documents concerning theoroi in Samothrace, and Part II, those concerning initiates. Each part is prefaced by a discussion of various problems associated these classes of visitor. A major contribution of the volume is prosopographical: The author increases the total number of known theoroi to approximately 250, and that of initiates to some 700. Fourteen new names of eponymous kings, the major Samothracian magistrates, have also been added to the list. A map of the cities who sent visitors to Samothrace demonstrates the site’s wide catchment area.

More information about the book, and a link to buy it, can be found at: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications/book/?i=9780876615379

The volume is available to purchase through Amazon.com, bn.com, and other fine booksellers.

Update: Charles has provided the cover page, table of contents and introduction as a PDF file.

From BMCR 2008.10.1 (but not actually available for review):

Cooper, Craig (ed.). Epigraphy and the Greek historian. Phoenix supplementary volume, 47. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xvii, 197 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780802090690.

Still available from September 2008 (and of possible interest to epigraphers):

*Dubois, Laurent. Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. Hautes Études du monde gréco-romain 40. Genève: Droz, 2008. 220 p. $82.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600013406.

*Bodel, John and Saul M. Olyan (edd.). Household and family religion in antiquity. The ancient world: comparative histories. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2008. xii, 324 p. $100.00. ISBN 9781405175791.