The University of Michigan has just announced the digitization of the “millionth” book in their collaborative project with Google. I wondered: what epigraphic works have they scanned to date that are also available in full text. And so begins a series of blog posts where we explore the results of the following library catalog queries at the University of Michigan:
- W-subjects= inscriptions AND W-subjects= latin and W-Type= CF | CE
- W-subjects= inscriptions AND W-subjects= greek and W-Type= CF | CE
Only results providing full-text access will be presented. All articles in this series will be tagged into the mbooks category.
Three more publications that are unavailable (especially in the U.S.), and have recently carried some epigraphical content:
Five volumes of this journal published by the Istanbul museum now exist, but in the U.S. only two libraries carry it, and they only appear to have the first two volumes. Apparently devoted to art and antiquities.
Title: Palmet - Sadberk Hanım Müzesi Yıllığı
Publisher: İstanbul: Sadberk Hanım Müzesi: 1997
OCLC: 46426349
This journal, which despite the title does run epigraphical articles, is not even in Worldcat (though two related book volumes are):
Title: Kentron: Revue du Monde antique et de psychologie historique
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Caen
ISSN: 0765-0590
Webpage at which the table of contents for recent volumes are available (small, red link): http://www.unicaen.fr/services/puc/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=58
Also, this appears to be an irregular monograph series. Worldcat shows that the recent volumes that have proper book titles and editors/authors were picked up by libraries (vols. 5, 7), but the ones that simply bear the series title were not (vols. 3, 6).
Title: Daidalos: studi e ricerche del Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico
Publisher: Viterbo Univ. degli Studi della Tuscia
Distributed by L’Erma di Bretschneider: http://www.lerma.it/D_Editore.asp?ID=24517
Dan Diffendale has started a public group photo pool on flikr devoted to spolia. At present the group has 8 members and 69 images. The images are publicly available. Any flickr member may contribute.
Worldcat reveals this book, the source of AE 2004, 1014-1025, to be unavailable in research libraries outside of Germany:
Author: Witteyer, Marion
Title: Das Heiligtum für Isis und Mater Magna: Texte und Bilder
Published: Mainz am Rhein: Von Zabern: 2004
OCLC: 76510825
ISBN: 3805334370, 9783805334372
As with the books listed below, and others that we will start listing in this space as “Rare Publications,” it would be to our collective benefit for some of us to get our libraries to acquire such overlooked volumes.
CLARIFICATION: If you poke around in Worldcat you will find other books by this author about the sanctuary, but these appear to be guides for tourists who visit the site, not the archaeological publication that includes an epigraphical section.
Not a rare book, or even a book, but Worldcat shows no sign of any library having the Ficheiro Epigrafico CD-ROM produced by José d’Encarnação and Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja, which includes in .pdf format issues 1-66 (1982-2001) as well as new and revised indexes and a concordance with AE, CIL II, and HEp.
Available for purchase from Dr. Encarnação. Information is at http://www1.ci.uc.pt/iauc/pub/fe.html.
The following title is not owned by any U.S. libraries, and is very rare in Europe. I am told that it contains Latin inscriptions that have appeared since IDR was published.
Author: Constantin C. Petolescu
Title: Inscripţii latine din Dacia (ILD)
Published: Bucuresti: Ed. Acad. Române: 2005
OCLC #: 162264466
ISBN #: 9732712260, 9789732712269
Gil Renberg notes that the following work is under-represented in North American and European library collections as indicated by Worldcat:
Author: Corell, J. (Josep)
Title: Inscripcions romanes d’Ilici, Lucentum, Allon, Dianium i els seus territoris / Josep Corell ; amb la collaboració de Xavier Gómez i Concha Ferragut
Published: València : Nau Llibres, c1999
Description: 405 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm
OCLC #: 51050034
ISBN: 8476425708
(catalog record via University of Cincinnati)
Chuck Jones writes to alert us to a newish, epigraphy-heavy journal that may have escaped the notice of many. Chuck notes that the journal has no ISSN, and each of the three volumes so far produced has been assigned its own ISBN:
- Gephyra. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Antike auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Türkei = Günümüz Türkiyesinin antik devirdeki tarihi ve kültürü için dergi, Ege Yayinlari, Istanbul (Johannes Nollé and Sencer Sahin, eds.)
Harrassowitz can supply it to libraries on subscription.
Indeed, Worldcat shows only one set in a library outside Turkey (DePauw).
The following titles of possible interest to epigraphers are available for review from BMCR this month (see BMCR 2008.01.01):
Bauer, Franz Alto, and Christian Witschel, Statuen in der Spaetantike. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 2007. Pp. 500; ills. 200. EUR 98.00. ISBN 978-3-89500-576-3.
Koch, Guntram (ed.), Akten des Symposiums des Sarkophag-Corpus 2001. Marburg, 2. bis 7 Juli 2001. Sarkophag-Studien Band 3. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2007. Pp. xii, 354; ills. 32, pls. 120. Tafeln. EUR 98.50. ISBN 978-3-8053-3501-0.
Rayboud, Marilynne E., and Patrick Sims-Williams (edd. and trans.), A Corpus of Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire Containing Celtic Personal Names. Aberystwyth, Wales: CMCS Publications, Department of Welsh, Old College, 2007. Pp. ix, 284; maps 2. GBP 18.00. ISBN 978-0-9527478-7-1.
Rayboud, Marilynne E., and Patrick Sims-Williams (edd.), The Geography of Celtic Personal Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire. Aberystwyth, Wales: CMCS Publications, Department of Welsh, Old College, 2007. Pp. v, 210; maps 3. GBP 18.00. ISBN 978-0-9527478-6-4.
Over at What’s New in Papyrology, Gregg Schwendner noted that Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrafik 161 is now in press, and he provides:
Le iscrizioni sepolcrali latine nell’Isola Sacra.
Ed. A. Helttula, Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 30, Helsinki 2007.
This is a new edition which replaces Inscriptions du Port d’Ostie by H. Thylander (1951-52).
Available through Tiedekirja, Helsinki (www.tiedekirja.fi).
Georges Depeyrot writes to inform us of new volumes in the Moneta series:
In 2006, Moneta published 11 volumes (2714 pages, 37 plates of drawings and 138 plates of photos).
This year, Moneta published 10 volumes (2880 pages, 26 plates of drawings and 80 plates of
photos).
In 2008, about 11 or 12 new books will be published on coins, numismatics,
and monetary economy. The first ones will be devoted to the medieval and
modern coinage of Stavelot (Belgium), to the ancient coin finds in France,
Romania and in Poland, etc.
Moneta publishes books in various languages including French, English, and German.
The “e-papers” sections contents pdf documentation to be downloaded (Cohen,
old publications, informations, coin finds, etc.).
Just appeared from Herder Editrice (though not yet in the online catalogue), this epigraphic title:
Canali De Rossi, Filippo, Filius publicus. υἱὸς τῆς πόλεως e titoli affini in iscrizioni greche di età imperiale. Studi sul vocabolario dell’evergesia – I. Roma: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2007. Pp. XI + 275. EUR. 40. ISBN 978-88-89670-24-8.
Described by the author as follows:
“La metafora familiare ha un grande impatto in età imperiale. Mentre l’imperatore viene chiamato ‘padre della patria’ (e in alcune iscrizioni ‘padre di tutto il genere umano’) all’orizzonte si profila una figura carismatica che pure si definisce ‘figlio dell’uomo’. E’ in questo contesto che si diffondono nell’ambito delle citta’ greche i titoli onorifici di υἱὸς τῆς πόλεως (figlio della città) e di πατὴρ τῆς πόλεως anche in numerose altre varianti, pure femminili (θυγάτηρ, μήτηρ). Il libro consiste in una illustrazione delle epigrafi che riportano tali titoli, cercando di individuare alcune linee guida nel loro sviluppo e diffusione.”
Edit 28.4.2008 by Mathieu Carbon:
There is now a review at BMCR 2008.04.37 (in Italian). The reviewer, G. Squillace, helpfully summarizes the contents but hardly offers any critical evaluation of the book (other than its format and layout).
A very promising new title just spotted in the OUP catalogue:
Esther Eidinow
Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks.
ISBN 978-0-19-927778-0.
Pp. 480.
£80.00 (hardback).
I haven’t had a chance to look at this yet, but according the the press release it includes, in addition to a detailed study of magical practices and the mentality of risk, a catalogue of oracle tablets from Dodona and of 159 curse tablets discussed. (We can only hope that OUP get around to releasing a paperback!)
An announcement from Stefan Krmnicek:
I would like to announce an article relating to Greek and Roman epigraphy which has been published in the latest issue of the open access online-journal FeRA (Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde / Frankfurt electronic Review of Antiquity):
P. Probst, Überarbeiteter Index zu Personen-, Orts- und Götternamen (Indices 1, 2 und 3) der Edition der Inschriften aus dem Archäologischen Museum von Konya
The article contains a revised version of the indexes to personal names (Index 1), names of places (Index 2) and names of gods (Index 3) of the Inscriptions from the Konya Archaeological Museum published by B. H. McLean in 2002. The article is free for download via the website www.fera-journal.eu and may be used as an additional instrument to the publication of the inscriptions.
(Direct link to PDF of article.)
