The seventh supplement to the Guide de l’Épigraphiste (by Bérard, Feissel, Petitmengin, Rousset, Sève et al.) has been published as a PDF, downloadable from the École Normale Supérieure website at:
As usual the supplement contains additions and corrections to the themed bibliographies, websites, and other resources listed in the Guide itself.
Just out of interest, the new online resources (or those with modified addresses), listed in this year’s supplement include:
Sandrómaca, writing on the Miscellaena Classica blog, provides a text of, and offers some personal reflections on CIL I² 1211 (= ILS 8403), the epitaph of a Roman matron of the second century AD.
Noted by way of Antiquitatis Nuntii.
This inscription is also registered in the Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (EDCS), but evidently not in EDH or EDR. Therein we find the following publication lemma:
CIL 06, 15346 (p 3517, 3913) = CIL 01, 01211 (p 970) = CLE 00052 = D 08403 = ILLRP 00973 = AE 2001, +00011
Hermann Dessau’s edition of this text can be viewed online (as an image) via the Google Books copy of Volume II, part 2 of his Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. Searching in the book for the text number takes you directly to ILS 8403.
- Sara Saba reviews (BMCR 2007.07.27) Katja Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies: City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic World, Studia Hellenistica 43, Leuven: Peeters, 2006, ISBN: 9789042917095 (WorldCat Record; NB: BMCR prints an erroneous ISBN).
- Ruth Scodel reviews (BMCR 2007.07.23) Ralph M. Rosen, City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity, Mnemosyne Supplements 279, Leiden: Brill, 2006, ISBN: 9004150439 (WorldCat Record; Table of Contents from Library of Congress).
Thanks to rogueclassicism and What’s New in Papyrology for the heads up.
Just reported on the PAPY discussion list:
ROBERT (L.). Choix d’écrits.
Éd. D. Rousset, avec la collaboration de Ph. Gauthier et I. Savalli-Lestrade.
Présentation par Ph. Gauthier, indices par D. Rousset.
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2007. 800 p. dont 77 fig. ; index (Collection Histoire).
http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/?GCOI=22510100177840.
See attached brochure for full table of contents.
Joyce Reynolds and colleagues at King’s College London are beginning a three-year project to publish the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, along with supporting materials, images, and a detailed geographical gazeteer.
From the IRCyr project website (http://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk/):
In 1948 Joyce Reynolds, of Newnham College Cambridge, then based at the British School at Rome, started a series of regular visits to Libya, to study the inscriptions of the Roman period. She worked initially in Tripolitania: her epigraphic corpus, the Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, written with John Ward-Perkins, was published in 1952, and remains the authoritative work. In 1951 she first visited Cyrenaica, and has worked since then on the inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, working with local archaeologists and others from Italy, France, the U.K. and the U.S.A.. She has continued to visit Libya almost every year since then, and has assembled materials for a corpus of some 2500 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica. Nearly a third of these have never previously been published, while others have only appeared in versions which can be very much improved, and better understood, as a result of re-reading. The collection is made up of transcriptions, and illustrations for about half the texts; the bulk of the remainder are illustrated in photographs held only in the archives of the Libyan Department of Antiquities at Cyrene. The Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, to publish this material as an online corpus; the team will be drawing on experience gained in publishing the online corpus of the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias. Images held in Cambridge, Rome and Cyrene will be scanned to illustrate the collection. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Material collected by Reynolds and her colleagues will be used to map ancient sites on that map, with a fullness which was not possible within the necessary limitations of its predecessor, the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.
The Ambrosia Union Catalog of the libraries of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the British School at Athens facilitates searches for recently acquired works of interest. The following list (for May 2007) was assembled from the results of a keyword search for “( blg0507 or gen0507 or bsa0507 ) and ( epigraph? or inscription? )”:
- Nadine Deshours, Les mystères d’Andania: étude d’épigraphie et d’histoire religieuse, Scripta Antiqua 16, Pessac: Ausonius, 2006, ISBN: 2910023729 (worldcat record; publisher’s page with abstract)
- Christian Habicht and G.A. Pikoulas (ed.), Inscriptions and history of Thessaly: new evidence — proceedings of the International Symposium in honor of Professor Christian Habicht, Volos: Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσάλιας Τμήμα ΙΑΚΑ / ΥΠΠΟ, Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Θεσσαλικών Σπουδών / Ελληνική Επιγραφική Εταιρεία, 2006, ISBN: 9608958903 (worldcat record; conference website with program)
- Paul Holder, Roman Military Diplomas V, London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2006, ISBN: 190567001X (worldcat record)
- Maria Vamvouri Ruffy, La fabrique du divin: les Hymnes de Callimaque à la lumière des Hymnes homériques et des Hymnes épigraphiques, Liège : Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Kernos Supplement 14, 2004, no ISBN (worldcat record; reviewed by Claudio Meliaduo in The Classical Review 57.1, 2007, pp. 59-61)
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A post to Rogue Classicism put us on the trail of the following: three new letters of the emperor Hadrian to the association of Dionysiac artists have been published recently:
- G. Petzl and E. Schwertheim, Hadrian und die dionysischen Künstler. Drei in Alexandria Troas neugefundene Briefe des Kaisers an die Künstler-Vereinigung, Asia Minor Studien 58, Bonn: Habelt, 2006, ISBN: 3774935076 (worldcat record)
It would appear that the inscriptions have been getting some press of late:
I would be grateful for more information about these finds.
Over at ancienthistory.about.com, N.S. Gill has a short overview piece about:
- Rex Wallace, An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum, Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 086516570X [worldcat record]
Recently noted:
- “Eran Lupu has ‘More Corrections and Some Second Thoughts’ on his book: Greek Sacred Law. A Collection of New Documents (NGSL), Leiden 2005,” ASGLE Newsletter 11.1 (15 May 2007), 6-10.
The ASGLE Newsletter is not currently available online. Lupu’s book:
A new text is offered by Prof. Elias Kapteanopoulos (Dept. of History, Central Connecticut State University). It has appeared in the following locations:
Please note: text on the latter web page claims that Greek is rendered in “Athenian (+Unicode [rarely, Attika: V])”; however, it does not display as Unicode Greek in the browsers I have tried.
The latest issue of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Newsletter has arrived. Paul Iversen (secretary-treasurer) informs us via email that he hopes to begin posting newsletter issues, including back issues, on the ASGLE website beginning fall 2007.
Table of contents:
A few titles of possible interest to epigraphers have been reproduced below: see the BMCR website for the full list of titles available this month.
BMCR 2007.05.44, BMCR Books Received (May).
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.
- Orlandi, Silvia, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’occidente romano. VI. Roma. Anfiteatri e strutture annesse con una nuova edizione e commento delle iscrizioni del Colosseo. Vetera, 15. Roma: Quasar, 2004. Pp. 600; pls. 28. EUR 84.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7140-265-9.
- Panciera, Silvio, Epigrafi, epigrafia, epigrafisti. Scritti vari editi e inediti (1956-2005) con note complementari e indici. 3 vols. Vetera, 16. Roma: Quasar, 2006. Pp. 2187. EUR 270.00. ISBN 978-88-7140-306-9.
- *Tataki, Argyro B., The Roman Presence in Macedonia. Evidence from Personal Names. MELETHMATA, 46. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 667; map 1. EUR 88.00 (pb). ISBN 960-7905-30-X.
- *Edmondson, Jonathan, Granite Funerary Stelae from Augusta Emerita. Monografi/as Emeritenses 9. Me/rida: Artes Gra/ficas Rejas, S. L., 2006. Pp. 303. (pb). ISBN 84-8181-313-3.
- *Fourrier, Sabine, and Antoine Hermary, Amathonte VI: Le sanctuaire d’Aphrodite. des origines au de/but de l’e/poque impe/riale. E/tudes Chypriotes XVII. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 218; figs. 508, pls. 50, plan 1. EUR 100.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-220-X.
The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (U.S.A.) has installed a display featuring a Roman military diploma issued to one Marcus Herennius Polymita during the reign of the Emperor Trajan (dating to 109 CE), along with a replica of the diploma for visitors to handle, as well as other items. The exhibition (March 2007 - March 2008) is entitled “Two Ancient Roman Plates: Bronze Military Diplomas and Other Sealed Documents” and has been accompanied by significant coverage online:
Two articles about the diploma were published in BYU Studies (I cannot tease out volume and year because of the way the website is arranged):
Provenance and editions
The online, free access materials are not explicit on this matter, saying only that the diploma was discovered in Dacia and its metallurgical makeup is consistent with ores mined in Sardinia and the Iberian peninsula and smelted during the first century of the Roman Empire. It would appear to me, however, that this diploma was cataloged in:
- M. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas 1985-1993, London, 1994, ISBN: 090583334 (worldcat record; fulltext PDF online via the BYU exhibition website), no. 148 (text and commentary).
According to Roxan, the diploma was discovered in 1986 at Ranovac (now in Serbia and Montenegro), ca. 30km south of the Roman legionary fortress at Viminacium (modern Kostolac = BAtlas 21 D5), “allegedly with three others.”
The diploma is also registered in the Epigraphic Databank Heidelberg (text, bibliography), albeit without a reference to Roxan:
I am not aware of an online translation of this diploma.
Readers may also be interested in the now venerable (1998!), website for the Roman Military Diploma from Slavonski Brod, which includes photographs, text and discussion of another diploma for which the original seals (and protective covering) are preserved.
Thanks to Gregg Schwender at What’s New in Papyrology who points out the two following
(easily missed) epigraphic titles from Journal of Juristic Papyrology 36 (2006):
- Tomasz Derda & Jacques van der Vliet, ‘Four Christian Funerary Inscriptions from the Fayum (I. Deir el-CAzab 1–4)’, 21-34.
- Włodzimierz Godlewski & Adam Łajtar, ‘Grave Stelae from Deir el-Naqlun’, 43-62.
The full table of contents of JJP 36 available in PDF, or at Gregg’s blog.
