Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions (Dec 4–7, 2023, Köln)

Call for applications
International Workshop “Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions”

December 4th – 7th, 2023 | University of Cologne (and online)

The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Cologne invites applications for the International Workshop “Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions”, organised in the framework of the project “DiBS – Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. For more information on this project see https://uni.koeln/NXPQU.Assoc. Prof. Tsvetan Vasilev and Dr. Dimitar Iliev from the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia will introduce the audience to the fascinating world of post-Byzantine church murals and their accompanying texts. Topics like the place of the text in the iconographic programme of an Orthodox religious building, text reuse and intertextuality, church inscriptions as a part of cultural code and group identity on the Balkans during the Ottoman period, language contact and multilingualism, etc., will be discussed. The participants will also be introduced to the digital methods of encoding and visualisation of such inscriptions, including EpiDoc XML, front-end tools, indices and authority files.Structure: The workshop will be hybrid and will take place from December 4th to 7th at the University of Cologne. Remote participation is not only possible but strongly encouraged. To ensure the workshop runs smoothly, the number of participants is limited to 15.Eligibility: Postgraduate (Master or PhD) students in the fields of Byzantine Studies, Classics, Medieval History, or Digital Humanities, or early career researchers (less than three years since defense of the thesis) in the same fields. Prior training in epigraphy is not a prerequisite, though desirable.Application: Please fill in the application form by October 6th. Successful applicants will be informed by mid-October. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Martina Filosa at martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de.  The full call for application can be found here: https://uni.koeln/M6KQG.

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The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 6 (2023)

We are delighted to inform you that The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 6 (2023) has now been published.

Please feel free to circulate the leaflet in attachment—advertising the publication of JES 6 (2023), including also a subscription form as well as a call for papers for JES 7 (2024):

Depliant The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 6 2023

The Journal welcomes articles written in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The JES is available (hard copy or online) in nearly 50 libraries through Europe, North America and Australia. AIEGL members benefit now from a 25% discount for subscriptions to JES as well as from a 10% discount for the purchase of other journals and books published by Fabrizio Serra Editore.

Journal of Epigraphic Studies 6 (2023)
Table of contents
DANIEL J. CROSBY, Traditional innovation for the discovery of oracular meaning: The Sacred Orgas decree and procedure at the Delphic oracle
MATTHEW HEWITT, A new reading of SGDI II 2674: Tanagran proxenoi at Delphi
ANNA-SOPHIE HAAKE, MATTHIAS HAAKE, «Werke der Tugend für die Griechen». Zu einem vergessenen delphischen Epigramm der Tarantinoi aus dem 3. Jh. v. Chr.: Ein Zeugnis aus dem Kontext der Keltenabwehr im Jahre 279 v.Chr.?
BRUNO HELLY, Une inscription testamentaire trouvée à Philia Karditsis (Thessalie)
MARIA LUISA BONSANGUE, De Pouzzoles à Narbonne: mobilité, réseaux et échanges en Méditerranée romaine sous la République et le Haut-Empire (à propos de CIL XII 4526)
YANN BONFAND, DAVID DJAOUI, BENOÎT ROSSIGNOL, Une amphore gauloise de muria hispanique au nom de Lucius Vibrius Eutyches à Grenoble et le commerce dans la cité de Vienne
WERNER ECK, Promissio und votum – verwandte Kommunikationsformen der Kaiserzeit: Zur Inschrift des P. Calpurnius Iulianus im dakischen Herkulesbad (Băile Herculane)
ANGELOS CHANIOTIS, Horror Saltus: Camouflaging religious change. Epigraphic evidence from the mid-second to the early sixth century A.D.
ZHEIRA KASDI, Septime Sévère s’est-il rendu en Maurétanie ? À propos d’une dédicace inédite à la Fortuna Redux en provenance de la colonie de Sitifis
ERGÜN LAFLI, HADRIEN BRU, SAMET İKİBEŞ, Neuf inscriptions de Klaudiopolis de Cilicie (Mut)
MARIANA BODNARUK, Clarissimae memoriae: Two Inscribed Roman Senatorial Sarcophagi in Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum

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Call for posters: «Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean», Venice 23-25 November 2023

SPIN Project «SaInAT-Ve» – Sacred Inscriptions from the Ancient Territory of Venetia

 

Call for posters

International Conference

«Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean»

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

23 – 25 November 2023

 

Epigraphic documents related to the religious sphere offer an essential starting point to investigate cult sites and understand the ritual practices of the ancient world. In fact, inscriptions may provide a privileged viewpoint to explore religious experiences through time and space, especially when combined with a range of other primary sources (literary, archaeological, topographical, numismatic, etc.) and when examined through different areas of expertise (historical, religious, anthropological, sociological, and linguistic).

The International Conference «Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean», which will take place at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from 23 to 25 November 2023, will feature up to 8 thematic posters. The posters will be on display for the entirety of 24 November 2023 and will be presented by the authors during a specific session (an online connection will be available for those who will not be in Venice).

Posters should be directed towards specific and innovative aspects of individual or collaborative research on religious sites and/or practices involving epigraphic sources from the regions of the Western Mediterranean and deriving from Roman and/or pre-Roman contexts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • inscribed objects in sanctuaries: ‘religious’ and ‘lay’ functions (e.g., different teaching practices related to writing);
  • the relationship between iconography and epigraphy in sanctuaries;
  • upkeep of places of worship;
  • ritual practices (prayers, sacrifices, votive offerings…);
  • the role of metal, coins and economics in sanctuaries;
  • individual and collective cults;
  • processes of religious integration.

Submission and selection processes

Proposals for posters should be submitted with an abstract of 250 words (excluding bibliography) in Italian or in English. Each proposal must contain the name of the author(s), their affiliation(s) and email address(es). Proposals should be sent by email to the secretary of the Conference (sabrina.pesce@unive.it) by 31 August 2023.

Results of selection process will be communicated to all applicants by 15 September 2023. Guidelines for the design of posters will be sent at the same time. Posters will be printed at the expenses of the Conference organizers.

Publication

Posters presented at the Conference may be further developed into an article and subjected to double-blind peer review for potential publication in an edited volume related to the scientific topics of the Conference.

Information

For any further information, please contact the main conference organizer Prof. Lorenzo Calvelli (lorenzoc@unive.it).

Patronages

The Conference will take place under the patronages of AIEGL – Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and Terra Italia ONLUS – Associazione per lo sviluppo e la diffusione degli studi sull’Italia romana.

 

Call for posters convegno Calvelli SPIN EN

Call for posters convegno Calvelli SPIN ITA

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Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work (call for papers)

Open Call for Papers 

Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy

ERC-funded conference on the methodologies of workshop studies

Warsaw 30 November–1 December 2023

The main objective of the STONE-MASTERS project, funded from an ERC Starting grant (grant agreement number 101040152) is to provide a complex answer to the question about the reasons for the great transformation of Roman commemorative traditions in the realm of epigraphy. In order to pursue the matter further, an atlas illustrating a highly regionalized network/stemma of workshops, identifying places of origin for the inscriptions from the third–fifth century, will be built in the project framework. The methodologies of workshop studies developed for other crafts and periods (in particular for early Greek vase painters, and for scribes and scriptoria) will be adapted to the needs of the Graeco-Roman epigraphy. These actions will bring to light the actual actors behind the production of inscriptions – artisans and workshops – as primary agents of top-to-bottom cultural transfer and, in consequence, will shape a whole new understanding of bringing elitist culture to the middle and lower classes.

This conference aims at bringing together people following broadly understood studies on ancient workshops, prosopography of craftspeople (including, for example, vase painters, scribes and illuminators of manuscripts), provenance of works of art and craft such as paintings, vases, mosaics, parchments and papyrus scrolls and codices, and others. We want to share and exchange our experiences across different fields of research, methodologies, and instruments of study.

Unlike the majority of such meetings, this conference is centred around methods rather than actual outcomes of research. We will welcome 20-minute papers answering the following questions:

  1. How to identify the workshop of origin of an inscription, mosaic, painting, vase, manuscript, book illumination?
  2. How to study the “style” of these works, and how reliable are the results and which role the “style” studies play in today’s research on workshops and provenance?
  3. Which methods are transposable between the identification of the origin of different works of art and craft and which are not? Which are the limitations of studies on workshops and craftspeople?
  4. How to study the formulae used in inscriptions?
  5. How can we reconstruct textbooks used by ancient stonecutters and mosaicists in order to make mid- and low-quality “mass-produced” inscriptionsand how to establish the outreach of these textbooks?
  6. What can we say about the literacy of stonecutters and mosaicists, also regarding the process of making bilingual inscriptions?
  7. How to identify authors of verse inscriptions?
  8. How can we utilize the ancient collections of epigrams, anthologies and syllogae for workshop studies?
  9. How can the study of the ancient quarries and trade networks of marble help identify the common origin of specific collections of inscriptions?
  10. How can the study of stonemason marks contribute to our knowledge of ancient stonecutters and their workshops?
  11. How can we close study scripts and tools of trade of ancient artisans and craftspeople with modern instruments of digital research?
  12. What can we learn about sculptors’ and stonecutter’s workshops from the correlation of the quality of inscriptions and accompanying ornaments or funerary portraits, or the lack thereof.
  13. How can photogrammetry and archaeometric research contribute to our knowledge of craftspeople, their workshops, their tools, and the provenance of their works?
  14. How to trace and visualize the outreach of specific workshops and the distribution of their works with the use of mapping software?
  15. How to contextualize different types of evidence (on people, workshops, model textbooks, time and geographical range of their occurrence) and to track correlations with the use of mapping software?

Papers tackling other methodological problems not envisaged in the above list are also welcome!

The participants will receive full funding for travel and accommodation costs. The participants will also be asked to contribute to an edited volume which will set new standards in the methodology of studies on the provenance of inscriptions of the Roman period, and will serve as the state-of-the-art reference work for this topic.

Titles and abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute talks should be submitted to Paweł Nowakowski, the PI of the project (pawel.nowakowski@uw.edu.pl). Please, indicate your academic status and affiliation (if applicable – papers from independent scholars and representatives of citizen science are equally welcome).

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023.

We encourage linguistic diversity at the conference sessions. We will ask for a short outline in English to be distributed among the attendees if the talk is given in a different language.

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Project website: https://stonemasters.uw.edu.pl/

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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Job advertisement – Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy Munich

Reappointment of the position of the Second Director of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy in Munich, effective April 1st, 2025

more information …

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EDEp editor – release for active testing (limited until July 24th)

Dear community of Digital Epigraphy,

we are glad to finally release the EDEp editor for active testing: https://edep.adw.uni-heidelberg.de

In the section ‘Demo’ you will find examples of editions provided by us.
In the section ‘Workspace’ you can create and save new entries in order to refer to them in your feedback.
Note: you need to be logged in to save. The login credentials are:
Username: edep
Password: edep

Please test strictly, realistically and thoroughly as if you wanted to use the editor for your specific work.

The testing period will last from today up to and including July 24th 2023.
The duration of the test phase is deliberately kept manageable in order to enable concentrated and intensive testing before the summer break.

Suggestions for improvement and queries are kindly requested to this email address: edep-test@exist-db.org

Thank you all in advance for your cooperation!

Kind regards
David Eibeck, Francisca Feraudi, Jörn Turner, Marietta Horster, and Wolfgang Meier

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XXII Stage epigrafico ad Altino e dintorni

Please find enclosed the final programme of the XXII edition of the epigraphic workshop at Altinum and nearby sites in the Venice region, this year generously supported by AIEGL and kindly promoted by Terra Italia. The workshop will take place from 26 to 30 June, 2023.

Feel free to share!

Locandina XXII stage epigrafico ad Altino e dintorni

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CfP: BES Autumn Colloquium (London, 18/11/23)

CALL FOR PAPERS
British Epigraphy Society – Autumn Colloquium

Institute of Classical Studies, London (UK), 18 November 2023

The British Epigraphy Society would like to invite you to present a paper or poster relating to your epigraphic research. This can be a discussion of an individual inscription or set of inscriptions, or a synthesis of work with inscriptions. It can deal with any type of epigraphy, whether from the classical Mediterranean or further afield. Proposals are also invited for brief reports on ongoing epigraphic projects or new discoveries.

You are welcome to present challenges of reading and interpreting inscriptions with which you would like help! This is a chance to discuss work in progress. We aim to create a friendly and supportive atmosphere in which you can try out your ideas.

We are particularly keen to hear from postgraduates and early-stage researchers.

Student and post-doc participants will be eligible to apply for a bursary intended to help with attendance at the meeting.

Please submit your proposals for papers/posters/reports to the Society’s secretary (i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk) by 15 July 2023.

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CFP: Collecting Antiquities (Warwick, May 11 2024)

CALL for PAPERS

BRITISH EPIGRAPHY SOCIETY  –  SPRING MEETING

Held in conjunction with the Humanities Research Centre , University of Warwick

Saturday 11th May 2024, University of Warwick (Coventry)

We are delighted that the upcoming BES Spring Meeting will be held jointly with the Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick. The theme of our joint colloquium will be ‘Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles’ + we very much hope to attract a broad range of speakers interested not just in inscriptions, but also in the place of inscriptions within wider narratives of collecting from the 16th century onwards.

Provisional speakers so far include Caroline Barron, Peter Liddel, and Alan Montgomery.

Please send offers of contributions to Alison Cooley (a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk) by 31 August 2023. Provisionally, papers will be of up to 30 minutes in length + 15 minutes for discussion. Poster contributions are also welcome. We hope to be able to cover speakers’ travel expenses. Postgraduate and early-stage career researchers are most welcome to present papers.  At the moment, this is envisaged as being an in-person event only.

Possible topics for exploration include the formation of collections; the social and educational profiles of collectors; the place of collections in schools, national and regional museums, and in country houses/ private collections; ways in which antiquities have been displayed and how visitors have responded to them; the dispersion and ‘afterlife’ of antiquities’ collections; the place of ‘forgeries’ and reconstructions in modern collections. Other topics most welcome too. We also welcome speakers from other disciplines who might like to help contextualise the collection, display, and viewing of ancient inscriptions within wider social and cultural contexts.

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Epigraphic Summerschool 2023 – SAXA LOQVVNTVR

Inscribed Monuments from Friuli – Epigraphic Documentation and Ancient Economy

Epigraphic Summerschool – Aquileia (IT), August, 21-26 2023

The Friulian Archaeological Society, the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Udine (Laboratory of Greek and Latin Epigraphy), the Institute of Classics Dept of Ancient History and Epigraphy of the University of Graz, the Department of Culture and Civilisation of the University of Verona, the Department of History and its teaching methods of the European University of Flensburg, the Chair of Archaeology of the Roman Provinces of the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg and the Chair of Ancient History of the University of Regensburg
are organising the tenth Epigraphic Summer School,

from the 21 st to the 26 th of August 2023, for people who are passionate about the ancient world.

For registration and more information see here

 

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The Cutting Edge: epigraphy seminars (London)

The Cutting Edge: discussions in epigraphy

Convenors: Abigail Graham & Gabriel Bodard
Venue: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London

The Cutting Edge is an informal series of dynamic seminars and hands-on training sessions to introduce the challenges and benefits of epigraphy as an evolving discipline, where tradition and innovation meet (and sometimes clash).  Discussions explore how we engage with inscriptions: how they have been created, classified, recorded and studied (past, present, and future). Aimed at graduate students, ECRs, and any researchers with an interest in this area, this series will be particularly valuable for those who would like to develop skills in accessing and using epigraphic sources as part of broader research interests (without necessarily becoming an expert epigrapher). We welcome suggestions for future topics or speakers in this series.

June 22, 2023, 16:30–17:30: Conventional Epigraphy: Encoding the physicality of writing with the Leiden System

Free but booking required.

In this seminar we will explore the evolution of conventions for publishing epigraphy and papyrology as texts, with a focus on the Leiden system (est. 1931) of critical signs (e.g. square brackets for restorations). How did this system develop alongside other systems of transcription used in Graeco-Roman and other traditions and why are there so many variants? What do editorial choices of designers and users of these conventions reflect about their priorities and focus regarding physicality versus text?  How do features of critical signs (as opposed to apparatus, commentary, notes, diplomatic editions, photographs) enhance or clutter a text for readers? Inform your own opinion about how we present epigraphic materials to a broader audience in different contexts.

July 19, 2023, 14:00-17:00: Making the Cut: A live demo of planning and executing an inscription

Free but booking required.

Wayne Hart, a professional letter-carver, typographer and sculptor, whose work now paves the hallowed halls of Westminster Abbey and Norwich Cathedral, will guide us through the labyrinth of planning, designing and executing a stone inscription. Participants will have the opportunity to actively engage in all stages of the process and to discuss the issues and techniques with an expert practitioner. What are the practical and logistical challenges involved in creating an inscription? Do you have a hidden talent with a chisel or is the process (like its stone medium) harder than it looks? Come along and find out!

  • August: no seminar
  • Sept, Oct, Nov: seminars to be announced
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New release of the WoPoss corpus containing now Latin inscriptions of the Republican age

Diachronic linguistics and corpus linguistics strongly rely on the availability of texts and their variety in terms of time periods, genres, geographical provenance and communicative situations.  The WoPoss corpus is a new tool in the field of Latin linguistics, enabling the study of modal notions (i.e., necessity, possibility and volition) in the ancient Latin texts. In order to enlarge the variety of annotated texts available in the corpus, the WoPoss team has recently added a sub-corpus of 74 inscriptions of the Republican age. They are accessible here along with other annotated texts: WoPoss Search Interface Other annotated texts will be added soon.

For more information about the WoPoss project and the annotation layers, cf. WoPoss guidelines for the annotation of modality. Revised version and Implemented to Be Shared: the WoPoss Annotation of Semantic Modality in a Latin Diachronic Corpus

 

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