Simon Corcoran writes:
A second copy of the letter of Licinius on military privileges, previously known from the Brigetio Tablet (dated 10 June 311), has been identified on a bronze tablet in a Bulgarian private collection.
He provides a link to the Volterra Projet’s page with transcription and further details (including information about a forthcoming full publication from Luca Fezzi):
The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would like to learn the skills and tools required to mark up ancient documents for publication (online or on paper), and interchange with international academic standards.
You can learn more about EpiDoc from the EpiDoc home page and the Introduction for Epigraphers; you wil find a recent and user-friendly article on the subject in the Digital Medievalist. (If you want to go further, you can learn about XML and about the principles of the TEI: Text Encoding Initiative.) The Summer School will not expect any technical expertise, and training in basic XML will be provided.
Attendees (who should be familiar with Greek/Latin and the Leiden Conventions) will need to bring a laptop on which has been installed the Oxygen XML editor (available at a reduced academic price, or for a free 30-day demo).
The EpiDoc Summer School is free to participants; we can try to help you find cheap (student) accommodation in London. If any students participating would like to stay on afterwards and acquire some hands-on experience marking up some texts for the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project, they would be most welcome!
All interested please contact both charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible. Please pass on this message to anyone who you think might benefit.
Announced via email from AIEGL:
Congreso: “La construcción de una identidad provincial. La experiencia hispana”
(Sevilla, 8 al 10 de mayo de 2008)
Speakers Include:
A. Caballos; P. LeRoux; F. Pini Polo; M. Navarro Caballero; S. Lefebvre; S. Marcos; F. J. Navarro Santana; R. Haensch; M. Gordón Peral; E. Melchor Gil; C. Chic García; A. Dardenay; A. A. Reyes Domínguez; M. Heinzmann; J. C. Saquete Chamizo; L. Brassous; F. Wulff Alonso; F. Beltrán Lloris.
Organisers:
Prof. Dr. A. Caballos Rufino, Catedrático de Historia Antigua, Universidad de Sevilla
Profª. Drª. S. Lefebvre, Professeur d’Histoire romaine, Université de Bourgogne
Unfortunately there seems to be no website associated with this conference (nor email addresses for the organisers) in the PDF programme that was circulated.
If anyone attends this conference (or any other event of interest to epigraphers) we should be very grateful for a short report posted here.
Practical Epigraphy Workshop
24-26th June 2008
Yorkshire Museum, York
The British Epigraphy Society is pleased to announce a second Practical Epigraphy Workshop in York for those interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material. With expert tuition, participants will gain direct experience of the practical elements of how to record and study inscriptions. The programme includes the making of squeezes; photographing and measuring inscribed stones; and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries. Participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts, and the workshop is open to those with or without previous epigraphic training. Booking fees for attending the workshop are £28 for students and £38 for non-students.
Postgraduate students may apply for bursaries of up to 100 pounds to set against the costs of attending the workshop.
For further information and an application form please contact Dr. Charlotte Tupman at: charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk. The closing date for applications is Friday 16 May.
Call for Papers: Ancient Graffiti in Context
Workshop: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
November 8, 2008
This workshop will examine the spatial and social context of graffiti in the Greek and Roman worlds. Graffiti has been marginalised in archaeological and historical studies, published in distinct volumes or seen as a curiosity. There are few theoretical studies of ancient graffiti or its interpretation, and little reflection on how we – as scholars – categorise this material.
New questions now need to be asked: How do we negotiate the relationship between text and image? What can we say about the materiality of textual graffiti? What social processes or practices produce graffiti? To what extent does graffiti represent or subvert the cultural values of the society in which it occurs? By bringing together examples and approaches from across the discipline we hope to develop a better understanding of graffiti and what it can contribute to bigger questions about the ancient world.
Potential speakers, including postgraduates, are encouraged to submit abstracts of c.300 words by email to the organisers by May 31st, 2008.
For more information, contact:
Dr Claire Taylor, Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin claire.taylor@tcd.ie
Dr Jennifer Baird, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of
Leicester jb188@le.ac.uk
Epigraphy North, Tuesday 15th April 2008, 5.30 pm
Professor Onno Van Nijf
‘Public space and political culture in Roman Termessos’
Bosanquet Seminar Room, 12-14 Abercromby Square, The University of Liverpool
The Epigraphy North series is suitable also for students wishing to learn about epigraphy; if individuals need further information on travelling to Liverpool and accommodation if attending the seminar, please contact Graham Oliver (gjoliver@liv.ac.uk).
If anybody is planning on attending this seminar (or any other, e.g. the BES meeting mentioned earlier) it would be much appreciated if they could post a brief summary of the paper here.
British Epigraphy Society
Spring Meeting, Saturday 3 May 2008
Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham
Religion and politics in Greek and Roman epigraphy in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Main speakers & topics include:
- Professor P.J. Rhodes (Durham)
State and religion in Athenian inscriptions
- Professor Maurice Sartre (Tours)
La politique religieuse des cités de Syrie: la constitution des panthéons civiques à l’époque impériale
- Dr Margherita Facella (Pisa)
On the chronology of IG II2 207
- Dr Francesco Guizzi (Rome, ‘La Sapienza’)
The imperial cult in Hierapolis of Phrygia: old and new evidence
- Dr Andrej Petrović & Dr Ivana Petrović (Durham)
θεὸς νομοθέτης - Constructions of divine authority in Greek sacred regulations
Conveners: Dr Paola Ceccarelli (paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk), Dr Ted Kaizer (ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk)
Archaeology in Europe and rogueclassicism both alerted us to David Ottewell’s piece in the Manchester Evening News (10 April 2008) concerning an inscribed altar — tentatively dated to the late 1st century AD — found in Manchester. An image of the inscribed face of the altar is included.
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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Henrik Mouritsen has sent me a summary of his paper given at the Cambridge Epigraphy Day in February, which I post below:
Henrik Mouritsen (King’s College London) discussed the possibility of quantifying Roman manumission using epigraphic evidence. While acknowledging that most inscriptions are of little help in establishing hard statistics in this area, he drew attention to two types of document which may provide more reliable information. The first are the epitaphs of the familial columbaria from the early empire, esp. those of the Statilii and the Volusii, where the ratio of slave to freed suggests a very high manumission rate in elite households. The second type is the municipal alba and particularly CIL X 1403 from Herculaneum. This inscription, long believed to contain the names of the Augustales, is unique in its scale. Even a cautious reconstruction of the fragments entails a total of around a thousand names, the large majority being those of local freedmen, which–given the overall size of Herculaneum’s population–would suggest that a substantial proportion of the free adult males were former slaves.
David Meadows notes a report in Marsalace (“Ritrovata un epigrafe in lingua latina nel parco archeologico di Capo Boeo: ieri la presentazione al Baglio Anselmi”, 27 March 2008) regarding the discovery of a Latin inscription to Hercules, likely to have originated in a temple but discovered in conditions of reuse in Marsala (ancient Lilybaeum = BAtlas 47 A3).
CurEp readers with more information on this find, the content of the text, or photos are encouraged to post details or links in a comment.
In a recent post to inscriptiones-l, B. Alexandru sought contact with other scholars regarding letter shapes in ancient greek alphabets. The context: current work on “some dacian incisions with greek graphemes made on numerous stone blocks from the archeologicall site of
Gradistea Muncelului - Sarmizegetusa-Regia.”
CurEp readers with relevant experience or suggestions for Alexandru are encouraged to reply via inscriptiones-l, or contact the author directly via email.
In a recent post to inscriptiones-l, Gil Renberg asks:
I am wondering whether anyone has a list of Latin and Greek dedications to Jupiter/Zeus Sabazius published since the appearance of CCIS. I am working on a restoration of a Latin inscription that might be for Sabazius and need to check for comparanda for certain epithets.
Gil is particularly interested in inscriptions that might have escaped citation in one of the standard annual round-ups. Anyone with suggestions is invited to post a comment here, or reply to Gil on-list.
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.
In BMCR 2008.03.10 there is a short review by Georges Rougemont of SEG 2002 (published last year):
A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume 52 (2002). Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 905. ISBN 90-04-15508-2. €168.00 / $250.00.
After a brief discourse on the history of SEG, after which R. claims (perhaps strangely in a review publication) that most epigraphers have no use for a detailed review of any issue of SEG because they will already have seen them in major libraries, he states:
C’est donc, sans doute, aux non épigraphistes (littéraires, linguistes, numismates, historiens peu familiers avec les inscriptions) qu’il faut d’abord signaler ce volume, et plus généralement le SEG. L’épigraphie n’a pas toujours bonne réputation auprès d’eux; et, dans beaucoup de publications estimables ou excellentes, on trouve encore trop de passages dont on ne peut pas ne pas penser qu’ils n’auraient pas été écrits, ou pas de la même façon, si l’auteur avait eu une familiarité même superficielle avec les inscriptions, ces documents grecs dont le nombre (faut-il le rappeler?) s’accroît tous les jours. Or le SEG serait pour eux un moyen commode de se tenir au courant de cette croissance. Il est écrit dans une langue pratiquée par tout le monde. Il reproduit le texte grec des inscriptions nouvelles et celui de beaucoup d’inscriptions anciennes, des lors qu’une publication nouvelle modifie l’aspect de ce texte. Il est pourvu d’index et de tables de concordance substantiels. Il est facile non seulement à consulter, mais aussi à parcourir, à cause de sa typographie aérée et claire et des titres en caractères gras donnés à chaque notice.
The review therefore contains no detailed discussion of the content or the quality of this volume in particular.