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Digital Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:22:32 +0000

Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon von Wilhelm Pökel

Das Beiwerk der gedruckten Ausgabe finden Sie hier.
Zu den Online-Beständen gelangen Sie hier.
Vorwort zur digitalisierten Fassung von Wilhelm Pökel, Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon. Leipzig (1881-) 1882. VIII u. 328 S. (unveränderte Neudrucke Darmstadt 1966 und 1974).
Nachdem Friedrich August Ecksteins „Nomenclator philologorum“ (Leipzig 1871) durch Johannes Saltzwedel schon vor einiger Zeit online gestellt worden ist, folgt nunmehr Wilhelm Pökels „Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon“ (Leipzig 1882). Während Eckstein (1810-1885) die Viten der aufgenommenen Gelehrten ausführlich dargestellt hat, liegt bei Pökel (1819-1897) – Eckstein ergänzend – der Schwerpunkt auf dem Verzeichnis der Werke. Dagegen beschränkt er die Angaben zum Leben auf das Notwendigste und fügt gelegentlich, ähnlich wie Eckstein, Hinweise zur Literatur über die behandelten Gelehrten hinzu.
Das Pökelsche Werk ist ursprünglich in Lieferungen erschienen, die erste und zweite Lieferung (= S. 1-128) lagen bereits 1881 im Druck vor. Zwei Rezensionen, jeweils anonym, sind mir dazu bekannt geworden: Philologische Rundschau 1, 1881, 1322-1324 (Lief. 1) und Philologische Wochenschrift 1, 1881, 116-117 (Lief. 1 und 2). Die dort gegebenen Addenda und Corrigenda (und diejenigen anderer) hat Pökel im Wesentlichen in seinen „Berichtigungen und Nachträgen“ (S. 313-328) berücksichtigt, deren großer Umfang zu diesem Teil darin seine Erklärung findet. Pökels Berichtigungen sind in die vorliegende Online-Version eingearbeitet worden. Dabei ist folgendermaßen verfahren worden:
An erster Stelle steht die endgültige Fassung eines Artikels, in welche die Pökelschen Berichtigungen eingefügt worden sind. Liegen keine Berichtigungen vor, so ist dies die einzige Fassung.
Liegen dagegen Berichtigungen Pökels vor, so folgt an 2. Stelle die originale Version des Artikels ohne die Berücksichtigung der Berichtigungen.
An dritter Stelle folgen dann die Berichtigungen und Nachträge Pökels in der Original-Fassung. So ist gewährleistet, daß jeder Benutzer selbst überprüfen kann, ob in der an erster Stelle stehenden Fassung alle Berichtigungen korrekt angebracht sind. Der Fall, daß Nachträgen ihrerseits wieder Berichtigungen hinzugefügt sind (Addendis Addenda), kommt zweimal vor, bei Benoist (S. 315 und 328) und Chandler (S. 318 und 328).
Einige Personen, die Pökel zunächst übersehen hatte oder die auf Grund ihres jungen Alters im Jahre 1879/80 noch gar nicht berücksichtigt werden konnten, hat Pökel in den Nachträgen mit einem Eintrag bedacht. Diese Artikel sind mit in die Sammlung aufgenommen worden.
Einigen Artikeln hat Pökel Fußnoten hinzugefügt, auf die durch einen Asteriscus hingewiesen wird. Diese Fußnoten, die bei Pökel am unteren Seitenrand stehen, folgen jetzt unmittelbar in den betreffenden Artikeln.
Die einzelnen Artikel sind, wenn entsprechende Angaben vorliegen, in drei Abteilungen gegliedert:
Angaben zur Vita.
Verzeichnis der Werke.
Angaben zu Nekrologen oder sonstiger Literatur zu dem betreffenden Gelehrten.
Pökel selbst hat die unter 1 gegebenen Angaben nicht abgetrennt, wohl aber die unter 3. stehenden, allerdings wenig konsequent: Bald sind sie in Petitdruck nach einem Absatz, bald im Normaldruck ohne Absatz nach einem Gedankenstrich hinzugefügt, im letzteren Fall allerdings nicht immer korrekt; und vor allem ist oftmals nur schwer ersichtlich, ob sich die Angaben auf Werke des Betreffenden beziehen oder auf Sekundärliteratur.
Am Bestand innerhalb der Sammlung ist nichts geändert worden. Friedrich Wilhelm Pökel (1819-1897) selbst, der weder im Eckstein noch in Pökels eigenem Lexikon verzeichnet war, ist nun in unsere Sammlung neuerstellter Philologischer Biographien aufgenommen worden.
Daß sich bei einem derartigen Werk, zumal es fern größerer Bibliotheken in einer Provinzstadt (Prenzlau) entstanden ist (s. Pökels Vorwort), zahlreiche Fehler und Ungenauigkeiten eingeschlichen haben, ist nicht verwunderlich. Einige offensichtliche Versehen, die mir aufgefallen sind, habe ich verbessert; alle Ergänzungen und Verbesserungen sind in eckigen Klammern hinzugefügt worden, lediglich in den Eintrags-Titelzeilen wurden etwaige Korrekturen direkt übernommen, um das Auffinden der Artikel zu erleichtern. Vgl. z.B. unter Dittenberg(er), Wilhelm; Faber, Pierre; Omnibonus (Ognibene), Vincentino; Powel(l), Griffith; Riemann, Othon; Schömann, Friedr. Georg; Schrader, Johannes; Seider, August; Stürenburg, Rudolf; Trieber, Conrad.
Trotzdem werden viele Versehen nicht behoben sein; denn es konnte nicht Aufgabe der Online-Stellung sein, eine völlige Revision des „Pökel“ vorzunehmen.
Pökel hat der Raumersparnis wegen zahlreiche Abkürzungen verwendet, die – außer in den Publikationstiteln – weitgehend aufgelöst wurden; da seine „Erklärung der am meisten angewandten Abkürzungen“ (S. 328) besonders für den nicht regelmäßigen Benutzer völlig unzureichend ist, gebe ich unten zudem eine erweiterte Liste von ihm benutzter Abkürzungen.
Alles in der gedruckten Ausgabe enthaltene Beiwerk, das keinem einzelnen Artikel zugeordnet ist, finden Sie gesammelt hier
Folgende wissenschaftliche Hilfskräfte haben bei der Digitalisierung und Redaktion der Online-Stellung des „Pökel“, die nicht ohne die kontinuierliche Betreuung durch Daniel Deckers zustandegekommen wäre, mitgewirkt (in zeitlicher Reihenfolge):
Julia Niedenzu, Anna-Charlotte Vehling, Sabrina Engert, geb. Heldendrung, Anja Braumann (letztere war vor allem mit der Endredaktion beschäftigt), Sarah Liedtke.

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And see also the Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (CPhCl), "an encyclopaedic lexicon collecting the bio-bibliographical data about classical philologists and it is a continuation and improvement of W. Pökel’s Philologisches Schriftstellerlexikon, Leipzig 1882. Only deceased scholars are included."

Open Access Journal: Traces In Time ejournal << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:14:12 +0000

[First posted in AWOL 22 July 2010. Updated 25 May 2013]

Traces In Time ejournal
ISSN 2038-7709

Traces in Time articles, book reviews and reports are focused on the Prehistory and Protohistory of Europe, Mediterranean Area, Near East and Africa, and on new methodologies in Archaeological Research.

Contents regarding Open Access and Free Software in Archaeology will also be accepted.

Any article, book review or report that does not fall within this range of topics will be considered and discussed within the Editorial Board.

2013

No 3

2012

No 2

2011

No 1

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

ArchaeologicalTraces.org: DISSERTATIONS ARCHIVE SERIES << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:09:23 +0000

ArchaeologicalTraces.org: DISSERTATIONS ARCHIVE SERIES
ISSN: 2038-7083

This section hosts a series of B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations.
The publishing of every dissertation has been authorized by the local Heritage officials and the Academic Staff who reviewed the work.

The dissertations are published in original language with an abstract in English.

Editors:
Giandaniele Castangia
Clive Vella

To publish your dissertation, please contact one of the editors

1 MALLEGNI C., Contatti tra Creta, Cicladi e costa anatolica nel III Millennio A.C.
2 CASTANGIA G., Depositi costieri nuragici della regione del Sinis nella Tarda Età del Bronzo...
3 CARUSO S., Problemi e prospettive della ricostruzione e musealizzazione di contesti...
4 D'ERRICO D., Il trattamento del corpo in alcuni contesti eneolitici italiani
5 VENDITTI F., Le tombe dolmeniche dell'Età del Bronzo nella Puglia centrale.
6 AUCELLO A. M., Nuovi dati sull'evoluzione umana: i più recenti rinvenimenti riguardo alle caratteristiche cognitive di Homo sapiens.
7 CASTANGIA G., Analisi di alcuni contesti strutturali nell’area meridionale dell’insediamento preistorico e protostorico di Sa Osa (Cabras, OR). Stratigrafia, materiali ceramici, ipotesi funzionali.
8 DEMICOLI M., To what extent was the Central Mediterranean Neolithic a maritime culture?
9 ROZERA C., L'industria litica fayumiana nel contesto neolitico dell'Africa nord-orientale
10 ZUPANCICH A., Uso dei manufatti in pietra tra i primi ominidi: studio sperimentale e analisi traceologica dei materiali provenienti dal sito di Kanjera South
11 D'ERRICO D., Uomini, agricoltura e sperimentazione: scelte culturali e sfruttamento dei vegetali nel Neolitico.
12 CAMMAROTA M., Contesti funerari eneolitici in Sicilia
13 CEREDA S., L’uso del sigillo in Alta Mesopotamia e Anatolia Orientale: trasformazioni dal IV al III millennio.
14 VIGNOLA C., Da Halaf a Ubaid in Alta Mesopotamia: cambiamenti nelle modalità d’insediamento e dell’organizzazione sociale tra VI e V millennio a.C.
15 FERRAIUOLO D., Sviluppi della metallurgia sull'Alto e Medio Eufrate tra il IV e il III millennio a.C.
16 SCHIRRU D., Civiltà nuragica e mondo mediterraneo nel corso dell’Età del Ferro: contesti, materiali, problematiche
17 ARDU A., I materiali fenici, punici e romani nelle acque dell'Oristanese
18 PROIETTI M., Le fortificazioni dell'Italia Meridionale nell'Età del Bronzo
19 LUCCI E., Il bacino del Fucino tra Eneolitico ed inizio dell'Età del Bronzo

iPads at PKAP << John Wallrodt (Paperless Archaeology)

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:07:46 +0000

It is hard to believe that anybody that reads this blog doesn’t read Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World blog but in case you haven’t noticed he has a summary of his iPad experience at PKAP. This past summer my excavation on Cyprus experimented with using iPads to document our excavations in the field. […]

Two Views from Cyprus << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:13:51 +0000

Scott Moore and I started work yesterday at the Larnaka District Archaeological Museum. Our first goal was to develop a method for processing the over 700 lbs of ceramic excavated in 2012 from what appears to be a stone lined storage bit abutting a Hellenistic fortification wall. Brandon Olson our Hellenistic ceramicist shows up in June to analyze these finds. Scott and I arrived a week earlier to pre-sort and pre-process as much of the material is possible to expedite the process.

The photo is out of focus and that worried me at first until I realized that the photo was fine (maybe), and I was out of focus. This little vessel resting for a time inside a tiny cup is probably a miniature and miniatures are most frequently associated with cult activities. Up to this point, we have not found any other evidence for cult activity at this site, but we know that there were sanctuaries nearby (here and here). The prominent location of the coastal height of Vigla where this material derives make it an appealing possibility.

After the first day of work in the dusty museum, I took an afternoon nap and awoke to a lovely dusk. At the end of our street, just above the Mediterranean rooflines, a few windmills turned languidly on the hills outside of Larnaka.

Ruin Memories: A Portfolio << Archaeolog

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:38:21 +0000

Modernity is rarely associated with ruins. In our everyday comprehension ruins rather bring to mind ancient and enchanted monumental structures; an archaeological dream world featuring celebrities such as Machu Picchu, Pompeii and Angkor Wat. Yet never have so many ruins been produced; so many things been victimized and made redundant, so many sites been abandoned. Closed shopping malls, abandoned military sites, industrial wastelands, derelict mining towns, empty apartment houses, withering capitalist and communist monuments. A ghostly word of decaying modern debris mostly left out of academic concerns and conventional histories - and also considered too recent, too grim and repulsive to be embraced as heritage. Though the situation of neglect may be claimed to have changed, as reflected in the growing field of the archaeology of the contemporary past, in the broader popular, artistic and scholarly interest in decay and ruination, and lately even in heritage discourses, modern ruins still play a very marginal role in the political economy of both the past and the present.

This marginalization and othering of the derelict materiality of the modern was one concern grounding the Ruin Memories project, an international research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Through theoretical studies and a number of case studies in Spain, Iceland, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, USA and Russia, we have since 2010 explored how the ruins of modernity are conceived and assigned cultural value by focusing primarily on three themes: The aesthetics of waste and heritage, the materiality of memory, and the significance of things. While one ambition has been to critically scrutinize the normative categorization of modern ruins and the discourses and practices that may have led to their academic and historical marginalization, another has been to reassess the cultural and historical value of this modern debris and to explore how abandoned and ruined things may contribute to different memories, or a different archaeology, of the recent past.

The Ruin Memories project is now coming to an end and in a series of presentations the next couple of months we shall display works that either are a direct outcome of the research conducted or are closely associated with it. Each Friday at 12 PM GMT a new presentation will be launched at this site. We hope this accumulating portfolio of ruin memories, together with those already available at this site, will give you an impression of the range of research conducted and also stimulate some reactions.

Ruin Memories: A Portfolio | www.ruinmemories.org.

24 May | Alfredo González-Ruibal and "Forgotten Battles. Ruins of the Spanish Civil War".

More details available from | admin@ruinmemories.org.

A Digital Tutorial For Ancient Greek Based on White's First Greek Book << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:01:34 +0000

A Digital Tutorial For Ancient Greek Based on White's First Greek Book
Created by Jeff Rydberg-Cox (Classical and Ancient Studies Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City)

John William White's First Greek Book was originally published in 1896. The book contains a guided curriculum built around the language and vocabulary of Xenophon’s Anabasis. This digital tutorial is an evolving edition that is designed to run on both traditional browsers, tablet devices, and phones. Each lesson includes drill and practice exercises in addition to the text itself. The site also includes tab-delim

ited files for all of the vocabulary and grammar that can be imported into flashcard programs.
This is a work in progress that is taking shape through the winter of 2012 and spring of 2013. Expect things to change and know that you will find errors as you use this tutorial.
For more information about the design of the tutorial, you can read a preprint of an article that will be published the journal Classical World or a presentation from the 2013 meeting of the Digital Classics Association.

Table of Contents

Flashcard Download Area
1: The Greek Alphabet
2: Breathings, Syllables, Elision, Accent, Punctuation.
3: Nouns-Introductory
4: A-Declension.—Feminines in η
5: Verbs—Introductory.
6: A-Declension—Feminines in α.
7: Imperfect Indicative Active.
8: O-Declension Nouns.
9: O-Declension (continued).
10: Future and First Aorist Indicative Active.
11: A- Declension.—Masculines
12: Perfect and Pluperfect Indicative Active
13: The Art of Reading
14: Adjectives of the Vowel Declension
15: Analysis of the Primary Tenses of the Indicative Active
16: Analysis of the Secondary Tenses of the Indicative Active
17: Demonstrative Pronouns
18: Present and Imperfect Indicative of εἰμί, be.
19: Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative Middle
20: Aorist, Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect Indicative Middle
21: Indicative Passive.
22: Perfect and Pluperfect Indicative Indicative Middle and Passive of labial Mute Verbs
23: Perfect and Pluperfect Indicative Middle and Passive of Palatal and Lingual Mute Verbs
24: Prepositions
25: Labial and Palatal Mute Stems of the Consonant Declension
26: Lingual Mute Stems of the Consonant Declension
27: Adjectives of the Consonant Declension
28: Contract Verbs in αω in the Indicative
29: Contract Verbs in εω and οω in the Indicative
30: Contract Nouns and Adjectives of the Vowel Declension
31: Deponent Verbs. Conditional Sentences
32: Subjunctive Active. Vivid Future Conditions
33: Subjunctive Active (continued). Subjunctive in Exhortations and in Final Clauses
34: Subjunctive Middle and Passive. Subjunctive after Verbs of Fearing
35: Contract Verbs in the Subjunctive
36: Liquid Stems of the Consonant Declension
37: Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns
38: Optative Active. Less Vivid Future Conditions
39: The Present Optative of εἰμί. Optative in Final Clauses. Object Clauses.
40: Optative Middle and Passive. Optative after Verbs of Fearing
41: Contract Verbs in the Optative
42: Stems in σ of the Consonant Declension
43: Imperative Active
44: Imperative Middle and Passive
45: Contract Verbs in the Imperative
46: Adjective Stems in ν and εσ of the Consonant Declension
47: Personal Pronouns
48: Reflexive, Reciprocal, and Possessive Pronouns
49: The Infinitive
50: The Infinitive In Indirect Discourse
51: Stems in ι and υ of the Consonant Declension
General Vocabulary

And see AWOL's list of Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers

Aegeus Image Database << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:55:38 +0000

Aegeus Image Database

The aim of the suggested project is to create a collection of digital images originating from publications/studies of archaeological material on the prehistoric Aegean. The images come from archaeological books (which are not subject to copyright) of great importance and value, which have been published in previous centuries. Most of them are works of well-known Greek and foreign archaeologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Heinrich Schliemann (excavator of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns), Christos Tsountas (excavator of the most important prehistoric sites in the Cyclades), and Sir Arthur Evans (excavator of Knossos).

The digital documentation of this iconographic material will contribute to the preservation and dissemination of a very important chapter in the history of the research of the prehistoric Aegean. The old age of these publications/studies renders the images rare and prohibits their repeated reproduction (digital or otherwise) by individuals or institutions. Moreover, the earlier depictions of important Greek prehistoric monuments have their own epistemological, historical, and aesthetic value beyond their given archaeological significance. The digitised photographic material will therefore have multiple recipients, ranging from strictly academic circles and museologists, to teachers and students, to artists, as well as the general public. Free access to this collection will help to promote Greek culture through our prehistoric heritage.

The Vaulted Tombs of Mesara: An Account of Some Early Cemeteries of Southern Crete (translated by J.P. Droop, with a preface by Sir Arthur Evans)
Stephanos Xanthoudides
London 1924

What are We Going to do About Hardware? << The Signal: Digital Preservation

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:57:13 +0000

On May 20-21, 2013, the Library of Congress hosted one in its series of small invitational digital content at-risk summits, this one on the topic of software preservation. “Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software” covered a wide range of topics around software preservation, every type of software and interactive media art and engaged multiple communities from software creators to curators. Details on the meeting are here.

Vintage TRS-80, photo by Leslie Johnston

While there will be later posts and detailed reports from the meeting, there was one topic that I kept considering and that came up at two other conferences that I attended this week: hardware preservation. I have long been part of the camp that was in favor of building collections of hardware, in part because I have seen the necessity of doing so for audio and video collections, where such hardware is vital for the replay of media for researchers or for digitization. While I have seen successful emulation projects, it seemed like a dream that we could potentially build so many emulators.

This week I had my mind changed.

It was really brought home for me the astonishing extent of hardware and lower level software infrastructure we would have to locate, restore, and keep running to run the application software needed to provide access to content files in our collections. It is a daunting task, and colleagues at institutions where they do collect hardware provided a reality check at this meeting as to what it takes.

I saw or heard about some exceptionally successful emulation projects this week. We were given a brief sneak peek at pilot for the Olive Executable Archive from Carnegie Mellon University, and were witness to fully playable Virtual Machines of games. The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is so successful a project, that, after 10 years, they have a short list of the games they cannot emulate. New York Public Library has been testing interactive visualizations of theatrical lighting design that run using files that are part of their Theatrical Lighting Database. The emscripten project provides a robust framework for emulation in the browser.

For some more recent and common environments–as well as common media format readers–we will almost certainly need to keep hardware running in our organizations to assist us in making preservation copies of media and files that we receive as part of our collection building. And we will need to provide such hardware in our reading rooms. There is a need. But I was convinced this week that emulation may serve our needs better than hardware, except for the need to read the media in our collections to preserve their content.

We cannot all become museums of computer hardware. There are wonderful organizations like the Computer History Museum, the National Museum of Computing, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, and the Centre for Computing History that serve that purpose well. And none of this diminishes my feeling that hardware should be collected and preserved. These are artifacts from our computing history. They are examples from the history of industrial design. They are part of my (and other’s) personal histories. When we display vintage hardware and media at our personal digital archiving events, they always attract a crowd and elicit many personal stories that help us engage with visitors about the management of their digital files. For all of those reasons I will continue to be an advocate for hardware preservation, but with a different endgame than I had in mind at the beginning of the week.

Day One at the Museum << Scott Moore (Ancient History Ramblings)

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:10 +0000

So, today Bill Caraher and I began work on the PKAP portion of our season. We visited the Larnaka District Archaeological Museum and met with the staff, and picked up the keys for its satellite storage facility, Terra Ombra – where our material is stored. Once we arrived, it was apparent that the museum staff had been doing a lot of work out there, everything was very neat and organized – which is not exactly how PKAP rolls. Our primary goal for the PKAP study season is to pull, wash (if needed), pre-sort, and weigh the Hellenistic ceramics for Brandon Olson to look at when he arrives on the island in a couple of weeks. The units we are looking at came from a large pottery dump excavated last season that appears to have been a clean-up of some sort – lots of the pots have burning. So, we first located the fruit crates containing the appropriate bags of pottery and moved the to a central processing location. In all, we moved 27 crates, each weighing about 25-30 pounds. Once we did that, we then started pre-sorting the material by pulling out all of the diagnostic sherds and weighing the remaining nondiagnostic sherds, utility and cooking wares. We were able to process 4 crates this morning, about 61 kilograms of material. While it is a small start, we still have 5/6 of the material to process, there are some intriguing patterns emerging.

This afternoon after we returned to the hotel, the sky clouded up and it cooled off a bit and was windy. Very unusual weather for Cyprus. Hopefully over the weekend I can begin looking for unusual flavors of potato chips to try so that I can continue my research in that growing field. A quick look around the local periptero was not encouraging, I mainly saw the flavors from last year. We are planning on going to a grocery store this weekend, so maybe I will have better luck there.

RSM

Open Access Journal: The Levantine Review << AMIR: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:42:54 +0000

[First posted in AMIR 14 June 2012. Updated 24 May 2013]

The Levantine Review: The Journal of Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at Boston College
ISSN: 2164-6678

The Editorial Board of The Levantine Review invites submissions for its forthcoming issues. A peer-reviewed electronic journal, The Levantine Review publishes scholarship (in English, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Syriac, and Levantine vernaculars) on the history, cultures, religions, politics, and the intellectual, philological, and literary traditions of the contemporary Levant and Near East. Authors are welcome to contact the editors prior to submitting manuscripts for consideration.
Vol 1, No 2 (2012)

Vol 1, No 1 (2012)

See the Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

IDN Email Bug in iOS Mail << Tom Gewecke (Multilingual Mac)

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Gewecke) — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:24:00 +0000

If you happen to have an email address that uses an International Domain Name (IDN), i.e. one which includes non-ASCII characters (like info@蓝天东.org), you will find that it's not possible to set up an account in iOS Mail, even when you use the Punycode/ascii version (info@xn--xhq32y7n9a.org in the case mentioned earlier). It just says the address is invalid and you cannot go further. You can,

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 5-24-13 << ASOR Blog (American Schools of Oriental Research)

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:44 +0000

An international team of researchers including Colorado State University professors Christopher Fisher and Stephen Leisz have been utilizing LiDAR technology to seek ancient settlements and human constructed landscapes in an area long rumoured to contain the legendary city of Ciudad Blanca – the mythical “White City” – in Central America.

Schoolchildren, pensioners and office workers are helping scholars at Oxford University to transcribe 2,000-year-old documents. The Ancient Lives project has enlisted thousands of internet users, who have already helped to transcribe more texts than diligent scholars had managed in the previous 100 years.

Ancient ivory carvings made by Phoenician artists some 3,000 years ago have long hidden a secret, even while being openly displayed in museums around the world: The sculptures were originally painted with colorful pigments, and some were decorated with gold.

The penalty for the near-total destruction of one of the biggest Mayan pyramids in Belize — which the government called “unforgivable” and left archaeologists speechless — may leave conservationists speechless: just $5,000.

A museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, has suspended the excavation of what is thought to be an imperial mausoleum following protests from archaeologists and the public. The department of archaeology at the Nanjing Museum admitted it plans to build a heritage park and a museum on the site of the mausoleum, and said it will further consult experts before putting forward new protection measures.

Nearly 5,000 ancient cave paintings have been discovered in Burgos, Mexico. The red, white, black and yellow images depict humans hunting, fishing and gathering, as well as animals such as deer, lizards and centipedes.

The eastern “panhandle” of the kingdom of Jordan is partly covered by a vast and rugged lava desert, the Harrat, covering about 11.400 km² (Fig. 1). Scoured by wind in winter and scorched dry by the sun in summer, the surface is covered by black basalt stones, making this area seem as uninviting, hostile and inaccessible as is imaginable. Nevertheless this modern day desolate desert proves to be as rich in archaeological heritage as one may wish.

“Who invented clothes?” It’s one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. It’s the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the spot about when chatting to kids, and we love to have a crack at answering.

Copper coins and a 70-year-old map with an “x” may lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history. Australian scientist Ian McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in the United States, plans an expedition in July that has stirred the archaeological community.

The care given to restore Ananda, one of signature temple of the ancient Burmese city of Bagan, to its original form is the exception. Hundreds of other monuments in the area have been subjected to what conservationists regard as historical treason.

Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt, Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eisa said. The soldier’s remains were discovered in a field that dates to the Late Roman Period and Early Middle Age near the border of Egypt and Nubia.

Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. But direct evidence of this hunting technique in early sites has been lacking. A new study of impact marks on the bones of ancient prey shows that such sophisticated killing techniques go back at least 90,000 years ago in Africa and offers a new method of determining how prehistoric hunters made their kills.

Heavy equipment belonging to a construction firm that is working on the long-expected Marmaray project — an undersea commuter train connecting İstanbul’s Asian and European sides – invaded an excavation site in Yenikapı and has damaged remnants dating back to the Neolithic Age.

The tiniest bones in the human body – the bones of the middle ear – could provide huge clues about our evolution and the development of modern-day humans, according to a study by a team of researchers that include a Texas A&M University anthropologist.

An ancient log-boat – which could be thousands of years old – has been discovered in the banks of the river Boyne. An initial examination by underwater archaeologist Karl Brady suggests it could be very rare because, unlike other log-boats found here, it has oval shapes on the upper edge which could have held oars.

Municipal authorities have ordered a temporary stop of work on a construction site in the area of a protected archaeology site along Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The ongoing rapid construction was apparently started just ahead of Sunday’s early general elections in Bulgaria, and raised among an outcry among environmentalists and the general public.

Archaeologists are to explore the remains of a Roman naval base in Cumbria in the hope of finding evidence of a civilian settlement from more than 1,800 years ago.

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Choosing Crowdsourced Transcription Platforms at SSA 2013 << Ben Brumfield (Collaborative Manuscript Transcription)

noreply@blogger.com (Ben W. Brumfield) — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:14:00 +0000

This is a transcript of my talk at the Society of Southwestern Archivists 2013 Annual Meeting.

This talk is about choosing a crowdsourced transcription platform, but "choosing" means a couple of things. "Choosing" means which, and "choosing" can mean whether-- should you do this at all?. I'd like to address the last and give a little background on crowdsourcing and transcription before I go into any kind of discussion of tool selection.

So the first question is, why transcribe? Because, after all, there are a lot of different crowdsourcing projects that are not transcription. You can do georectification. There are a lot of people doing tagging. After I'm done talking, Micah Erwin is going to give a presentation on his pretty amazing work doing crowdsourced identification of items within their collection. So why transcribe?

One reason to transcribe, is that many of us face a problem. Which is that if you have scanned documents, you have a problem:

Now what? The fundamental problem with this is that nobody's going to read it. Nobody's going to read this, because nobody's going to find it. Because Google cannot index handwritten materials. These are pixels; these aren't data -- they aren't words to search engines.

So all the serendipity that you get in the Internet age from search engines is not useful to you. Once you get these transcribed, you get the opportunity to connect with people who find you by searching for, say, their own name, and discover that you have material that contains their great-grandfather, who they're named after.

One of my most active volunteers is transcribing a diary that was written by someone he's not related to. He found out about the project because he is named after the diarist's mailman.

So why crowdsource, rather than doing all this transcription yourself?

Well, one argument is that it's free labor! You're getting people to do your work for you! This is a very powerful argument, and many of you may find it a very useful argument with your management. It may even be an argument for putting material online that you wouldn't otherwise.

Unfortunately, that's not true. It take a lot of effort to run a crowdsourcing project.

Now, I'm an open source developer, and in the open source world we tend to differentiate between "free as in beer" or "free as in speech".

Crowdsourcing projects are really "free as in puppy". The puppy is free, but you have to take care of it; you have to do a lot of work. Because volunteers that are participating in these things don't like being ignored. They don't like having their work lost. They're doing something that they feel is meaningful and engaging with you, therefore you need to make sure their work is meaningful and engage with them.

So if free labor isn't the reason for crowdsourcing, why do a crowdsourcing project?

One of the most interesting perspectives on this comes from Trevor Owens at the Library of Congress. He wrote a blog post last spring called "Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives are Upside Down", in which he looked at the experience of volunteers participating in these crowdsourcing projects. And he says that fundamentally, this isn't about getting free labor from the public. This is about offering people a brand new and deeper way to interact with your collections: getting them to produce knowledge. Getting them to engage more deeply with the material you put online more deeply than just a consumer experience of scanning through things.

One example of that I'd like to give is a citizen science project. The North American Bird Phenology Program is a crowdsourcing project that is inviting the public to transcribe bird observation cards that were made by amateur bird watchers a hundred years ago, over the course of about seventy years.

Now, I tried this project out because I'm interested in transcription tools. I'm not interested in birds. But as I was going through marking up these observations cards from these different observers, I'm not really quite sitting at my computer anymore -- I'm deeply immersed within the documents.

And suddenly, I'm sitting with these guys, who are sitting and writing up their observations.

So you have this opportunity to engage people very deeply -- to immerse them in your materials by offering them this kind of way of participating.

One of the examples that I like to use was a collaboration between me and Kathryn Stallard at Southwestern University--raise your hand, please Kathryn--in which she put online a diary of the Mexican-American War. One volunteer--before we had even announced the project--went online and transcribed the entire diary. But he didn't just transcribe it--he didn't just type what he saw. He went back and made multiple revisions. He corrected things. He identified names of materials and locations and battles. He did research on the life histories of the people who were mentioned there.

This is not a consumer experience -- it's a way of pulling people into your materials. And yes, Kathryn did get a transcript out of the results. But I'm not sure that that was more valuable than the experience that Scott Patrick got going through transcribing, researching, and immersing himself within this diary of this Texan soldier.

So why crowdsource? So if you're bringing people into this experience--you're engaging members of the public who may live hundreds of miles away from your institution--what you're doing is converting them from site visitors into another kind of relationship with your institution and with your materials.

Paul Flemons at the Atlas of Living Australia--the Australia Museum--describes it this way: Fundamentally, by engaging the public in digitizing their collections, they're educating the public and satisfying that part of their mission. They are providing increased access to their collections that they would not have, again, with just images. But most importantly, they're building an advocacy network for their collections, for their institution, for their discipline.

So, if crowdsourcing is a way to convert site visitors into volunteers, and to convert volunteers into advocates, what's next?

I'm not sure--this is all very new--but we're exploring this. I'm working with an archives that possesses a popular author's drafts, and they're starting a crowdsourced transcription project. Part of what we're trying to do with that is linking the transcription and the transcripts to a donation campaign that is designated for digitizing more of their material.

So, we don't know--I'd love to come back next year and tell you how it worked out--but I'm really interested to see if we can create a virtuous cycle among digitization, crowdsourcing, fundraising that funds digitization, and on back. I would love to see this [succeed].

Okay, so how do you choose a platform? I'm a software developer, and I usually get up here and say, well, you could use this tool or this tool or this tool. Unfortunately, there are a lot of tools, so I'm not going to stand up here and walk you through thirty tools; I'm not even going to talk about the two that I've been building.

What I want to talk about instead are thing to consider when you're selecting a tool. I group selection factors into four categories. One of them is what kind of source material you're working with. Another is the purpose of the transcripts -- what you are going to use those for, and maybe what the public are going to use those for. Then there's the fit within your organization, then technical resources considerations.

So you really need to think about what source material you're working with before you choose your platform. People dealing with medieval manuscripts may want to work with a program which was developed for medieval manuscripts. That program may be totally unsuitable for nineteenth-century letters. So you really have to figure out what you're putting online first. (Fortunately, most of the people in this room are already starting with scans -- with things they've already digitized.)

There are a lot of other factors here, but what I really want to drive home is that there are fits between particular materials and particular tools, because there is no "one size fits all" tool for transcription.

The purpose: how are you going to be using the data? Are you going to be analyzing it? The people who are tracking these bird observations really want a searchable database that they can go through and do climate change and habitat change analysis on. People in this room may be more interested in extracting the subjects--the person names and place names that are mentioned within the documents. But there are a lot of different uses, so you need to think about that.

So how does this fit within your organization? There are platforms here which can be used behind closed walls. So maybe you have students who you want to give the job of transcribing, and you don't even want the public to be involved. Your goal is to improve undergraduate education by getting history students to interact with primary documents. Maybe, on the other hand, you really want to cast as wide a net as possible to engage people way outside your institution, and no one within your institution really cares about this particular material you have.

How long is the project going to last? Traditionally, crowdsourcing projects work well with the sorts of organic institutions that most people here [represent]. They work more poorly where they are, say, funded by a one-year grant -- where after a year of building up a community and working on the material, suddenly it's pencils down; lights off!

The final set of considerations are the financial and technical resources, which unfortunately may overwhelm all the other considerations.

I was talking to an archivist at a library in Belgium last month who had a set of medieval manuscripts and wanted to use T-PEN, a tool which was built specifically for medieval manuscripts. She knew all about it; she loved it. But her material was in Omeka; the tool didn't work with Omeka; so she was going to use Scripto. Which is a great tool, but it just supports plain text transcripts, which isn't really suited for the material. She knew that, but her material was here [gestures], so that was directing her decision.

I think that's a shame, but it's unfortunately an important factor. People don't want to have to set up multiple systems. If you have all your material in ContentDM, you don't really want step one [of a crowdsourcing project] to be get it all back out again.

All of these tools require some customization and some technical experience to get set up and running, so you need to consider whether you have people on-site who can do that or can pay people off-site who can do that. And then there are all the digital preservation issues, which everyone here understands very well.

So rather than going through the tools, I want to direct you to a Google document which has been contributed to by about twenty-four people who have added their own projects, explaining whether their tools support TEI or EAD, whether they support mark-up that's semantic or genetic, what their platforms are, what their rates are -- things like that.

So this TranscriptionToolGDoc is something I recommend. I love having conversations about this, so send me email and we'll brainstorm about projects.

iTanakh Update << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:41 +0000

iTanakh

Welcome to the work in progress that is the all-new incarnation of iTanakh! It’s well past time for iTanakh to get a facelift, to move from static HTML pages to a more dynamic database structure, and to implement social features like rating and commenting on links. It will take some time for me to migrate old links to the new structure (if you’d like to volunteer to help, please e-mail cheard at pepperdine dot edu), so please be patient! In the meantime, you can still access the classic iTanakh interface here.

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Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Digital at MENADoc << AMIR: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Andreas Neumann) — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:41:53 +0000

[First posted in AMIR 5 January 2011. Updated 24 May 2013]

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Digital

The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen which is published by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag since 1970 is one of the outstanding publications of Islamic studies in Germany. Klaus Schwarz Verlag and Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle plan to publish digital versions of titles that are no longer available in print in the electronic fulltext repository MENAdoc of the Middle East Virtual Library MENALIB in the future. 10 titles have been digitised in April 2009 and are being made available in a first step towards a more comprehensive presentation of Islamkundliche Untersuchungen on the WWW.
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196 volumes of the series are currently available

ARIADNE - archaeological research data infrastructure << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:54:19 +0000

ARIADNE

ARIADNE brings together and integrates existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology. There is now a large availablity of archaeological digital datasets that all together span different periods, domains and regions; more are continuously created as a result of the increasing use of IT. The are the accumulated outcome of the research of individuals, teams and institutions, but form a vast and fragmented corpus and their potential has been constrained by difficult access and non-homogenous perspectives.

Ariadne will enable trans-national access of researchers to data centres, tools and guidance, and the creation of new Web-based services based on common interfaces to data repositories, availability of reference datasets and usage of innovative technologies. It will stimulate new research avenues in the field of archaeology, relying on the comparison, re-use and integration into current research of the outcomes of past and on-going field and laboratory activity. Such data are scattered amongst diverse collections, datasets, unpublished fieldwork reports (grey literature), and in publications. The latter still being the main source of knowledge sharing. Ariadne will contribute to the creation of a new community of researchers ready to exploit the contribution of Information Technology and to incorporate it in the body of established archaeological research methodology.

To achieve this result the project will use a number of integrating technologies that build on common features of the currently available datasets, and on integrating actions that will build a vibrant community of use.

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Friday Varia and Quick Hits << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:27:59 +0000

It feels much earlier (or later?) than 7 am right now as I push through jet lag to prepare another little spread of quick hits and varia for my readers. To continue where I left off on Wednesday, William Gibson describes jet lag in his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition as “the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythms.” That may be a bit overwrought, but it feels sort of accurate this morning.

An owl in Athens.
A couple articles by Joanna Smith and Szymon Rusinkiewicz on using and producing 3D models at Polis on Cyprus here and here.
Along similar lines, this is really funny and critically essay on the problem with state birds.
This is a cool faculty research seminar at my alma mater.
This is a ringing endorsement for peer review. (via Dimitri Nakassis). Is this really the best that the world can do right now?
MOOCs and the end of reform.
How to cite social media in MLA and APA style.
No go zones for Soviet citizens during the cold war.
Neil Gaiman and Kyle Cassidy discuss creativity.
Top 50 Oil and Gas people to follow on Twitter.
Follow the adventures of Kyle Cassidy and Bret Weber in the the Bakken this weekend on Twitter at #OilCampsND.
Great Deadspin article on how UND can lose its mind over little things.
What I’m listening to: Daft Punk, Random Access Memory; The National, Trouble Will Find Me.
What I’m reading: Polis and PKAP Notebooks.

Getting Acclimated << Scott Moore (Ancient History Ramblings)

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:07 +0000

Today was a down day to catch up on things after my travel to Cyprus. Surprisingly, jet lag has not been a problem. I was able to catch up on some research work and some departmental work, so it was a productive day. I also spent some time walking around the Larnaka waterfront and noticed very few changes, almost all of the stores and restaurants are still there. In fact, the were some additions, most noticeably a place where you can sit and put your feet in a tank for fish to cleanse and massage.

I also managed to find time to have an excellent souvlaki for lunch, as usual, and all in all it was actually a sort of relaxing day. This past semester was a bit hectic and it is nice to be able to slow down and catch my breath. Bill arrived tonite, and we will head out to the museum tomorrow morning to start processing our ceramics from last year.

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Open Access Journal: Gerda Henkel Stiftung: Jahresbericht << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:06 +0000

Gerda Henkel Stiftung: Jahresbericht

Die Gerda Henkel Stiftung wurde im Juni 1976 von Frau Lisa Maskell zum Gedenken an ihre Mutter Gerda Henkel als gemeinnützige Stiftung des privaten Rechts mit Sitz in Düsseldorf errichtet. Ausschließlicher Stiftungszweck ist die Förderung der Wissenschaft, vornehmlich durch bestimmte fachlich und zeitlich begrenzte Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Geisteswissenschaft an Universitäten und Forschungsinstituten. Die Weiterbildung graduierter Studenten ist ein besonderes Anliegen der Stiftung.

Die Förderungen der Gerda Henkel Stiftung gelten den Historischen Geisteswissenschaften, vorrangig der Geschichtswissenschaft, der Archäologie, der Kunstgeschichte und historischen Teildisziplinen. Die Stiftung ist in Deutschland und international tätig.

The Gerda Henkel Foundation was established in 1976 by Lisa Maskell (1914 - 1998) in memory of her mother Gerda Henkel. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, the Gerda Henkel Foundation is a charitable organisation under private law that is independent of today's Henkel Group. The Foundation supports national and international academic projects in the following subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, History of Law, and Pre- and Protohistory. The Foundation is active both inside and outside Germany.
Jahresbericht 2012
Der Jahresbericht 2012 informiert über die laufenden Programme der Stiftung und stellt ausgewählte im Jahr 2012 neu in die Förderung aufgenommene und abgeschlossene Forschungsarbeiten vor.
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Jahresbericht 2011
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REFEMA: Rôle Économique des Femmes en Mésopotamie Ancienne << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:17:28 +0000

Carnet de REFEMA

Le “Carnet de REFEMA” est un carnet de recherche et un outil de travail destiné à faciliter les échanges et à rendre compte des étapes et résultats d’une recherche collective entamée en 2012: celle du programme franco-japonais en SHS consacré au “Rôle Économique des Femmes en Mésopotamie Ancienne” (REFEMA, projet CHORUS soutenu par l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR] et la Société Japonaise pour la Promotion de la Science [JSPS]). Cette recherche concerne plusieurs aspects de l’histoire économique et sociale de l’Antiquité proche-orientale, étudiée à partir des sources disponibles en écriture cunéiforme.
The “Carnet of REFEMA” is a research blog and a working tool to facilitate exchanges and to report on steps and results of a collective research project: the Japanese French project devoted since 2012 to the “Economic Role of Women in Ancient Mesopotamia “(REFEMA, CHORUS project supported by the French National Research Agency [ANR] and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JSPS]). This research concerns various aspects of the social and economic history of the ancient Near East, studied from available cuneiform sources.
「REFEMA研究メモ」は、2012年、日本学術振興会：二国間交流事業共同研究によるフランス国立研究機関（ANR）との共同研究「古代メソポタミアにおける女性の経済的役割」（Le Rôle Économique des Femmes en Mésopotamie Ancienne = REFEMA）の情報交換の場として、また進行状況や研究結果を報告する場として作成された。本研究は、楔形文字史料を用いた古代メソポタミア社会経済史に関する研究である。

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Open Access Journal: Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:44:01 +0000

[First posted in AWOL 21 February 2012. Updated 23 May 2013]

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (at Persée) [Accessible also at CEFAEL]

Publié tout d'abord en plusieurs livraisons annuelles, le BCH se structure en deux fascicules semestriels à partir de 1920. Le premier réunit des études et des articles de synthèse et le second rassemble principalement le rapport sur les travaux de l’Ecole française d’Athènes et rend compte des chroniques des fouilles et des découvertes archéologiques faites en Grèce et à Chypre. La Chronique des fouilles en Grèce et à Chypre constituent des instruments de travail irremplaçables, assurant une large diffusion à la revue. Doté d'un comité de lecture, le BCH est largement ouvert aux savants étrangers et publie des articles dans les grandes langues européennes.

Paraît depuis 1877 ; il succède au Bulletin de l'École française d'Athènes (1868-1871)

1877-1879
1877 : [ 1 ]
1878 : [ 2 ]
1879 : [ 3 ]
1880-1889
1880 : [ 4 ]
1881 : [ 5 ]
1882 : [ 6 ]
1883 : [ 7 ]
1884 : [ 8 ]
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1886 : [ 10 ]
1887 : [ 11 ]
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1890 : [ 14 ]
1891 : [ 15 ]
1892 : [ 16 ]
1893 : [ 17 ]
1894 : [ 18 ] [ Tab ]
1895 : [ 19 ]
1896 : [ 20 ]
1897 : [ 21 ]
1898 : [ 22 ] [ Suppl. ]
1899 : [ 23 ]
1900-1909
1900 : [ 24 ]
1901 : [ 25 ]
1902 : [ 26 ]
1903 : [ 27 ]
1904 : [ 28 ]
1905 : [ 29 ]
1906 : [ 30 ]
1907 : [ 31 ]
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1910 : [ 34 ]
1911 : [ 35 ]
1912 : [ 36 ]
1913 : [ 37 ]
1914 : [ 38 ]
1915 : [ 39 ]
1916 : [ 40 ]
1917 : [ 41-43 ]
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1920 : [ 44 ]
1921 : [ 45 ]
1922 : [ 46 ]
1923 : [ 47 ]
1924 : [ 48 ]
1925 : [ 49 ]
1926 : [ 50 ]
1927 : [ 51 ]
1928 : [ 52 ]
1929 : [ 53 ]
1930-1939
1930 : [ 54 ]
1931 : [ 55 ]
1932 : [ 56 ]
1933 : [ 57 ]
1934 : [ 58 ]
1935 : [ 59 ]
1936 : [ 60 ]
1937 : [ 61 ]
1938 : [ 62 ]
1939 : [ 63 ]
1940-1949
1940 : [ 64-65 ]
1942 : [ 66-67 ]
1944 : [ 68-69 ]
1946 : [ 70 ]
1947 : [ 71-72 ]
1948 : [ Suppl. ]
1949 : [ 73 ]
1950-1959
1950 : [ 74 ]
1951 : [ 75 ]
1952 : [ 76 ]
1953 : [ 77 ]
1954 : [ 78 ]
1955 : [ 79 ]
1956 : [ 80 ]
1957 : [ 81 ]
1958 : [ 82 ]
1959 : [ 83-1 ] [ 83-2 ]
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1961 : [ 85 ]
1962 : [ 86-1 ] [ 86-2 ]
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1970 : [ 94-1 ] [ 94-2 ]
1971 : [ 95-1 ] [ 95-2 ]
1972 : [ 96-1 ] [ 96-2 ]
1973 : [ 97-1 ] [ 97-2 ] [ Suppl 1 ]
1974 : [ 98-1 ] [ 98-2 ]
1975 : [ 99-1 ] [ 99-2 ] [ Suppl 2 ]
1976 : [ 100-1 ] [ 100-2 ] [ Suppl 3 ]
1977 : [ 101-1 ] [ 101-2 ] [ Suppl 4 ]
1978 : [ 102-1 ] [ 102-2 ]
1979 : [ 103-1 ] [ 103-2 ]
1980-1989
1980 : [ 104-1 ] [ 104-2 ] [ Suppl 6 ]
1981 : [ 105-1 ] [ 105-2 ] [ Suppl 7 ]
1982 : [ 106-1 ] [ 106-2 ]
1983 : [ 107-1 ] [ 107-2 ] [ 8 ]
1984 : [ 108-1 ] [ 108-2 ] [ Suppl ]
1985 : [ 109-1 ] [ 109-2 ] [ 10 ] [ Suppl 11 ]
1986 : [ 110-1 ] [ 110-2 ]
1987 : [ 111-1 ] [ 111-2 ]
1988 : [ 112-1 ] [ 112-2 ]
1989 : [ 113-1 ] [ 113-2 ]
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1990 : [ 114-1 ] [ 114-2 ]
1991 : [ 115-1 ] [ 115-2 ]
1992 : [ 116-1 ] [ 116-2 ]
1993 : [ 117-1 ] [ 117-2 ]
1994 : [ 118-1 ] [ 118-2 ]
1995 : [ 119-1 ] [ 119-2 ] [ 119-3 ]
1996 : [ 120-1 ] [ 120-2 ] [ 120-3 ]
1997 : [ 121-1 ] [ 121-2 ]
1998 : [ 122-1 ] [ 122-2 ]
1999 : [ 123-1 ] [ 123-2 ]

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2000 : [ 124-1 ] [ 124-2 ]

2001 : [ 125-1 ] [ 125-2 ]

2002 : [ 126-1 ] [ 126-2 ]

2003 : [ 127-1 ]

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End of Semester Thoughts and Farewells << The Signal: Digital Preservation

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:01 +0000

The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, former intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress

Plunging Bronco, by Erwin E. Smith (1909). Wikimedia Commons.

For the past semester I have been working with NDIIPP learning the tools of the trade, creating resources, and crafting fun blog posts (or at least trying). Sad to say, the semester is over. Yes, loyal readers, it is time for me to doff my hat and hit the old dusty trail. Yet, it wouldn’t be a complete ride-off-into-the-sunset-moment without an impassioned speech that tied the whole story together, so here goes.

Tess’s long and dramatic speech on the importance of digital stewardship:

Our records are important. It’s a simple statement, but a point worth delving into. Records are important from a financial perspective (such as taxes, purchases, etc.), from a legal perspective (proof of ownership, deeds, etc.), from a historic perspective and familial perspective (genealogy, general warm and fuzziness). However, there is another aspect to the necessity of records. They foster democracy.

Recently, my graduate school had a conference with the speaker Dr. Trudy Huskamp Peterson, former acting archivist of the United States and archivist for the United Nations high commissioner on refugees. She discussed the use of archives, specifically in places that had previously encountered civil unrest – the Balkans in the late 1990s, Somalia, Guatamala. In the aftermath of war, revolution or civic tumult, there are several questions both institutions and individuals ask to achieve any sort of normalcy. What happened? Why did it happen? How did it happen? How can we prevent this from happening again? Victims of violent action and their families have a right to answers and the archival community has a duty to preserve the records which provide the answers. In these instances preservation is a tool of social justice, providing voices for the voiceless and agency for the victims. Alex Boraine, a South African politician following the end of apartheid, said it better than I ever could: “It is necessary to turn the page of history, but first we need to read that page.”

So, how does this relate to the role of digital stewardship? What does this have in common with digital preservation? Plenty. Internationally, cell phone videos have documented protests, civilian executions and other atrocities. War tribunals and genocide trials can use these pieces of evidence, and more, to convict the guilty, and provide reparation and solace for the victims and their families. In these instances, preserving the data is noble, even dangerous.

This is why I first wanted to become an archivist; it’s also why I wanted to become a digital archivist. I wanted to help right the wrongs of history and give voices to the voiceless. To do that, we need to be able to access the evidence that we create digitally. If we can’t do that basic task, then we cannot hope to do anything further. Assuring that we have authentic digital archives, therefore, is a way to ensure that there can be accountability in the long term.

Working here at NDIIPP has only confirmed the nobility of digital stewardship. For example, one of the digital stewardship programs here at NDIIPP ensures democracy by providing for the longevity of born digital government records. Another program does the same with public records. In my time here at NDIIPP, I have been overwhelmed by the opportunities presented to do lasting good.

TL/DR

Well, that’s the end of my speech. I have truly enjoyed my time here at NDIIPP and hope that you all liked my blog posts. (And keep an eye out for a couple more that may pop up from time to time.)

As always, I wish you all safe data.

Of Captions, Clerics, and Queens: Tweeting the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript << Juan Garcés (Digitised Manuscripts Blog)

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:03:54 +0000

And now for something a bit different: a guest post from one of our most faithful Twitter correspondents, Robert Miller (many thanks, Robert!). From LOLcats to the seductive Hey-Girl-I-Like-the-Library-Too musings of Ryan Gosling, the internet was made for captioning: slapping a surprising phrase on an unsuspecting image in the service...

iPads in the Field and Reflections on Archaeology’s Digital Future << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:46 +0000

This is a post that might appear sometime in the next little bit on the ASOR Blog!

This past summer my excavation on Cyprus experimented with using iPads to document our excavations in the field. Since 2003, I have co-direct the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project with Prof. R. Scott Moore of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Prof. David K. Pettegrew of Messiah College. Over this time, the three of us designed our archaeological methods, in-field procedures, and data structure. During the 2012 season, we embraced the opportunity to test and refine a web application developed by Prof. Sam Fee at Washington and Jefferson College. Messiah College generously loaned us the iPads. Our trench supervisors and excavators embraced the experiment. And Sam was willing to work within with our existing data structure, databases, and ontologies.

By iPad standards, the cleverly named PKApp was simple in design. It drew upon relatively little of the iPad’s sophisticated hardware or processing power. We did not have the resources or the funding to develop a robust server-side or mobile digital infrastructure. In fact, the simplicity of our application’s design and the limited resources available to our project is probably the most significant aspect of our work. If a small and otherwise unremarkable project can develop a bespoke iPad application, it prompts us to consider how the techniques, procedures, and methods used to collect archaeological data are no long just the purview of digital project or technophile excavators. Digital archaeology is no long a particular subset of archaeological practice, but fundamentally coterminous with careful documentation in the field.

That we could develop and deploy an application demonstrates that we have officially entered a period of rapid technological change for archaeological data collection. Mobile computing has well and truly begun to replace old fashioned pen and paper notebooks. Responses to this change range from nearly unbridled enthusiasm to concerns about how the technology actually works and how our current infrastructure will continue to adapt to rapidly growing digital archives.

Here are my three thoughts along these lines:

1. Practical Realities.

Sam Fee presents the technical details for our application in the March 2013 issue of Near Eastern Archaeology. From the user’s perspective, however, the application is straightforward and uncomplicated. It provides places to enter the basic data collected over the course of excavation as well as open text fields to record descriptions of the stratigraphy and features.

The application ran on iPad tablets, but could have run on any tablet computer (or laptops) with only some small tweaks. The iPad proved durable and effective in the field. The screens held up against the glare of the Mediterranean sun, and the batteries survived the rigors of a full field day without any issues. The application worked flawlessly as well, collecting data entered by student and depositing it nightly in a designated email account.

Just to be certain, we continued to document our trenches on paper forms. This made sure that we had a complete record of our trenches in the event of a technology failure. None occurred.

2. Methods and Procedures.

The most remarkable thing about collecting data in a digital form at the side of the trench is that we have much better control over the quality of data that our trench supervisors records. We can control the entries into the database to ensure, for example, that soil descriptions are done according to standard Munsell categories, we can prevent anyone from incorrectly numbering a stratigraphic unit, or we can ensure that trench supervisors record elevations in an appropriate format. This ability to smooth data on the side the of the trench and to avoid problematic entries improved the quality of data from the moment that we began to use the application.

At the same time, however, we created an environment where the trench supervisor typed his trench descriptions. For most academics typing – even on the cramped, on-screen keyboard of the iPad – is at least as fast as writing so speed of recording was not an issue. What did pose a challenge was understanding how a typed record of a trench might differ from a handwritten record. We noticed for example that it was easier to delete a description that proved to be incorrect or inaccurate than it would be in a notebook. In fact, as many projects, we encouraged trench supervisors to strike through mistakes in their notebooks and forms to preserve a record of how their thinking changed over time and to share scratch paper and even informal notes prepared in the field. When a trench supervisor deletes a record that change is gone. Technical details like this gave us pause as we considered how digital tools could inadvertently change the kind of data we record from the field.

3. Digital Archives.

Once we produced data in digital form, we had to think hard about how we plan to preserve it for future generations of researchers. Traditional archives exist for the preservation of paper and pen documentation, and while a new generation of digital archives has begun to emerge, the standards and technologies needed to preserve and make available digital records remains in flux. We haven’t necessarily settled on a digital repository for our data, but we will almost certainly save our data to a number of institutional repositories.

The need to have a long term digital archive, however, is just part of the issues surrounding born-digital data in archaeology. With born-digital data, the process of archiving goes from being something that occurs at the very end of the project to an ongoing concern. Each day on PKAP, for example, we sent the data recorded on the iPads to a cloud service for archiving. For the daily archive, we sent our data directly from the iPad to the commonplace service of Gmail. The data was then accessible to the project directors who could back it up on their laptops and create multiple copies ensuring that our excavation data almost simultaneously exited in multiple places. This was a satisfactory and free short term solution, but hardly a long term step to ensuring a persistent record of our work.

The remarkable thing about our use of iPads, development of a web application, creation of methods and procedures to facilitate data collection, and use of a digital archive is that none of us on the project – except Sam Fee – are “digital archaeologists”. Despite our only rudimentary familiarity with the complexities of application development and implementation, the entire experiment was remarkably painless, low cost, and produced results that were better and more secure in most ways than our use of pens and paper. The democratization of digital data collection in archaeology marks a sea change in how the field works in basic ways. Digital tools are no long the domain of sophisticated projects with substantial budgets and dedicated specialists, but there for any project willing to create strategic alliances and to take the plunge. As I noted at the top of this blog post, the days of digital data capture in archaeology are no long in the future, but upon us.

Hestia2 seminar: registration open << Tom Brughmans (Archaeological Network Analysis)

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:52 +0000

The Hestia project is pleased to announce “HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources”, a one-day seminar on spatial network analysis and linked data in Classical studies, archaeology and cultural heritage.

The seminar will be held at The University of Southampton on 18 July. Registration for this event is free, but we do recommend registering as early as possible since the number of available places is limited. More information, including abstracts and registration, can be found on The Connected Past website.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Southampton!

Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans

HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources

University of Southampton 18th July 2013
Organisers: Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans
In collaboration with The Connected Past

A free one-day seminar on spatial network analysis in archaeology, history, classics, teaching and commercial archaeology.

Spatial relationships appear throughout our sources about the past: from the ancient roads that connect cities, or ancient authors mentioning political alliances between places, to the stratigraphic contexts archaeologists deal with in their fieldwork. However, as datasets about the past become increasingly large, spatial relationships become ever more difficult to disentangle. Network visualization and analysis allow us to address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly. This seminar aims to explore the potential of these innovative techniques for research in the higher education, public and cultural heritage sectors.

The seminar is part of Hestia2, a public engagement project aimed at introducing a series of conceptual and practical innovations to the spatial reading and visualisation of texts. Following on from the AHRC-funded initiative ‘Network, Relation, Flow: Imaginations of Space in Herodotus’s Histories’ (Hestia), Hestia2 represents a deliberate shift from experimenting with geospatial analysis of a single text to making Hestia’s outcomes available to new audiences and widely applicable to other texts through a seminar series, online platform, blog and learning materials with the purpose of fostering knowledge exchange between researchers and non-academics, and generating public interest and engagement in this field.

Registration

Registration for this event is now open. Please follow the instructions on the HESTIA2 Eventbrite page to obtain your ticket (no payment card needed).

The HESTIA2 seminar is free to attend but registration is required. Since places are limited we suggest you register as soon as possible.

Programme

11:00 Registration and coffee
11:30 HESTIA-team

Welcome and introduction to HESTIA and HESTIA2

12:00 Maximilian Schich (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Topography and Topology: Towards common ground in archaeological research

12:25 Alex Godden (Hampshire County Council)

Historic Environment Records: New ways of looking for the past

12:50 John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey)

Ordnance Survey and Linked Data

13:15 Discussion
13:35 Tea and coffee break
13:55 Terhi Nurmikko (University of Southampton)

“To survey the land, he left his city” and other proverbs: Mapping ancient Mesopotamia from cuneiform inscriptions

14:20 Kate Byrne (University of Edinburgh)

Geoparsing and spatial network analysis in the GAP projects

14:45 Giorgio Uboldi (Politecnico di Milano)

Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social Networks in the Humanities

15:10 Discussion
15:35 Tea and coffee break
16:00 Keith May (English Heritage)

Exploring the Use of Semantic Technologies for Cross-Search of Archaeological Grey Literature and Data

16:25 Paul Cripps (University of South Wales)

GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources

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Modern Ways the Deceased are Memorialized << Katy Meyers (Bones Don't Lie)

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:23 +0000

The dead are treated and remembered in a range of ways from a simple burial in the old family graveyard to more epic modern treatments like being cremated and shot into outer space. How we interact with our deceased and what occurs during mourning are determined by a range of social, religious, political and personal … Continue reading »

MUDIRA: MUnich DIgital Research Archives << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:09:38 +0000

MUDIRA: MUnich DIgital Research Archives

MUnich DIgital Research Archives ist ein im Frühjahr 2012 gestartetes Gemeinschaftsprojekt des Instituts für Ägyptologie der LMU München und des Staatlichen Museums Ägyptischer Kunst München (SMÄK), in welchem die umfangreichen Bildbestände beider Institutionen zu Altägypten digitalisiert und zugänglich gemacht werden. In der ersten (auf 2 bis 3 Jahre angelegten) Projektphase werden etwa 30.000 als Kleinbild-Diapositive vorliegende Originalaufnahmen aus Ägypten sowie von Beständen ägyptischer Museen und Sammlungen professionell gescannt und im Rahmen einer durch die IT-Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften (ITG) der LMU erstellten Datenbank online präsentiert. Ziele des Projektes sind die Erleichterung des Zugangs zu den Bildern, die wissenschaftliche Aufbereitung der dazugehörenden Informationen sowie letztendlich der Erhalt der oftmals wissenschaftshistorisch bedeutsamen Abbildungen auf einem zeitgemäßen Speichermedium. Der UNI DIA Verlag hat zudem seine knapp 6.000 Bilder zu Altägypten in digitalisierter Form zur Verfügung gestellt. Diese Bilder sind bereits komplett bearbeitet und abrufbar. In einem zweiten Schritt soll dann die Glasplattensammlung des Münchner Ägyptologischen Instituts digitalisiert und aufbereitet werden.

Open Access Library: Trismegistos << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:57:26 +0000

[First posted in AWOL 16 September 2009. Most recently updated 22 May 2013]

Trismegistos

Trismegistos [TM], called after the famous epithet of Hermes - Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing who also played a major role in Greek religion and philosophy, is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of texts from the ancient world, particularly late period Egypt and the Nile valley (roughly BC 800 - 800 AD).
The core component of TM is Trismegistos Texts, currently counting 165893 entries. When the database was created in 2005, it focused on providing information (metadata) on published papyrological documents from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Chronological boundaries are always artificial, and the nature of the sources soon suggested that BC 800 and AD 800 were more suited. Since egyptology does not know a disciplinary boundary between papyri and inscriptions, TM also decided to expand by adding all epigraphic material as well. Papyrology on the other hand includes also writing tablets from outside Egypt, which led us to widen our geographical scope to the entire ancient world. Finally, since the distinction between published and unpublished is increasingly less productive in a digital environment, we now no longer discriminate in that respect either. In principle, however, we still provide only metadata.
This means that Trismegistos increasingly wants to be a platform where information can be found about all texts from antiquity, thus facilitating cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research. This will of course only be possible through cooperation with all players in the field, since our aim is to lead people to the partner websites, where more information, often including also photographs, transliterations and translations of the texts, can be found.
Several aspects of the Texts database have been elaborated in the course of successive projects (see History) and have become separate databases linked with the core Trismegistos Texts database.
The Collections database, built on the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections, is a set of currently 2530 modern institutional and private collections of texts and their 123,524 inventory numbers. It is searchable both separately and in the Texts database.
The Archives database, built on the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Archives, is a set of currently 464 collections of texts in antiquity, mainly in Egypt, and the 16,461 texts that are part of these archives. It is searchable separately, leading to the texts themselves.
The People database, building on the Prosopographia Ptolemaica, is a complex set of prosopographical and onomastic databases. It currently contains 458,045 attestations of personal names of non-royal individuals living in Egypt between BC 800 and AD 800, including all languages and scripts and written on any surface.
The Places database, expanding the geographic database of the Fayum project, is a set of currently 14,197 places in (and some outside) Egypt. It contains the currently 113,927 toponyms attested in texts from Egypt (BC 800 – AD 800), but is also linked to the provenance field in Trismegistos Texts.
Finally, because abbreviations are often different in the various disciplines, we have also started creating a Bibliography which resolves many of the short references we use in Trismegistos. The other way round it also wants to facilitate the search for all texts in a specific publication. Its coverage is patchy except for the publications dealing with Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic, where the Demotistische Literaturübersicht provides a much higher standard of bibliographic information.

Trismegistos
Staff

TM Info
Introduction
Current Coverage
Partners
Languages and scripts
Stable Identifiers
History
Add a new text
Help us!

Trismegistos Online Publications (TOP)

This series, edited by W. Clarysse (K.U.Leuven) / M. Depauw (K.U.Leuven) / H.J. Thissen (Universität zu Köln), aims to provide freely downloadable pdf-documents with scholarly tools based upon or providing links to the Trismegistos database.
Contributors can send in manuscripts in Word format to mark.depauw@arts.kuleuven.be. The editors will decide whether the manuscript fits in the series and can be accepted for reviewing. An anonymous version of the manuscript will then be sent to two or more peers for evaluation. On the basis of their report the editors will take a decision whether to publish it in the series or not. Authors will be given the anonymous notes of the reviewers and can be asked to implement changes to their manuscript.

TOP 1 (Click to download)
M. Depauw, C. Arlt, M. Elebaut, A. Georgila, S.A. Gülden, H. Knuf, J. Moje, F. Naether, H. Verreth, S. Bronischewski, B. Derichs, S. Eslah, M. Kromer
A Chronological Survey of Precisely Dated Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic Sources
Version 1.0 (February 2007), Köln / Leuven 2008, xiii, 232 pp.
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-04

TOP 2 (Click to download)
H. Verreth
A survey of toponyms in Egypt in the Graeco-Roman period
Version 1.0 (September 2008), Köln / Leuven 2008, 893 pp. (7 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-35

TOP 3 (Click to download)
H. Verreth
The provenance of Egyptian documents from the 8th century BC till the 8th century AD
Version 1.0 (August 2009), Köln / Leuven 2009, 314 pp. (13.3 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-28

TOP 4 (Click to download)
A. Benaissa
Rural Settlements of the Oxyrhynchite Nome. A Papyrological Survey
Version 2.0 (May 2012), Köln / Leuven 2012, 496 pp. (8.4 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-42
(The old version 1.0, from October 2009, is still available as well: click here to download in pdf).

TOP 5 (Click to download)
H. Verreth
Toponyms in Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic texts from the 8th century BC till the 5th century AD
Version 1.0 (August 2011), Köln / Leuven 2011, 719 pp. (9.6 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-66

TOP 6 (Click to download)
K.A. Worp
A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity
Version 1.0 (February 2012), Leiden / Leuven 2012, 78 pp. (0.6 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-59

TOP 7 (Click to download)
J. Lundon
The Scholia Minora in Homerum. An Alphabetical List
Version 1.0 (November 2012), Köln / Leuven 2012, 250 pp. (2.0 Mb).
ISBN: 978-94-9060-407-3

TOP 8
Y. Broux
Double Names in Roman Egypt: A Prosopography
Version 1.0 (forthcoming 2013), Leuven 2013.
Further volumes are in preparation.

Out of the TOP series:

J. France
Theadelpheia and Euhemereia. Village History in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Leuven, 1999 (Click here; WARNING: large file 55 Mb !! ).
[Unpublished PhD thesis]

K. Vandorpe
Egyptische geografische elementen in Griekse transcriptie
In Dutch - (English title for reference only: Egyptian geographical elements in Greek transcription)
Leuven, 1988 (Click here; ZIP-file; after decompressing, you will get a folder containing the text itself - which has been split up in 2 parts – and an index to the text. All files are searchable PDF's. WARNING: large file 95,8 Mb !! ).
[Unpublished Master thesis, in Dutch]

H. Verreth
The northern Sinai from the 7th century BC till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sources
Leuven, 2006 (Click here).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-11

Arrival in Cyprus << Scott Moore (Ancient History Ramblings)

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:34 +0000

I hate to disappoint Richard Rothaus, but it was an uneventful trip to Cyprus this year, compared to other flights I have had. I have had some……unusual luck in flying ? Let's see – I was rerouted due to a strike, forced to land due to a bomb threat, pilot could not see the runway because of fog and was rerouted, etc. – the usual things. Anyway, the flight was fairly uneventful. I do have a few thoughts. First, I am always amazed at how small the world is. As I was sitting in my seat for my Philadelphia to Athens leg, my friend and fellow archaeologist Michael Toumazou comes walking down the aisle and sits down in my row two seats over. Mike directs the Athienou Archaeological Project which is about 20 kilometers down the road from us at PKAP and he and the rest of the Athienou staff have always been very friendly and helpful to us.

Two, I was less than impressed with my first Trans-Atlantic US Air flight for several reasons. While the staff, attendants, and pilot were all very nice and appeared to be highly qualified, I was disappointed in the low budget approach to everything (food, baggage, seats) especially since their cost for the flight was not appreciably lower than other airlines. For example, there was one medium-sized video screen and two iPad-sized screens in my cabin area and I was 8 rows away from the medium-sized screen, and it was blocked by a person's head anyway. I was expecting the video screen in the headrest of the seat in front of me, like I have had on British Air, Air Canada, Lufthansa flights – and was very surprised not to have this on a 10 hour flight, it felt like a flight from the late 80s. Fortunately, I had loaded several movies on my iPad and could watch those instead of about 1/3 of a screen from about 25 feet away.

The main reason I was unhappy was that I had a lot of luggage this year and was concerned about the excess baggage charges. One reader helpfully suggested that I contact US Air's customer service department and explain the situation since they make exceptions for certain items, like many types of sporting goods equipment. I emailed US Air last Wednesday explaining my situation and received an automated reply saying that usually get to these emails in 2-3 business days. I finally received a reply that was sent the night after I started traveling that morning saying:

“Dear Dr. Moore, Thank you for contacting US Airways. We apologize that your email was not processed in a timely manner so that we could answer your request prior to your departure. If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us …..”

I suppose that is an effective way to handle inquiries to customer service about upcoming flights.

RSM

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Hey Content Creator: Make Mine Lossless! << The Signal: Digital Preservation

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:53 +0000

I’ve always loved the term “lossy” compression (add a “y” to anything and the “cute” factor really goes up). But just like a baby tiger is cute only so long as you understand that it will one day grow into a vicious, man-eating beast, lossy compression is cute only so long as you understand that it may someday come back and bite you if you’re thinking about long-term preservation.

Digital Compression by user spacepleb on Flickr

That sounds a bit hyperbolic so let me step back a bit. In 2011 I wrote about IDOM, four simple steps to helping you start thinking about how to preserve your own digital materials (for the record, it’s Identify, Decide, Organize and Make copies). One undeniable factor in “make copies” is that there’s a trade-off everyone has to make between quality and affordability.

We all want to store our digital data at the highest quality possible, but higher quality generally means larger file sizes, which means more storage which means more money. Compressed data, generally speaking, takes up less physical storage space and moves more easily over networks. The file size difference can be dramatic.

Let’s say you wanted to rip your CD collection and store it as high-quality WAVE files on an external hard drive. A digital file that holds a typical three-minute song on a CD is 30–40 megabytes in size so an average CD would be around 450 megabytes. If you had 1000 CDs in your collection you’d need about ½ a terabyte of storage. Things aren’t so bad these days, cost-wise: ½ terabyte would only run you about $40 (10 years ago it would have run you almost $1200.)

vinyl kills the mp3 industry by user karola on Flickr

Now lets say you wanted to save storage space by compressing the audio. The MPEG Layer III Audio Encoding (MP3 for short) typically reduces the file size for an audio song by an order of magnitude. So that half a terabyte would now be around 220 gigabytes and cost you roughly $20 total (prices for external hard drives fluctuate quite a bit so don’t hold me to these prices!).

However, when we’re thinking about preserving digital information we generally want to avoid compressing the data, unless we can compress it “losslessly.” “Lossless” compression means that we can shrink the size of any arbitrary piece of digital content, but we can also bring it back to its original size without losing any information in the transformation process.

“Lossy” compression, on the other hand, is a data encoding method that compresses data by removing part of it. Different compression schemes apply different algorithms to determine how to effectively discard the data while keeping the image within an acceptable level of quality as determined by the user’s needs, but there’s no getting around the fact that once the data is discarded under “lossy” compression schemes it’s gone for good.

While institutions (and individuals) want to save on costs as much as possible, we all want to retain as much of the utility of the information as we possibly can. We have no idea how much storage or bandwidth will cost in the future (hopefully less) nor do we know what future users might do with current data (undoubtedly many interesting things), but we’re pretty sure we want to keep our options open.

An MP3 is an example of lossy compression. If you compress that original WAVE file utilizing the MP3 compression scheme the information you remove to decrease the file size is gone for good and you can’t bring it back. It is possible to convert your MP3 back to a WAVE file using available software tools, but all you’ll have is a mediocre WAVE file. The original information is gone and you can definitely hear the difference.

So if you want to preserve an audio file for the long-term you either need to keep it in its original format or utilize a compression scheme that allows you roll back your compressed file to its original form.

There are a number of lossless compressions schemes for audio, though they’re not implemented equally by the major digital media players.

The same holds true for photographs. For example, let’s look at my “butch dogg” picture from the IDOM article.

This image is stored in Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format which is a compressed format. Sadly, JPEGs are a form of “lossy” compression.

Of course, a large amount of data can be discarded before the result is sufficiently degraded to be noticed by the user, but it’s the same situation as the audio described above. Had I been thinking long-term I might have made a different decision on the final-state format for my photo.

If planning these things out from the start, it’s most advantageous to start with a high-resolution master lossless file that can then be used to produce compressed files for different purposes; for example, a multi-megabyte file can be used at full size to produce a full-page advertisement in a glossy magazine while a smaller, lossy copy can be made for a small image on a web page.

A consideration of lossy vs. lossless compression is just one factor in identifying sustainable stewardship practices, but it’s an important one to consider, especially at the start of a digital workflow. The Still Image Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative has been exploring these issues in great depth.

Consensus is still developing on most sustainable preservation master formats (see recommendations from NARA, the American Society of Media Photographers and others) but compression is certainly one of the big issues to consider.

The stewardship community will undoubtedly spend plenty of time managing and preserving lossy files (huge numbers of JPEGs and MP3 files are already out there), but if you’ve got the option make yours lossless!

Keynote, Some Assembly Required, now on Youtube << Shawn Graham (Electric Archaeology)

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:50 +0000

‘Some Assembly Required’, my keynote at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education is now available on youtube.

(If you don’t see me, I’m the second person on the playlist).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K58DOSeQ0N4&feature=share&list=PLL1ugrJCNbcq8v_iIHqh8mCja6YFOuCEe

Open Access Journal: Minos: Revista de Filología Egea << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:41:36 +0000

[First posted in AWOL 13 January 2010. Updated 22 May 2013]

Minos: Revista de Filología Egea
ISSN: 0544-3733

MINOS. REVISTA DE FILOLOGÍA EGEA es una revista de Filología fundada en 1951 y cuyo tema es la filología egea. Actualmente, sus responsables son JOSÉ LUIS MELENA Y THOMAS PALAIMA, profesores respectivamente de las universidades del País Vasco y Austin (Texas, EEUU). La revista tiene una periodicidad anual (1 volumen al año) y publica los textos fundamentalmente en inglés. Esporádicamente publica una serie paralela denominada SUPLEMENTOS A MINOS, en la que han visto la luz hasta el momento 17 títulos monográficos

Vol 25 (1990)
Vol 18 (1983)
Vol 14 (1975)
Vol 13 (1972)
Vol 12 (1972)
Vol 11 (1972)
Vol 10, No 1 (1970)
Vol 9, No 1 (1968)
Vol 8, No 1 (1963)
Vol 7, No 1 (1961)
Vol 6 (1958)
Vol 5 (1957)
Vol 4 (1956)
Vol 3 (1954)
Vol 2 (1952)
Vol 1 (1951)

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Summer Reading List << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:00:13 +0000

By the end of today, I’ll be winging my way to Cyprus for my summer field season. Unlike almost every year since 2004, I won’t do any new fieldwork this summer and, instead, spend my time preparing material for study, studying past seasons, and scouting for new adventures. As I have posted already, I have a busy summer with a number of projects requiring attention. At the same time, the summer gives me a bit more time to spend reading books both for pleasure and for professional development. I usually prepare an ambitious reading list and only scratch the surface, but part of the fun is preparing this list, right?

I am going to keep working my way through the classics of “cyberpunk” fiction. As I have noted before, cyberpunk should be the preferred genre among punk archaeologists. Not only did the major contributors of the genre influence punk rock – think here about Gibson’s sprawl or John Shirley writing songs for the Blue Öyster Cult, but the cyberpunk genre is explicitly materialist. The experiences of technology and landscapes frame most of the plots for these works. In 2011, I was enamored with George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen trilogy (When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, The Exile Kiss). These books capture both the gritty materialism of most cyberpunk works and locate it in a exotic Orientalizing setting. Byzantium is never far in these works. My plan is to read A Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss this summer. (As an aside, if you have a long flight or plan to retire for a time to an exotic resort, take John Shirley’s A Song Called Youth Trilogy with you. It’s dark, punked out, and bizarrely prescient.)

I will also try some Gary Ballard, particularly his Bridge Chronicles Trilogy, in part because he self published his works, and they have garnered some acclaim. (Also Ballard does not have a Wikipedia page. How bizarre is that?). If Ballard is the most recent contributor to the genre, Alfred Bester is perhaps its founder. So plan to give him another chance and try to read his The Stars My Destination (1956) because I need to give one of the great fathers of the genre another chance. I tried to read The Demolished Man (1953) a few years back and – like many readers – I became completely lost in it (not in a good immersive way). To wrap up my cyberpunk reading, I’m going to revisit William Gibson’s Neuromancer. I have recommended it a good bit over the past couple years, but I have no read it since the mid-1990s. It’s not that long. So I’ll re-read it.

Lest my less frivolous colleagues begin to worry, I am going to read some academic works as well. I’ve started G. Lucas’s Understanding the Archaeological Record (2012) three times but have not had the space to finish it. So that’s on the docket. The same goes for Tim Ingold’s Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge, and Description (2011). I know I should also read Drew Wilbourne’s Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain (2013), but I don’t have a copy yet.

Finally, I am teaching Byzantine History this fall fro the first time since…. 2008?… and I need to surf through some of the more important survey’s of Byzantine history produced since then. My first stop will be Haldon, Jeffreys and Cormack’s (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (2008) and then onto J. Shepherd’s Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2008) and Haldon’s A Social History of Byzantium (2009) as well as Av. Cameron’s slim volume, The Byzantines (2006). Filial loyalty will require me to assign Timothy Gregory’s A History of Byzantium (2005) for the class.

I want to read Richard Hell’s autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp (2013), but musicians autobiographies so often leave me cold. My wife bought me a copy of David Katz’s excellent Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae, but I’m going to save that for July when I can sit in my most comfortable chair. Finally, if any editor is reading this post, I do know that I should be reading for a review Butrint 4: The Archaeology and Histories of an Ionian Town (2013). I’m on that. Really.

Marginali-yeah! The Fantastical Creatures of the Rutland Psalter << Juan Garcés (Digitised Manuscripts Blog)

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:30:49 +0000

Miniature of Jacob's Ladder, before Psalm 80, with a bas-de-page scene of cannibal hybrids, from the Rutland Psalter, England (London?), c. 1260, Add MS 62925, f. 83v 'Such a book! my eyes! and I am beating my brains to see if I can find any thread of an intrigue to...

Open Access Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:23:25 +0000

[First posted in AWOL 23 November 2009. Updated 21 May, 2013]

4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins)

The 4 Enoch Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism is made of 4 major components:

(a) 4 ENOCH SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH

Ancient Israel (Hebrew Bible) Studies
Second Temple Studies & New Testament (Christian Origins) Studies
Early Samaritan Studies -- OT Apocrypha Studies / OT Pseudepigrapha Studies / Wisdom Studies / Apocalyptic Studies / Hellenistic-Jewish Studies / Qumran Studies / Enochic Studies / Philo Studies / Josephus Studies
Historical Jesus Studies / Gospels Studies / Pauline Studies / Petrine Studies / Johannine Studies
Early Christian Studies -- Early Jewish Studies -- Early Islamic Studies
(b) 4 ENOCH DICTIONARY OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM
Second Temple Judaism -> People -- Places -- Artifacts -- Events -- Texts -- Topics
(c) 4 ENOCH ABSTRACTS OF SCHOLARLY & FICTIONAL WORKS
Scholarship -- Fiction -- Non-Fiction -- Arch-fi -- Archaeology -- Research tools
Languages -- Countries -- Cities -- Fields of research -- Works' chronology
(d) 4 ENOCH BIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN AUTHORS
Scholars -- Authors -- Identities -- Expertise -- People's generations
4 Enoch offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to scholarly research in Second Temple Judaism (including Samaritan and Christian Origins), i.e. the period from Ezekiel to the completion of the New Testament and the Mishnah. It also deals with the roots of Second Temple traditions in the ancient Israelite religion (see Ancient Israel Studies), as well as the influence and legacy of those traditions for Christian, Jewish and Islamic origins and relations, up to the time of the completion of the Qur'an (see Early Christian Studies, Early Jewish Studies, and Early Islamic Studies).
With ore than 15,000 pages, "4 Enoch" provides a comprehensive WHO's WHO of the period, as well as BIOGRAPHIES of Scholars and Authors, and ABSTRACTS of scholarly and fictional Works, authored from the mid-15th century to the present, all around the world. Still a work in progress, the Encyclopedia, created in 2009 by Gabriele Boccaccini of the University of Michigan with the collaboration of Carlos A. Segovia of the Camilo Jose Cela University Madrid, is the collective work of international specialists in the field associated with the Enoch Seminar [1]
Enter the GENERAL INDEX (here) to see the contents of the Encyclopedia in more details.
Are you a scholar or graduate student, and would you like to contribute to the Encyclopedia? Please, contact Editor-in-Chief Professor Gabriele Boccaccini <gbocca@umich.edu>, or Associate Editor Professor Carlos A. Segovia <segoviamail@gmail.com>, and join the team of international specialists working in this project.
Visit ENOCH SEMINAR Online to see the many activities of the Enoch Seminar.
[Note: 4 Enoch is a work in progress (changes are made of a daily basis). Some entries are fully developed, others exist only in a draft form. Evertytime you visit the site, you will see that new features have been added. ]

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1 Editorial Board
1.1 Thematic Board
1.2 Language Board
2 History
3 News and Obituaries
4 Conferences
Editorial Board
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan (USA) – Editor-in-chief
Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo Jose Cela University (Madrid, Spain, EU) – Associate Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edward's University (Austin, Texas, USA)
Samuele Rocca (Israel)
Shayna Sheinfeld, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, Hungary, EU)
Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan (USA)
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan (USA)
Thematic Board
Samuele Rocca (Israel) – Associate Editor and Chair of the Board
Shayna Sheinfeld, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) – Associate Editor and Co-Chair of the Board
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan (USA) – in charge for Second Temple Studies
Leonard V. Rutgers, University of Utrecht (Netherlands, EU) – in charge for Hellenistic-Jewish Studies
Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands, EU) – in charge for Josephus Studies
Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo José Cela University (Madrid, Spain, EU) – in charge for Early Islamic Studies
Emilio González Ferrín, University of Seville (Spain, EU) – in charge for Early Islamic Studies
Jack Pastor, Oranim Academic College (Israel) / Second Temple Studies
Language Board
Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, Hungary, EU) – Associate Editor and Chair of the Board
Daniel Assefa, Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia) – in charge for Ethiopic Scholarship
Florentina Badalanova-Geller, Freie-Universität Berlin (Germany, EU) – in charge for Bulgarian Scholarship and Serbo-Croatian Scholarship
Emmanouela Grypeou, University of Oxford (England, UK, EU) – in charge for Greek Scholarship
Paul Kim, Methodist Theological School (Ohio, USA) – in charge for Korean Scholarship
Ludmila Navtanovich (St Petersburg, Russia) – in charge for Russian Scholarship
Rivka Nir, Open University of Israel (Israel) – in charge for Israeli Scholarship
Mika Pajunen, University of Helsinki (Finland, EU) – in charge for Finnish Scholarship
Stephane Saulnier, Newman University (Wichita, Kansas, USA) – in charge for French Scholarship
Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo Jose Cela University (Madrid, Spain, EU) – in charge for Spanish Scholarship
Carla Sulzbach, McGill University (Montreal, Canada) – in charge for Dutch Scholarship
Alexander Toepel, University of Tübingen (Germany, EU) – in charge for German Scholarship
Cecilia Wassen, University of Uppsala (Sweden, EU) – in charge for Swedish Scholarship
Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, Hungary, EU) – in charge for Hungarian Scholarship

Open Access Journal: Synthesis << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:41:40 +0000

Synthesis
ISSN: 1851-779X

Publicación de: Centro de Estudios Helénicos

Misión: Publicar artículos originales sobre filología, filosofía y literaturas griegas.

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Synthesis (La Plata) vol.18  La Plata ene./dic. 2011
Editorial
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
Artículos
· Los juegos funerales en honor de Patroclo (Ilíada, XXIII.257 ss.)
Verde Castro, Carmen Victoria
        · resumen en Español | Inglés     · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Multiplicidad y unidad de la inteligencia en las sentecias de Porfirio
Zamora Calvo, José María
        · resumen en Español | Inglés     · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Apontamentos sobre a representação de Afrodite em Baquílides
Ragusa, Giuliana
        · resumen en Español | Inglés     · texto en Portugués     · pdf en Portugués
· Recuperación y ampliación del mito de los labdácidas en Antígona de Sófocles: Su funcionalidad en la dinámica dramática
Villagra Diez, Pedro
        · resumen en Español | Inglés     · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Suplicantes de Eurípides: Una interpretación metafórica de la Monodia de Evadne (Versos 990-1008)
Nápoli, Juan Tobías
        · resumen en Español | Inglés     · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Poética y variantes del mito: Venus en Julián del Casal, Rubén Darío y José Lezama Lima
Chazarreta, Daniela Evangelina
        · resumen en Español | Inglés     · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
Reseñas
· "Ésquilo, Tragédias (ediçâo bilingüe). Estudo y traduçâo de Jaa Torrano, Sâo Paulo, Iluminuras, Coleçâo Dionísias, 2009, 424 pp."
Hamamé, Graciela Noemí
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· José María Zamora Calvo, Platón. Timeo (edición bilingüe), con notas a la traducción y anexos de Luc Brisson, Madrid, Abada, 2010, 474 págs.
Fernández, Claudia N.
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Marcos Martínez Hernández. Sófocles. Erotismo, Soledad, Tradición. Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid, 2010, 239 pp.
Moretti, María Inés
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Glória Braga Onelley. A ideologia aristocrática nos Theognidea, Editora da UFF, Niterói, 2009, 160 pp.
Fernández Deagustini, María del Pilar
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Zelia de Almeida Cardoso y Adriane Da Silva Duarte (Orgs.). Estudos sobre o teatro antigo, Alameda Casa Editorial, São Paulo, 2010, 275 pp.
Fernández Deagustini, María del Pilar
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español
· Paula Da Cunha Corrêa. Um Bestiário Arcaico. Fábulas e imagens de animais na poesía de Arquíloco, Editora Unicamp. 2010, 526 pp.
Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela Cristina
        · texto en Español     · pdf en Español

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Our Heroic Debate with the Eumenides << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:44:11 +0000

Our Heroic Debate with the Eumenides

Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a large extent, of clusters of cultural memory shaped by our ongoing dialogue with the classical past. In this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. For a long time a part of the Western canon, Greek tragedy has proved exceptionally malleable as an interpretive lens through which to focus contemporary crises, ideological tensions, and political dynamics.

The aim of the ‘Eumenides’ project is to catalogue and analyze the multifarious ways in which ancient Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been adapted, reinterpreted, revised, or re-imagined in modern Greek poetry and theatre from the late 19th century to the present day. In particular, it will explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy has been a crucial factor in the formation of a poetics and a politics of modern Greek national and cultural identity.

One of the project’s fundamental objectives is to address issues of ‘influence’ or (better) intertextuality and reception. In other words, we will explore how modern Greek authors establish protocols for the creation of meaning(s) by inviting audiences to respond not only to the text itself but to a network of texts invoked by it—in this case, to a network of Greek tragic texts that are filtered or encoded through their modern successors. ‘Influence’, intertextuality and reception cover a wide range of textual strategies and may extend from verbatim citations or verbal allusions through appropriations of themes and motifs to cryptic references or largely thematic affinities. To take but a few examples, the plot and language of Euripides’ Helen are crucial to the articulation of a poetics of nationhood in George Seferis’ “Helen” and other poems reflecting his Cypriot experience (LogbookIII, 1955). Further, in Yannis Ritsos’ Fourth Dimension, tragic myth is confronted with intellectual and political currents of the mid-20^th century, especially Sartrian existentialism, which fundamentally altered the Greek cultural landscape. In an emblematic piece of modern Greek theatre, Iakovos Kambanellis’ trilogy The Supper, one witnesses a refashioning, now good-humoured and now glum, of the Labdacid and Atreid myth.

Cut down to size, and transplanted into a contemporary, and rather humble domestic setting, the cornerstones of classical Greek tragedy are turned by Kambanellis into mythical filters through which to approach social or individual pathogenies that may be seen as characteristic of modern Greece. Last but far from least, allusions to Greek tragedy, though sparse, are an integral part of work published by major Cypriot poets such as K. Charalambides, and are used largely as a tool for collective (self-)criticism or for furthering the debate on national and cultural identity.

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Open Access Journal: Freer|Sackler Research Online << AMIR: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:04 +0000

Freer|Sackler Research Online

Research Online is a component of the Freer|Sackler's publication program, presenting peer-reviewed digital-only scholarly publications to our online audience. Please check back often to see new work.

Under a Microscope
The Examination of the Siege Scene Plate

Cinematic Urbanism
The Middle East

Documenting the Modern Oil City
Cinematic Urbanism in Anglo-Iranian’s Persian Story

Istanbul in Black and White
Cinematic Memory

Neoliberalizing People and Places in Egyptian Media

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

A Good Walk Spoiled << Juan Garcés (Digitised Manuscripts Blog)

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:35:40 +0000

One of the most charismatic manuscripts in the British Library's collections is the so-called "Golf Book". This Book of Hours was made at Bruges around the year 1540, and is so named because on one page (the calendar for September) it contains a depiction of a game resembling golf. A...

Explore Innovative Ideas Across the Digital Information Landscape at Digital Preservation 2013 << The Signal: Digital Preservation

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:21:12 +0000

We like to think (and hope) that our blog The Signal acts as an informative resource from which to learn and engage in conversations of digital preservation work. We hope that it exposes you to interesting projects and people stewarding digital collections, and that it creates opportunities to expose you to the wider community of libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and other organizations.

Just as the blog is a vehicle to explore challenges and solutions practitioners address managing digital information, we’re coming up on an excellent opportunity to share best practices and lessons learned from our individual and collective work – face-to-face.

Anil Dash speaking at the Digital Preservation 2012 meeting.

That opportunity is Digital Preservation 2013, the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. This year’s meeting will be held on July 23-25 in Alexandria, VA. Registration for the meeting is now open.

Once a year, we aim to put together a program that stimulates new thinking and exposes us to innovative ideas across the digital information landscape. It’s a chance to highlight collaborative projects on preserving and accessing digital collections, feature discussions of current tools and services for the management of digital content, and share current approaches to storage and infrastructure challenges. For the ninth year now, we’ve been fortunate to gather members of the community and other interested professionals in an environment to share information about collecting, preserving, and delivering our cultural heritage, scientific and other valuable digital materials.

This year is no different and the planning committee has been busy crafting a solid, if not packed, agenda featuring speakers who are strong advocates for social and technological innovation. We’ll hear about topics such as managing “big data” at scale, the cultural and scholarly value of public and historical digital content, and the challenges of preserving digital resources and exploring how to provide access to them.

The meeting kicks off on the afternoon of July 23 with keynotes talks by Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bit.ly, and Sarah Werner, undergraduate program director at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Later in the afternoon, we’ll be hearing from a panel of educators and practitioners including Christopher (Cal) Lee of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jason Scott of the Archive Team; Anne Wootton of Pop-Up Archive; and Travis May of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on their own innovative approaches to preservation of various types of content. We will round out the day with a series of lightning talks and a poster session from members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance community.

On July 24, Lisa Green, executive director at Common Crawl, and Emily Gore, director for content at Digital Public Library of America, will lead off the day with opening talks. Following, there will be a unique dialogue on the emerging topic of digital preservation and environmental sustainability, the “Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship” panel with David Rosenthal of Stanford University; Kris Carpenter of the Internet Archive; and Krishna Kant of George Mason University and the National Science Foundation. The final panel of the day features speakers including Aaron Straup Cope of Cooper-Hewitt Museum Labs; Rodrigo Davies from the MIT Center for Civic Media; and Amy Robinson of the EyeWire project talking about issues at the leading edge of digital stewardship activity.

Day two will also feature a variety of smaller breakout sessions that will enable conversation around topics of digital preservation education and training, demos of digital preservation tools and services, and presentations on digital curation topics. And there will be special presentations by the NDSA Innovation Award winners, who will be named in the coming weeks.

CurateCamp Processing participants collaborating the day’s agenda.

On July 25, day three, we’re planning to co-host a CURATEcamp, an unconference. Last year we co-hosted CURATEcamp: Processing that focused on the intersection between archival and computational notions of processing. This year, we wanted to focus more on the digital stewardship community’s perspectives and discuss ideas about the exhibition of digital collections dealing with narratives, storytelling, and context. Any curators, archivists, librarians, scholars, software developers, computer engineers and others looking to share, demonstrate and refine ideas about exhibition in the digital age are encouraged to attend and contribute to crafting the day’s discussions. More information about the camp will be shared on this blog in the next couple of weeks.

Digital Preservation 2013 will be held at the Westin Alexandria in Old Town Alexandria, VA. There are two separate registration forms, one of the main meeting and one for CURATEcamp: Exhibition. If you plan to attend both, please make sure to register using the separate forms.

There is no cost to attend either meeting but seats are limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

If you can’t make it, the first day will be taped and presentations will be posted on our website a few weeks following the meeting. You can also follow the event on Twitter at #digpres13.

Updated 5/22: fixed typos

Open Access Journal: The International Journal of Humanities of the Islamic Republic of Iran << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:51:19 +0000

The International Journal of Humanities of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The International Journal of Humanities is the first academic journal in the Islamic Republic of Iran published in English and Arabic by faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modarres University.
The International Journal of Humanities is mainly devoted to the publication of original research, which brings fresh light to bear on the concepts, processes ,and consequences of humanities in general. It is multi-disciplinary in the sense that it encourages contributions from all relevant fields and specialized branches of the humanities.
The journal seeks to achieve the following objectives:
- To promote inter-disciplinary research in all areas of the humanities.
- To provide a forum for genuine and constructive dialogues between scholars in different fields of the humanities.
- To assist researchers at the pre-and post-doctorate levels, with a wealth of new and original material.
- To make ideas, topics, and processes in the humanities intelligible and accessible to both the interested public and scholars whose expertise might lie outside that subject matter .

n.b. While not specifically ancient related, this journal includes substantial content in archaeology and ancient history - particularly in recent volumes.

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vol. 12 (2005)

vol. 11 (2004)

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vol. 8 (2001)

vol. 7 (2000)

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vol. 3 (1991)

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Severan Database Project << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:10 +0000

Severan Database Project

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Severan Provincial Coinage:
Author: Julie Langford
This database anticipates Volume V of the ongoing series Roman Provincial Coinage. It contains records of coins minted from twelve cities in Asia Minor from the reigns of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Severus Alexander. The data was mined from volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum found at the American Numismatic Society and the Hunterian Museum in Glasglow, Scotland. A team of five undergraduate researchers at the University of South Florida under the direction of Prof. Julie Langford compiled and keyed in this data. While these entries have been proofed, there are some issues of consistency that are still being ironed out, mostly in terms of Greek inscriptions. Please notify Julie Langford (jlangfor@cas.usf.edu) in case of any errors or omissions. Since this is an ongoing project, we welcome collaboration to expand the cities or the volumes of the SNG consulted.

Researchers at the University of South Florida are employing this database in order to explore issues such as the reception of Severan imperial propaganda, the maintenance of civic identity and the competition between cities, especially in terms of Neokoroi.
The database is searchable by keywords, citation and Greek legends. It allows researchers to view the catalogs of several coin cabinets at a glance. When used in conjunction with published volumes of Roman Provincial Coinage and RPC Online, the database can be used to create an overview of a city’s numismatic history.
Severan Hoard Analysis
Author: Clare Rowan
This database was constructed as part of the research conducted for my doctorate, Under Divine Auspices: Patron Deities and the Visualisation of Power in the Severan Period. The research was funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award, and was completed at Macquarie University, which houses the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies. Given the potential of the information contained in the database for future research, it was decided to make the database available online, at the same address as the Severan provincial coinage project.

The database contains fifty-seven silver hoards ranging in date from AD 198 to c. AD 270. Hoards with a terminus post quem well after the Severan period are included since it could take some time for coins to reach a peak in circulation. The paucity of gold and aes hoards containing Severan material meant that these metals were not included. There are two displays available to the user: one provides a listing of all Severan types found within a particular hoard, and the other provides a summary of all Severan coin types found in the entire sample (all the hoards considered together). Consequently, it is possible to get a one-click overview of the relative frequency of each Severan type, as well as to trace in what hoard each type occurs. The publication details of each hoard are provided, as well as an indication of its geographic locality. For the latter, the established A-E lettering system is used (A = Britain, B = West Continent, C = Italy and Africa, D = Danubian regions, E = the East). These particular divisions may not reveal divergences in coinage circulation as efficiently as other groupings (for example between central and peripheral regions, or military and non-military areas), but in the interests of continuity and to facilitate comparisons with other modern work, the A-E scheme is employed here.

For hoards that were published using Cohen's catalogue, the Cohen-RIC concordance was used to convert the data (Chantraine, H. and Alföldi, M. R.-. (1978). Cohen - RIC - Konkordanz. Bonn.) Coins in a hoard that possessed no ready RIC reference, or were illegible, are tallied at the end. Illegible coins of Julia Domna are included in the total of Domna types struck under Severus, and illegible coins of Caracalla are included in the total of coins struck during his sole rule. This decision was made since most of Domna's coins were struck under Severus, and most of Caracalla's types come from his sole reign; consequently, there is a higher chance that illegible types come from these periods. No coins of Elagabalus' wife Annia Faustina were found in any of the hoards consulted, and consequently she does not figure at all in the database. Occasionally the data also includes subtypes listed in the RIC (e.g. RIC 8b); these are indicated by letters in the entry (e.g. 3 aab = 3 examples of this type were found in the hoard, 2 of subtype a, and one of subtype b).

The database is not intended to give an absolute indication of coins struck under the Severans, but only a suggestion of relative frequency. Occasionally the totals of coinage struck for each Severan emperor will differ slightly from the original publication, particularly for those hoards that were published by Cohen number. This reflects the fact that some issues listed in Cohen's catalogue were later attributed to different emperors (for instance deification issues of Severus, attributed to Severus by Cohen, were placed with Caracalla's issues by Mattingly). Very occasionally, a discrepancy reflects a miscalculation in the original publication. Any errors or omissions may be gratefully brought to the attention of the author (clare.rowan@students.mq.edu.au), but any such instances will not fundamentally alter the image of Severan coinage contained within the database.
Julia Domna Inscriptions
Author: Julie Langford
This ongoing project aims to collect all inscriptions in which the Severan Empress Julia Domna is mentioned. A team of undergraduate researchers at the University of South Florida under the direction of Professor Julie Langford began the database with references to the 460 inscriptions published in Erich Kettenhofen’s Die syrischen Augustae in der historischen Überlieferung published in Bonn by Rudolf Habelt in 1979. They gathered these and then mined L’Annee Epigraphique for any other references to Julia Domna. Also employed in collecting these inscriptions were two invaluable online databases, the Packard Humanities Institute (http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/) and the Epigraphische Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (http://www.manfredclauss.de/).

This database is being used by Julie Langford and graduate researchers at the University of South Florida to answer questions such as how, where and when the Empress was celebrated, whether she was honored in her own right or in conjunction with her male relatives, and how various populations responded to imperial propaganda concerning the Empress.

This database will continue to grow as new inscriptions are published. Please call any errors or omissions to the attention of Prof. Julie Langford (jlangfor@cas.usf.edu).

Public History Comprehensive Exam Questions << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:45:47 +0000

One of the great pleasures of working at a school with a smaller Ph.D. program is that we get stretched to fill roles a bit outside our core area of expertise. This past week, for example, I was asked to be the third reader on a comprehensive exams for a student in the joint University of North Dakota – North Dakota State Ph.D. program in history. My area of expertise was … public history. Whereas I have take one graduate class (audited actually) in archaeology (so I feel qualified to opine widely in that field), I have never actually taken a course in public history and read only sporadically in this field.

In any event, sometimes an outsider to a field can provide some new insights, and maybe these questions reflect that:

Select one question for each category. Write as much as necessary to explore the issue thoroughly. Take 4 or 5 hours to do this or whatever is customary.

I. Archaeology as Public History

1. Recently, archaeology and public history have experienced a bit of convergence as both fields have sought to make their research more accessible to an interested (and often funding) public and accept more responsibilities to the communities in which they work. Discuss the main similarities and differences in the how these two fields have approached engaging the public.

2. Both archaeology and public history have seen the museum as one of the key tools for engaging the public and disseminating information. The museum, of course, as an institution has changed through time as have the fields of archaeology and history. Some have argued that archaeology’s “object-based epistemology” resonates more with earlier models of the museum whereas history’s approach to the past has more in common with the contemporary museum that understood networks or contexts as the main way in which objects produced knowledge. As both an archaeologist and a public historian, how do the different approaches to how objects produce meaning inform the organization, presentation, and function of museum exhibits?

3. Both archaeology and public history have embraced (or, perhaps better, recognized) what some scholars have called “the spatial turn”. What this means is that space, landscapes, streetscapes, geography, and architecture, have played a key role in defining historical social relationships (think Delores Hayden, H. Lefebvre, or M. de Certeau here). How have the two fields sought to make past spatial realities visible to the public especially in dynamic circumstances where the social, architectural, and natural topography have changes significant? How have their approaches differed and how are they similar?

II. Public History
1. More and more history programs are offering courses, certificates, and degrees in public history at the graduate and undergraduate level. What are the key concepts that you’d introduce in an undergraduate course in public history? How would the concepts differ if the course was taught at the graduate level? How would you balance theoretical and methodological aspects of public history and the practical aspects of the field?

2. Over the last three decades digital methods have come increasingly to influence the practice of history. In scholarly practice, digital tools have increased the speed and scope of research. In the realm of public history, the internet, mobile devices, and the social media have the potential to expand the audience for historical research, empower new content creators, and combine content from a wide range of sources. Using specific examples, how has digital media transformed the practice and theory of public history? What does the future of a digital, public history look like?

3. Public historians have often positioned themselves as gate keepers between disciplinary knowledge and the general public. Indeed, the very term “public” history implies the there is a “private” history that the discipline has kept from the public view. How has public history worked to both expose the process of historical study to a wider public and occlude its own practices behind disciplinary barriers and claims of expertise and authority? How can the discipline break down these barriers without undermining its own authority? Be specific.

Cremation: The Hot Burial Trend << Katy Meyers (Bones Don't Lie)

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:41:15 +0000

According to Tyler Mathisen of CNBC news, the hottest growing trend within the ”death care industry”, a $17- billion-a-year business in America, is cremation. Of the 2.5 million people who died in 2011 in North America, 42% of them were cremated. That means that the rate of cremation has doubled over the past decade and a … Continue reading »

On Tornadoes << Jason Heppler (History in the Digital)

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:58:29 +0000

On the evening of May 30, 1998, I was laying in bed listening to the local radio. About an hour and a half or so before, I was driving with my dad on South Dakota Highway 37 north towards Huron, South Dakota. We were heading for the dirt track races, but turned around after the races were canceled due to severe weather in the area. That night, the news on the radio was terrifying: the small town of Spencer, South Dakota, which lay just twenty miles from my hometown, had been destroyed by a tornado. The storm was among the most destructive in South Dakota’s history. For the next few weeks I collected every front page story my hometown paper ran about the tornado; I still have those newspapers stored away in a box.

The United States faces more tornadoes than any other country in the world, averaging around 810 every year. The Spencer tornado occurred during one of the worst tornado years on record, which saw 124 recorded tornados.¹ Moore, Oklahoma, lies within the heaviest tornado activity in the United States, an area known as Tornado Alley that stretches across the Great Plains. The phrase comes from Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest Fawbush and Captain Robert Miller, who coined the phrase “tornado alley” in 1953 during their research studying severe weather in the central plains.² Although every state has the potential to experience a tornado, the storms are heaviest in the land between Texas and South Dakota between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the Missouri River to the east.

Growing up on the Plains, severe weather was a common occurrence between the months of May and September. Warm coastal airs blow up from the Gulf of Mexico northward and collide with dry, colder continental air coming from the Rocky Mountains, creating a volatile climate that is the seedbed for supercell thunderstorms. Today’s tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, and the haunting stories and images emerging from reports reminded me of the destructive force of the Spencer tornado. The Spencer tornado clocked wind speeds upwards of 246 miles per hour. Preliminary measurements of the Moore storm measured wind speeds at 199 miles per hour.

Today’s storm was not Moore’s first encounter with strong tornadoes. Thirteen years ago, another intense tornado swept by Moore, with wind speeds peaking at 302 miles per hour. Although wind speeds were lower in today’s storm, the storm’s destructive potential was amplified by its 40-minute presence on the ground; tornadoes are often on the ground only for moments, but today’s mile-wide and long-duration storm tore a deadly path of destruction across Oklahoma. The American West often sees extremes in weather and climate, sometimes with deadly consequences.

My best wishes for safety and recovery go to the city of Moore and the state of Oklahoma. To those injured, I wish speedy recovery; to those lost, my heartfelt condolences.

There are several resources covering the storm and its aftermath:

Alexis Madrigal, “Tornadoes in America: The Oklahoma Disaster in Context”
Local news KFOR
Mike Smith, “The Warning System Appears to Have Worked Well”
Jeff Masters, “Violent tornado devastates Moore, Oklahoma”

The Red Cross is accepting donations via text message. You can text REDCROSS to 90999 and you will be billed $10 as a donation. The government of Moore is also posting updates on Facebook.

Note that tornadoes were not rigorously recorded until after 1953.↩
See John P. Gagan, Alan Gerard, and John Gordon (December 2010) “A historical and statistical comparison of ‘Tornado Alley’ to ‘Dixie Alley’,” National Weather Digest, vol. 34, no. 2, pages 146-155. [PDF]↩

Open Access Journal: Incontri (triestini) di filologia classica << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:30:34 +0000

Incontri (triestini) di filologia classica

Gli Incontri di filologia classica (fino al vol. IX Incontri triestini di filologia classica) sono una pubblicazione periodica annuale che raccoglie le relazioni di studiosi appositamente invitati, presentate e discusse negli omonimi cicli di seminari, organizzati dal "Centro di studi sulla tradizione e la ricezione dell'antico" del Dipartimento di studi umanistici dell'Università di Trieste che si tengono con calendario prefissato per ogni anno accademico presso la Biblioteca statale di Trieste.

Si propongono di rendere disponibili alla comunità degli studiosi e a un più vasto pubblico interventi inediti (la cui redazione scritta è sottoposta a peer review) su temi inerenti la cultura classica, riuniti sia in volume (EUT – Edizioni Università di Trieste), sia liberamente accessibile online. I contributi, accompagnati da abstract in inglese e in italiano di max 200 parole, potranno essere nelle lingue italiana, inglese, tedesca, francese, spagnola, portoghese.

Incontri triestini di filologia classica 01. 2001-2002
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 02. 2002-2003
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 03. 2003-2004
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 04. 2004-2005. Phantasia : il pensiero per immagini degli antichi e dei moderni. Atti del convegno internazionale
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 05. 2005-2006. Atti del II convegno. Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. Trieste, 27-28 aprile 2006
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 06. 2006-2007. Atti della giornata di studio in onore di Laura Casarsa
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 08 (2008/09)
Incontri triestini di filologia classica 09 (2009/10)
Incontri di filologia classica 10 (2010/11)

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Guess the Manuscript II << Juan Garcés (Digitised Manuscripts Blog)

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:43:57 +0000

It's Friday, it's recently been snowing in England (it is May, after all), so it's time for another of our award-winning series, Guess the Manuscript®. This item belongs to the British Library's collections -- but what is it? A trawl through our Digitised Manuscripts site may give you a clue....

Book: Archives and archival documents in ancient societies << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:49:57 +0000

Archives and archival documents in ancient societies

Title: Archives and archival documents in ancient societies: Legal documents in ancient societies IV, Trieste 30 September - 1 October 2011
Authors: Faraguna, Michele
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Citation: Michele Faraguna (edited by), "Archives and archival documents in ancient societies: Legal documents in ancient societies IV, Trieste 30 September - 1 October 2011", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2013
Abstract: This book, part of a series aiming to investigate the legal systems of ancient societies through a document-based, comparative approach, focuses on the study of archives and archival records and their interplay with the workings of administrative and political systems. The papers are arranged in four sections dealing with the Ancient Near East, Classical Greece, the Persian Tradition and the Hellenistic World, and the Roman Empire. The themes touched upon chronologically span from the early second millennium B.C. to the late Roman Empire and geographically range from Mesopotamia to the Western Mediterranean. The archives considered, public and private, are conspicuous for their variety and reflect diverse archival concepts and traditions but a number of common patterns also emerge in respect to their physical organization, to the classification of texts, the function of record-keeping and the role of seals. We are entitled to speak of a recurring ‘archival behaviour’.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10077/8650
ISBN: 978-88-8303-460-2

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SOMMARIO / CONTENTS

Michele Faraguna
Foreword
Dennis Kehoe
Archives and Archival Documents in Ancient Societies: Introduction
Ancient Near East
Sophie Démare-Lafont
Zero and Infinity: the Archives in Mesopotamia
Klaas R. Veenhof
The Archives of Old Assyrian Traders: their Nature, Functions and Use
Antoine JacquetFamily Archives in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian Period
Susanne Paulus
The Limits of Middle Babylonian Archives
Classical Greece
Christophe Pébarthe
Les archives de la cité de raison. Démocratie athénienne et pratiques documentaires à l’époque classique
Shimon Epstein
Attic Building Accounts from Euthynae to Stelae
Edward M. Harris
The Plaint in Athenian Law and Legal Procedure
Michele Faraguna
Archives in Classical Greece: Some Observations
The Persian Tradition and the Hellenistic World
Ingo Kottsieper
Aramäische Archive aus achämenidischer Zeit und ihre Funktion
Laura Boffo
La ‘presenza’ dei re negli archivi delle poleis ellenistiche
Lucia Criscuolo
Copie, malacopie, copie d'ufficio e il problema della titolarità di un archivio nell’Egitto tolemaico
Mark Depauw
Reflections on Reconstructing Private and Official Archives The Roman Empire
Éva Jakab
Introduction: Archives in the Roman Empire
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu
Epigraphische Quellen zum Archivwesen in den griechischen Poleis des ausgehenden Hellenismus und der Kaiserzeit
Thomas Kruse
Bevölkerungskontrolle, Statuszugang und Archivpraxis im römischen Ägypten
Rudolf Haensch
Die Statthalterarchive der Spätantike
Uri Yiftach-Firanko Conclusions
Index locorum

(Partially) Open Access Journal: Chronozones << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:56:24 +0000

Chronozones: Bulletin des sciences de l'Antiquité de l'université de Lausanne

Bienvenue sur le site de Chronozones, la revue de l'Institut d'Archéologie et des sciences de l'Antiquité (IASA) de l'université de Lausanne (UNIL). Chronozones est une parution annuelle entièrement conçue par les étudiants des sections de l'IASA: histoire grecque et romaine, archéologie provinciale romaine et classique (Grèce), protohistoire et monde celtique, latin, grec, épigraphie et numismatique. Sur notre site, vous avez accès à de nombreux articles publiés dans les volumes 3 (1997), 5 (1999), 6 (2000), 7 (2001), 8 (2002), 10 (2004), 11 (2005), 12 (2006), ainsi qu'à l'ensemble du volume 4 (1998).

Chronozones 2008, dernier volume paru, peut également être commandé en ligne ; vous participez ainsi au financement de l'impression du prochain volume.

Articles en ligne

Remarque: tous les articles sont au format *.pdf et réclament le logiciel Adobe acrobat reader(téléchargement gratuit)

Volume 3 (1997)

T. Luginbühl, Le chien de Culann, petit Achille de l'Ulster B. Montandon, Le travail du bronze à l'époque gallo-romaine F. Meylan et K. R. Aitchison, Paysages du Mont Beuvray, le cas du Point Du Jour S. Verdan, Les chênes alimentaires: quelques réflexions sur le menu des hommes préhistoriques vu à travers les textes antiques

Volume 4 (1998)
Volume 4 version complète
S. Bujar, Couvrez ce gland que je ne saurai voir...
Y. Bubloz, Quand la démonologie fournit des arguments au végétarisme
C. Brélaz,L'histoire mouvementée d'une inscription lausannoise oubliée
A. Schöpfer, Epigraphie et internet
A. Freudiger, A. Garcia, Le péplum: antiquité, spectacle et cinéma

Volume 5 (1999)
T. Luginbühl,Hindouisme et religion celtique. De Katmandou à Lousonna...
E. Sauteur, Les inscriptions bilingues étrusco-latines
H. Tissot, A la recherche de l'âge perdu
Y. Dubois, Le pavé à la mosaïque, grandeur et décrépitude

Volume 6 (2000)
L. Pernet, Roma et Hibernia, le mobilier romain en Irlande et ses interprétations
C. Matthey, Les "rois de théâtre" de la céramique italiote
M. Haldemann, S. Oesterlé, L'évolution des fesses masculines dans la statuaire grecque

Volume 7 (2001)
O. Thévenaz,Spectacles et théâtralités dans la Vie de Caligula de Suétone
A. Mirimanoff, Entre l'Orient et l'Occident: les sceaux du «Lyre-Player Group»
A. Schenk, Cheval et équitation dans l'Antiquité: à la rencontre de «la plus noble conquête de l'homme»

Volume 8 (2002)
C. Grezet, Aperçu de généalogie antique: les Camilli
L. Pidoux, Des «anti-funérailles» pour Hector
S. Büngen, Nata vimpi curmi da: de la bière chez les Celtes

Volume 10 (2004)
R. Sylvestre, Les graffiti sur céramique de la villa d'Orbe-Boscéaz
E. Rossier, La musique dans l'Empire romain
D. Genillard,Présent imparfait

Volume 11 (2005)
A. Pichot, Jeux et spectacles en Afrique romaine N. Gex,La monnaie, une invention pour s'enrichir L. Saget,La Parthénos de Phidias en lumière

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Open Access Monograph Series: Polymnia << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:43:36 +0000

Polymnia: Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi

The 2nd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins, edited by Bruno Callegher and Arianna D'Ottone
The 3^rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins [3], edited by Bruno Callegher and Arianna D'Ottone

Polymnia: Numismatica antica e medievale. Documenti

Arabic Gold Coins, Di Giulio Bernardi
Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Concordance (and vice versa)

Polymnia: Collana di Scienze dell'Antichità. Studi di Storia romana

Roma e le priscae Latinae coloniae: ricerche sulla colonizzazione del Lazio..., di Monica Chiabà
Tra duces e milites: forme di comunicazione politica al tramonto della Repubblica, di Rita Mangiameli

Polymnia: Collana di Scienze dell'Antichità. Studi di Archeologia

Polymnia. Studi di Archeologia n.01: I culti isiaci nell'Italia settentrionale 1. Verona, Aquileia, Trieste
Polymnia. Studi di Archeologia n. 02: Scritti di topografia e urbanistica: Tergeste e Friuli Venezia Giulia

Polymnia: Collana di Scienze dell'Antichità. Studi di Filologia classica

Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica n.01: Culture europee e tradizione latina: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Cividale del Friuli, Fondazione Niccolò Canussio, 16-17 novembre 2001
Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica n.03: Disciplinae cyclicae: l'organisation du savoir dans l'oeuvre de Martianus Capella
Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica n.08: Supplementum etymologicum Latinum I

Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica n.13:Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. IV

Via Latina: studi su Virgilio e sulla sua fortuna / Marco Fernandelli: Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica; 15

Open Access Numismatics Monographs at Polymnia << AMIR: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:32:35 +0000

Polymnia: Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi

The 2nd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins, edited by Bruno Callegher and Arianna D'Ottone
The 3^rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins [3], edited by Bruno Callegher and Arianna D'Ottone

Polymnia: Numismatica antica e medievale. Documenti

Arabic Gold Coins, Di Giulio Bernardi
Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Concordance (and vice versa)

The Ancient Near East in Brazil and Argentina From the Origins of Research to the Present << ASOR Blog (American Schools of Oriental Research)

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:32:19 +0000

By: Josué Berlesi

Brazil and Argentina are not the first places you think of for ancient Near Eastern studies. But the story of ancient Near Eastern studies in these places is both interesting in its own right and says important things about education and culture in these countries.

There are similarities between the discipline in these two countries but their differences are tremendous and are related to the larger history of academic institutions. Argentina’s academic tradition is far longer and more solid than Brazil’s. The first Brazilian university (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) was created only in 1920, while the oldest in Argentina, the University of Cordoba, was founded in 1613.

Former Rectory, University of Cordoba (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cordoba-derecho1.JPG)

Unfortunately, there are few sources to investigate the development of ancient Near Eastern studies in these two countries. But this also says something about the important differences between the two. In Brazil there are useful articles about the development and the present situation of the discipline of ancient history, but these are rarely found in Argentina. Why? In my opinion the abundance of sources in Brazil is an attempt to bring visibility to an area that has been given little space in most Brazilian universities. In contrast, ancient history has been more successful in Argentina, where it has been solidly represented since the second half of the twentieth century. The need for acknowledgement is therefore lower.

But both countries are indeed similar in another respect: most historic and archeological research carried out is concerned with the national past. Scholars from both countries are often asked: Why study the ancient Near East? Such questions are posed as if knowledge were not universal, as if Latin Americans should only study aspects of their own countries, or even as if there a hierarchy of knowledge where the regional past is more important than foreign history.

The study of ancient history appeared almost simultaneously in the 1950s in both countries. Yet, in Brazil, since the beginning there has been emphasis on classical Greece and Rome while in Argentina studies of the ancient Near East have prevailed. Indeed, interest in ancient Near Eastern societies existed even outside of academia in Argentina.

One of the first books on the ‘Argentinean orientalism’ was written by the Catholic priest Julian Toscano, who went to Palestine in 1908 with a group of Argentinean pilgrims to visit biblical sites. In the early twentieth century two European Egyptologists visited Argentina, Alexandre Moret of France and Jean Capart from Belgium, who sponsored conferences and analyzed Egyptian museum pieces. In 1941, as a result of an initiative by Argentinean ambassador Jorge Gaston Blanco Villalta, the Instituto Argentino de Estudios Orientales was founded. By the end of the 1950s, the Instituto de Egiptología de la Argentina was created to promote the study of Ancient Egypt.

In academia, ancient Near Eastern research took an important step in the early 1960s with the creation of the Centro de Estudios de Historia Antigua Oriental in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the University of Buenos Aires. In 1972, the Centro de Estudios was converted into Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental and published the Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, the first academic journal devoted to ancient Near Eastern studies in the country. The first Argentinean journal of Egyptology, Aegyptus Antiqua, was launched in 1974. These and other organizations promoted interest and study and contributed to the creation of research libraries.

Study of the ancient Near East in Argentina was introduced by Professor Abraham Rosenvasser, who started teaching ancient history at the University of Buenos Aires in 1956. Other institutes were created during the 1960s, such as the Escuela de Estudios Orientales at the Universidad del Salvador and more recently the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. As we can see, themes related to the ancient Near East have been studied both inside and outside the academy for decades. This historical basis has favored an important updating of contents and has consolidated a group of remarkable professionals that have studied the subject in several regions over the country. At present, doctoral studies in these fields can be taken in several Argentinean universities.

The Brazilian situation is quite different. Classical research was introduced by Professor Euripedes Simoes de Paula at Universidade de São Paulo during the 1950s. Research was characterized by great erudition, but the field acquired the image of elitism. Beyond that, research did not address theoretical issues and had a distinct positivist bias. Some Brazilians left the country during the 1960s and 1970s, notably Professors Milton Schwantes and Emanuel Bouzon. After returning to Brazil, they helped develop biblical and Mesopotamian studies, respectively.

Military rule from 1964 to 1985 created a delicate situation for the study of ancient history in Brazil. At the peak of the political radicalization that characterized the university movement against the dictatorship, the collaboration of some professors with the government contributed to the association of the study of ancient societies with right-wing political thought. This strengthened prejudice against the field. Historians were expected to become involved with themes related to the national political situation, and those who opted for ancient history were mislabeled as reactionary.

An important change has occurred since the 1980s with regard to studies of the ancient Near East. Ancient history has begun to move away from a positivist bias and theoretical issues have been discussed, sometimes following the international debate about specific themes. One of the main sponsors was Professor Ciro Cardoso, who returned to Brazil after being exiled and began teaching at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. The rehabilitation of the field is remarkable, and researchers at outstanding universities have enabled a new stage of expansion at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Teaching of ancient Near Eastern history, more in Argentina than in Brazil, is mainly concentrated in undergraduate disciplines in history and archeology courses. Archeology still awaits advancement in both countries and has yet to challenge the regionalist logic found in that discipline. Archeologists working on the ancient Near East are rare in both countries. There are some historians involved with archeological research but they do not have formal training.

Gradually, research into ancient Israelite society has also appeared; it is still the focus of professionals in the field of theology. Here, another important difference between the South American academic tradition and the European and North American traditions can be noticed. Both in Brazil and in Argentina, theology is still seen in academia as a pariah; for instance, it has not been included either in public universities or in any of the most important universities. The reason for theology’s marginalization is not clear.

Finally, it is worth noting that Egypt and Mesopotamia have been the main study topics when it comes to the ancient Near East. Both in Brazil and in Argentina, there are specialists in these areas, but Argentina is in a better position, since at least three universities have consistently carried out studies of these societies, with collective research projects being supported by resources provided by national sponsoring agencies. There are two dedicated academic organizations that produce specialized publications while there are no publications of this kind in Brazil. In Brazil, the first steps have been taken towards formation of professional organizations devoted exclusively to ancient Near Eastern studies.

In Argentina, researchers have enjoyed better international visibility. This is reflected, for instance, in the presence of foreign experts who often visit Argentina to participate in academic events and share their research. In Brazil, until recently, the ancient Near East was almost an orphan; it was difficult to obtain specialized literature in Portuguese and until 2009 Professor Ciro Cardoso was the only professional able to guide this kind of research. Now, two other faculty members are able to guide research, and larger number of students have become interested. The future for ancient Near Eastern Studies in both Argentina and Brazil is brighter than ever.

Josue Berlesi is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Buenos Aires and Professor of Ancient History at the Federal University of Para – Campus Cameta.

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Open Access Journal: ‘Atiqot << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:43:00 +0000

[First posted 10/31/10, most recently updated 20 May 2013]

‘Atiqot
[Open Access after registration]

'Atiqot is the refereed journal of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It is published four times a year. The contents of the printed version is uploaded to the e-journal website. No changes are made to articles post-publication. The printed journal is available via the IAA website.

For details on how to submit, see our Guide to Contributors.

Range of Topics. ‘Atiqot covers a large chronological span, from prehistory up to the Ottoman period. Excavations are studied from various aspects and disciplines—often the result of the close interaction between researchers of the IAA and outside specialists. Thus, a report should include, in addition to the stratigraphic analysis, comprehensive treatments of the archaeological data, including studies of the various groups of finds,such as ceramics, glass, stone and metal objects, coins, jewelry, textiles, etc., as well as the geological, botanical, faunal and anthropological evidence. Laboratory analyses, such as petrography, radiocarbon dating and metallurgy, should be included where relevant.

The archaeological data published in ‘Atiqot are not confined to a specific range of periods or topics, but to a geographical area—the Land of Israel—which has been influenced by almost every ancient culture that existed in the Levant. The journal thus presents comprehensive research on the region and its connections with the neighboring countries. The publication is devoted to final reports and shorter articles, although occasionally a volume is dedicated to a particular topic (e.g., burial caves, agricultural installations), period (e.g., prehistoric, Islamic) or site (e.g., Acre, Jerusalem).

Excavation Reports. The papers published in ‘Atiqot are primarily the result of salvage excavations conducted by the IAA. Their results are sometimes unexpectedly important, filling in gaps that could not be understood by localized studies of the larger tells. ‘Atiqot is one of the few vehicles for imparting this important data and therefore a primary asset to any scholar in archaeology.

Bilingual Journal. The journal is bilingual, publishing articles in English or Hebrew; all Hebrew reports are accompanied by English summaries keyed to illustrations in the main text.

Current Issue
Past Issues

  ‘Atiqot 50   978-965-406-345-6 December / 2005
  ‘Atiqot 51   978-965-406-346-3 March / 2006
  ‘Atiqot 52   978-965-406-338-8 June / 2006
  ‘Atiqot 53   978-965-406-337-1 September / 2006
  ‘Atiqot 54   978-965-406-336-4 December / 2006
  ‘Atiqot 55   978-965-406-287-9 February / 2007
  ‘Atiqot 56   978-965-406-282-4 June / 2007
  ‘Atiqot 57   978-965-406-267-1 November / 2007
  ‘Atiqot 58   978-965-406-251-0 March / 2008
  ‘Atiqot 59   978-965-406-247-3 June / 2008
  ‘Atiqot 60   978-965-406-241-1 December / 2008
  ‘Atiqot 61   978-965-406-242-8 December / 2009
  ‘Atiqot 62   978-965-406-240-4 March / 2010
  ‘Atiqot 63   978-965-406-239-8 June / 2010
  ‘Atiqot 64   978-965-406-238-1 October / 2010
  ‘Atiqot 65   978-965-406-243-5 January / 2011
  ‘Atiqot 66   978-965-406-246-6 April / 2011
  ‘Atiqot 67   978-965-406-258-9 July / 2011
  ‘Atiqot 68   978-965-406-281-7 November / 2011
  ‘Atiqot 69   978-965-406-289-3 March / 2012
  ‘Atiqot 70   978-965-406-316-6 June / 2012
  ‘Atiqot 71   978-965-406-344-9 September / 2012
  ‘Atiqot 72   978-965-406-348-7 December / 2012
  ‘Atiqot 73   978-965-406-368-5 March / 2013

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Man Camps in May: Some More Observations << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:42 +0000

This past week I spent a few days scouting in the Bakken in advance of the North Dakota Man Camp Project’s first field season of the summer at the end of the month. He will be going out to the Bakken to administer a survey on behalf of another agency. This agency asked that we administer the survey on the basis of our camp typology and was open to adding some questions to the survey to help with our research. (For the uninitiated, we argue that there are three types of camps, cleverly named Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3).

We hope to also do some interviews, and Kyle Cassidy will once again join the team to do some more photography of the characters and landscapes of the Bakken. This is a bit nerve wracking for me because I’ll be in Cyprus while Bret is heading up our research team, but I think we’re on the same page technically and conceptually.

This past week’s trip was the first I made since writing the first draft of an article on our work. There is something about writing that makes my observations all the more tangible and real. So it felt some addition pressure to check on some of the observations that I made in the article on our trip this week.

1. Camps and Abandonment. One of my favorite arguments (which I think was initially offered by Richard Rothaus) was that Type 3 camps might leave the greatest signature in the landscape because they are the least integrated with the modern methods of trash disposal and have the least investment in any particular place. The short duration of many Type 3 encampments would obviously moderate the accumulation of substantial quantities of discard, but the circumstances of their abandonment could have a more significant impact on the materials left behind. I’ve written about this before here.

We revisited the Type 2/Type 3 camp that we initially documented in August 2012 and returned to in February 2013. This camp had been abruptly abandoned in the winter of 2013 and there was a significant assemblage left behind. When we returned to this camp this week, we discovered that the most conspicuous trash was removed from the site. Plastic silverware, beer cans (Coors Light), bottle caps (Corona), fragments of broken styrofoam, pieces of a small grill, and a few other objects. The cement brick fire pit that was still visible in February. was disassembled and moved to another location near some other RVs in the area leaving only the ash deposit from the past fires behind.

We also noted signs of abandoned or declining map camps throughout our study area. We observed a “dry” Type 2 (that is a Type 2 with electricity but no water) that had numerous open lots after being nearly filled in August 2012. We also observed a Type 2 that had been completely abandoned and was strewn with trash, abandoned RVs, fragments of insulation and bit of architecture most notably the plywood mudrooms leaned against the side of many RVs. We would have spent some time documenting this camp, but the gentleman onsite seemed pretty uninterested in having us around. Fortunately, Bret Weber left his business card with the man so if he changed his mind, he can let us know. He was the one of the few unpleasant characters we have encountered in the Bakken.

2. Where are the Type 3 camps? The proximity of the Type 3 camp described above site to a group of new apartment buildings probably accounts for why it was so thoroughly cleaned up. Many Type 3 camps, however, are less conspicuous (and perhaps this is by design as some of them are probably unpermitted or even squatters). Others are incredibly short term and last only as long as is necessary for a particular activity. The small Type 3 shown below, for example, stood at a construction site, drew power from generators, and had a ports-john nearby.

The small size, short duration of occupation, and sometimes hidden locations makes Type 3 camps particularly difficult to locate and document. These aspect of Type 3 camps perhaps also makes them significant and suitable for archaeological investigation.

3. Towns and Workforce Housing. Every time we go out to the Bakken we check out another small town that shows signs of infilling with mobile homes and RVs to serve as workforce housing. Certain patterns of land use in these towns are just beginning to appear. For example, two of our study sites developed around the closed schools in the communities. The available land around schools and the more robust utilities infrastructure probably accounted for this.

We also noted that old towns provide appealing locations for short-term workforce housing. First, most of western North Dakota is dotted with small towns in various states of decline. The two towns pictured above had populations of 80 and 97 respectively (from over 200 in their boom times). These town are linked to major roads, have utility connects and some (albeit modest) amenities, and land. Moreover, they tend to be out of sight allowing for a kind of unsupervised growth.

4. Seasonal Rhythm and Discard. The seasonal rhythms of camp life in Type 2 and Type 3 camps are particularly visible. We noted, for example, piles of plywood and foam insulation around the camps as residents de-winterized their units. We could also sometime tell if a RV entered the camp recently based on evidence for winterizing.

5. The Next Step. The more we traveled the area over the past year, the more we feel like we have a technical handle of what is going on in terms of the oil boom. This last week, we made our way south to Killdeer and Dickinson, North Dakota and saw much the same kind of development and organization as we saw around Watford City and Tioga. It may be that the time of extensive research is coming to a close and the next step is to document one or two camps at a very high resolution. We’re making plans now for another field trip in August (funding permitting). So, stay tuned.

Look on these Works and Frown? << Juan Garcés (Digitised Manuscripts Blog)

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:11:38 +0000

Our post on the Codex Alexandrinus last December brought this comment from Dave P.: "I wonder if conservators in 100 years time will look at this work and frown, as you do at older work?" The simple answer is that we hope not. Before conserving any collection item we consider...

Team Scarlet wins an award for innovation! << SCARLET (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching)

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:49 +0000

Mimas are committed to helping to bring together technology and education but it’s always lovely to get rewarded!

At the 2013 Education Innovation Conference & Exhibition, Jackie Carter (Senior Manager, Learning and Teaching and Social Science Data Services at Mimas) who directs all of our AR work, accepted an award on behalf of the Scarlet team. The award was for innovation in higher education on the back of all the work we talk about on this blog. A big thanks to everyone we have worked with to date on AR.

Here is Jackie with Spencer Kelly of BBC click who gave out the awards.

Read this blog post about the ALT-C award we also won last year: http://teamscarlet.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/scarlet-team-are-joint-runner-up-in-learning-technology-awards/

A drawing of Old St. Peter’s and the Vatican palace from 1535 << Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more)

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:48 +0000

I stumbled across the following sketch here. It shows Old St Peters (left). On the right is the wall that leads even today to the Castell Sant’Angelo, so the viewpoint is more or less that of every modern photograph of St Peters.

From this, it is easy to see why the old basilica was not impressive enough for the renaissance popes. It reminds one rather of the church of the holy tomb in Jerusalem.

Oil << Bill Caraher (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:52:26 +0000

Open Access Text Corpus: SEAL: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature << Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Jones) — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:33:38 +0000

[First posted in AWOL 20 July 2009. Most recently updated 19 May 2013]

SEAL: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature

A Text Corpus of Babylonian and Assyrian Literary Texts from the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BCE

Sources of Early Akkadian Literature is a joint project of the Institute of Archaeology of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Altorientalisches Institut of the University of Leipzig.

Akkadian, i.e. Babylonian and Assyrian, literature, documented on cuneiform tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia (together with Sumerian and Egyptian literature) forms the oldest written literature of mankind.
In the 3rd and 2nd Millennia (c. 2400-1100 BCE), Akkadian literature developed many different literary genres: hymns, lamentations, prayers to various gods, incantations against a range of sources of evil, love-lyrics, wisdom literature (proverbs, fables, riddles), as well as long epics and myths - roughly 550 different compositions. Many of these compositions are not yet published in satisfactory modern editions or scattered throughout a large number of publications.
SEAL ("Sources of Early Akkadian Literature"), which started at 2007, is updated regularly. It aims to compile a complete indexed corpus of Akkadian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BCE, attempting to enable the efficient study of the entire early Akkadian literature in all its philological, literary, and historical aspects.
Many of the editions in SEAL rely on new collations and photos. (For the moment being, these photos cannot be shown publicly due to restricted copy rights.)
As part of this project SEAL will publish the corpus in printed form, in monographs within the new series Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien. Several volumes are currently in preparation:
N. Wasserman: Old Babylonian Incantations.
N. Wasserman: Love Lyrics.
M. P. Streck: Old Babylonian Hymns.
Elyze Zomer: Middle Babylonian Incantations.
J. Fechner will publish a monograph on "Altbabylonische Gottesbriefe" outside the SEAL series.

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	· Los juegos funerales en honor de Patroclo (Ilíada, XXIII.257 ss.) Verde Castro, Carmen Victoria · resumen en Español \| Inglés · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Multiplicidad y unidad de la inteligencia en las sentecias de Porfirio Zamora Calvo, José María · resumen en Español \| Inglés · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Apontamentos sobre a representação de Afrodite em Baquílides Ragusa, Giuliana · resumen en Español \| Inglés · texto en Portugués · pdf en Portugués

	· Recuperación y ampliación del mito de los labdácidas en Antígona de Sófocles: Su funcionalidad en la dinámica dramática Villagra Diez, Pedro · resumen en Español \| Inglés · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Suplicantes de Eurípides: Una interpretación metafórica de la Monodia de Evadne (Versos 990-1008) Nápoli, Juan Tobías · resumen en Español \| Inglés · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Poética y variantes del mito: Venus en Julián del Casal, Rubén Darío y José Lezama Lima Chazarreta, Daniela Evangelina · resumen en Español \| Inglés · texto en Español · pdf en Español

Reseñas

	· "Ésquilo, Tragédias (ediçâo bilingüe). Estudo y traduçâo de Jaa Torrano, Sâo Paulo, Iluminuras, Coleçâo Dionísias, 2009, 424 pp." Hamamé, Graciela Noemí · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· José María Zamora Calvo, Platón. Timeo (edición bilingüe), con notas a la traducción y anexos de Luc Brisson, Madrid, Abada, 2010, 474 págs. Fernández, Claudia N. · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Marcos Martínez Hernández. Sófocles. Erotismo, Soledad, Tradición. Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid, 2010, 239 pp. Moretti, María Inés · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Glória Braga Onelley. A ideologia aristocrática nos Theognidea, Editora da UFF, Niterói, 2009, 160 pp. Fernández Deagustini, María del Pilar · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Zelia de Almeida Cardoso y Adriane Da Silva Duarte (Orgs.). Estudos sobre o teatro antigo, Alameda Casa Editorial, São Paulo, 2010, 275 pp. Fernández Deagustini, María del Pilar · texto en Español · pdf en Español

	· Paula Da Cunha Corrêa. Um Bestiário Arcaico. Fábulas e imagens de animais na poesía de Arquíloco, Editora Unicamp. 2010, 526 pp. Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela Cristina · texto en Español · pdf en Español

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Title:	Archives and archival documents in ancient societies: Legal documents in ancient societies IV, Trieste 30 September - 1 October 2011
Authors:	Faraguna, Michele
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Citation:	Michele Faraguna (edited by), "Archives and archival documents in ancient societies: Legal documents in ancient societies IV, Trieste 30 September - 1 October 2011", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2013
Abstract:	This book, part of a series aiming to investigate the legal systems of ancient societies through a document-based, comparative approach, focuses on the study of archives and archival records and their interplay with the workings of administrative and political systems. The papers are arranged in four sections dealing with the Ancient Near East, Classical Greece, the Persian Tradition and the Hellenistic World, and the Roman Empire. The themes touched upon chronologically span from the early second millennium B.C. to the late Roman Empire and geographically range from Mesopotamia to the Western Mediterranean. The archives considered, public and private, are conspicuous for their variety and reflect diverse archival concepts and traditions but a number of common patterns also emerge in respect to their physical organization, to the classification of texts, the function of record-keeping and the role of seals. We are entitled to speak of a recurring ‘archival behaviour’.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10077/8650
ISBN:	978-88-8303-460-2