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Chères et chers collègues,

Le projet ANR-DFG GymnAsia est consacré aux gymnases et à la culture athlétique dans l’Asie Mineure hellénistique et impériale. Il repose sur la collecte des documents épigraphiques et archéologiques, enregistrés dans une base de données, pour qu’ils soient à disposition de tous. Cette base sera progressivement en accès libre : c’est désormais chose faite, pour une des régions de l’aire étudiée, la Carie.

La base est accessible à partir de la page d’accueil du site du projet : https://gymnasia.huma-num.fr/

Cette base est un instrument de travail pour le projet en cours, mais nous souhaitons qu’elle puisse servir à terme pour d’autres recherches. Sans doute est-elle perfectible et nous vous serions reconnaissants de nous faire parvenir vos remarques critiques :

-Pour la forme (ergonomie, bugs, problèmes techniques de toute sorte), veuillez écrire à cette adresse : gymnasia-hotline@groupes.renater.fr.

-Pour le fond (manques documentaires, erreurs de datation, etc.), veuillez écrire à cette adresse : gymnasia@groupes.renater.fr

Avec mes plus cordiales salutations, Pierre Fröhlich

Deutsche Fassung

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

Das ANR-DFG-Projekt GymnAsia widmet sich den Gymnasien und der athletischen Kultur im Kleinasien in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit.  Es basiert auf der Sammlung von archäologischen und epigraphischen Dokumenten, die in einer Datenbank gespeichert werden, damit sie allen zur Verfügung stehen.. Diese Datenbank wird nach und nach frei zugänglich gemacht: Für eine der Regionen des Untersuchungsgebiets, Karien, ist dies nun geschehen..

Die Datenbank ist bereits über die Startseite der Website zugänglich: https://gymnasia.huma-num.fr/ .

Diese Datenbank ist ein Arbeitsinstrument für das laufende Projekt, aber wir möchten, dass sie langfristig auch für andere Forschungen genutzt werden kann. Sie ist zweifellos verbesserungsfähig und wir wären Ihnen für kritische Anmerkungen dankbar:

-Was die Form betrifft (Ergonomie, Bugs, technische Probleme aller Art), schreiben Sie bitte an diese Adresse: gymnasia-hotline@groupes.renater.fr , die auf Nathalie Prévot und mich verweist.

-Für den Inhalt (fehlende Dokumente, Datierungsfehler usw.), schreiben Sie bitte an diese Adresse: gymnasia@groupes.renater.fr (Nathalie Prévot, Edouard Chiricat, Julie Bernini und ich).

Mit herzlichen Grüßen, Pierre Fröhlich

English version

Dear Colleagues,

The project ANR-DFG GymnAsia concerns the Gymnasia and the athletic culture in Hellenistic and Imperial Asia Minor. It depends on the collection of epigraphic and archaeological documents recorded in a database and making them available to everybody.

This database will be open gradually in free access: it is already done for one of the regions studied by our project, Caria.

This part of the database is open to everybody from now on;  all you have to do is to go to the home page of the project : https://gymnasia.huma-num.fr/

This database is a working tool for the project GymnAsia , but we wish it to serve as background for other research. It is probably perfectible and we wish you to send your remarks and critic observations:

-For the form (ergonomics, bugs and all kind of technical problems) you can write to this address: gymnasia-hotline@groupes.renater.fr.

-For the content (missing documents, dating errors etc.), please write to this address: gymnasia@groupes.renater.fr.

With warmest greetings, Pierre Fröhlich

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La normalità dei Lagidi. Un regno come gli altri nella storia del Mediterraneo ellenistico

Bologna, 4 – 6 aprile 2024

Giovedì 4 aprile Sala delle Armi Palazzo Malvezzi – via Zamboni 22

ore 14.30 c.t. Benvenuto e saluti.

ore 15.00 Lucia Criscuolo (professoressa Alma Mater), Introduzione

ore 15.30 Charles V. Crowther – Alan K. Bowman (University of Oxford), The ‘normality’ of Egypt seen through its epigraphy

ore 16.00 Alice Bencivenni (Università di Bologna), Intorno alle ordinanze dei Tolemei: forme dell’ordine nei regni ellenistici

ore 16.30 pausa

ore 17.00 Stefano Caneva (Università di Padova), Onori cultuali nell’Egitto tolemaico: attori, contesti e prassi in una prospettiva comparatista

ore 17.30 Perrine Kossmann (Université de Bourgogne), Les rois lagides et les concours stéphanites

ore 18 discussione

Venerdì 5 aprile mattina Sala delle Armi Palazzo Malvezzi – via Zamboni 22

ore 9.15 c.t. Daniela Summa (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Cipro al tempo dei Tolemei. Istituzioni, culti, vita di una terra multiculturale alla luce del lavoro al Corpus delle Inscriptiones Graecae (IG XV)

ore 10.00 Claire Balandier (Avignon Université), Le système clérouchique ptolémaïque : une spécificité égyptienne? Retour sur la tenure militaire dans les possessions lagides.

ore 10.30 pausa

ore 11.00 Julien Olivier (Bibliothèque nationale de France), De l’espoir de la reconquête à la sauvegarde de l’influence: les Ptolémées en Syrie-Phénicie aux IIe et Ier siècles av. J.-C.

ore 11.30 Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton), Jews in a Ptolemaic world

ore 12.00 discussione

Venerdì 5 aprile pomeriggio Sala delle Armi Palazzo Malvezzi – via Zamboni 22

ore 15.00 Manuela Mari (Università di Bologna), Lo sguardo di un contemporaneo. Aspetti dell’Egitto tolemaico nelle Storie di Polibio.

ore 15.30 Ivana Savalli-Lestrade (CNRS), Fratrie e potere nell’entourage dei re ellenistici: il caso lagide

ore 16.00 pausa

ore 16.30 Catherine Dobias-Lalou (emerita, Université de Bourgogne), Regards sur la famille dans la Cyrénaïque lagide

ore 17.00 Emilio Rosamilia (Università di Perugia), Cirene e i Lagidi: le basi di statua

ore 17.30 discussione

Sabato 6 aprile mattina Aula Magna Biblioteca Universitaria – via Zamboni 35

ore 9.15 c.t. Marta Fogagnolo (Università di Bologna), Tolemeo I e le città greche d’Asia: il caso di Mileto

ore 10.00 Roberta Fabiani (Università di Roma Tre), La città di Iasos in Caria e i Tolemei

ore 10.30 pausa

ore 11.00 Manfredi Zanin (Universität Bern), Il regno lagide e i Romani: specificità ed eccezionalità delle loro relazioni nel Mediterraneo ellenistico

ore 11.30 discussione

ore 12.00 John K.Davies (FBA, FSA, Liverpool), Conclusioni

 

Convegno internazionale a cura di Alice Bencivenni (Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà), Lucia Criscuolo (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), Maria Pia Torricelli (Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna), Manuela Mari (Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà)

È possibile partecipare anche on-line. Per informazioni contattare: Lucia Criscuolo – lucia.criscuolo@unibo.it

Programma: La normalità dei Lagidi

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Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands (Paros, June 23–July 6, 2024)

This course aims at introducing the participants to the study of Greek inscriptions from the Archaic Period to the Roman times with an emphasis on the inscriptions of the Aegean Islands.

Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with the nature of epigraphic documents, will be introduced to the expertise required in the field of Greek epigraphy and will understand how inscriptions are invaluable documents for the knowledge of Ancient History. The course will have a strong on-site element as the students will be asked to study and copy the stones that record ancient Greek inscriptions. A prior knowledge of Ancient Greek is strongly recommended.

The program will start on the island of Paros where classes will take place both at the archaeological museum of Paros, on site outdoors and in the classroom. A day trip to Antiparos and Despotiko is scheduled. Throughout the program, students will have the opportunity to swim in the blue waters of the Aegean Sea and engage in constructive recreation.

From Paros we shall all travel as a group by ferry boat and the program will continue and end with a four day stay in Athens, where the students will pay visits with expert guidance to the Epigraphical Museum of Athens which houses the largest collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions worldwide. In Athens, students will also have time to explore the city and visit archaeological sites on their own.

Application: https://www.herc.gr/the-epigraphy-of-the-aegean-islands-paros/

Application Deadline: 30 April 2024

Experience Required: None, but preference will be given to those with a background in the Classics and Ancient History/Archaeology

Academic Credit: Upon completion of the program, HERC issues an Academic Transcript for those students who have taken a final exam. Credit is offered by participant’s home institution.

Recommended credits: 4

Program Fee: 2,500 Euros (includes tuition, accommodation and field trips)

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Registration and programme of the VIII. Epigraphy.info Workshop, Berlin 3.-5. April 2024

Dear colleagues and friends of digital epigraphy,

The programme of the next Epigraphy.info VIII workshop in Berlin (3-5 April 2024) is officially published and registration is open until 25 March 2024.

You can access the programme here or on the workshop’s website (https://epigraphy.info/workshop_8/). Some parts of the programme can be attended in a hybrid format, but registration is necessary. Due to limited seats for the Hands-on sessions, we recommend that all participants register as soon as possible. You can register through a form linked to the workshop website.

During the Berlin workshop, the election of new members for the Steering Committee will take place and the location for the next workshop will be decided. If you would like to candidate as a member of the Steering Committee or if you would like to host the next Epigraphy.info workshop, please, send your application to info@epigraphy.info.

If you would like to know more about the Epigraphy.info community before the workshop, you can join an orientation meet-up event on 26 March 2024, where you will get a chance to learn what Epigraphy.info is about, to familiarize yourself with the community, its activities, and how you can participate and contribute. We encourage you to participate and ask any questions you may have! Additionally, if you have specific questions or topics you’d like us to cover, please feel free to share them with us in advance at socialmedia@epigraphy.info.

Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Time: 17:00 CET (Central European Time)

Zoom Link:  https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63005807433?pwd=b0t6UmJIcXEzTi9xaFZvbzZaazVJdz09

For any further questions, please, write to the Steering Committee at info@epigraphy.info

We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

The Steering Committee

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Nono Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca

Dal’8 al 10 gennaio 2025 si terrà la nona edizione del Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG IX), che da quindici anni costituisce per la comunità scientifica degli antichisti un’importante occasione di comunicazione, dialogo e confronto sui temi dell’epigrafia greca. Negli anni il SAEG ha segnato significativamente gli studi epigrafici italiani, contribuendo a creare un clima di lavoro vivace, propenso al confronto e aperto al dialogo, sempre volto a una prospettiva di crescita comune, sulla scorta dell’esempio di quelle studiose (T. Alfieri, C. Antonetti, L. Criscuolo, E. Culasso, E. Miranda) che per prime hanno ideato e organizzato il Seminario e che ancora lo animano. Dopo le prime due edizioni tenute all’Università di Bologna, i successivi convegni del SAEG sono stati organizzati dalle sedi universitarie di Napoli, Milano, Torino, Venezia, Roma-Sapienza e Perugia, con un ampio sforzo organizzativo che ha visto la presentazione di 263 relazioni per un totale di 23 giorni di convegno.

Nel 2025 sarà l’Università di Roma Tre a curare l’organizzazione del SAEG IX. Come da tradizione, il principale intendimento è di lasciare ampio spazio alla presentazione delle ricerche di studiose e studiosi in formazione; tuttavia, il nostro auspicio è che, accanto ai loro interventi, le relazioni di ricercatrici e ricercatori di più lunga esperienza creino quel connubio di competenze e prospettive che da sempre ha positivamente animato questi Seminari.

Chi voglia proporre una relazione da presentare al SAEG IX, su un qualunque aspetto inerente all’epigrafia greca dalle origini fino alla tarda antichità, può inviare entro il 15 giugno 2024 la propria candidatura all’indirizzo saeg2025@uniroma3.it, contenente:

  • il titolo dell’intervento;
  • un abstract di massimo 250 parole;
  • un brevissimo CV.

Le richieste verranno sottoposte a valutazione da parte degli organizzatori. La durata di ciascuna relazione sarà di 20 minuti. In base alla quantità di candidature ricevute, si valuterà la possibilità di aprire anche una sezione poster, nel qual caso sarà diramata una circolare dedicata.

Seguiranno comunicazioni ulteriori e dettagliate circa le sedi di svolgimento del convegno e il programma definitivo. Inoltre, è già disponibile la pagina web www.officina-igxiv2.org/saeg-ix-2025 che contiene tutte le informazioni aggiornate relative al convegno a alla quale si potrà fare costante riferimento.

 

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Epigraphy.info Orientation Meet Up Event

To all the digital epigraphers who are new members or interested, but not (yet) members of the Epigraphy.info community,

As mentioned in our previous communication, we are excited to announce the date for our upcoming Epigraphy.info Orientation Meet-up Event.

Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Time: 17:00 CET (Central European Time)

Zoom Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63005807433?pwd=b0t6UmJIcXEzTi9xaFZvbzZaazVJdz09

 

This online orientation meet-up event will provide you with an opportunity to get to know what Epigraphy.info is about, to familiarize yourself with the community, its activities, and how you can participate and contribute. We encourage you to participate and ask any questions you may have!

During the event, we will address general inquiries about Epigraphy.info, discuss ongoing community projects (e.g. the upcoming VIII. Epigraphy.info Workshop), and brainstorm potential future activities and events.

Additionally, if you have specific questions or topics you’d like us to cover, please feel free to share them with us in advance at socialmedia@epigraphy.info.

We believe this orientation session will serve as a valuable introduction to Epigraphy.info and facilitate your integration into our community.

This event is open to those who are interested in becoming part of our community in the near future as well.

Should you have any further questions or require assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Warm regards,

The Social Media Working Group of Epigraphy.info

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L’épigraphie de Gaule Belgique – Journée d’étude – Metz – 12 Mars 2024

A study day on the current state of research and on the desiderata of epigraphy of Gallia Belgica – programme-journee-epigraphie

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Cutting Edge Epigraphy: Squeeze and Rubbing Techniques

The Cutting Edge: discussions in epigraphy

Squeeze and Rubbing Techniques: Making impressions of inscriptions on paper

28 February 2024, 15:00–16:30.
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London.

Led by Gabriel Bodard, Abigail Graham, Benet Salway.

This seminar explores methods for creating accurate records of inscribed surfaces in paper, that are lightweight and portable yet relatively durable. In some cases these records, the result of direct sensory engagement with an inscription, can provide advantages and insights over photographs or autopsy in reading an inscribed text. The bulk of the session involves hands-on experience making squeezes (pressing wet filter paper onto the surface of the stone using a firm brush to create a 3D impression) and rubbings (an image created by rubbing a rendering material over thin paper placed on the surface). We will also discuss the relative advantages of these and other methods, including digital 3D imaging.

Free but booking essential.

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Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2024 Cirencester

Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2024: Corinium Museum, Cirencester, 18-20 June

With the help of expert guidance, participants will gain direct experience of the practical elements of how to record and study inscriptions in museums or in the field (the making of squeezes; imaging and measuring inscribed stones; and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries).  The workshop is aimed primarily at undergraduates who will be entering their third and / or final year of study next September and at graduates in any year, though we will consider applications from others who wish to develop hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material (those in full-time permanent employment may be asked to meet the full cost of participation: please ask for details).  The workshop is open to those with or without previous epigraphic training and participants may choose to work on texts in either Latin or Greek.  The course fee for student participants will be £120 for this three-day event including accommodation on Tuesday and Wednesday nights for those not based in Oxford and food for all participants from lunch on Tuesday to lunch on Thursday.

Closing date for applications and receipt of references: 12.00 on Friday 16 February 2024

Further information is available here:

https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/article/the-call-for-applications-for-the-practical-epigraphy-workshop-2024-is-open.

and the Application Form here:

https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/csad/documents/media/practicalepigraphyworkshop_2024_ad_0.pdf

Please direct all enquiries to Peter Haarer (see Application Form for address)

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New resource: A tale of two wives (and four husbands?): the story of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome

From a recent blog post on the MAPPOLA webpage: There is a new short documentary film which tells the stories of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome as told by two verse inscriptions (in Latin and Greek) preserved at the Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome).

These women, Allia Potestas and Flavia Sophe, though in very different ways, seemingly embraced unconventional marriages and had unconventional relationships, the details of which remain mysterious for us.

The film has been written by Dr Davide Massimo (Classics and Archaeology – University of Nottingham), Dr Chiara Cenati and Mirko Tasso (Ancient History – University of Vienna), who feature in the film. It was directed by Federico Zanotti with the assistance of Daniele Comelli.

The film was funded by the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna and supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture – Museo Nazionale Romano, the University of Nottingham, and the British School at Rome.

It was officially released on the Youtube channel of the University of Nottingham in December 2023.

We really hope that you will enjoy this short film  and that you will share your opinion with us by leaving a comment on Youtube.

If you are a teacher or if you work in a museum, we would also be particularly grateful if you could share with us your experience with your pupils or museum visitors by sending us an email (chiara.cenati@univie.ac.at or davide.massimo@nottingham.ac.uk).

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Invitation to conference ‘Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy.’

The ERC-funded project STONE-MASTERS would like to invite you to a conference titled “Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy.”More information and the programme can be found here.The conference can be followed on Zoom. Please register separately for each day of the conference:Day One: 30 November 2023Day Two: 1 December 2023

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Greek Epigraphy Postgraduate Course (Athens, March/April 2024)

(Posted on behalf of Georgios Mouratidis.)

The British School at Athens is delighted to invite applications for our Greek Epigraphy Postgraduate Course, that will take place 27 March – 5 April 2024 in Athens, Greece.

Application deadline is 8 December 2023.

The BSA Greek Epigraphy course provides training for historians, archaeologists and textual scholars in the discipline of reading and interpreting epigraphic evidence. The course will allow students to deepen their understanding of the value of epigraphic material to the study of Greek history, society and culture, and to develop practical epigraphic skills: students will be guided through the process of producing editions of inscriptions, gaining first-hand experience with the stones as well as instruction in editorial practice and bibliographic skills.

The course will be taught around the BSA’s own Museum collection, which contains a large range of inscribed objects (graffiti, stamps, instrumenta domestica, weights, and weapons) and will also utilise the most significant collections of stone inscriptions around Athens, in particular at the superb facilities of the Epigraphic Museum, where students will each be assigned a stone from which they will create their own epigraphic edition.

The course is directed by Peter Liddel (Manchester) and Polly Low (Durham), with additional lectures and tours offered by guest speakers. Some prior knowledge of Greek is essential, although students with only elementary skills are advised that reading inscriptions is a very good way to advance in the language!

Applicants should make sure that two references are sent to the assistant director at assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk by the application deadline (8 December 2023), with the subject ‘Epigraphy course reference’.

For more information about the course, visit https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/epigraphy/.

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