Three new volumes from Propylaeum eBooks

 

Sasanidische Spuren in der byzantinischen, kaukasischen und islamischen Kunst und Kultur

Ein neu erschienener Tagungsband beschäftigt sich mit dem Reich der persischen Sasaniden (224-651 n. Chr.), das sich über Gebiete des heutigen Iran, Irak, Aserbaidschan, Pakistan und Afghanistan erstreckte. Viele Elemente der sasanidischen Kunst und Kultur sind in angrenzenden Ländern wie Byzanz oder dem christlichen Kaukasus zu finden und lebten nach deren Untergang  in den islamischen Herrschaftsgebieten fort. Die Beiträge behandeln die fortwirkende Rolle der sasanidischen Perser und ihrer Kultur.

Rekonstruktion von Betriebsmodellen antiker Produktionsanlagen

Im Forschungskontext zur "Archäologie vormoderner Wirtschaftsräume" ist die neu erschienene Dissertation von Heinz Sperling entstanden, der es gelingt, über Open Source-Modelle die Produktionsbedingungen einer römischen Ziegelei in den Nordwest-Provinzen zu ermitteln. So können quantitative Aussagen zur maximalen Produktionskapazität, dem Personal- und Brennstoffbedarf und dem anfallenden Transportaufwand solcher antiker Anlagen möglich gemacht werden. Anwendungsbeispiel ist die römische Ziegelei in Dormagen.

Zwischen Glaube und Geld: Zur Ökonomie des byzantinischen Pilgerwesens

Frömmigkeit ist nicht die alleinige Triebfeder für die Entwicklung des christlichen Pilgerwesens. Das Buch behandelt in einer weiten chronologischen und räumlichen Perspektive die ökonomischen Zusammenhänge, die auf das byzantinische Pilgerwesen (5.-12. Jh.) einwirkten. Das Buch beleuchtet die byzantinischen Pilgerheiligtümer, untersucht ihre Genese, aber auch ihre Organisations- und Finanzierungsstruktur, die bereits in der Spätantike durch Gesetze gerahmt wurde.

Numismatic News: First batch of Philip II coins added to PELLA

First batch of Philip II coins added to PELLA

The first few collections of Philip II coins have been linked to new Le Rider URIs and have been made accessible in PELLA through Nomisma.org's SPARQL endpoint. The American Numismatic Society linked 656 coins to these new URIs. Over the weekend, Karsten Dahmen at the Berlin Münzkabinett cataloged the first 17 coins of their collection. Additionally, I used Matt Lincoln's old data dump of years-old British Museum RDF data running locally in an endpoint to query for Le Rider references among their coins. Using OpenRefine to perform some additional cleanup, almost 60 coins of Philip II from the British Museum are now available in PELLA. Furthermore, just about a half hour ago, Julien Olivier at the Bibliothèque nationale de France sent a spreadsheet of 202 coins of Philip II with their corresponding Le Rider URIs. At this phase, there are now over 900 physical specimens linked into these typologies in PELLA. Not bad since we only just published them less than a week ago!

PELLA Philip II 137 is one of the best-represented types.

I expect a lot more contributors to come along as the cataloging process begins to proliferate through partners such as KENOM and NUMiD.

As it stands now, there are 382 total parent types in PELLA. The coins from the aforementioned collections are cataloged with a mixture of Le Rider (subtype [skos:broader] or skos:exactMatch [for plate-figure numbers]) URIs and PELLA parent type URIs. With the following SPARQL query, I can get a count of the number of photographed specimens per type:

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX nm: <http://nomisma.org/id/>
PREFIX nmo: <http://nomisma.org/ontology#>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>

SELECT ?type (count(?coin) as ?count) WHERE {  
  ?type dcterms:source|skos:exactMatch/dcterms:source nm:pella_type_series .
  ?coin nmo:hasTypeSeriesItem|nmo:hasTypeSeriesItem/skos:broader ?type .
  {?coin nmo:hasObverse/foaf:depiction ?img}
  UNION {?coin foaf:depiction ?img}
} GROUP BY ?type

Hoards of Philip II coins

There are 258 types of Philip II with at least one photographed specimen, which is about two-thirds of the entire range of coinage. Not too bad for just several collections working together to catalog their coins in a few days.

Now that we have linked the Philip II Nomisma ID to typologies and specimens, some of these specimens also include hoard references, therefore populating the Philip II URI with additional research context for geographic and statistical visualization.

Average weights of tetradrachms from Philip to Alexander

As you can see from the chart above, the weight of Macedonian tetradrachms remains consistent from Philip II to Alexander until 336 B.C (https://bit.ly/2wCuH8G).

Online Open House | Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy, Gregory Nagy

Online Open House | Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy, Gregory Nagy

April 9, 2020

Filled under Featured, Visiting Scholars

We are excited to welcome back Gregory Nagy of Harvard University, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC for an Online Open House. The title of the discussion is “Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy” which will take place on April 16 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. The event will be live-streamed and recorded. You can view the event on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel.

You may like to read the following to get ready for the event:
About writings and rewritings by scribes: an e-dialogue with Hana Navratilova

A Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy for converting rough copies into fair copies

Did the kings of Sparta commission texts to be written down by scribes?

You can find the whole series below:

https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/did-the-kings-of-sparta-commission-texts-to-be-written-down-by-scribes/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/i-am-a-scribe-who-writes-letters-and-my-writing-gives-me-power-variations-on-a-theme-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-and-near-east/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/some-missing-links-in-my-efforts-to-trace-continuities-as-well-as-discontinuities-in-minoan-mycenaean-scribal-practices/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/echoes-of-a-minoan-mycenaean-scribal-legacy-in-a-story-told-by-herodotus/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-minoan-mycenaean-scribal-legacy-for-converting-rough-copies-into-fair-copies/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/minoan-and-mycenaean-fig-trees-some-retrospective-and-prospective-comments/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/about-writings-and-rewritings-by-scribes-an-e-dialogue-with-hana-navratilova/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/about-what-kinds-of-things-we-may-learn-about-mythology-by-reading-about-rituals-recorded-by-bureaucratic-scribes/
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/thinking-comparatively-about-greek-mythology-xvii-with-placeholders-that-stem-from-a-conversation-with-tom-palaima-starting-with-this-question-was-herakles-a-dorian/

Gregory Nagy

Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. In his publications, he has pioneered an approach to Greek literature that integrates diachronic and synchronic perspectives. His books include The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press), which won the Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association, in 1982; also Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Homeric Questions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), Homeric Responses (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003), Homer’s Text and Language (University of Illinois Press 2004), Homer the Classic (Harvard University Press, online 2008, print 2009), and Homer the Preclassic (University of California Press 2010). His latest work, Masterpieces of Metonymy, is now available online. He co-edited with Stephen A. Mitchell the 40th anniversary second edition of Albert Lord’s The Singer of Tales (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature vol. 24; Harvard University Press, 2000), co-authoring with Mitchell the new Introduction, pp. vii–xxix. Professor Nagy has taught versions of this course to Harvard College undergraduates and Harvard Extension School students for over thirty-five years. Throughout his career Nagy has been a consistently strong advocate for the use of information technology in both teaching and research. He is currently writing articles for Classical Inquiries, including commentaries on Iliad.

Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion Program Books 1938-2019

Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion Program Books

Pitts Theology Library holds the archival records for both the Society of Biblical Literature (Collection RG 100) and the American Academy of Religion (Collection RG 057). These two organizations have held joint annual meetings since 1970 (with the exception of 2008-2011). Presented here are program books from these organizations (1938-2018). We plan to fill in missing program books as we produce digital copies of them.

NB: The American Academy of Religion was previously known as the National Association of Biblical Instructors and the Society of Biblical Literature was formerly known as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.

Program Books

1938		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [621 KB]
1940		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Thirty-First Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [635 KB]
1941		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Thirty-Second Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [641 KB]
1946		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [1006 KB]
1947		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [597 KB]
1950		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-First Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [3.3 MB]
1951		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Second Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [3.8 MB]
1952		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Third Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [4.4 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Eighty-Eighth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [907 KB]
1953		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Eighty-Ninth Meeting Evanston, Illinois View program book (PDF) [961 KB]
1954		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [761 KB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninetieth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [991 KB]
1955		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [4.4 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-First Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [949 KB]
1956		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [3.7 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Second Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [874 KB]
1957		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky View program book (PDF) [3.9 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Third Meeting Louisville, Kentucky View program book (PDF) [9.3 KB] The SBL archives does not have a copy of the 1957 program. Presented here is the conference proceedings, which was published in the Journal of Biblical Literature.
1958		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky View program book (PDF) [3.6 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Fourth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [969 KB]
1959		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Golden Anniversary Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [3.9 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Fifth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [962 KB]
1960		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Fifty-First Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [839 KB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Sixth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [888 KB]
1961		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Fifty-Second Annual Meeting St. Louis, Missouri View program book (PDF) [3.6 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Seventh Meeting St. Louis, Missouri View program book (PDF) [792 KB]
1962		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Fifty-Third Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [3.7 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ninety-Eighth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [997 KB]
1963		The National Association of Biblical Instructors Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [23.6 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature, Ninety-Ninth Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [900 KB]
1964		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [26.7 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature The Hundredth General Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [774 KB]
1965		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [17.7 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature One Hundred First Meeting Nashville, Tennessee View program book (PDF) [991 KB]
1966		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [16.6 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature One Hundred Second Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [891 KB]
1967		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [26.3 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature One Hundred Third Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [717 KB]
1968		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Dallas, Texas View program book (PDF) [39.7 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature One Hundred Fourth Annual Meeting Berkeley, California View program book (PDF) [1.6 MB]
1969		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Boston, Massachussetts View program book (PDF) [58.7 MB]
		The Society of Biblical Literature One Hundred Fifth Meeting Toronto, Ontario View program book (PDF) [1.5 MB]
1970		American Academy of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [10.7 MB]
1971		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia View program book (PDF) [10.3 MB]
1972		Religion and the Humanizing of Man International Congress of Learned Societies in the Field of Religion Los Angeles, California View program book (PDF) [31 MB]
1973		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [12.1 MB]
1974		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting Washington DC View program book (PDF) [20.8 MB]
1975		Society of Biblical Literature, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [18 MB]
1976		American Academy of Religion, American Schools of Oriental Research, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting St. Louis, Missouri View program book (PDF) [24.7 MB]
1977		American Academy of Religion, American Schools of Oriental Research, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Francisco, California View program book (PDF) [32 MB]
1978		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Joint Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana View program book (PDF) [27.3 MB]
1979		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (Scholars Press Scholia VIII) New York, New York View program book (PDF) [28 MB] View 1979 Supplement (PDF) [4 MB]
1980		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (Scholars Press Scholia XII) Dallas, Texas View program book (PDF) [31.7 MB] View 1980 Supplement (PDF) [1.7 MB]
1981		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Francisco, California View program book (PDF) [27.8 MB] View 1981 Supplement (PDF) [1.3 MB]
1982		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting New York, New York View program book (PDF) [30.3 MB]
1983		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Dallas, Texas View program book (PDF) [33.1 MB] View 1983 Supplement (PDF) [1.8 MB]
1984		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [37.4 MB]
1985		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting Anaheim, California View program book (PDF) [45.3 MB]
1986		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia View program book (PDF) [46.6 MB]
1987		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts View program book (PDF) [53.8 MB]
1988		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [61.6 MB]
1989		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Anaheim, California View program book (PDF) [58 MB]
1990		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana View program book (PDF) [65.4 MB]
1991		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Kansas City, Missouri View program book (PDF) [59.7 MB]
1992		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Francisco, California View program book (PDF) [63.9 MB]
1993		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Washington DC View program book (PDF) [74.3 MB]
1994		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [77.4 MB]
1995		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania View program book (PDF) [77.9 MB]
1996		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana View program book (PDF) [79.3 MB]
1997		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Francisco, California View program book (PDF) [80.6 MB]
1998		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Orlando, Florida View program book (PDF) [74.4 MB]
2003		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia View program book (PDF) [19.5 MB]
2005		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania View program book (PDF) [8.1 MB]
2007		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Diego, California View program book (PDF) [17.6 MB]
2008		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [57.8 MB]
2009		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec View program book (PDF) [58.1 MB]
		Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana View program book (PDF) [35.6 MB]
2010		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia View program book (PDF) [67.4 MB]
		Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia View program book (PDF) [79.7 MB]
2011		American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting San Francisco, California View program book (PDF) [3.6 MB]
		Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Francisco, California View program book (PDF) [34.1 MB]
2012		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois View program book (PDF) [27.1 MB]
2013		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Baltimore, Maryland View program book (PDF) [17.6 MB]
2014		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Diego, California View program book (PDF) [22.7 MB]
2015		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia View program book (PDF) [23.6 MB]
2016		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas View program book (PDF) [17.7 MB]
2017		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts View program book (PDF) [20.8 MB]
2018		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado View program book (PDF) [14.9 MB]
2019		American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting San Diego, California View program book (PDF) [17.7 MB]

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