Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Open Access Journal: Hebraic Political Studies

Hebraic Political Studies
Hebraic Political Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal launched in 2005. The journal is published quarterly by Shalem Press, and edited by Professor Gordon Schochet of Rutgers University and Dr. Arthur Eyffinger of the Huygens Institute in the Netherlands. Hebraic Political Studies publishes articles that explore the political concepts of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, the significance of reflections on the Hebrew Bible and Judaic sources in the history of ideas, and the role of these sources in the history of the West. Hebraic Political Studies aims to evaluate the place of the Jewish textual tradition, alongside the traditions of Greece and Rome, in political history and the history of political thought.
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Monday, September 28, 2009

The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania
Edited by J.M. Reynolds and J.B. Ward-Perkins in collaboration with Salvatore Aurigemma, Renato Bartoccini, Giacomo Caputo, Richard Goodchild and Pietro Romanelli (1952).

Enhanced electronic reissue (2009), prepared by Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Roueché, with new translations by Joyce Reynolds, maps by Hafed Walda and full illustration from the Ward-Perkins photographic archive of the British School at Rome.
ISBN 978-1-897747-23-3
The first publication of Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, which appeared in 1952, has long been out of print. Produced in post-war conditions, it only included illustrations of a few inscriptions, although very many of them had been photographed; and it only offered limited geographic information.

The purposes of this enhanced reissue are, therefore, to make the original material available again, and to provide the full photographic record, together with geographical data linking the inscriptions to maps and gazetteers, and so to other resources. Electronic publication makes this possible, and also allows us to offer greater functionality, such as free text searches. We have included the material from the supplement which contained further texts, numbered in the same sequence (973-996): 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: a supplement', published in PBSR 23 (1955), 124-147, and we have incorporated corrections and emendations made in that article; but we have not attempted to alter or emend any item otherwise.

The indices of this edition are generated from the texts themselves. This means that in some cases they will diverge from those in the original edition, usually being fuller: but the material in three texts not included in that edition (261, 262 and 855) and the Neo-Punic personal names do not appear in these indices.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Open Access: The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars

The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars

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Open Access Textbooks

[Updated 9/19/09 (Foxvog added), updated 9/27/2009 (Ancient Sanskrit Online, Classical Greek Online, Classical Armenian Online, Hittite Online, New Testament Greek Online, Old Iranian Online, and Tocharian Online) ]

Open Access Textbooks in fields relating to the ancient world
Do you know of others? Do you use any of these in your teaching? Are you developing open access textbooks in any area of ancient world studies? Please respond by clicking the Comments button.

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Friday, September 25, 2009

e-kitap: Arkeoloji

[Originally posted 9/25/09. Updated 5/13/10: For newer links to these and many more volumes on Turkish archaeology see Seven Open Access Turkish Archaeological Journals]

e-kitap: Arkeoloji
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Ancient and Near Eastern journals open access at revues.org

[Originally posted 5/5/09, updated 5/6/09 with the addition of Atlas du Liban. Updated 9/25/09 with the addition of Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques and Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences religieuses.. Updated 12/7/09; updated 2/9/10]

Revues.org has an interesting suite of open access online journals relating to antiquity and the Near East. Current holdings include the following journals:

Abstracta Iranica
Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques
Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences religieuses
Le Bulletin d’études orientales
Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
Cahiers d’Asie centrale
Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien
Cahiers «Mondes Anciens»
Chroniques yéménites
Documents d’archéologie méridionale
Égypte/Monde arabe
European journal of Turkish studies
Paléo. Revue d'archéologie préhistorique
Préhistoires méditerranéennes
Quaternaire: Revue de l'Association française pour l'étude du Quaternaire
Revue archéologique de l’Est
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Revue archéologique du centre de la France

[And see the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies]

and these monographs from the Collections électroniques de l’Ifpo

Liban, espaces partagés et pratiques de rencontre [Texte intégral]
Sous la direction de Franck MermierL’ouvrage inaugure la nouvelle collection de l’Institut, Les Cahiers de l’Ifpo. Cette première édition des Cahiers de l’IFPO est consacrée aux espaces partagés et pratiques de rencontre au Liban, sans que prédomine, à nos yeux, dans les notions de partage et de rencontre, le caractère positif ou neutre de l’un, la valeur de mise...

Atlas du Liban [Texte intégral]
Sous la direction de Éric Verdeil, Ghaleb Faour et Sébastien Velut Offrir une vision nouvelle du territoire libanais et mettre en évidence ses transformations depuis une trentaine d’années : tel est le projet de cet atlas, produit d’une collaboration franco-libanaise. L’ouvrage repose sur une large collecte d’informations spatialisées à une échelle fine ; sa cartographie riche et inédite permet...

ONG palestiniennes et construction étatique [Texte intégral]
de Caroline Abu-Sada
Avec la reconfiguration territoriale et la mise en place de l’Autorité palestinienne qui ont suivi les accords d’Oslo, puis les bouleversements liés à la seconde Intifada, les orientations et les priorités des ONG palestiniennes ont évidemment évolué, notamment pour celles qui ont un lien avec l’enjeu du « retour à la terre ».

Penser l'Orient [Texte intégral]
Sous la direction de Youssef Courbage et Manfred Kropp
Les entretiens franco-allemands de Beyrouth. Nul n'ignore le rôle occulte ou déclaré de ces maîtres à penser que sont devenus les orientalistes occidentaux. Nul n'ignore les implications, louables ou critiquables, de leurs recherches dans la perception du monde arabe et musulman et, chemin faisant, dans la conception des politiques de leurs...

Armées et combats en Syrie de 491/1098 à 569/1174 [Texte intégral]
de Abbès Zouache
Dès leur arrivée en Syrie, les Francs firent preuve d’une adaptabilité multiforme. Ils intégrèrent des éléments locaux dans leurs armées, palliant ainsi leurs difficultés démographiques, même s’il faut revenir sur l’idée d’une supériorité musulmane systématique. Les armées musulmanes souffrirent longtemps d’un déficit...

Each component of revues.org includes news feeds allowing readers to be alerted when new content appears.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

CORPUS OF ATTIC VASE INSCRIPTIONS

Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions
Immerwahr, Henry R.
January 2009
This corpus is based on notes taken over the years from publications and illustrations, with some autopsy where possible. I am aware of the fact that a real corpus should be based mainly on direct examination of the documents, but in the case of pottery, scattered as it is over the globe, this is not attainable. The corpus is not complete, nor is it a finished product, and the information has to be used with caution. It has been made available by circulating hard copy in a few places and by CD's distributed individually. The Beazley Archive in Oxford has made extensive use of it, but without giving the corpus numbers. Since these have been quoted in a number of articles, I thought it only fair to make it generally available as a website. This issue is a second partial revision from that included about a year ago. Rudolf Wachter is preparing a more thoroughly revised version. See his website, http://pages.unibas.ch/avi/ .
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Open Access Journals: ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ

ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ
ISSN 1106-661x
Τὸ περιοδικὸ ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ μὲ τὸν ὑπότιτλο Συμβολὲς στὴν ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ καὶ Ρωμαϊκοῦ κόσμου ἄρχισε νὰ ἐκδίδεται τὸ 1995 στὴν Θεσσαλονίκη μὲ πρωτοβουλία τῶν Ἰωάννη Τουλουμάκου, καθηγητοῦ τότε τῆς Ἀρχαίας Ἱστορίας στὸ ἐκεῖ πανεπιστήμιο, Ἄγγελου Χανιώτη, καθηγητοῦ τότε Ἀρχαίας ῾Ελληνικῆς Ἱστορίας στὸ Πανεπιστήμιο τῆς Χαϊδελβέργης καὶ Fritz Gschnitzer, ὁμότιμου καθηγητοῦ στὸ ἴδιο πανεπιστήμιο, καὶ μέχρι σήμερα ἔχουν κυκλοφορήσει ὀκτὼ τόμοι.

Τὴν συνέχιση τῆς ἐκδόσεως τοῦ περιοδικοῦ ἀνέλαβε ἀπὸ τὸ 2008 τὸ Κέντρο Ἑλληνικῆς καὶ Ρωμαϊκῆς Ἀρχαιότητος (Κ.Ε.Ρ.Α.). Κατὰ τὴν νέα αὐτὴ φάση ὡς περιοδικὸ ἐλευθέρας προσβάσεως μὲ ἀνώνυμους κριτές, τὰ ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ θὰ ἐξακολουθήσουν να δημοσιεύουν μελέτες ποὺ ἀφοροῦν στὴν Ἀρχαία Ἑλληνικὴ Ἱστορία, τὴν Ἐπιγραφική, τὴν Νομισματικὴ καὶ τὴν Τοπογραφία (8ος αἰ. π.Χ. - 6ος αἰ. μ.Χ.). Ἔμφαση θὰ δίδεται καὶ τώρα στὴν παρουσίαση νέου ὑλικοῦ καὶ ἐπιδίωξη τῶν ἐκδοτῶν εἶναι οἱ δημοσιευόμενες μελέτες νὰ καλύπτουν τὸν εὐρύτερο ἑλληνικὸ χῶρο. Στὴν νέα Ἐκδοτικὴ Ἐπιτροπὴ συμμετέχουν οἱ Δημήτριος Παντερμαλῆς, Ἄγγελος Χανιώτης, Χαράλαμπος Κριτζᾶς, Παντελής Νίγδελης καὶ Μιλτιάδης Β. Χατζόπουλος, ἐνῶ τὰ καθήκοντα Ἐπιμελητοῦ ἐκδόσεως ἔχει ἀναλάβει ὁ Ἄγγελος Π. Ματθαίου.

Ὡς ἔκδοση τοῦ Κέντρου Ἑλληνικῆς καὶ Ρωμαϊκῆς Ἀρχαιότητος (Κ.Ε.Ρ.Α.) τὰ ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ θὰ ἀποτυπώνουν τὴν ἐπιστημονικὴ δραστηριότητα τῶν ἐρευνητῶν του, θὰ φιλοξενοῦν ὅμως παράλληλα μελέτες καὶ ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων καὶ ξένων ἐρευνητῶν, οἱ ὁποῖες ἀνταποκρίνονται στοὺς ἀνωτέρω στόχους. Ἡ ἔκδοση τοῦ περιοδικοῦ προβλέπεται ἐτήσια. Δεκτὲς θὰ γίνονται μελέτες στὴν ἑλληνική, τὴν ἀγγλική, τὴν γαλλική, τὴν γερμανικὴ καὶ τὴν ἰταλική, καθὼς ἐπίσης καὶ βιβλιοκρισίες-ἄρθρα, ὄχι ὅμως βιβλιοπαρουσιάσεις.


Τhe journal ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ, subtitled Contributions to the History of the Greek and Roman World, began publication in 1995 in Thessalonike, at the initiative of Ioannis Touloumakos, then Professor of Ancient History at the University of Thessalonike, Angelos Chaniotis, then Professor of Ancient Greek History at Heidelberg University, and Fritz Gschnitzer, Emeritus Professor at the same university. To date, eight volumes have been issued.

The Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.Ρ.A.) has undertaken to continue publication of the journal ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ. In this new phase of its existence as a peer reviewed open access journal, ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ will continue to publish studies on Ancient Greek History, Epigraphy, Numismatics and Topography between the eighth century B.C. and the sixth century A.D. The emphasis will still be on the presentation of new materials and the editors hope to cover the Greek world in the broadest sense. The new editorial board consists of Dimitrios Pantermalis, Angelos Chaniotis, Charalampos Kritzas, Pantelis Nigdelis and Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, while Angelos P. Matthaiou will serve as editor.
As a Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.Ρ.A.) publication, ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ will reflect the scholarly activity of the Centre’s research staff, but contributions by other Greek and foreign scholars are welcomed, provided they respond to the objectives outlined above. The journal will be issued annually. Contributions may be in Greek, English, French, German or Italian. Review articles are acceptable, but not simple book reviews.


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Open Access Journals: ArchéoSciences, Revue d'Archéométrie

ArchéoSciences, Revue d'Archéométrie
ISSN : 1960-1360
ISSN électronique : en cours d’attribution
ArchéoSciences, Revue d'Archéométrie, éditée annuellement par le Groupe des Méthodes Pluridisciplinaires Contribuant à l'Archéologie (G.M.P.C.A.), contient des articles, en français ou en anglais, sur toute recherche originale et inédite traitant de l'application de diverses techniques scientifiques (sciences physiques, chimiques, mathématiques, sciences de la terre et de l'univers, et sciences de la nature et de la vie) à la résolution de problématiques archéologiques ou de la mise au point de nouvelles méthodes. Les articles peuvent porter sur les méthodologies et leurs limites, sur des recherches scientifiques fondamentales ou des techniques spécialisées, sous réserve que leur justification archéologique soit clairement explicitée.

* 32 | 2008 [full text available December 2010]
* 31 | 2007 [full text available December 2009]
* 30 | 2006 [full text]
* 29 | 2005 [full text]
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

"Preprints and Open Access Revisited"

The following article appeared in APA Newsletter, volume 32, Number 3 (June 2009), and is reformatted here, with the permission of the author, in html with added hyperlinks.


LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Preprints and Open Access Revisited

This is a revised reprint (rather than a preprint!) of my February 2009 President’s Letter. Many in the APA membership seem to have missed the February Newsletter, due to the change-over to electronic distribution. Since I regard the issue of preprints and open access to be of great importance to the future of the organization, I offer it again. My apologies to those who read this Letter last winter. To those missed it the first time around, I hereby reiterate my previous invitation to the members of the APA to make their scholarly work-in-progress public as preprints on the newly formed Classical Research Network (CRN). Instructions about how to find and submit papers on the CRN will be found below. But first I will try to answer the obvious question: “Why should classicists bother with preprints?” Preprints are not peer reviewed publications. But they can be an important stage on the way to peer-reviewed publication and there is considerable value in making one’s scholarship public in advance of final publication.

Scholarship is, of course, all about making the results of research available to a community of scholars. In the first 120 years after the foundation of APA (in 1869) classical scholarship was made public primarily in the form of printed books and periodicals: peer-reviewed journals, monographs, and in occasional collections of essays and Festschriften. But the situation changed with the coming of the internet. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, which proudly claims the title of the second-oldest online journal in the humanities, began publishing online in 1990. Since then, the quantity of scholarship available online has exploded: e-journals; back issues of hard-copy journals on JSTOR and other archive sites; e-books from ebrary and Amazon.com; online bibliographies (notably APh and DCB); web pages (of organizations, academic departments, and individuals); blogs and more offer the potential for making research publicly available.

The “preprint” or “working papers” series seems to me to offer a promising, and still under-utilized venue for making classical scholarship public. Unlike many forms of internet publication, the preprint series is a time-tested form of scholarly communication. Working papers have long been a standard feature of how scholarly work is carried out in academic departments of social and natural sciences–indeed, some preprint series date back to before the internet era. The popularity of the form is due to several unique advantages that it offers to scholars: Preprints reduce to near-zero the time lag between the completion of an article that is “ready to circulate,” even if not yet “ready to publish,” and its appearance in public. Authors can gain feedback on a paper before it is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The chronological priority of a new idea is established once a paper is “datestamped” by appearing in a series. And, not least, readers (including people lacking access to research libraries) gain access to up-to-date academic scholarship.

Despite these advantages, the humanities were slow to follow the lead of the social and natural sciences. It was not until 2005 that the Classics Departments of Princeton and Stanford Universities launched their experimental preprint series, The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics (http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc). The series is open access–anyone with an internet connection and a reasonably up-to-date browser can access all site content and download papers without charge. Copyright for each paper is held by the author(s); there is no editorial content review (once again: preprints are not peer-reviewed publications). Posting is limited to the faculty and students of the hosting institutions.

The PSWPC experiment seems to have been successful, at least if success is measured in terms of authors (currently ca. 40 faculty and graduate students), papers (ca. 150–if one counts re-editions), and readers (or at least viewers and downloaders). Our experience in the first year of the series, along with some preliminary readership statistics, are in reported in J. Ober, W. Scheidel, B. Shaw, and D. Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies. The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics,” Hesperia 76 (2007): 229-42 (http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesp.76.1.229 - open access). The series was reviewed in March 2008 by David Pritchard in Literary and Linguistic Computing (http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/fqn005v1 - ironically, only the abstract of this review-article is open access) [the texts of this article is available at http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/2226 -CJ-]

When we launched the PSWPC site, we hoped that other Classics Departments would set up their own parallel series. The University of Wales Lampeter has indeed done so (http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/working_papers.html), but there are non-trivial costs involved with setting up and maintaining a departmental preprint site.

Happily, thanks to the hard work of a team of scholars at the University of Texas (notably Lesley Dean-Jones in the Classics Department and Bernard Black in the Law School) there is now an open access and very well organized Classics preprint series available to all Classicists: the Classics Research Network (http://www.ssrn.com/crn/index.html). The CRN is part of the Humanities Research Network, which is in turn a part of the large and well established Social Science Research Network (the SSRN currently includes over 200,000 papers and gets ca. 7 million downloads per year).

The Classics Research Network is open access: papers posted on the site are uploaded by authors without charge and searched, browsed, and downloaded by readers without charge. Authors retain the copyright and retain the right to post their work on other sites.

To browse the existing papers on the Classic Research Network:
  • Enter into your browser: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayjournalbrowse.cfm, which will bring up a list of Networks. Find, at the bottom of the list, “Humanities Research Network.”
  • Click the square box in front of Humanities Research Network, which will bring up a list of Humanities Networks. You will find, at the top of the list, “HRN Classical Research Network.” Click the title to see a list of all the papers on the CRN, or the box in front of the title to browse specific CRN Subject Matter eJournals (e.g. History, Literature, Classical Tradition). [or go directly to HRN Classical Research Network]
To register to submit a paper on the Classics Research Network, go to www.ssrn.com and click on “submit.” The procedure for submitting papers to the CRN is quite straight forward and works quickly as soon as you complete registration. By registering, you will set up an individual “author page,” which will include direct links to all your posted papers. For example, my own page is http://ssrn.com/author= 336081. As you become more familiar with the network you will find that its utility grows. You may choose to receive e-mail notification when other scholars post papers in research areas of interest to you. You may submit both preprints (Working Paper Series) and, if you have not given away electronic rights, previously published papers (Accepted Papers Series). After you submit a paper, you may revise it as often as you wish.

I realize that for some classicists posting preprints on an open access web site will initially seem strange, perhaps even dangerous. I believe the risks are minimal and that they are, in any event, much outweighed by the risks associated with failing to make our scholarship public in a timely way. The highly experienced SSRN administrators, who handle tens of thousands of preprints annually, report that publishers ordinarily have no objection to authors having posted their papers with a preprint series. They also report that incidents of posted papers being misappropriated are almost unknown; the few known cases of misappropriation have been addressed swiftly and to the author’s satisfaction. This relative lack of complications for authors is confirmed by my own years of experience with the Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics.

I encourage APA members to submit their papers to the Classical Research Network. My sincere hope is that that the SSRN’s Classics Research Network will soon become a standard place where all those who care about classical studies can freely post their scholarly efforts, and freely obtain access to current research.

Josiah Ober
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies at Dialnet

Anales de prehistoria y arqueología
ISSN: 0213-5663

Aquila legionis: cuadernos de estudios sobre el Ejército Romano
ISSN: 1578-1518

Arqueobios
ISSN: 1996-5214

Boletín del Seminario de Estudios de Arte y Arqueología
ISSN: 0210-9573

Bolskan: Revista de arqueología del Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses
ISSN: 0214-4999

Clásicos de la arqueología de Huelva
ISSN: 1133-2085

Cuadernos de prehistoria y arqueología castellonenses
ISSN: 0212-1824

Cuba Arqueológica. Revista digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe
ISSN: 1852-0723

DavarLogos
ISSN: 1666-7832

Estudios del Patrimonio Cultural
ISSN: 1988-8015

Hispania antiqua
ISSN: 1130-0515

Huelva arqueológica
ISSN: 0211-1187

Iberia: Revista de la Antigüedad
ISSN: 1575-0221

Marq, arqueología y museos
ISSN: 1885-3145

Mayab: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas
ISSN: 1130-6157

Memorias de historia antigua
ISSN: 0210-2943

Minerva: Revista de filología clásica
ISSN: 0213-9634

Quaderns de prehistòria i arqueologia de Castelló
ISSN: 1137-0793

Trabajos de arqueología Navarra
ISSN: 0211-5174
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Onomasticon Oasiticum

Onomasticon Oasiticum: An Onomasticon of Personal Names found in Documentary Texts from the Theban Oasis in Graeco-Roman Times
Compiled by Robert P. Salomons and Klaas A.Worp
Revised version (September 2009; first version July 2007)

In the Avertissement (p.vii) to his well known study Les Oasis d’Égypte (Cairo 1987), and on many pages elsewhere in this volume, the late Guy Wagner alludes to an exhaustive prosopography of the Great Oasis, compiled by himself but unfortunately for financial reasons not incorporated in Les Oasis. However, a separate publication of this prosopography, as announced in the Avertissement, did not appear either. Therefore, the need for such a prosopography remained unfulfilled.

The idea of composing a new onomasticon of the Dakhleh Oasis, or an
Onomasticon Mothiticum as we wish to call it, was born independently during the 5th Dakhleh Oasis Project conference held in Cairo, June 2006, where Worp gave a paper on Christian names in fourth century documents from Kellis. An additional incentive for compiling such an onomasticon was the consideration that Worp himself had already published a substantial number of documentary papyri, ostraka and wooden tablets from this area ( in particular in P.Kellis, vol. I, and in O.Kellis). It was, therefore, only a matter of merging his various indices nominum and adding names of persons from the Dakleh oasis figuring in papyri and ostraka already published elsewhere. This activity involved collecting the relevant texts from, e.g., the list given by Wagner in the introduction to his Les Oasis, pp. 3- 6, and a search in the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis for ‘Ort = Grosse Oase’). Moreover, our colleague R.S. Bagnall kindly made the digital file of his own index nominum for P.Kellis IV available to Worp.

An onomasticon of the eastern part of the Great Oasis, the Khargeh oasis, i.e. an Onomasticon Hibiticum, had also been a desideratum for a long time. In the 1980s Salomons, when working on his publication of Bodleian Papyri (in P.Bodl., vol. I, in which appear several texts from the Khargeh oasis) had already compiled an onomasticon of the Great or Theban Oasis for his own use, based exclusively on the papyrological evidence then available to him. But the subsequent publication of the various volumes of ostraka from Douch, Aïn Waqfa and other texts from the Hibite nome, mainly by French papyrologists in the 1990s, had made this private onomasticon obsolete and underlined the desirability of an Onomasticon Hibiticum, especially if combined with an Onomasticon Mothiticum.

Thus the two of us decided to cooperate in compiling an Onomasticon Oasiticum: Salomons took responsability for texts from the eastern Oasis and the incerta, while Worp took responsabilty for the listing of personal names in documents from the western Oasis.

We venture to think that our onomasticon as a reseach tool is of interest not only to Greek, Demotic and Coptic papyrologists focussing their research on documents from the Great Oasis, but also in general to onomatologists, since the onomastics of the Great Oasis exhibit certain peculiarities not encountered elwewhere in Graeco-Roman Egypt. These deserve to be studied further. A comparison of the two main parts of the onomasticon shows, e.g., that certain names occur far more frequently in one particular half of the Great Oasis than in the other half (compare, e.g., the frequency of the name Πετεχω^ ν in the Khargeh Oasis [to date attested there several dozens of times] versus that in the Dakhleh Oasis [to date attested there only twice]).

Moreover, there is at least the theoretical possibility that some personal names occurring in these oases actually do not derive from either Greek or Egyptian, but that they come from other languages and cultures such as that of the Berber.

For obvious reasons the Onomasticon Oasiticum is divided into three parts, viz.
1) the Onomasticon Hibiticum,
2) a list of of personal names of people who certainly lived somewhere in the Great Oasis, but whose whereabouts in either the Mothite nome or the Hibite nome are no longer ascertainable. It is hoped that publication of new material will make it possible to transfer at least some persons definitely from this list to either of the oases. This 2nd section forms the transition from section 1 to section
3) the Onomasticon Mothiticum. After the Greek names in this part follows a section containing the names found in Coptic documents.

The present Onomasticon Oasiticum has been produced without any special financial support of any official institution. We are grateful to Dr F.A.J. Hoogendijk for her help in publishing it on the website of the Papyrological Institute of Leiden University. An important consideration in choosing this medium for our work is that the authors are allowed to change and update this Onomasticon easily, while there is no cost involved for any user...

Note to the revised edition (September 2009):
We have removed a number of typographical errors and added some new material, in particular from Berichtigungsliste vol. XII (2009) and P.Kellis V (Coptic documentary texts). Morever, we are grateful in particular to our colleague R.S. Bagnall for kindly making the name indices of his forthcoming edition of Ostraka from Trimithis (O.Trim.) available to us already before the volume’s actual publication.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Open Access Journals: Ancient Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Journal in Ancient Studies from the Portal de revistas electrónicas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Complutum
ISSN electrónico 1988-2327
Volumes 1 (1991) - 20 (2009)
Abarca temas diversos, siempre siguiendo las más recientes tendencias de innovación teórica, metodológica e interdisciplinariedad de las ciencias arqueológicas y prehistóricas
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica
ISSN electrónico 1988-8279
Volumes 1 (1971) - 23 (1989)
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
ISSN electrónico 1988-2637
Volumes 1 (1991) - 19 (2009)
Es una revista que continúa desde 1991 en su especialidad juntamente con la sección latina, la antigua revista Cuadernos de Filología Clásica de la Universidad Complutense. Refundada por los Catedráticos José S. Lasso de la Vega (†) y Luis Gil Fernández, acoge en sus páginas colaboraciones científicas españolas y extranjeras que versan sobre los ámbitos comprendidos bajo los conceptos de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios latinos
ISSN electrónico 1988-2343
Volumes 1 (1991) - 28 (2008)
La revista acepta contribuciones que se enmarquen en el área de conocimiento de la Filología Latina, referida ésta no sólo a la Lengua, la Literatura y los textos latinos de la época clásica, sino también a su pervivencia y toda la producción en lengua latina de épocas posteriores.
Gerión
ISSN electrónico 1988-3080
Volumes 1 (1983) - 26 (2008)
Se centra en temas relativos a las ciencias de la antigüedad, con especial dedicación a la Historia Antigua.
Hispania Epigraphica
ISSN electrónico 1988-2424
Volumes 1 (1989) - 14 (2008)
Es un revista crítica de actualización y bibliografía en Epigrafía, relativa a la Península Ibérica en la Antigüedad, hasta la época visigoda inclusive. Destinada a especialistas, investigadores y público interesado tanto en aspectos relacionados con la Epigrafía, como en la Historia, Arqueología, Filología y cuantas ciencias puedan verse implicadas en el estudio sobre textos antiguos en soporte epigráfico.
Hispania Epigraphica Online Database: Roman Inscriptions from the Iberian Peninsula
ISSN electrónico 1988-2424
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Eleven additional volumes online at the Oriental Institute

On September 15, 2009, The Oriental Institute published digital editions of eleven more volumes of Egyptological scholarship:

As part of its Electronic Publications Initiative and with the generous support of Misty and Lewis Gruber, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) publication of:

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Open Access Journals: Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquité. 3e Série

Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquité. 3e Série
faisant suite à

Archives d'histoire du droit oriental et Revue internationale des droits de l'antiquité

FONDÉES PAR J.PIRENNE et F.DE VISSCHER

DIRECTEURS H. JONES, J-H.MICHEL et J.-Fr. GERKENS

ADMINISTRATEUR G. HANARD

SECRÉTAIRE A. RUELLE

Transposition sur Internet avec le concours de La Fondation Universitaire de Belgique
Tome XLIV, 1997
Tome XLV, 1998
Tome XLVI, 1999
Tome XLVII, 2000
Tome XLVIII, 2001
Tome XLIX, 2002
Tome L, 2003
Tome LI, 2004
Tome LII, 2005
Tome LIII, 2006
Tome LIV, 2007 [Table of contents only]
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Open Access Journals: Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (SEL)

Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (SEL)
SEL es una publicación de periodicidad anual que acoge artículos de investigación de caracter epigráfico, lingüístico, histórico e histórico-religioso cuyo objeto sea la documentación escrita de las culturas próximo-orientales preclásicas.

La publicación en papel está a cargo de la editorial Essedue Edizioni. Hasta el momento se han publicado 21 números, del número 1 (1984) al número 21 (2004).

La publicación electrónica corre a cargo del IEIOP. Se ha iniciado con el número 17, correspondiente al año 2000. Próximamente se irán añadiendo los números anteriores a esta fecha y los posteriores una vez pasados tres años de su publicación.
- Número 1 (1984)

- Número 2 (1985)

- Número 3 (1986)

- Número 4 (1987)

- Número 5 (1988). Cananea selecta. Festschrift für O. Loretz

- Número 6 (1989)

- Número 7 (1990)

- Número 8 (1991)

- Número 9 (1992)

- Número 10 (1993)

- Número 11 (1994)

- Número 12 (1995)

- Número 13 (1996)

- Número 14 (1997)

- Número 15 (1998)

- Número 16 (1999)

- Número 17 (2000)

- Número 18 (2001)

- Número 19 (2002)

- Número 20 (2003). Epigrafia e Storia delle religioni

- Número 21 (2004)
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Dumbarton Oaks Online Publications

Selected Dumbarton Oaks publications are available on the web in an effort to increase access to the material. The full text and illustrations are accessed with Acrobat Reader. Single copies may be printed for individual use. For multiple copies used as classroom reading assignments please inquire about our permission fee structure at DoaksBooks@doaks.org. Your comments on this series of electronic texts are also welcome at the same email address.

Reports of activities and research:

See also:
 
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Open Access Journals: La rivista Siti

La rivista Siti: Trimestrale di politica ed attualità culturale
L'Associazione Città e Siti Italiani Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO is constituted
  • to organise initiatives safeguarding inscribed world heritage sites and co-ordinate programmes and projects to be presented to local authorities and international bodies.
  • to encourage a policy of exchanging information and experience about how varying Comunes encountered and then solved problems: to promote education initiatives in cooperation with education authorities.
  • to promote training initiatives for both public administration and non-public administration staff working in heritage sites in cities of artistic importance. This cooperation involves working with universities and public and private research bodies.
  • to plan tourism policies and the distribution of images that meet the expectations of Comunes whose territories house world heritage sites.
  • to promote collaboration and co-operation between similar associations that should be founded in Italy and members of A.N.C.I. (National Association of Italian Comunes). Promotion should also include international associations with the same aims, particularly with Unesco.
    • La rivista Siti publishes articles related to these efforts.
    Back issues include:
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    Open Access Encyclopedia: Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet

     [First posted 8 September 2009. Updated 4 September 2011]

    Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex)  / The Scholarly Online Bible Lexicon (WiBiLex)

    Inhaltsverzeichnis

    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

    Thematisches Stichwortverzeichnis

    Zur Stichwortliste

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    Friday, September 4, 2009

    Open Access Journals: Transoxiana

    Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales
    ISSN 1666-7050

    Volumen II

    Volumen I

    Otras Series

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    Twelve additional volumes online at the Oriental Institute

    On September 3, 2009, The Oriental Institute published digital editions of twelve more volumes of Egyptological scholarship:

    As part of its Electronic Publications Initiative and with the generous support of Misty and Lewis Gruber, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) publication of:

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    Thursday, September 3, 2009

    The Roman Law Library

    The Roman Law Library
    by Y. Lassard & A. Koptev
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