Open Access Journal: Balkanologie

Balkanologie: Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires
ISSN électronique 1965-0582

La revue Balkanologie a été fondée en 1997 par Patrick Michels et Yves Tomic.

Elle est éditée par l'Association française d'études sur les Balkans.

Il s'agit d'une revue d'études en sciences humaines et sociales sur les Balkans couvrant la période du Moyen-âge à nos jours. Son orientation est pluridisciplinaire et son objectif est de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du monde balkanique contemporain. 

Balkanologie a été lancée en 1997 grâce au concours financier de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

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Happy 20th Birthday to BMCR

Happy twentieth birthday to Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the mother of all open access journals in Ancient studies.

BMCR's 20th Anniversary posting

The first issue of Bryn Mawr Classical Review was released for internet distribution twenty years ago today. We thank our many colleagues who have joined in the editorial process, our very many colleagues who have reviewed for us, and our many, many readers and friends over the years. There were only a handful of "e-journals" back then, and the only journal in the humanities that is senior to us by a few weeks is Postmodern Culture. We are one of the oldest (if not indeed the very oldest) e-journals to offer complete "open access" (in the jargon that has evolved since), that is, we have made every word of our publication freely available over the net from the first day. We are particularly grateful to another (overlapping!) set of colleagues and friends who have helped produce and make use of our textbook series, Bryn Mawr Commentaries, on whose revenues BMCR depends for its free distribution. (When you assign a Bryn Mawr Commentary, in other words, you support BMCR.)

If you lift a glass in our honor on this anniversary, savor as you do the irony that this grave and senior pioneer of electronic publishing is devoted to chronicling and assessing the publication of the printed book. We do not prophesy the future, when e-books and p-books settle their relations with one another. But we persist.

James J. O'Donnell
Richard Hamilton
Camilla MacKay
Rolando Ferri

List  of the 795 Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies which have appeared since BMCR began.

Open Access Digital Library at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art

L’INHA a pour mission de développer l’activité scientifique et de contribuer à la coopération scientifique internationale dans le domaine de l’histoire de l’art et du patrimoine.

Il exerce des activités de recherche, de formation et de diffusion des connaissances.

The Bibliothèque numérique includes a wide variety of materials, including:

• Catalogues du département des antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines  (69 titles)
• Catalogues du département des antiquités orientales et égyptiennes  (38 titles)
• Classiques de l'histoire de l'art. Archéologie  (106 titles)

Ancient world in JSTOR's new Current Scholarship Program

Current Scholarship Program

The Current Scholarship Program (CSP) makes current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, providing a single point for librarians and end users around the world to access this content, and ensuring this content's long-term preservation. Faculty and students around the world will be able to access all licensed content on JSTOR — current issues, back issues, and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries — easily and seamlessly.

For the 2011 subscription year, 174 titles from 19 publishers are available via the Current Scholarship Program. Libraries may subscribe to current issues on a Single Title basis or assemble their own custom collections of single titles.

For both Single Title and Collections, JSTOR provides current issue access back to the Digital Availability Date for each title.  This date is defined as either: (a) the first online volume published that was also available for purchase by libraries from the publisher (e.g. not an aggregator), or (b) for titles not yet online, the year ahead of the moving wall. This date is fixed so a current subscription grows in content year after year for all subscribers.
In addition to current issues, libraries may subscribe to full runs of Single Titles (from Volume 1, Issue 1 to present) and Collections.

Titles in the 2011 JSTOR Current Scholarship Program release relating to the Ancient World include:

Classical Antiquity

University of California Press

ISSN: 0278-6656

EISSN: 1067-8344

The Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley

The Classical Journal

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc.

ISSN: 0009-8353

EISSN:

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc.

Classical Philology

University of Chicago Press

ISSN: 0009-837X

EISSN: 1546-072X

Current Anthropology

University of Chicago Press

ISSN: 0011-3204

EISSN: 1537-5382

Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Isis: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences

University of Chicago Press

ISSN: 0021-1753

EISSN: 1545-6994

for the History of Science Society

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

University of Chicago Press

ISSN: 0022-2968

EISSN: 1545-6978

And see also The Ancient World in JSTOR the full list of journals in JSTOR with substantial representation of the Ancient World.

Manuscripts solicited for Ancient Near East Monographs / Monografías sobre el Antiguo Cercano Oriente (ANEM/MACO)

From SBL Forum

Why You Should Submit Your Manuscript or Proposal to the Online, Open-Access Ancient Near East Monograph Series

Many SBL Forum readers will have heard about a new online, open-access monograph series. It is called Ancient Near East Monographs / Monografías sobre el Antiguo Cercano Oriente (ANEM/MACO). This is one of several projects that have been spearheaded by the SBL’s International Cooperation Initiative. This new peer-reviewed series publishes volumes on any aspect of the ancient Near East from the Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras, including works on ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. The open-access nature of the series means that it is globally available. Moreover, it publishes volumes in English and Spanish and some of its English volumes will be translated into Spanish to reach an even wider readership—the series is a joint project of the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (CEHAO) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. The same scholarly standards that apply to any SBL series apply to ANEM/MACO and it is led by an international editorial board comprised of both senior and junior scholars. The series is currently accepting proposals. As a member of the editorial board, my purpose in writing this brief essay is to encourage members of the SBL to submit their series-appropriate manuscripts or proposals.

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Special Issue of BMSAES: The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead - Recent research and new perspectives
BMSAES, Issue 15: November 2010 

This issue contains 13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead - Recent research and new perspectives, held at the British Museum on 21–22 July 2009. The meeting brought together leading scholars working on aspects of the Book of the Dead. Several of their contributions have been influential in the development of the exhibition Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead  (4 November 2010 – 6 March 2011).

The papers presented here represent the majority of those that will eventually appear in a hard copy publication, though with more extensive use of colour than will be possible in that volume. Neal Spencer, Elisabeth O'Connell and Liam McNamara edited the papers, with the assistance of John Taylor.

Contents

Three funerary papyri from Thebes: New evidence on scribal and funerary practice in the Late Period
Burkhard Backes
The Book of the Dead as canon
John Gee
Creating borders: New insights into making the Papyrus of Ani
Bridget Leach and Richard B. Parkinson
The two funerary papyri of Queen Nedjmet(P. BM EA 10490 and P. BM EA 10541 + Louvre E. 6258)
Giuseppina Lenzo
The guardian-demons of the Book of the Dead
Rita Lucarelli
In the footsteps of Edouard Naville (1844–1926)
Barbara Lüscher
An intriguing Theban Book of the Dead tradition in the Late Period
Malcom Mosher, Jr.
Memphis–Thebes: Local traditions in the Late Period
Marcus Müller-Roth
The Book of the Dead Project: Past, present and future
Marcus Müller-Roth
Evidence of a master copy transferred from Thebes to the Memphis area in Dynasty 26
Irmtraut Munro
The Book of the Dead of Ankhesenaset (P. BNF Egyptien 62-88). Traces of workshop production or scribal experiments?
Chloe Ragazzoli
Book of the Dead documents from the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara
Maarten J. Raven
When a Book of the Dead text does not match archaeology: The case of the protective magical bricks
(BD 151)
Isabelle Régen

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Codex Dresdensis Online

Codex Dresdensis - Mscr.Dresd.R.310
Just published online by the Digitale Bibliothek, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden


Codex Dresdensis is a pre-Columbian Maya book of the eleventh or twelfth century of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá

For more on such matters see Erik Boot's  MAYA GLYPH BLOG

Online Exhibit: Before Pythagoras

Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics

Since the nineteenth century, thousands of cuneiform tablets dating to the Old Babylonian Period (c. 1900-1700 BCE) have come to light at various sites in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). A significant number record mathematical tables, problems, and calculations. In the 1920s these tablets began to be systematically studied by Otto Neugebauer, who spent two decades transcribing and interpreting tablets housed in European and American museums. His labors, and those of his associates, rivals, and successors, have revealed a rich culture of mathematical practice and education that flourished more than a thousand years before the Greek sages Thales and Pythagoras with whom histories of mathematics used to begin.

This exhibition is the first to explore the world of Old Babylonian mathematics through cuneiform tablets covering the full spectrum of mathematical activity, from arithmetical tables copied out by young scribes-in-training to sophisticated work on topics that would now be classified as number theory and algebra. The pioneering research of Neugebauer and his contemporaries concentrated on the mathematical content of the advanced texts; a selection of archival manuscripts and correspondence offers a glimpse of Neugebauer's research methods and his central role in this “heroic age.”

Highlights from the Exhibition

University of Pennsylvania Museum B6063

This multiplication table was written by a student named Gan-Gal as a demonstration of his skill as a scribe. Click here to learn more.

Image by University of Pennsylvania Museum. All rights reserved.

Yale Babylonian Collection YBC 7289

This famous tablet is a graphic witness that Babylonian scribes knew Pythagoras' Theorem and could calculate accurate square roots. Click here to learn more.

Image by West Semitic Research. All rights reserved.

Columbia University Plimpton 322

Plimpton 322 reveals that the Babylonians had a method of finding sets of three whole numbers such that the square of one of them is the sum of the squares of the other two, a classic problem in Number Theory. Click here to learn more.

Image by Christine Proust. All rights reserved.

e-Science and Ancient Documents

e-Science and Ancient Documents 

The Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents project (also known as eSAD: e-Science and Ancient Documents) aims to use computing technologies to aid experts in reading ancient documents in their complex task. The four year project, being undertaken at the University of Oxford with input from University College London, is funded under the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative, and will run until the end of 2011. 

The project will work on creating tools which can aid the reading of damaged texts like the stilus tabletsVindolanda. Furthermore, the project will explore how an Interpretation Support System (ISS) can be used in the day-to-day reading of ancient documents and keep track of how the documents are interpreted and read. A combination of image processing tools and an ontology based support system will be developed to facilitate experts by tracking their developing hypotheses.  

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Open Access Journal: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte

Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia

The trilingual Annual Review of Swiss Archaeology publishes the results from current research from various time periods. Furthermore, the most recent discoveries in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein are presented in short essays. Reviews and an up to date list of publications on archaeological research in Switzerland complete the volume. The annual has been running since 1908 and has since changed its name several times. „Jahresbericht der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte” (title of volume 1, 1908 to volume 29, 1937). „Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte” (title of volume 30, 1938 to volume 52, 1965). „Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte” (title of volume 53, 1966/67 to volume 88, 2005). Annual Review of Swiss Archaeology (title of volume 89, 2006 onwards).

Volume 53		1966-1967		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 54		1968-1969		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 55		1970		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 56		1971		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 57		1972-1973		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 58		1974-1975		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 59		1976		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 60		1977		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 61		1978		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 62		1979		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 63		1980		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 64		1981		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 65		1982		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 66		1983		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 67		1984		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 68		1985		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 69		1986		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 70		1987		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 71		1988		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 72		1989		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 73		1990		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 74		1991		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 75		1992		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 76		1993		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 77		1994		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 78		1995		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 79		1996		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 80		1997		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 81		1998		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 82		1999		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 83		2000		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 84		2001		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 85		2002		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 86		2003		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 87		2004		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia
Volume 88		2005		Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte = Annuaire de la Société Suisse de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie = Annuario della Società Svizzera di Preistoria e d’Archeologia

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Coming Soon in Open Access: Orientalia Suecana

It is no longer coming soon. It is here!

See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Musée Achéménide

Musée achéménide virtuel et interactif (MAVI)

Le Musée achéménide virtuel et interactif – MAVI – dresse l'inventaire du patrimoine de l'empire perse dispersé dans les grands musées du monde et donne à voir des oeuvres inaccessibles.


Le Musée achéménide virtuel et interactif, MAVI, a pour objectif de rassembler et de disposer sur un site Internet tous les objets et images (sceaux, monnaies, stèles, peintures...) relevant d'un espace-temps historique, le Moyen-Orient de l'Indus à la Méditerranée, sous la domination des Perses achéménides, de 550 à 330 avant J.-C. Il participe ainsi directement à l'inventaire et à l'analyse d'un patrimoine culturel unique actuellement disséminé entre des dizaines de musées et de collections dans le monde.

The virtual interactive Achaemenid museum (MAVI) presents an inventory of the Persian empire's heritage now scattered across the world's museums and provides researchers with access to items not currently available to visitors.


MAVI's aim is to collect all objects and images (seals, coins, stelae, paintings...) relating to the historical space and time during which the Middle East from the Indus to the Mediterranean, from 550 to 330 B.C., was under the control of the Achaemenid Persian empire. It is thus directly involved in cataloguing and analysing a unique cultural heritage, at present scattered across museums and collections worldwide.