Tuesday, August 31, 2010

25th International Congress of Papyrology Proceedings Online

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology
The 25th International Congress of Papyrology took place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from July 29 to August 4, 2007. This was the second time that the Congress convened in Ann Arbor (following the 12th Congress in 1968) and the third in North America (the 16th Congress in 1980 met in New York).


Of the approximately 150 papers delivered during the Congress, 80 fully-referreed articles are included in this publication.


This is the first time the Proceedings of the International Congress of Papyrology has been published primarily as an online edition. Individual articles are freely available to search, browse, and download. Additionally, the complete proceedings are available to purchase as a hardcover print on demand volume.


Editor: Traianos Gagos


Assistant Editor: Adam Hyatt
Additional Editors: Arthur Verhoogt, Terry Wilfong
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Dedication
Table of Contents
PrefaceTraianos Gagos, Adam Hyatt, Arthur Verhoogt, Terry Willfong
Organization of the Congress
List of Participants
Congress Program
List of Abbreviations
Bureaucracy and Power in Diocletian's Egypt: The World of P.Panop.Beatty 1Colin E.P. Adams
A Nun's Dispute with Her Mother in P.Lond. V 1731María Jesús Albarrán Martínez
New Light on the katagraphé and its Pharaonic BackgroundSchafik Allam
“Neither a Truant nor a Fugitive”: Some Remarks on the Sale of Slaves in Roman Egypt and Other ProvincesPeter Arzt-Grabner
Vecchi e nuovi personaggi della famiglia degli Apioni nei documenti papiraceiGiuseppina Azzarello
An Approach to the Papyrological Understanding of Paul's Labouring “Night and Day” (1Thess 2:9)Andreas Bammer
The Syllabic Word-Lists in P.Bour. 1 ReconsideredNele Baplu, Marc Huys, Thomas Schmidt
The Onomastic Evidence for the God HermanubisAmin Benaissa
The Derveni Papyrus: Problems of Edition, Problems of InterpretationAlberto Bernabé
Toponymie et cartographie du nome mendésien à l'époque romaineKatherine Blouin
Per una ricostruzione del De vitiis di Filodemo Mario Capasso
Soknopaiou Nesos 2004–2006Mario Capasso
Aristoboulos and the Hieros Logos of the Egyptian JewsLivia Capponi
Per una nuova edizione dell'Index Stoicorum di Filodemo (P.Herc. 1018)Maria Clara Cavalieri
T.C. Skeat and the Problem of Fiber Orientation in Codicological ReconstructionS.D. Charlesworth
The Customs Districts of Roman EgyptMichel Cottier
Soknopaiou Nesos Project: the resume of the archaeological investigation: The settlement and its territoryPaola Davoli, Ivan Chiesi, Simone Occhi , Nicola Raimondi
P.Herc. 1399: il primo libro del Περὶ ὁμιλίας di FilodemoGianluca Del Mastro
Nouveaux textes coptes d'AntinoéAlain Delattre
Du nouveau sur le P.Herc. Paris 2: la reconstruction des six dernières colonnes du rouleauDaniel Delattre
La paraphylaké des villages dans les baux fonciers byzantins du nome HermopoliteMarie Drew-Bear
Standard Koine Greek in Third Century BC PapyriT.V. Evans
Greek Anthologies on Papyrus and their Readers in Early Ptolemaic EgyptMaria Rosaria Falivene
Tholthis, sede dell'ufficio di LeodamasLorenzo Fati
Topics and Models of School Exercises on Papyri and Ostraca from the Hellenistic Period: P.Berol. inv. 12318José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado, Francisca Pordomingo
Ein Weg für ein besseres Verständnis von P.Mich. Inv. 6898Hans Förster
Les tribulations d'un pétitionnaire égyptien à Constantinople. Révision de P.Cair.Masp. III 67352Jean-Luc Fournet
Identity and Security in the Mediterranean World ca. AD 640 – ca. 1517Gladys Frantz-Murphy
Una citazione del IV libro Sulla natura di Epicuro nel P.Herc. 807 (Filodemo, Περὶ θανάτου?)Laura Giuliano
Information Packaging in Arabic Private and Business Letters (8th to 13th c. CE): Templates, Slots and a Cascade of Reduction and RearrangementEva Mira Grob
Christian Jensen's and Wolfgang Schmid's Unpublished Herculanean Papers: A Preliminary Report on the Content and the Relevance of the MaterialJürgen Hammerstaedt
An Arabic Will Written On a ShipAlia Hanafi
Revisions for P.Mich. X 578 (Census List)Ann Ellis Hanson
The Practice of Taxation in Three Late Ptolemaic PapyriFrancisca A.J. Hoogendijk
Le colonne I – X 10 di P.Herc. 1008 (Filodemo, I vizi, libro X)Giovanni Indelli
Kauf oder Darlehen? Lieferungskäufe über Wein aus dem römischen ÄgyptenEva Jakab
Zur Flucht von LiturgenAndrea Jördens
Identifying Hands: Same Book or Same Scribe? A Case Study of Some Plato PapyriMaria Konstantinidou
The Meandering Identity of a Fayum Canal: The Henet of Moeris / Dioryx Kleonos / Bahr Wardan / Abdul WahbiBryan Kraemer
Eingabe an einen Beamten (P. graec. mon. 146)Thomas Kruse
Dorotheos Petitions for the Return of Philippa (P.Polit.Jud. 7): A Case Study in the Jews and their Law in Ptolemaic EgyptRob Kugler
Antimisthosis in the Dioscorus ArchiveFlorence Lemaire
ll P.Herc. 1010 (Epicuro, Sulla natura, libro II): anatomia del rotoloGiuliana Leone
Seeing the Whole Picture: Why Reading Greek Texts from Soknopaiou Nesos is not EnoughSandra L. Lippert
P.Mich. inv. 3443Nikos Litinas
Su alcuni desiderata della Papirologia ErcolaneseFrancesca Longo Auricchio
A Date for P.KRU 105?L.S.B. MacCoull
P.Herc. 817 from Facsimiles to MSI: A Case for Practical VerificationRoger T. Macfarlane
A Bilingual Account from the Aswan Quarries (O.Brookl.Dem. 180 / P.Brookl. 81)Rachel Mairs
The Auditoria on Kom el-Dikka. A Glimpse of Late Antique Education in AlexandriaGrzegorz Majcherek
Texts in Context: A Methodological Case Study in the Topography of TaleiMyrto Malouta
Le Signalement des Auteurs et Oeuvres Dans les Papyrus Littéraires Grecs de MédecineMarie-Hélène Marganne
75 ans de Bibliographie Papyrologique (1932–2007)Alain Martin
Very Small ScriptsKathleen McNamee
Seasons of Death for Donors and TestatorsMichael Meerson
Crittografia greca in Egitto: un nuovo testoGiovanna Menci
Count Ammonios and Paying Taxes in the Name of Somebody ElseMiroslava Mirković
Writing and Writers in Antiquity: Two “Spectra” in Greek HandwritingAlan Mugridge
A Late Ptolemaic Grapheion Archive in BerkeleyBrian Muhs
The Palau Ribes Papyrological Collection Rediscovered (P.PalauRib.Lit. 9 Re-Edited)Alberto Nodar
Per una nuova edizione dei papiri di TucidideNatascia Pellé
A Patron and a Companion: Two Animal Epitaphs for Zenon of Caunos (P.Cair.Zen. IV 59532 = SH 977)Timothy W. Pepper
Buried Linguistic Treasure in the Babatha ArchiveStanley E. Porter
Crime and Punishment in Early Islamic Egypt: The Arabic Papyrological EvidenceLucian Reinfandt
Picknick bei Asklepios? Ein griechisches Ostrakon aus Pergamon in der Berliner PapyrussammlungFabian Reiter
Incubation at SaqqâraGil H. Renberg
The Nile Waters, the Sun, and Capricorn: A Greek Prose Fragment in Ann ArborTimothy Renner
Nuove letture nel cosiddetto secondo libro della Poetica di FilodemoGioia Maria Rispoli , Gianluca Del Mastro
Conventions Governing the Formatting of Documentary Titles and Passages in Demosthenes' SpeechesMaroula Salemenou
Fragment of a Report of Proceedings (?)Panagiota Sarischouli
Book-Ends and Book-Layout in Papyri with Hexametric PoetryFrancesca Schironi
Brief an einen BischofGeorg Schmelz
The Evolving Shape of the Papyrus Collection in GenevaPaul Schubert
Considerazioni Sull'anatomia del P.Herc. 163 (Filodemo, La Ricchezza)Elvira Scognamiglio
A Tale of Two Tongues? The Myth of the Sun's Eye and Its Greek TranslationMonica Signoretti
Application of Astronomical Imaging Techniques to P.Herc. 118Russell A. Stepp , Gene Ware
Osservazioni bibliologiche sull'Athenaion Politeia di BerlinoMarco Stroppa
Fictitious Loans and Novatio: IG VII 3172, UPZ II 190, and CPJ 24 ReconsideredGerhard Thür
A Ptolemaic Lease Contract: P.Monts. Roca inv. no. 381 + 569 + 578 + 649S. Torallas Tovar , K.A. Worp
Re-Mapping Karanis: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Site AnalysisDrew Wilburn
Subject Index


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Claremont Colleges Digital Library

 [First posted 1/16/09. Updated 8/31/10]

The Claremont Colleges Digital Library is serving some interesting open access material relating to antiquity:

Antiquities of the 
Institute for Antiquity and Christianity The artifacts in this collection represent part of the antiquities of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. The items are mostly eastern Mediterranean in provenance, originating from ancient Greece, Cyprus, Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and neighboring regions. A fair proportion of the collection dates to the Bronze Age, but every period thereafter is represented up to the fourth century of the current era. Although the majority is earthenware, other artifacts include objects of glass, ceramic, stone, metal and Cypriote.


Bulletin of the 
Institute for Antiquity and Christianity The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is a center for basic research on the origins and meaning of the cultural heritage of Western civilization. The Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is published periodically under the auspices of the Society for Antiquity and Christianity for the general information of persons interested in the research programs of the Institute.

Campi Phlegraei, 
Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies The two volumes of the Campi Phlegraei (1776) and the Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei (1779) provide a firsthand report from Sir William Hamilton which documents the late eighteenth century eruptions of Mount Vesuvius and are important to the science of volcanology due to the precise descriptions of the changes in the appearance of the volcano, the lava flows and other volcanic activity. Displayed here in their entirety, these books contain text in both English and French and 59 hand-colored plates with accompanying explanations.


Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia The Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia (CCE) will initially include approximately 2800 articles published in The Coptic Encyclopedia (Aziz S. Atiya, ed. NY: Macmillan, 1991). The CCE will continuously add updates and new topics from the growing body of scholarship in Coptic studies at institutions worldwide. The scope of articles includes Coptic language and literature; Copto-Arabic literature; Coptic art, architecture, archaeology, history, music, liturgy, theology, spirituality, monasticism; and biblical, apocryphal, social, and legal texts.Nag Hammadi Archive
Nag Hammadi Archive The Nag Hammadi codices, thirteen ancient manuscripts containing over fifty religious and philosophical texts written in Coptic and hidden in an earthenware jar for 1,600 years, were accidentally discovered in upper Egypt in the year 1945. This immensely important discovery included a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures. These texts were once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy," scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. The images in this collection were taken during the excavations and translation project of the 1970’s and record the environments surrounding excavations, visiting dignitaries, and the scholars working on the codices. The project has provided momentum to a major reassessment of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism.

Sacred Text 
Conference Archives The First Annual Conference of Religions is a conversation and exploration of passages addressing relationships with insiders and outsiders, and points of inclusivity and exclusivity, within the Sacred Texts of six groups: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, LDS/Mormonism, and Hinduism.




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Neugebauer Index of Cited Literature

The Neugebauer Index of Cited Literature Online
Welcome to complete bibliographical Neugebauer Index. The database is organized in rolls. To get to a specific item choose the appropriate roll below. You then will find the exact file by leaving through the scanned files.
Roll 1
Roll 5
Roll 9
Roll 2 Roll 6 Roll 10
Roll 3 Roll 7 Roll 11
Roll 4 Roll 8

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New Open Access Journal: Trypillian Civilization Journal

Trypillian Civilization Journal
ISSN 2155-871X


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Monday, August 30, 2010

Mud Sealings And Fourth Dynasty Administration At Giza

[Originally posted 8/13/10 . Updated 8/30/10]

New from the Oriental Institute Research Archives:
As part of our University Of Chicago (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Dissertations On-Line, the following dissertation is now available for downloading as an Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf).

On August 27, 2010, the dissertation was supplemented with:

Pottery Mound Sealings and Sealing-Related Objects
Catalog of Sealings (1,128 Sealings)

Catalog of Sealing-Related Objects (71 Objects)



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Zenon Milestone

A press release (16.08.2010 ) from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institute reports:
Der komplette Bestand der Bibliothek Kairo ist ab sofort im ZENON recherchierbar!


Den Sammelschwerpunkt bildet die Ägyptologie mit ihren regionalen wie fachlichen Nachbarwissenschaften, ergänzt durch einen umfangreichen islamwissenschaftlichen Bestand sowie eine exquisite Kollektion an alter Reiseliteratur. Neben ca. 3.000 Sonderdrucken gehören hierzu auch Karten und Non-Book-Medien wie Mikrofiches, CD-ROMs etc. Den Grundstock bildet die Sammlung des Ägyptologen Ludwig Keimer (1892-1957), dessen Nachlass ebenfalls im Archiv des Instituts verwahrt wird.

Kairo ist neben Athen die zweite DAI-Bibliothek, deren Gesamtbestand über ZENON abrufbar ist.   
And see also: Open Access Bibiography: Zenon at the DAI

Zenon

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New Data at Open Context: Chogha Mish Fauna

Chogha Mish Fauna
This project uses the publicly available dataset of over 30,000 animal bone specimens from excavations at Chogha Mish, Iran during the 1960s and 1970s.The specimens were identified by Jane Wheeler Pires-Ferreira in the 1960s and though she never analyzed the data or produced a report, her identifications were saved and later transferred to punch cards and then to Excel. This 'orphan' dataset was made available on the web in 2008 by Abbas Alizadeh (University of Chicago) at the time of his publication of Chogha Mish, Volume II.

The site of Chogha Mish spans the time period from Archaic through Elamite periods, with also later Achaemenid occupation.  These phases subdived further into several subphases, and some of those chronological divisions are also represented in this dataset. Thus the timespan present begins at the mid-seventh millennium and continues into the third millennium B.C.E. In terms of cultural development in the region, these periods are key, spanning the later Neolithc (after the period of caprid and cattle domestication, but possibly during the eras in which pigs and horses were domesticated) through the development of truly settled life, cities, supra-regional trade and even the early empires or state societies of Mesopotamia and Iran...
Projects in Open Context
Project Description Primary People Keywords
Chogha Mish Fauna Zooarchaeological observations from Prehistoric and Achaemenid levels at Chogha Mish, Iran. Levent Atici, Justin S.E. Lev-Tov, Sarah Whitcher Kansa Zooarchaeology, subsistence, economy, Early Bronze Age, Iranian Plateau, Elamite
Khirbat al-Mudayna al-Aliya Investigations of an Early Iron Age site in a semi-arid zone in west-central Jordan Bruce Routledge, Benjamin Porter pastoralism, economy, agriculture, Southern Levant, Semi-Arid, Kerak Plateau, Jordan, Iron I, Early Iron Age, subsistence
Dove Mountain Groundstone Analysis of groundstone finds from the Dove Mountain Project in the Tucson Basin Jenny Adams Southwest, Pioneer Period, Sedentary Period, Hohokam, Early Agricultural, Groundstone, Arizona, Archaeology
Bade Museum Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology Aaron Brody Israel, Palestine, Southern Levant, Judah, Near East, Biblical Archaeology, Archaeology, Iron Age, 1st Millennium, 4th Millennium, Early Bronze, Town, Tomb, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine
San Diego Archaeological Center Collections maintained by the San Diego Archaeological Center San Diego Archaeological Center historical archaeology, San Diego, California, Spanish colonial, Mexican, finds catalog, education, cultural resource management, archaeological collections
Presidio of San Francisco Ongoing investigations of El Presidio de San Francisco and other archaeological resources at the Presidio of San Francisco Presidio Archaeology Lab (Presidio Trust) historical archaeology, presidio, San Francisco, California, Spanish colonial, Mexican, US Army, education
Aegean Archaeomalacology Mollusk Shells in Troia, Yenibademli, and Ulucak: An Archaeomalacological Approach to Environment and Economy in the Aegean Canan Çakırlar Anatolia, Aegean, bronze age, chalcolithic, mollusks, Archaeomalacology, subsistence, economy, environment
Petra Great Temple Excavations Brown University Excavations at the Great Temple of Petra, Jordan Martha Sharp Joukowsky Religion, Hellenistic, Jordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Archaeology, Architecture, Nabateans, Nabatean, Petra
Iraq Heritage Program Overview of the Global Heritage Fund's conservation work in Iraq Global Heritage Fund, Alexandria Archive Institute Meopotamia, Cultural Heritage, Conservation, Assyria, Sumer, Babylonia, Documentation, Sumer, Archaeology, Iron Age, Early Bronze Age, Early Dynastic, World Heritage
Lake Carlos Beach Site, 1992 and 1996 Descriptions and provenience information for 7837 artifacts State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Minnesota State Parks Cultural Resource Management Program staff, State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation
Corneal Ulceration in South East Asia Epidemiology and Etiology of Corneal Ulcers in South India Mathuiah Srinivasan, John P. Whitcher ophthalmology, India, public health, infections disease, eye, public health, developing world
Harvard Peabody Mus. Zooarchaeology Harvard Peabody Museum Zooarchaeology Laboratory Reference Collection Richard Meadow, Levent Atici archaeology, reference collection, zoology, zooarchaeology, archaeology, specimen, bone
Hazor: Zooarchaeology Zooarchaeological observations for Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Hazor, Israel Justin Lev-Tov archaeology, Iron Age, Late Bronze Age, Near East, Excavations, Hazor, Biblical archaeology, subsistence
Hayonim: Micromorphology
Paul Goldberg archaeology, Mousterian, geology, Middle Paleolithic, Kebaran, Epi-Paleolithic, Israel, Levant, Micromorphology, Geology, Cave, Deposition
Geissenklosterle: Micromorphology
Paul Goldberg archaeology, Aurignation, geology, Upper Paleolithic, Europe, Germany
Pınarbaşı 1994: Animal Bones Analysis of faunal remains from prehistoric contexts at Pınarbaşı in central Turkey Denise Carruthers archaeology, Epi-Paleolithic, Neolithic, Near East, Anatolia, Turkey, zooarchaeology, Pinarbasi, 9th millennium, agriculture, foraging, hunting
Domuztepe Excavations Excavations of a Late Neolithic site in south-central Turkey Stuart Campbell, Elizabeth Carter Archaeology, Halaf, Neolithic, Near East, Excavations, Domuztepe, 7th millennium, Village

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum

Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum
E. Ghey, I. Leins (editors) - descriptions and chronology after M. H. Crawford
A catalogue of the Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum, with descriptions and chronology based on M.H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (1974) - this catalogue brings together over 12,000 coins. It aims to provide an introduction to the coinage, the history of the Museum collection and an aid to the identification of coin types.

Entries are generated directly from our collection database and might change as Museum curators discover more about the objects. This format aims to provide a 'living' catalogue so its contents can be adapted to reflect current research.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Administrative Note

Overnight AWOL passed the benchmark of fifteen hundred subscribers by email, just a little more than a year after I deployed that function.  In addition, a handful of subscribers get the feed in other ways.  I'm gratified that such a large number of you find AWOL interesting enough to voluntarily add another piece of email to your busy queues.

Traffic on AWOL probably be light until the end of August while I focus my attention on some other things.  In the meantime I invite you to amuse yourself by browsing through Bookplates of Scholars in Ancient Studies. If any of you have additions, corrections or comments on that, please do get in touch with me.

As always, comments - online or offline - about AWOL are welcome.

Administrative notes with user statistics have been posted in November 2011, October 2011July 2011, April 2011, January 2011December 2010October 2010, August 2010July 2010, May 2010, and  January 2010.


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Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions

Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions
By Mark Handley
The purpose of this website is to provide a full collection of links to on-line databases, books, Phds, and articles on late antique and early medieval inscriptions, covering the period from A.D. 300 to 900. So far there are over 470 such links.


As can be seen from the tags above, the links are organized by region. Please note that the regional bibliographies provided here are limited purely to what is freely available on-line.


The 'New publications' page is intended as a resource to enable those interested to keep track of new publications. It is not limited to what is available on-line. Currently it covers the years 2008-2010.


At present there is no coverage of the epigraphy of the Eastern Mediterranean regions or the southern Balkans. I am open to offers from a qualified person(s) who is willing to undertake this task.
And I note in particular the author's outstanding list of online databases:

  • Celtic Inscribed Stones Project – UCL’s database of all monumental non-runic inscriptions in Celtic speaking countries, AD 400-1200. Link.
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. On-line database, and photo collection. Link. 
    Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum II, website includes links to photos and entries for:
                 CIL II2/5 – Conventus Astigitanus. Link.
                CIL II2/7 – Cordubensis. Link.
                CIL II2/14.1 – Tarraconensis pars meridionalis. Link. 
  • EAGLE. Electronic archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Link. 
  • Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg. CIL, AE, and many more recent corpora, with a notable coverage of the Balkans. There is also an on-line bibliography, and over 20,000 photos. Link.
  • Hispania Epigraphica. Online database. Roman Inscriptions from the Iberian Peninsula. Link.
  • ICUR-on line. Christian Inscriptions of Rome Database. This so far contains 25,625 inscriptions. Link. 
  • Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (2009). Link.
  • Ogam-InschriftenJost Gippert’s database of ogham inscriptions. Link.
  • Packhard Humanities Institute. Database of Greek Inscriptions. Searchable, and browseable, and divided by regions. Link.
  • Reynolds, J.M. and Ward-Perkins, J.B., enhanced electronic reissue by Boddard, G., and Roueche, C., (eds.), Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (2009). Link.
  • Samnordisk Runtextdatabas. Full downloadable database of all Scandinavian runic inscriptions from across Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iceland, Ireland and the British Isles. Link.

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