Thursday, September 30, 2010

Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index

Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index
[Originally posted 1/14/10/ Updated 9/2810: "The Late Old Babylonian personal names database has been updated. Version 3 now indexes 14,315 unique attestations of personal names from almost 3,000 texts, including 4,678 entries from around 700 unpublished texts].





Welcome to the Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index. This searchable file of personal names derives from cuneiform texts chiefly dating to the reigns of the last three kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon, 1683-1595 B.C. Version 3 indexes 14,315 unique attestations of personal names from almost 3,000 texts, including 4,678 entries from around 700 unpublished texts. All communications and questions about the Index should be referred to Seth Richardson at: seth1@uchicago.edu 


I would like to thank Tate Paulette, Monica Crews, Anna Steinhelper, and Amanda Wissler for their assistance in the preparation of the Index.
Read Me File: Database Description and Explanation of Diacritic Usage
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(click "Index of Late Old Babylonian personal names Version 1" on next web page)
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[No longer] Open Access Journal: Eikasmos

[Update 1 December 2011 - articles are now available for purchase only]

Eikasmos: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica
Fondata da Enzo Degani nel 1990, la rivista «Eikasmós. Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica» si è sempre caratterizzata per una vocazione squisitamente critico-testuale ed esegetica (la prima sezione di ogni numero è per l'appunto di «Esegesi e critica testuale»), per una rigorosa attenzione alla storia della filologia classica (cui è consacrata la seconda sezione di ogni volume) e per un costante impegno di aggiornamento e valutazione degli studi del settore (alle recensioni e alle segnalazioni bibliografiche sono riservate le ultime due sezioni della rivista).


Founded by Enzo Degani in 1990, the review «Eikasmós. Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica» is devoted to textual criticism and exegesis (the first section of each issue is dedicated to «Esegesi e critica testuale»), to the history of classical scholarship (the second section of each volume), and to a systematic and up-to-date survey of scholarly works in the fields of classical studies (the two last sections of each issue include reviews and a bibliographical supplement).

Data Bank «Eikasmós»

From this page it is possible to enter the data bank «Eikasmós», yearly updated with the complete tables of contents of the review, an abstract and the full text (as a searchable pdf file) of all the articles and reviews (except those published in the last two issues). It offers several ways of searching and consulting all these data.



Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Open Access Journal: Archeomedia

Archeomedia - Rivista di Archeologia On-line
ISSN: 1828-0005
ArcheoMedia è una rivista ad abbonamento gratuito, per le persone che si interessano di archeologia.
La redazione è composta da soci Mediares Sc, Società di Servizi per la Cultura, con il supporto di "collaboratori esterni".
ArcheoMedia è uno strumento di aggiornamento sulle novità archeologiche.

Open Access Journal: Antiqua. Jornadas sobre la Antigüedad

Antiqua. Jornadas sobre la Antigüedad



Open Access Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
[online since 31 October 2004]
Der Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ist eine Publikationsplattform, die das Akademienvorhaben Altägyptisches Wörterbuch an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften im Internet zur Verfügung stellt. Im Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae wird ein digitales Corpus von Texten in ägyptischer (auch demotischer) Sprache zur computergestützten Recherche publiziert. Die Lemmatisation und morphosyntaktische Annotation des Textmaterials erlauben die gezielte Recherche unter lexikalischen, philologischen, linguistischen und kulturhistorischen Fragestellungen. Den Texten ist stets eine fortlaufende Übersetzung beigegeben, die insbesondere Nichtspezialisten und Forscher benachbarter Disziplinen bei der Orientierung im Material unterstützen soll.
   Das digitale Textcorpus, das die Substanz dieses Informationssystems repräsentiert, ist in der Kooperation mehrerer Projekte entstanden und wird in dieser Kooperation fortentwickelt. Beteiligt waren und sind das Akademienvorhaben Altägyptisches Wörterbuch mit seinen Arbeitsstellen an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin) und der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, das Projekt Demotische Textdatenbank der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Mainz, Arbeitsstelle Würzburg) und das Totenbuchprojekt der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bonn). Seit 2005 kooperiert auch das Projekt des Leuven online index of Ptolemaic and Roman Hieroglyphis Texts von der Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Die Kooperationsbeziehungen prägen entscheidend Entstehung und Konzeption dieser Internet-Publikation.
   Das Anliegen des Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ist es, im Sinne eines virtuellen Wörterbuches ein neues und im Rahmen der Ägyptologie neuartiges Instrument der lexikographischen Erforschung des Ägyptischen verfügbar zu machen. Das Projekt schließt sich damit eng an das Anliegen und die Methode des großen Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache an, das Adolf Erman 1897 an der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften inauguriert und zum Erfolg geführt hat. Als ein Zeichen der Bewunderung für diesen überragenden Forscher auch auf dem Gebiet der ägyptischen Lexikographie wurde daher der Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae erstmals zum 31. Oktober 2004, dem 150. Geburtstag Adolf Ermans, zur allgemeinen Benutzung freigegeben.

Material: In der derzeitigen Version umfaßt der Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ein digitales Corpus von rund 440.000 Textwörtern. Das entspricht im Umfang mehr als einem Drittel des Textarchivs, auf dem das Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache fußt. Folgende Textgruppen sind vertreten:
  • Texte des Alten Reiches und der Ersten Zwischenzeit (Grabinschriften insbes. der neueren Publikationen von Gräbern in Giza, Saqqara und Achmim; Felsinschriften; Briefe und Briefe an Tote; Akten und Vermerke)
  • Pyramidentexte
  • literarische Texte des Mittleren Reiches (Erzählungen, Dialoge, Lehren)
  • Briefe des Mittleren und des Neuen Reiches
  • das Totenbuch in mehreren Handschriften des Neuen Reiches und der Spätzeit
  • späte Ritualbücher (aus der Ptolemäerzeit)
  • demotische Texte (eine umfassende Auswahl literarischer, religiöser und administrativer Texte).
Funktionen: In der gegenwärtigen Fassung erlaubt der Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae die Suche nach Lemmata anhand der Transkription, der Übersetzung und der bibliographischen Referenz, auch kombiniert und unter Verwendung regulärer Ausdrücke. Zu den Lemmata können die Belegstellen eingesehen, größere Belegkotexte angezeigt und in den vollständigen Texten navigiert werden. Aus der Darstellung der Belegkotexte ist es möglich, alle anderen Wörter in ihren jeweiligen Zusammenhängen nachzuschlagen. Ferner ist es möglich, Angaben zu Herkunft, Datierung, Bibliographie, Textträger usf. einzusehen. Die Einordnung jedes Texts und Objekts in eine an der räumlichen und entstehungsgeschichtlichen Gliederung des Materials orientierte, hierarchische Baumdarstellung erlaubt es weiter, den Kontext eines Texts (etwa in der Dekoration eines Monumentalgrabes) zu erkunden.
Integration des Digitalisierten Zettelarchivs: Über die Lemmaliste des Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ist auch der Einstieg in die Navigation im Digitalisierten Zettelarchiv möglich. Dadurch wird Belegmaterial für Lexeme, die im bisher digital erschlossenen Corpus noch nicht auftreten, zugänglich. Zudem bietet das Digitalisierte Zettelarchiv umfassende Information zur hieroglyphischen Schreibung der Wörter. Die Navigation im Digitalisierten Zettelarchiv aus dem Kontext des Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae erfolgt ohne den Einsatz von Java-Applets.
Perspektive: Die Publikationsform des Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae im Internet ist dynamisch angelegt. In regelmäßigen Intervallen - mindestens einmal jährlich - wird eine aktualisierte Version publiziert, in der sowohl der Umfang des digitalen Textcorpus wie die Zahl und Leistungsfähigkeit der zur Recherche und Navigation verfügbaren Funktionen wachsen werden. Im Bereich der Funktionen wird in Bälde die direkte Suche nach Texten und die Suche nach Wortkombinationen zur Verfügung gestellt werden.
Nutzungsbedingungen: Zur Nutzung des Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ist eine Registration erforderlich. Die Nutzung ist kostenfrei. Bei der Nutzung sind die gültigen Copyright-Bestimmungen zu beachten. Hinweise zur Zitation des Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae sind in der Hilfe-Dokumentation enthalten.
A free tool, the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae requires registration.  Upon registration/login users are directed to:

database search

you may start to search and navigate the database at the following positions
the Vormanuskript of the Wörterbuch der Ägyptischen Sprache (1906-1909)
the Digitized Slip Archive and the Wörterbuch der Ägyptischen Sprache

  • introduction


  • browse Wörterbuch der Ägyptischen Sprache


  • search Digitized Slip Archive




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    Lexicon of Greek Personal Names Online

    Lexicon of Greek Personal Names LGPN

    LGPN and Information Technology

    LGPN began using computers to store and manipulate its data as far back as 1975. Alongside the  publication programme, and despite the electronic upheavals which have marked the last 30 years, LGPN has maintained the material from all the published volumes in a consistent state in a relational database, which was designed in 1984 to reflect the potential research values of all the fields which make up an LGPN entry i.e. not only names, but places, dates, references, relationships, statuses etc.
    This database is the final repository of material once it has been edited, and from it:
    •  the printed volumes are generated and typeset by computer program;
    •  research questions may be answered, for our own work and for researchers who contact us;
    •  data are generated for online dissemination: currently, statistics (numbers of people and names, distribution by gender, place), name indexes and bibliographies;
    •  primary names are output for online analysis in a variety of fonts.

    Online facilities based on the current database:

    • Online searches: search and analyse over 35,000 published names.
    • Files for downloading: bibliographies, forward and and reverse name indexes, from LGPN I-VA;
    • addenda and corrigenda.to LGPN II, Attica (1987), with supplementary bibliography, posted by Sean Byrne,
    • LGPN IIA: is the completely revised LGPN II, provided to the LGPN database by Sean Byrne. Full data are not yet available on this site, but the forward and reverse name indexes are available as downloadable files, and statistics about persons, names and places, are posted.
    • More general statistics - in preparation.

    The XML Project

    Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz are now working on a major conversion project using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), as the basis for LGPN's long-term preservation, online dissemination, and interoperability with other online resources. Complete data from all published volumes (currently I-IV) will be delivered as one integrated online resource.
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    Library Acquisitions Lists Online

     [Originally posted 9/27/10, 9:36 AM. Updated 5:05 PM. Updated 9/29/10. Updated 10/1/10]

    It used to be fairly common for specialized library collections to produce periodic Acquisitions Lists.  Mostly these were circulated in print, informally.  Some institutions have made the transition to email distribution, and others to digital.

    The American Numismatic Society Library, Recent Acquisitions

    The American School of Classical Studies at Athens produces these:
    The Acquisitions List of the Research Archives, The Oriental Institute

    Bibliothèque des Sciences de l'Antiquité (Lille, France), Listes d'acquisitions

    Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Books Available for Review

    The Burnam Classical Library at the University of Cincinnati, Recent Acquisitions

    Egypt Exploration Society Library

    Neuerwerbungen der Heidelberger Sondersammelgebiete
    Hinweis Ägyptologie
    Hinweis Klassische Archäologie
    Hinweis Kunstgeschichte bis 1945
    Hinweis Südasien
    Neuerwerbungsliste/New Acquisitons, Vorderer Orient einschl. Nordafrika, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (ULB Halle)

    Sackler Library (Oxford)

    Wilbour Library at the Brooklyn Museum







    Are there others you use online? Leave a comment and let me know.


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    Monday, September 27, 2010

    Newly Online at the Oriental Institute: Visible Language

    Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond
    Edited by Christopher Woods
    Oriental Institute Museum Publications 32
    Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010



    Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond 
    Edited by Christopher Woods
    OIMP 32




    Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanities' greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. Essays on writing in China and Mesoamerica complete coverage of the four "pristine" writing systems — inventions of writing in which there was no previous exposure to texts. The authors explore what writing is, and is not, and sections of the text are devoted to Anatolian hieroglyphs of Anatolia, and to the development of the alphabet in the Sinai Peninsula in the second millennium BC and its spread to Phoenicia where it spawned the Greek and Latin alphabets. This richly illustrated volume, issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute, provides a current perspective on, and appreciation of, an invention that changed the course of history.

    Table of Contents

    • Visible Language: The Earliest Writing Systems. Christopher Woods
    • Iconography of Protoliterate Seals. Oya Topcuoglu
    • The Earliest Mesopotamian Writing. Christopher Woods
    • Adaptation of Cuneiform to Write Akkadian. Andrea R. Seri
    • The Rise and Fall of Cuneiform Script in Hittite Anatolia. Theo van den Hout
    • The Conception and Development of the Egyptian Writing System. Elise V. MacArthur
    • The Earliest Egyptian Writing. Andréas Stauder
    • Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing. Janet H. Johnson
    • Hieratic. Kathryn E. Bandy
    • Demotic. Janet H. Johnson
    • Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. François Gaudard
    • Coptic. T. G. Wilfong
    • Invention and Development of the Alphabet. Joseph Lam
    • Anatolian Hieroglyphic Writing. Ilya Yakubovich
    • The Beginnings of Writing in China. Edward L. Shaughnessy
    • The Development of Maya Writing. Joel Palka

    • Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond
    • Edited by Christopher Woods
    • Oriental Institute Museum Publications 32
    • Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010
    • ISBN: 978-1-885923-76-9
    • Pp. 240; 104 pages color
    • $29.95


    For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see AWOL - The Ancient World Online - 2: The Oriental Institute Electronic Publications Initiative.

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    The British Library Digitised Manuscripts

    The British Library Digitised Manuscripts launched today.
    Today we launch our Digitised Manuscripts site, which features full coverage of 284 Greek manuscripts drawn from our Additional and Harley manuscript collections. The manuscripts, dating from the sixth to the 18th centuries, encompass a wide range of literary, historical, biblical, liturgical and scientific texts. Some of the manuscripts are beautifully illuminated, including an artistic highlight of the collection, the Theodore Psalter (Add. MS 19352).


    Add_ms_19352_f190r

    The Theodore Psalter, Add. MS 19352, f. 190r
    This 18-month project, funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is a pilot for our wider plans to digitise the medieval and earlier manuscript collections. We will be enhancing the functionality of the site and adding more content - both Greek and Latin manuscripts - over the next 18 months.

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    Friday, September 24, 2010

    Open Access Ancient Law Journals

    These are the open access eJournals focused on ancient law of which I am aware.  Are there others?  Please let me know.


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    Open Access Journal: Byblos: Revista de Historiografía Histórico-Jurídica

    Byblos: Revista de Historiografía Histórico-Jurídica
    ISSN 1885-3129
    La Revista Virtual Byblos nace de la dificultad planteada en los últimos años de estar al tanto de la ingente producción bibliográfica que en los campos histórico e histórico-jurídico se ha generado. En los países anglosajones, donde el desarrollo de los recursos en red está más avanzado, hace tiempo que algunas universidades, aprovechando la extensión de las listas de distribución de correo, han creado páginas web donde el staff universitario y los miembros de dichas listas cuelgan periódicamente reseñas y, sobre todo, recensiones críticas de los trabajos leídos por todos ellos, de modo que, mediante este procedimiento, se consigue que el trabajo de lectura de todos enriquezca a gran número de personas, que se evitan la penosa tarea de leer gran cantidad de estudios.

    Open Access Journal: Revista General de Derecho Romano

    Revista General de Derecho Romano
    ISSN: 1697-3046

    2009
    2008
    2007
    2006
    2005
    2004

    Open Access Journal: Revista Internacional de Derecho Romano

    Revista Internacional de Derecho Romano
    ISSN: 1989-1970
    OBJECTIVES

    The International Review of Roman Law, created under the auspices of the Ibero-American Association of Roman Law and of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, is focused on accepting research within the ambit of the Roman Law, Romanistic Tradition and Historical-Juridical Sciences, and difussing its results. The aim of Ridrom is to overcome all geographical frontiers and it is open to all like-minded individuals and institutions. The review also covers the activities of the Ibero-American Association, along with any news or information that may be of interest to the Romanistic community.


    The RIDROM aspires to become a reference publication within its field. In order to achieve this, the rigour and quality of all contributions will be guaranteed through an evaluation by researchers of accredited claim and prestige.


    FORMAT


    RIDROM is a periodic scientific publication in electronic format (HTML format). It doesn't have printed edition, although the published articles will also be conserved in paper support.


    FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION


    RIDROM is a biannual publication. Editions will be published in the months of April and October respectively.


    LANGUAGE


    RIDROM will be published in Spanish and English. Nevertheless, it is possible for articles to be published in any other language of considerable scientific diffusion (German, French, Italian, Portuguese). That said, the translation of the article into English, on the part of the author, inevitably facilitates its diffusion and impact considerably.


    SECTIONS


    RIDROM is divided up into four main sections: summaries, news, view of reviews and links. Under "Summaries", information on the articles of each edition will be given, along with the corresponding abstracts, and shall be divided by articles /file. In the "News" section, forthcoming events, meetings, congresses, seminars, courses, publications, etc., will be detailed. "View of reviews" section will detail information regarding other magazines. Finally, under "Links", we shall provide information on other interesting resources available on-line.

     


    Thursday, September 23, 2010

    Open Access Journals: Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire

     [First posted 8/26/09.  Updated 9/23/10 with recent volume links]

    Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire

    Syria, qui paraît depuis 1920 sans interruption, est publiée par l’Institut Français du Proche-Orient, en une seule livraison annuelle. La revue se consacre à l’histoire et l’archéologie du Proche-Orient sémitique (y compris Chypre) de la préhistoire à la conquête islamique. Elle publie des articles dans toutes les disciplines de ce champ de recherche, archéologie, épigraphie, philologie, histoire, histoire de l’art ; ces articles peuvent être quelquefois regroupés en dossiers thématiques, mais le plus souvent chaque volume tente de donner, à travers 12 à 18 articles, un panorama varié de la recherche au Proche-Orient ancien. Les langues employées sont le français, l’anglais, l’allemand, l’italien et l’espagnol. Tous les articles sont précédés d’un résumé en français, en anglais et en arabe. La revue publie aussi à l’occasion de courtes notes d’actualité, et consacre dans chaque numéro un épais cahier aux recensions d’ouvrages parus sur le Proche-Orient ancien.

    1990-1999

    2000-...