Greek and Latin in an Age of Open Data -- Conference on Google Hangout December 1-4, 17:00-c. 20:00 CET

Greek and Latin in an Age of Open Data -- Conference on Google Hangout December 1-4, 17:00-c. 20:00 CET

At 5pm CET, we will begin broadcasting a conference on Greek and Latin in an Age of Open Data. The conference will run over four days for three hours each because we want to maximize the geographic range while reaching people in reasonable times of the day. (Not everyone is so lucky -- our colleagues Donald Sturgeon and John S. Y. Lee in Hong Kong are, for example, gamely preparing to present in the middle of the night).

We will post the final information about connecting on the following link:
http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/workshop-december-2014/greek-and-latin-in-an-age-of-open-data-schedule/

Our plan is to livestream the presentations and to store them on the new Digital Humanities at Leipzig YouTube channel. This is our first attempt at this and the one thing that I am most sure of is that we will run into all sorts of disasters and mishaps. But as we become accustomed to using this new technology in this (we use it all the time for multiparty video-conferencing among our far-flung collaborators), we are able to engage a wider audience than if we made everyone come to Leipzig

Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network: Digital Books, Images and Objects

Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network: Digital Books, Images and Objects

The aim of the project is the reconstruction and online publication of about 1700 prints, which appeared between 1500 and 1900. In a next step forms of semantic networks are to be approached in separate subprojects. This is to be illustrated through the direct contextualisation of objects from Philipp von Stosch's Gem Collection.

The aim of the project "Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network" within the Arachne database is the development and provision of web-based prints from the period between 1500 and 1830. The project’s basis is defined by engravings to classical, Near Eastern and Egyptian Archaeology of the 16th till the 19th century from the library of the Rome Department of the DAI. These early prints (e.g. travel, research and excavation reports, catalogs) have been published in the examination of the excavations and discoveries of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean region.

A total of 2,300 engravings will be processed. Of these 1,200 (status of July 2013) are digitized in a way, that they are available as searchable full text (OCR). In addition, the in the engraving presented objects are contextualized. This primarily concerns the structural metadata of the prints as tables of contents, the presence of images or captions, but also bibliographic data of the book. These are structured in collaboration with the DAI’s ZENON database by using the TEI editor which was developed for this purpose by the CoDArchLab. That is the technical book division into cover, title page, table of contents, table etc. which is tagged by using the TEI editor’s user interface, so links are created in a standardized way.

Among the semantic metadata the objects pictured and described in the prints, and also its places and people are primarily relevant. This information will be identified and linked to the corresponding information in the image and object database Arachne, i.e. on the one hand to "real" objects and also to the relevant collection, topography and reception records. If this information is not yet available in Arachne, the corresponding records are created.

Looking up the Stoss'schen gem collection you find the contextualizing of the semantic metadata deepened. The digitized titles will also be found on the Metasearch of the Virtual Library "PropylaeumSEARCH2".

The four and a half year project "Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network" began in September 2009 and is funded by the DFG.

The following institutions are involved: Rome Departement of the DAI, the head office of the DAI in Berlin, the CoDArchLab in Cologne, ZENON database and the Winckelmann-Gesellschaft Stendal.
The expected findings of the overall project concerning former storage places, collection history and publication of archaeological history until the end of the 19th century will offer many insights to the prospective research into the change of the antiques understanding during the Baroque, Enlightenment and Classicism. Thus, the project provides insights into the history of archeology, in the reception of antiquity of various epochs, in the history of various collections and the development of archaeological publications. Ultimately, the project contributes to the interdisciplinary and cultural historical research.

Further Information

All books of the project "Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network"

A Gazetteer of the Copaic Basin

A Gazetteer of the Copaic Basin
Robert Consoli

The work I've done so far now allows me to build a preliminary gazetteer.   I've put together such a gazetteer of the several place names in the Copaic Basin.   This includes the place names from [Simpson 1980] which I mentioned in a previous post.  To this I have added most of the place names and place indicators from [Farinetti 2009].  The Farinetti names are in a separate .kml so that you can use them together with the Simpson names or independently.  The Simpson names are divided into 'Mycenaean', 'Other sites', 'Channels', and 'Natural Features'.  The Farinetti names actually designate find spots of assemblages of artifacts and so I used Farinetti's own system where the names are grouped by region, e.gg. 'around Orchomenos', 'around Levadeia', etc.  There are both .kml and .kmz files for these names.  In addition I put a tab-separated combined text list of these two sets of names on Google Drive if you prefer to use them that way.

If you download the .kml, for instance, and then double click on it Google Earth will start and display the combined files with Simpson and Farinetti's names.  The illustration shows what that will look like around the ancient Haliartos area in the SE Copaic Basin.  Paddles in blue are place names from Simpson, paddles in red with an 'F' are names from Farinetti.  Red paddles with a 'K' show the katavothrai (e.g. #24, 'Moulkios' in the center right of the illustration).  Paddles in white with a black dot are the sites that Simpson calls out as 'Mycenaean'.   Paddles in red with an 'F' often are preceded by numbers.  These numbers correspond to the numbers for places in the relevant sections of Farinetti.

Without a gazetteer it can be a little difficult to study this area since there are Mycenaean, classical, Roman, Medieval, and Modern name sets and sometimes all of them for the same place.  I hope this gazetteer helps and I'd be grateful to receive corrections.

 The files can be retrieved from Google Drive:

.kml combined names list
.kmz combined names list
.txt tab-separated combined text list
 

AWOL milestone

AWOL passed the three million page views benchmark today. A million in the last eleven months.

CDLI search

CDLI has recently implemented at <http://cdli.ucla.edu/search/> a search functionality, similar to that for transliterations, for lines of translation and comment that form a part of our core text annotation files. While only a fraction of the numbers of translations available through the Oracc consortium, there are, still, currently some 54,000 lines of translated cuneiform text in CDLI files, mostly in English, but including some instances in German, French, and even Catalan; 14,700 lines of interlinear annotation, from comment on sign preservation up to calculations that underlie numbers in accounts and metrological-mathematical texts, and 88,000 lines of (usually formulaic) comment to text structure. The bulk of current CDLI translations is comprised of those created by Dan Foxvog for the Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions component of the website (nearly 30,000 lines in 1550 texts; see <http://tinyurl.com/mdhzlrg> and <http://cdli.ucla.edu/projects/royal/royal.html>), and we anticipate more translation content of Sumerian literary texts as ETCSL migrates to CDLI; but 13,600 lines in 1530 administrative texts are also now in some form of translation (<http://tinyurl.com/kjkcut4>). For the record, CDLI restricts translation of texts liable to appear in multiple witness artifacts to their artificial composite entries. As with transliteration search, the exact string of searched characters in translations and comments are highlighted in blue to facilitate their discovery within the displayed texts. Exact string in these instances means that, for example, a search for “pig” will display that string as a discrete word, but also all uses of “pigs,” “pigherder,” and so on. Only “pig” will be highlighted. Please note that the search engine results pages only report numbers of texts found, not individual references to a given search string. Thus a search for “calculation:” in comment results in 228 texts found, but altogether 1026 uses of “calculation:”. As with transliteration search, users can enter multiple character strings in a field, each separated by a comma, for instance "lukalla,account” in translation (currently just six hits, at <http://tinyurl.com/pegtatb>), but unlike transliteration these searches are always of full texts and cannot be restricted to single line, and are not case sensitive, neither of which seemed to us to contribute materially to search strategies.

Bob Englund
UCLA

Pompeii: The First Navigation Map

Pompeii: The First Navigation Map

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Eric Poehler

 

The PBMP’s first full map for navigation is now online. You can start to explore Pompeii in the map embedded below, or go to the full site for more space and options. If you want to customize the map or make a presentation from it, sign in to / sign up for your ArcGIS Online account and save a copy to your own webspace. The link is at the upper right of the embedded map page. [Coming: Click here if you want to download the files as a map package (with minor improvements from online version) ]. Below the map is additional information about the files, the information they contain, and their display.

Open Access Journal: London Archaeologist

London Archaeologist

For anyone interested in the history, heritage or archaeology of the capital, London Archaeologist is essential reading. Published by the London Archaeologist Association since 1968, it is a periodical of record for the London area, covering major archaeological discoveries, events and issues.


Content includes excavation reports, historical articles, artefact and finds studies, environmental archaeology reports, exhibition reports, book reviews, news and commentary. It has recently been redesigned and expanded to cover interviews, profiles of local societies and museums, previews of forthcoming monographs and other features.

The archive includes digitised articles, along with some indexes, from 1968-2010 (volumes 1-12). More recent volumes (13 onwards) can be obtained from the London Archaeologist website. 

• Introduction
• Indexes
• Volumes
• Query
• Usage Statistic

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Digital Library at The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies

[First posted in AWOL 5 October 2010. Updated 24 November 2014]

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies

Since its founding by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, and for a period of over 600 years, Alexandria was the cultural capital of the world, especially during the Ptolemaic period. The Hellenistic period – specifically in Alexandria but also throughout the Mediterranean – witnessed many achievements and contributions in all fields of knowledge that have greatly added to man’s thought and the progress of civilization.

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, was established as a joint collaboration between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Onassis Foundation, the Vardinoyannis Foundation and the University of Alexandria. The Center is open to scholars from around the world who are keen to obtain diplomas, Masters and Doctorates in Hellenistic studies in particular, in various specializations:

History
Literature
Art, Archeology and Architecture
Philosophy and Science

• Digital Library

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 1-2-3-4-5 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 9-10-11 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 12-13-14 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 15-16-17 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 18-19-20 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 21-22-23 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 46 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 6 Publication Date: 1904 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 40 Publication Date: 1953 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 41 Publication Date: 1956 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now

Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 42 Publication Date: 1967 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 43 Publication Date: 1975 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 44 Publication Date: 1991 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 45 Publication Date: 1993 Language: English Category: History of ancient world Read now Bulletin Author(s): Subject(s): Archéologie Volume: 47 Publication Date: 2003 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 24 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 27 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 30 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 31 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 32-33 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 34-35 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 36 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 37 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 38 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: 39 Publication Date: 1926-1951 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Monuments de l'Egypte gréco-romaine Author(s): Subject(s): Egypt Antiquities - Classical antiquities - Sculpture, Greco Roman Egypt - Sculpture Volume: vol. 2 pt. 2 Publication Date: 1934 Language: Italian Category: Sculpture to ca. 500 Read now Rapport sur la marche du service du musée pendant l'exercice 1929-1921 Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Art - Greco-Roman Volume: Publication Date: 1923 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Rapport sur la marche du service du musée en 1913 Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Art - Greco-Roman Volume: Publication Date: 1914 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: no. 8 1905 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie Author(s): Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - Archaeology Volume: no. 7 1905 Publication Date: 1898-1925 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Read now Annuario del Museo Greco-Romano Author(s): Adriani, Achille. Subject(s): Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī (Alexandria, Egypt) Volume: vol. 1 Publication Date: 1934 Language: Italian Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Annuaire du Musée Greco-Romain (1933-34 - 1934-35) : La Nécropole de Moustafa Pacha Author(s): Adriani, Achille. Subject(s): Art, Greco-Roman Volume: Publication Date: 1933 Language: French Category: Read now Annuaire du Musée gréco-romain Author(s): Adriani, Achille. Subject(s): Greco-Roman Volume: vol. 2 Publication Date: 1940-1952 Language: Arabic Category: Ancient world Read now Annuaire du Musée gréco-romain Author(s): Adriani, Achille. Subject(s): Greco-Roman Volume: vol. 3 Publication Date: 1940-1952 Language: Arabic Category: Ancient world Read now La côte Alexandrine dans l'antiquité Author(s): Botti, Giuseppe Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities Volume: vol. 1 Publication Date: 1897 Language: French Category: Ancient world Read now Plan de la ville d'Alexandrie à l'époque ptolémaique Monuments et localités de l'ancienne Alexandrie; Mémoire présenté à la société archéologique Author(s): Botti, Giuseppe Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Descriptions et voyages Volume: Publication Date: 1898 Language: French Category: Africa Read now L'acropole d'Alexandrie et le sérapeum d'apres Aphtonius et les fouilles : mémoire présenté à la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie à la séance du 17 août 1895 Author(s): Botti, Giuseppe Subject(s): Aphthonius - 4th cent - Greece - Acropolis (Athens) - Serapeum Volume: Publication Date: 1895 Language: French Category: General history of Africa Egypt & Sudan Read now Fouilles à la colonne Théodosienne (1896) : Mémoire présenté à la Société archéologique Author(s): Botti, Giuseppe Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities Volume: Publication Date: 1897 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Catalogue des monuments exposés au Musée gréco-romain d'Alexandrie Author(s): Botti, Giuseppe Subject(s): Art - Greek - Roman - Classical antiquities - Catalogs Antiquités gréco-romaines Volume: Publication Date: 1900 Language: French Category: Galleries, museums, private collections Read now Egitto greco e romano Author(s): Breccia, Evaristo Subject(s): Egypt - Antiquities - History - Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. Volume: Publication Date: 1957 Language: Italian Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Iscrizioni greche e latine Author(s): Breccia, Evaristo Subject(s): Inscriptions, Latin - Inscriptions Egypt Alexandria Catalogs - Inscriptions, Greek Volume: Publication Date: 1911 Language: Italian Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now La necropoli di Sciatbi Author(s): Breccia, Evaristo Subject(s): Egyptian Art - Glassware - Ancient Egypt - Roman Egypt - Tombs - Antiquities Volume: vol. 2 Publication Date: 1912 Language: Italian Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Alexandrea ad Aegyptum : a guide to the ancient and modern town, and to its Graeco-Roman museum Author(s): Breccia, Evaristo Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) - Antiquities - History - Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī - Oudheden - Roman Antiquities - Guid Volume: Publication Date: 1922 Language: English Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Le musée Gréco-Romain, 1925-1931 Author(s): Breccia, Evaristo Subject(s): Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī (Alexandria, Egypt) Volume: Publication Date: 1925 Language: French Category: Read now Le musée Gréco-Romain, 1931-1932 Author(s): Breccia, Evaristo Subject(s): Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī (Alexandria, Egypt) Volume: Publication Date: 1931 Language: French Category: Read now Mémoire sur l'antique Alexandrie : ses faubourges et environs découverts par les fouilles, sondages, nivellements et autres recherches, faits d'aprés les ordres de son Altesse, Ismaïl Pacha, vice roi d'Egypte Author(s): Falakī, Maḥmūd Bāshā Subject(s): Egypte - Antiquités - Alexandrie (Egypte) Volume: Publication Date: 1872 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now L'architecture et la décoration dans l'ancienne Egypte Author(s): Jéquier, Gustave - Mestral Combremont, Victor de Subject(s): Egypte - Antiquités - Temples - Architecture Volume: vol. 3 Publication Date: 1920-1924 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now L'architecture et la décoration dans l'ancienne Egypte Author(s): Jéquier, Gustave - Mestral Combremont, Victor de Subject(s): Egypte - Antiquités - Temples - Architecture Volume: vol. 1 Publication Date: 1920-1924 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now L'architecture et la décoration dans l'ancienne Egypte Author(s): Jéquier, Gustave - Mestral Combremont, Victor de Subject(s): Egypte - Antiquités - Temples - Architecture Volume: vol. 2 Publication Date: 1920-1924 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now City of Alexandria town planning scheme : (projet d'aménagement, d'embellissement et d'extension de la ville d'Alexandrie) Author(s): McLean, William Hannah Subject(s): Urbanisme Égypte Alexandrie Volume: Publication Date: 1921 Language: French Category: Area planning (Civic art) Read now L'ancienne Alexandrie : étude archéologique et topographique Author(s): Neroutsos, Tassos Demetrios Subject(s): Alexandria (Egypt) Volume: Publication Date: 1888 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Les Grecs en Égypte d'après les archives de Zénon Author(s): Préaux, Claire - Zēnōn Subject(s): Grecs - Égypte - Antiquité - Civilisation Volume: Publication Date: 1947 Language: French Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now Pharos, antike, Islam und Occident : ein beitrag zur parchitekturgeschichte Author(s): Thiersch, Hermann Subject(s): Lighthouses - Egypt - Alexandria Volume: Publication Date: 1909 Language: German Category: Architecture to ca. 300 Read now رسالة عن الاسكندرية القديمة و ضواحيها و الجهات القريبة منها التى اكتشفت بالحفريات و اعمال سبر الغور و المسح و طرق البحث الاخرى Author(s): حسين، محمد عواد - الفلكى، محمود احمد حمدى Subject(s): الإسكندرية (مصر) - آثار- الآثار اليونانية - الآثار الرومانية - احياء و ضواحى - خرائط Volume: Publication Date: 1966 Language: Arabic Category: History of ancient world Egypt Read now

Deir el Medine Online: Nichtliterarische Ostraka aus Deir el Medine

Deir el Medine Online: Nichtliterarische Ostraka aus Deir el Medine

Die Zahl der im Gebiet der Arbeitersiedlung von Deir el Medine gefundenen Ostraka mit nichtliterarischem Inhalt hat die 10.000 bereits weit hinter sich gelassen und wird möglicherweise auch die 20.000 noch überschreiten. „Deir el Medine online" dient dem Ziel, dieser Textflut mit Hilfe moderner Technologien Herr zu werden.

Die Ostraka werden in einer heutigen wissenschaftlichen Anforderungen gerecht werdenden Weise bearbeitet und unter Nutzung der technischen Möglichkeiten, die dieses Medium bietet, im Internet publiziert.

Die Präsentation der einzelnen Texte folgt einem einheitlichen Muster: Sie werden jeweils anhand eines detaillierten, für alle Ostraka gleichen Schemas beschrieben, hieroglyphisch transliteriert, phonetisch transkribiert übersetzt und ausführlich kommentiert. Die Dokumentation wird durch eine farbige Digitalfotografie - bei Bedarf auch durch mehrere - komplettiert. Außerdem erlaubt das System umfassende Recherchemöglichkeiten im gesamten Datenmaterial. Damit kann ein grundlegendes - und durch zusätzliche Daten jederzeit erweiterbares - Instrumentarium für die Arbeit mit diesen Texten zur Verfügung gestellt werden.

Index
Einführung
Einleitung in die Sammlung von Qurna
Sammlungen
Recherche
Institut für Ägyptologie München
Deir el Medina Database Leiden

Scrypt

Scrypt

The Scrypt software is a tool for computer-assisted decipherment of ancient alphabetic inscriptions, enabling the user to choose a set of possible readings for each cell of the inscription, and to automatically launch dictionary searches for selected regions of the text in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew dictionary. The name Scrypt is inspired by a fusion of script (as in “ancient script”), script (a special kind of computer program) and crypt (as in “cryptography”).

Click on a cell to view (and possibly change) its content, and select a continuous range of cells to launch a dictionary search. Finally, just click on a word among the dictionary results, in order to save it in the "Readings" panel to the right.

Dig Quest: Israel

Dig Quest: Israel
By The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority

Become an archeologist! Use your iPhone or iPad as a tool to tap, dig, and explore Israel’s past. Discover the Dead Sea Scrolls in an ancient cave, and piece them together to reveal their meaning! Dig up the 2,000 year old Lod Mosaic, then uncover its story in a fast-paced quiz game! You’ll need skills, creativity, and smarts to become a great archaeologist and unlock all the rewards.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO
• Use your iPhone or iPad as an archaeological tool to brush, tap, and dig for hidden relics
• Explore an ancient cave and search for the Dead Sea Scrolls then piece 14 of them together in a challenging puzzle game
• Dig up a 2,000 year old mosaic floor and play a fast-paced quiz game in which you unlock the secrets of the mosaic
• Grow your own collection of antiquities as you master the games – try to win them all!

FEATURES
• 30+ levels in two unique games based on world-famous archaeological discoveries
• 50+ stunning images of real antiquities
• Amazing historical facts and artifacts
• Spoken word excerpts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Gabe, your host and team leader, is based on a composite of real archaeologists working in the field

A UNIQUE APP
Dig Quest: Israel was created by the Israel Antiquities Authority and features addictive games and puzzles based on world-famous antiquities in the National Treasures. The games in the App are designed around real discoveries and archaeological artifacts and were developed in collaboration with the IAA’s team of pre-eminent archaeologists, scholars and researchers. As they play, kids get a feel for what archaeologists do as they experience the excitement of discovery and the creativity and skills involved in solving mysteries from the distant past.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the oldest biblical manuscripts and are considered the greatest manuscript discovery of the 20th century.

The Lod Mosaic is one of the largest, best preserved Roman mosaics ever found and is currently touring the world with stops at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, Waddeson Manor and the Hermitage.

**FREE for iPhone and iPad

Open Access Journal: Studii de Preistorie

[First posted in AWOL 7 July 2010, updated 19 November 2014]

Studii de Preistorie
Studii de Preistorie Supplementum

	Publicaţii ARA Colegiu de redacţie
Studii de Preistorie 1 2002 Studii de Preistorie 2 2003-2004 Studii de Preistorie 3 2005-2006 Studii de Preistorie 4 2007 Studii de Preistorie 5 2008 Studii de Preistorie 6 2009 Studii de Preistorie 7 2010 Supplementum 1   Supplementum 2   Supplementum 3   Studii de preistorie 4/2007 Douglass W. BAILEY - An interview with Ruth Tringham Roxana DOBRESCU - Obsidianul din asezarile aurignaciene din nord-vestul României / Obsidian in Aurignacian sites from north-west Romania Corneliu BELDIMAN, Diana-Maria SZTANCS - Pierres et mammouths. Les ivoires ouvrés au Paléolithique supérieur en Roumanie – données récentes Radian-Romus ANDREESCU - Valea Teleormanului. Consideratii asupra plasticii antropomorfe / Telorman Valley. Aspects regarding anthropomorphic figurines Sanda BACUET CRISAN - Cluj - Cheile Turzii - Lumea Noua. From general to particular – discoveries in the Simleu Depression Silvia MARINESCU-BÎLCU - “Greutati” decorate din aria Gumelnita / Decorate “clay weights” in Gumelnita culture Alexandru DRAGOMAN, Sorin OANTA-MARGHITU - Against functionalism: review of Pietrele archaeological project Catalin LAZAR, Valentin PARNIC - Date privind unele descoperiri funerare de la Mariuta-La Movila / Data about some funeral discoveries at Mariuta-La Movila Mihaela GATEJ, Andrei SOFICARU, Nicolae MIRITOIU - Expertiza antropologica a osemintelor umane de la Mariuta-La Movila (com. Belciugatele, jud Calarasi) / Anthropological expertise on human bones from Mariuta-La Movila archaeological site Alexandru S. MORINTZ - Neue daten zur prähistorischen Ansiedlung bei Tausanca (Gemeinde Ulmeni, Bezirk Calarasi) Cristian SCHUSTER - Erwängungen zu den befestigten bronzezeitlichen Siedlungen an der Unteren Donau (Südrumänien) David PECREAUX - Archéoentomologie et Paléoentomologie. Les Insectes: témoins du passé des hommes et de leur environnement PREZENTĂRI DE CARTE Ludovic Orlando, L’anti-Jurassic Park: Faire parler l’ADN fossile, Aux editions Berlin-Pour la Science, 2005, ISBN 2-7011-4136-2, 272 pag., 21 fig (Adriana Maria STAN) Studii de preistorie 5/2008 Douglass W. BAILEY - Interview with Kostas Kotsakis Vincent OLLIVIER, Paul ROIRON, Adrian BALASESCU, Samuel NAHAPETYAN, Yvan GABRIELYAN, Jean-Louis GUENDON - Milieux, processus, faciès et dynamiques morphosédimentaires des formations travertineuses quaternaires en relation avec les changements climatiques et les occupations humaines entre Méditerranée et Caucase Gabriel POPESCU - Estimating the size of lithic artifact assemblages. A view from the Southern Carpathians Middle Paleolithic Adina BORONEANT, Vasile BORONEANT, Nicolae MIRITOIU, Andrei D. SOFICARU - The Icoana burials revisited Richard I. MACPHAIL, Constantin HAITA, Douglass W. BAILEY, Radian ANDREESCU, Pavel MIREA - The soil micromorphology of enigmatic Early Neolithic pit-features at Magura, southern Romania Cristian Eduard STEFAN - Some observations on the Vidra type axes. The social significance of copper in the Chalcolithic Corneliu BELDIMAN, Diana-Maria SZTANCS - Matière, artefact, symbole. Dents percées et imitations en os dans les dépôts d’objets de prestige de la culture Cucuteni Alexandra ION - Oseminte umane descoperite în asezari din arealul culturii Gumelnita Catalin LAZAR, Radian ANDREESCU, Theodor IGNAT, Mihai FLOREA, Ciprian ASTALOS - The Eneolithic Cemetery from Sultana-Malu Rosu (Calarasi county, Romania) Alexandra ION, Andrei D. SOFICARU - Paleopathological conditions in an Eneolithic Community from Sultana - Malu Rosu Nona PALINCAS - Public patriarchy in contemporary Romanian archaeology and the image of women in the Romanian Neolithic and Bronze Age Ciprian F. ARDELEAN - Before the End of the World: archaeological investigations about Maya Terminal Classic processes on the Middle Candelaria River, Campeche, Mexico PREZENTĂRI DE CARTE Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck and Peter Rowley-Conwy Eds., Pigs and Humans. 10,000 years of interaction, Oxford University Press. Hdb., 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-920704-6, 488 p. (Adrian BALASESCU) Douglass W. Bailey, Prehistoric figurines. Representation and corporeality in the Neolithic, 243 pages, 64 figures, 5 front photographs, London and New York, 2005, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-33152-8, Paperback, 44.95 USD.(Alexandru DRAGOMAN) Paul Goldberg and Richard I. Macphail (cu contributii de Wendy Matthews), Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 455 pagini, 192 figuri alb/negru, 48 tabele, 12 planse color, ISBN 0-632-06044-1, format hârtie, 64.95 USD.(Constantin HAITA) Mark Pollard, Catherine Batt, Benjamin Stern, Suzanne M. M. Young, Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007, ISBN-13 978-0-521-65209-4, 404 pagini, Index. (Marinela FLOREA) Studii de preistorie 6/2009 Douglass W. BAILEY- Interview with Victor Buchli Adina BORONEANŢ, Vasile BORONEANŢ - Schela Cladovei 1965-1968. După 40 de ani Piotr JACOBSSON - Strata of Practice: Habitus and issues in the early Cypriot Neolithic Alexandra ION, Andrei-Dorian SOFICARU, Nicolae MIRIŢOIU Dismembered human remains from the "Neolithic" Cârcea site (Romania) Valentina VOINEA - Practici funerare în cultura Hamangia - sacrificii de animale Alexandru DRAGOMAN - Note on Vădastra excised pots Georgeta EL SUSI - New data on livestock and hunting in the precucutenian settlement at Costişa -„Cetăţuie” (Neamţ County) Radian-Romus ANDREESCU, Laurenţiu GRIGORAŞ, Eugen PAVELEŢ, Katia MOLDOVEANU - New discoveries in the Eneolithic settlement from Coţatcu “Cetăţuia”, Buzău County Cristian Eduard ŞTEFAN - A few remarks concerning the clay stamp-seals from the Gumelniţa culture Cătălin LAZĂR, Radian ANDREESCU, Theodor IGNAT, Monica MĂRGĂRIT, Mihai FLOREA, Adrian BĂLĂŞESCU - New Data on the Eneolithic Cemetery from Sultana-Malu Roşu (Călăraşi county, Romania) Hortensia DUMITRESCU - (cu o adnotare de / with an annotation of Silvia MARINESCU-BÎLCU) Piscul Cornişorului (Sălcuţa 1945) Tomasz Jacek CHMIELEWSKI - Let’s twist again… or on the Eneolithic methods of yarn production Cătălin DOBRINESCU Observaţii asupra originii şi circulaţiei obiectelor de bronz în aria culturii Coslogeni GÂNDURI DESPRE CEI CE NE-AU PĂRĂSIT Alexandru DRAGOMAN - Şaptezeci de ani de la moartea lui Vasile Christescu PREZENTĂRI DE CARTE Jan Vanmoerkeke, Joëlle Burnouf (coordonatori ştiinţifici), Cent mille ans sous le rails. Arcéhologie de la ligne a grande vitesse est européenne, Somogy édition d’art, Inrap, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7572-000-6-2, 136 p., 30 € (Pavel MIREA) Studii de preistorie 7/2010 Douglass W. BAILEY- Interview with Bjørnar Olsen (University of Tromsø) Leonid CĂRPUŞ - Patocenoze şi paleomediu în zona vest pontică, din preistorie până în antichitate Piotr JACOBSSON, Adina BORONEANŢ - Set in clay: altars in place at Cuina Turcului, Iron Gates Gorge Valentina VOINEA - Un nou simbol Hamangia Cornelia CĂRPUŞ, Leonid CĂRPUŞ - Analiza microscopică privind idolii Hamangia descoperiţi în zona Cheile Dobrogei–Târguşor Sabin POPOVICI - O piesă inedită descoperită la Hotărani La turn, jud. Olt Evgenia NAYDENOVA - Actual research status of the Chalcolithic cultures Polyanitsa and Boian Radian ANDREESCU, Katia MOLDOVEANU, Carmen BEM - The Eneolithic settlements from Gumelniţa, Sultana and Căscioarele. An environment analysis Albane BURENS, Sorin AILINCĂI, Cristian MICU, Laurent CAROZZA, Elena LĂZURCĂ - Premières observations sur les techniques de façonnage et de finition de la céramique chalcolithique Gumelniţa A2 du site de Carcaliu (Dobroudja, Roumanie) Cristian Eduard ŞTEFAN - New data concerning the representation of human foot in the Gumelniţa culture Stoilka TERZIJSKA-IGNATOVA - A new type of Late Chalcolithic zoomorphic cult tables Dimitar CHERNAKOV - Some observations about the discovered human skeletons at Rousse tell Lolita NIKOLOVA - Towards prehistoric wellness in Eurasia: clay and health Sorin Cristian AILINCĂI, Florian MIHAIL - Psalii din corn descoperite în aşezări ale culturii Babadag din nordul Dobrogei NOTE ŞI DISCUŢII Alexandru DRAGOMAN, Gabriel DRAGOMIR - A few thoughts inspired by a book Cătălin LAZĂR - The Second Cemetery from Sultana-Malu Roşu? Some hypothetical considerations PREZENTĂRI DE CARTE Suciu Cosmin Ioan, Cultura Vinča în Transilvania, Bibliotheca Brukenthal, XLIV, Editura Altip, Alba-Iulia, 2009, ISBN 978-117-250-7, 304 pagini, 352 figuri (Mădălina VOICU) Mihai Gligor, Aşezarea neolitică şi eneolitică de la Alba Iulia-Lumea Nouă în lumina noilor cercetări, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Mega, 2009, ISBN 978-606-543-045-7, 482 pagini, 217 planşe (Vasile OPRIŞ) Prezentarea volumului Supplementum 1 Atlas for the identification of bony fish bones from archaeological sites Supplementum 2 Industria materiilor dure animale în preistoria României Supplementum 3 Aurignacianul din Transilvania

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