Thursday, February 28, 2019

Papyri.info Announcement: Images for Corpus Papyrorum Raineri II, IV

 Images for Corpus Papyrorum Raineri II, IV
Images have now been made available for Coptic texts of volumes II and IV of the CPR series. Images are courtesy of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Thanks to the API of Trismegistos it was easy to match the relative image links to the papyri.info identifiers.

Corpus Papyrorum Raineri

  • II, Koptische Texte, ed. J. Krall. 1895. Nos. 1—255. Many texts are reedited in CPR IV; see concordance there p. xv; and in CPR XII; see concordance there p. 11. [MF 2.67] cpr;2 
  • IV, Die koptischen Rechtsurkunden der Papyrussammlung der Oesterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, ed. W. Till. 1958. Nos. 1—212. No. 34 reedited in P.Rain.Unterricht 112. [ÖNB] cpr;4 
All texts in the CPR at Papyri.info
Posted by at 0 comments
Labels: , ,

Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy

Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home_new_title.jpg
Our goal is to build a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. We hope to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves. 
Dēmos is a publication of The Stoa: a Consortium for Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, and has greatly benefited from the infrastructure, expertise, and friendship of that institution and everyone involved with it, especially Anne Mahoney and Ross Scaife. Dēmos would not exist without The Perseus Project and its editor-in-chief, Gregory Crane. This project has also profited from an association with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, under the wise direction of Gregory Nagy. Hugh Cayless, of OASIS and the UNC Digital Library Project, is responsible for writing the Transcoder that allows this site to display Greek; we are deeply indebted to him. Thomas Martin and Neel Smith of The College of the Holy Cross have been instrumental throughout the lifetime of the project. The earliest work on Dēmos was supported by grants from Furman University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The contents of the articles in Dēmos are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-1.0). This scripts that drive the site are licensed under a Creative Commons License (NonCommecial-1.0).

Starting Points

The Evidence for Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell
· article ·
Necessary Context: descriptions of the ancient genres, authors, and works that form our textual evidence for Athenian democracy · Christopher Blackwell, Christopher Cotten, David Phillips, & Hershal Pleasant.
· article ·
An Introduction to the Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 57 page pdf ·
A Brief Early History of Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 27 page pdf ·

Overview, History, & Institutions

The Assembly of the People · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 46 page pdf ·
The Council of 500: the institution · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 95 page pdf ·
The Council of 500: its history · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 26 page pdf ·
The Council of the Areopagus · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 38 page pdf ·
Legislation under the Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 22 page pdf ·
Special Investigations under the Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 11 page pdf ·

Biographies, Images, & Arguments

Cimon · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 20 page pdf ·
Ephialtes · Christopher Blackwell
· article | 16 page pdf ·
Scythian Archers: policing Athens · Elizabeth Baughman
· article | 6 page pdf ·
Poetry and the Dēmos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession · Casey Dué
· article | 14 page pdf ·
Portraits of historical individuals · Amy Smith
· article | 28 page pdf ·
The Eponymous Heroes of Athens · Amy Smith
· article | 31 page pdf ·
Images of personifications of political ideas · Amy Smith
· article | 78 page pdf ·
A Bibliography of Democratic Art · Amy Smith
· article | 5 page pdf ·

Technical Articles about the Site

Access the raw XML directly.
· article ·
Frequently Asked Questions.
· article ·
“To Do” List for Dēmos.
· article ·
Posted by at 0 comments

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Humanities Commons Groups relating to the Ancient World

Humanities Commons Groups relating to the Ancient World
Groups are micro-communities designed to facilitate interaction and collaboration between scholars with common interests. In each group, you will find:
Activity: A centralized place to view all group activity.
Calendar: A shared group calendar for conferences, lectures, classes, and other events of interest to this group's members.
Discussion: Your home for conversation. Use the Discussion area to communicate with other group members: ask questions, promote publications and events, request feedback, post CFPs, and so on.
Docs: Basic collaborative authoring functionality for the group. Great for collaborating on abstracts, petitions, etc.
Files: A shared storage area for PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and other documents of potential group interest.
From CORE: Pertinent papers, syllabi, blog posts, book reviews, and other scholarship from the repository that have been shared by group members.
Site: All groups have the option to create a collaboratively authored WordPress site.
Want to know more about Groups? View our tutorial.
  • Assyriologists
    active 4 hours, 53 minutes ago
    Scholars working on languages, history and archaeology of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions
    Public Group  / 38 members
  • Ancient Near East
    active 4 hours, 54 minutes ago
    Archaeology and texts of the Ancient Near East
    Public Group  / 103 members
  • Women in Antiquity
    active 11 hours, 57 minutes ago
    This group is dedicated to sharing scholarship and teaching materials on women in the ancient world–Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Near Eastern, Chinese, Indian, etc.
    Public Group  / 69 members
  • Roman Provincial Archaeology
    active 1 week ago
    A group for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Roman provinces.
    Public Group  / 22 members
  • Roman archaeology
    active 1 week ago
    A group for those interested in the archaeology of Roman Italy and the Roman Empire.
    Public Group  / 51 members
  • Christian Mysticism
    active 1 week ago
    A forum for scholars studying Christian mysticism from all periods of history.
    Public Group  / 18 members
  • Syriac Studies
    active 1 week ago
    Dedicated to history and literature of Syriac-speaking communities.
    Public Group  / 29 members
  • Gnosticism
    active 1 week ago
    This group intends to gather scholars of Gnosticism, to confront the definition, the origins, the development of this phenomenon
    Public Group  / 7 members
  • New Testament
    active 1 week ago
    For those working in the field of New Testament studies.
    Public Group  / 69 members
  • Union for Nubian Studies
    active 3 weeks ago
    Founded in 2016, the Union for Nubian Studies (UNS) is an academic and para-academic effort to bring together all fields of Nubian studies. UNS hopes to form a community engaging in all periods of Nubian history […]
    Public Group  / 4 members
  • Graeco-Arabic Studies
    active 3 months ago
    A group for all those interested in the intersection of Greek-Arabic and Arabic-Greek translation, as well as its broader social, political, intellectual, and cultural contexts.
    Public Group  / 8 members
  • Byzantine Studies
    active 3 months, 1 week ago
    Inter-disciplinary, capacious chronology.
    Public Group  / 28 members
  • Origen
    active 3 months, 1 week ago
    A group for scholars interested in Origen (of Alexandria) and his reception.
    Public Group  / 7 members
  • Digital Syriac Corpus
    active 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    This group is for anyone interested in the Digital Syriac Corpus project (syriaccorpus.org).
    Public Group  / 6 members
  • Open-source historical mapping
    active 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    This group has been created to explore the creation of an inclusive open-source historical mapping community, with a focus on Early Modern London, Early Modern England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and their […]
    Public Group  / 83 members
  • Byzantine Archaeology
    active 4 months, 3 weeks ago
    A group interested in the archaeology of the Byzantine Empire from the 4th c. and up to the 15th c. Matters of publications but also of archaeological practice and method will be covered.
    Public Group  / 30 members
  • Dead Sea Scrolls
    active 4 months, 3 weeks ago
    Notifications and discussions, related to texts from Qumran and other Judean Desert sites.
    Private Group  / 30 members
  • Ancient Numismatics
    active 7 months, 3 weeks ago
    For anyone interested in numismatics of the ancient world.
    Public Group  / 7 members
  • Joseph and Aseneth
    active 7 months, 4 weeks ago
    A group for scholars interested in the ancient Jewish and/or Christian narrative Joseph and Aseneth.
    Public Group  / 2 members
  • Roman Frontier Studies
    active 8 months, 1 week ago
    A group dedicated to the study of Roman imperial frontiers (limites) through archaeology, history, material culture, and comparative frontier studies.
    Public Group  / 2 members
  • Etruscan archaeology
    active 8 months, 2 weeks ago
    Archaeology of ancient pre-Roman Italy
    Public Group  / 18 members
  • Roman military equipment
    active 9 months, 4 weeks ago
    Everything to do with Roman arms and armour, whether archaeology, history, or experimental archaeology and re-enactment
    Public Group  / 2 members
  • Assemblage: A Collective Resource for Women in Archaeology
    active 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    Women face significant challenges in the discipline of archaeology, from harassment on fieldwork to unbalanced treatment in the university setting. Assemblage is a shareable resource for female archaeologists and […]
    Public Group  / 2 members
  • Ben Sira
    active 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    Dedicated to all things Ben Sira
    Public Group  / 14 members
  • Egyptology
    active 1 year ago
    For all those interested in Egyptology.
    Public Group  / 13 members
Posted by at 0 comments

Prioject Announcement: Magica Levantina

Magica Levantina

The project Magica Levantina (ML) aims at the edition of mainly unpublished Greek magical texts from towns in the Levant in the late Roman Imperial and early Byzantine periods. Most of the texts are curses inscribed on sheets of lead but also some protective charms inscribed on sheets of gold and silver.
Print editions are planned to appear in two volumes of the series Papyrolo­gica Coloni­en­sia. The ML Website, which is being developed as a complement to these volumes, will doc­u­ment the inscribed objects photographically and include Greek transcriptions and English translations of their texts.
Since decipherment of the inscribed objects usually requires constantly varying angles of light and magnification, the editors have depended to a very large extent on photographic documentation made by the recently developed technology called Reflectance Transforma­tion Imaging (RTI). One of the main features of the ML Website will be to make available to the public—for the first time in the fields of Greek and Latin epigraphy—the RTI documen­tation that the editors themselves used to read the texts. The ML Website will also include a selection of supporting photo­graphic material showing images of the rolled tablets before they were opened (if such images are available) or, occasionally, of other interesting features such as the materia magica that was found with a few of the tablets. The transcriptions and translations are currently being enter­ed in EpiDoc.
When ML Vol. I has gone to press, the correspond­ing documen­tation will be made available on the ML Website. The new material will include inter alia:

  • most of the leaden curse tablets from the Syrian towns of Antioch and Daphne that were found during excavations in 1934 and 1935 conducted by W.A. Camp­bell on behalf of a Franco-American consortium of institutions and that are now housed in the Princeton Art Museum.
  • all of the legible leaden curse tablets of the Israel Antiquities Authority that had been found in a well at Promontory Palace in Caesarea (Israel) during excavations conducted in 1994 by Barbara Burrell and Kathryn Gleasen on behalf of ###.
Posted by at 0 comments
Labels: , ,

Additions and Corrections to the Sokoloff Dictionaries

Additions and Corrections to the Sokoloff Dictionaries
Those working with M. Sokoloff's new English translation of Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum (or with the original for that matter) will discover many instances wherein headwords found in the CAL are not found in that work. The reason is that Brockelmann included not a few such headwords under other forms with the same meaning. He probably did so because given his organization of entries by Aramaic root, his users would have no problem finding the entry. Sokoloff has reordered headwords in alphabetical order, however, so it is no longer easy to find such forms in his dictionary. We have prevailed upon him to provide our users with a list of such words along with cross-references to the entry wherein they are to be found.
Posted by at 0 comments
Labels: ,

The Online Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

 [First posted in AWOL 8 February 2010, updated 27 February 2019]

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
http://cal.huc.edu/gifs/cal1.gif
A new dictionary of the Aramaic language, entitled The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, is currently in preparation by an international team of scholars, with headquarters at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio USA. This major scholarly reference work covers all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions.

Why a New Lexicon?

Many dictionaries of some part of Aramaic exist, but individually and as a whole they are inadequate in important ways. Lexical treatment of Aramaic has been fragmented. Existing dictionaries treat one dialect, or one body of literature, but not the whole language. It is as though we had a dictionary of Shakespeare, and one of Hemingway, without having a dictionary of English! An additional hurdle in the path of users is that Aramaic dictionaries are written in an imposing variety of living and dead languages: not only English but also German, French, Russian, and Latin! Many of the existing dictionaries do not come up to modern standards of accuracy, and practically all are seriously incomplete and out-of-date. Practically every area of Aramaic studies has been enriched by recent discoveries: new inscriptions, new papyri, new scrolls, and new fragments from the Cairo Genizah, a synagogue store-room where a trove of manuscripts was discovered in the 19th century. These recently discovered materials demand inclusion in a lexicon.

A Comprehensive Lexicon

The new lexicon is comprehensive in the following ways: 1) it includes all of ancient Aramaic, not just selected portions; 2) it is based on a new and thorough compilation of all Aramaic literature, not just on existing dictionaries; 3) it takes into account modern scholarly discussion of the Aramaic language.
Search the CAL lexical and textual databases
Search the CAL Bibliographic Archives
What is Aramaic?
What is CAL?
CAL Publications
Links
CAL BLOG
Frequently Asked Questions

Who made the CAL?

How to Support the CAL Project

Posted by at 2 comments
Labels: ,

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Digital Hammurabi YouTube Channel

Digital Hammurabi YouTube Channel
Digital Hammurabi is the creative outlet for two Assyriologists, Megan Lewis and Joshua Bowen. Driven by a passion for the ancient Near East and the belief that history is both important and relevant to modern life, Megan and Josh aim to break out of the ivory tower of academia and bring ancient Mesopotamia to the world! Joshua graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in Assyriolgy in 2016, while Megan is still working on hers and hopes to graduate in early 2020.
Recent videos are isted below, click through for all of them

Dating Daniel: Prophecy or History?

2.2K views1 month ago
Posted by at 0 comments
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)