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As a component of the National Endowment of the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages
project, PELLA is an innovative research tool aiming, among
other things, to provide a comprehensive typology and catalogue of the
coinages struck by
the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (c. 700–310 BC),
arguably the most influential coinages of the ancient Greek world.
Fueled first by
indigenous precious metal mines in their native Macedonia, and
later by the spoils of their conquests, including the rich treasures of
the Persian
Empire, the Argeads’ numismatic output was monumental. For
centuries after their deaths, coins in the name of Philip II (ruled
359–336 BC) and Alexander
the Great (ruled 336–323 BC) continued to be produced by
successor kings, civic mints, and imitators from Central Asia to Central
Europe. The coinage of
the Argeads themselves and that produced in their names has been
extensively studied, but to date no comprehensive, easily accessible
catalogue of their
coinages exists. PELLA is designed to fill that gap, cataloguing
the individual coin types of the Argead kings from Alexander I (ruled
498–454 BC), the
first of the Macedonian kings to strike coins, down to Philip
III Arrhidaeus (ruled 323–317 BC), the last of the titular kings to do
so. Included as
well as are the numerous posthumous civic and successor coinages
struck in the names of the kings.
The current version of PELLA
provides links to examples of the coinage (in the name) of Alexander the
Great and Philip III Arrhidaeus present in a dozen
collections located in the United States and Europe (see
Contributors). The PELLA project currently focuses on the coinage (in
the name of) Alexander
III and Philip III, using reference numbers from Martin Price's The Coinage in the Name of Alexander
the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus , London 1991, as the means of organizing the coinages from various institutions. The next stage will
focus on the coinage (in the name of) Philip II, using Le Rider, Le monnayage d'argent et d'or de
Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 a 294, 1977, as the means of organizing the coinages. Pella will then focus on the coinages of
Alexander I to Perdiccas III using SNG ANS as the means of organizing the coinages from various institutions.
PELLA is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. Coin type data are
made available with an Open Database License. All images and data about physical specimens
are copyright of their respective institutions. Please see the Contributors page
for further
details about individual licenses. The current version of PELLA
uses the numbering system and typology originally created and published
in Price (1991)
with the addition of modifications that greatly enhance the
volume’s usefulness as an online resource.
Welcome to Krateros, the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study.
The
squeezes, which are three-dimensional, mirror image impressions of
inscriptions, were created and donated to the Institute by the
Epigraphical Museum in Athens and some of the greatest epigraphers of
the twentieth century, including Louis Robert, Charles Edson, Sterling
Dow, and David Moore Robinson. Stephen Tracy, Professor Emeritus of the
Ohio State University and former Director of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens, has written an introductory primer on
the squeeze collection, and Christian Habicht, the late Professor of
Ancient History at the Institute, has provided an overview of the Origin and Development of
the squeeze collection. The digitization project is funded with
generous gifts by the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and
Sciences and the Fowler Merle-Smith Family Trust.
The
digitization of these squeezes is a work in progress, and thus new
items will regularly be uploaded. The team’s current focus is on
squeezes pertaining to Inscriptiones Graecae Volume II, second edition, i.e., IG II(2). These squeezes will be uploaded in more or less ascending order by their IG II(2) number. Please note: although
conventional practice is to indicate the edition of a published work
with a superscript Arabic numeral (so, e.g., the third edition of Inscriptiones Graecae volume I would be IG I3), on this website and in the Krateros database we instead place the Arabic numeral in parentheses. Thus, the third edition of Inscriptiones Graecae
volume I is rendered IG I(3). We have elected to take this approach for
the sake of consistency, as the metadata fields in our database do not
permit the use of superscript formatting.
We are excited to welcome Rachele Pierini, University of Bologna
for an Online Open House. The topic of the discussion is “Re-inventing
Old Craftsmanship: Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design.” The event
will be live-streamed on Thursday, November 7 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and
will be recorded.
achele
Pierini was trained in Classical Philology at the University of Bologna
and in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Madrid. She is a
philologist and a linguist who specializes in Bronze Age Aegean scripts,
with a focus on Linear B. After having held several Post-Doctoral
Fellowships (University of Bologna) and having spent a number of
research periods abroad as Visiting Scholar in internationally renowned
universities (Complutense University of Madrid; University of
Cambridge), she is currently a Teaching Tutor in the Department of
Classical Philology at the University of Bologna and has been recently
awarded the prize of Cultural Ambassador by her native country. Her
research mainly concerns the Greek language, both in its diachronic
development (especially its initial stages, from the Proto-Indo-European
origins to the earliest Linear B attestations) and in its relationship
with substratum and nearby languages.
Le dossier « Corps antiques : morceaux choisis »
s’intéresse aux représentations d’un membre ou d’un organe conçu dans sa
singularité, aux dispositifs d’isolement et de distinction visuels et
symboliques dans les discours, les images, les assemblages votifs grecs
et romains, et les constructions muséographiques contemporaines.
Éditeur : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Daedalus
Collection : Mètis | N.S.17
Lieu d’édition : Paris-Athènes
Année d’édition : 2019
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 30 octobre 2019
In The Value of Colour, an interdisciplinary group of scholars come together to examine economically relevant questions concerning a narrow slice of social and cognitive history: namely, colours. Traditionally, the study of colours has been approached from a cultural or linguistic perspective. The essays collected in this volume highlight the fact that in earliest human history, colours appear in contexts of prestige (value) and com-merce. Acquisition, production, labour, circulation and consumption are among the issues discussed by individ-ual authors to show how colourful materials acquired meaning in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Spanning the Palaeolithic to the early Imperial Rome, the contributions also demonstrate the many questions asked and approaches used by historians in the growing fi eld of Colour Studies
Richard’s intention, after over 60 years of study and field work, was
to publish his final thoughts on the subject and make them readily
available for all scholars to use, free of cost, wherever they may live.
Knowing that his time was limited, and that he would be unable to
respond to reviewers’ comments, he chose, of necessity, not to submit
his manuscript for peer review. It was his wish that the book be offered
as-is. This open textbook has been published openly using a Creative Commons
license and is offered in various e-book formats free of charge.
This is the first release of Alpheios 3.0 that includes
support for Safari. All 3.0 features are now available in the Safari
Browser Extension
as well as Chrome and Firefox. (See below for full details
of the Alpheios 3.0 new features and enhancements.)
This is an incremental release for Chrome and Firefox and includes the following bug fixes:
Improved handling of user session timeouts.
Eliminated sticky word selection after deactivation and reactivation of the extension.
Eliminated lexicon loading message when no lexicons were selected.
Fixed inconsistent language selection behavior when changing languages using the toolbar lookup.
Fixed locative ending errors in the Latin Noun Inflection Table.
Back-To-TOC button in the Smyth Grammar is now functional.
Version 3.0
This is a major release. The user interface has been
completely refreshed with a new design for compliance with web
accessiblity standards.
New Features
Alpheios Toolbar: the new floating toolbar provides quick access to word lookup and all Alpheios resources.
Usage Examples (Latin only): search for usage examples of a word in the canonical Latin corpus from the Packard Humanities Institute.
User Word Lists: all words you look up get added to your wordlist. Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your wordlist.
After dragging the popup to a new location on the page,
the location is retained between lookups (and sessions/workstations if
you login to a user account)
User configuration options can be reset to default values.
A custom alpheios-word-node data attribute can be
used on a page to identify words which contain HTML markup (such as in
texts which use the Leiden markup conventions).
See the FAQ for more information on how to take advantage of this feature.
We have reduced output to the browser console, except when log level is set to verbose.
At long last we are ready to offer a v0.2 beta release of the World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) at http://dev.whgazetteer.org.
We hope that spatial historians and spatio-temporal infrastructure
developers will be interested in taking a look at what we are building,
experimenting with their data or provided samples. It is a “sandbox,” so
nothing will be saved for the time being (that will change soon). There
are 5-6 months remaining in the term of our initial NEH grant, time
enough to complete most of what we planned for this phase, and to
incorporate more suggestions from users and potential contributors as we
move toward future planning and development.
The site includes a brief guide titled “WHG Beta Release: A Tour,”
which outlines what is there, what you can do and how, remaining
challenges, and what is in the works. What follows is a higher level
introduction.
Places and Traces
The World Historical Gazetteer is a Linked Open Data platform for
publishing, linking, discovering, and visualizing contributed records of
attested historical places and traces.
Our initial focus has been on places, but we are working experimentally
to demonstrate their integration within the platform with what we now
call traces–defined as web resources about historical entities
for which location in time and space is of scholarly and general
interest. We are considering three classes of traces for the time being:
agents (people and groups), works (e.g. artifacts, texts, datasets), and events
(e.g. journeys, conflict). Our objective has been to create the first
large-scale spatial infrastructure for world history: oriented toward
documenting the human past at the global scale, and particularly the
geography of global and transregional connections.
Our accessioning process is intended to eventually be largely
self-directed; getting it to that stage means working directly and
hands-on with our early contributors.
LOD Publication
Registered users of WHG can publish their place records as Linked Open Data simply by uploading them in Linked Places format (or the LP-TSV version
intended for relatively simpler records). We see LOD publication as a
key feature for researchers who are not in a position to stand up their
own web interfaces with per-place pages. Once uploaded, each record will
have a permanent URI and be accessible in our graphical interface and
API; on their way to being LOD in good standing. The dataset can be
browsed immediately by its owner in a searchable table and map, but
turning the uploaded dataset into a contribution for accessioning
requires some further steps. The data needs to have as many asserted
links to name authorities as possible, and augmentations of geometry
where that is missing and findable. We provide reconciliation services
for that purpose.
Reconciliation
Simply put, reconciliation is the process of identifying matches
between records of named entities. In this case the records are for
places, and the matches are between a researcher’s records and those in
existing place name authorities. So far, we provide reconciliation
services for the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) and Wikidata; DBpedia and GeoNames are planned.
The reconciliation process has two steps: 1) sending records to the
authority, and 2) reviewing the prospective matches returned and
accepting or declining them as appropriate. The results of this somewhat
laborious process are 1) links, and 2) more geometry. Once augmented in
this way, a dataset is ready for accessioning.
Accessioning
The last step is another reconciliation effort — this time to the WHG
index. Each record is compared to the growing WHG index to determine if
we have a contributed attestation for the place yet or not. If we do,
the incoming record becomes a “child” or “leaf” in the set of
attestations for the place. If the place is not yet accounted for, the
new record becomes a “parent” — the seed for a new set of attestations.
At this stage, an automatic linking can be made if two records share an
authority match, but the rest will have to be reviewed as described
above.
Graphical Interface
The opening screen of WHG offers users search of places and traces.
We try to offer enough context on the opening screen to identify the
likeliest match. Once you identify a place of interest, clicking its
name take you to a “place portal” screen–where everything we have about
the place, or linked to it in some way, will appear: attestations from
contributors, associated traces, nearby places, physical geographic
context (rivers, watersheds, ecoregions). The place portal is very much a
work-in-progress at this stage. Several other features are also on our
near-term to do list, including advanced search; more and better maps;
user data collections; project team ‘workspace’; batching of
reconciliation tasks; and more.
A Word About Architecture
There are two data stores within the WHG platform: a relational
database (PostgreSQL) and a high-speed index (Elasticsearch). All
uploaded data gets imported to a set of relational tables whose names
correspond to the elements of Linked Places format: places, place_name, place_type, place_geom, place_link, place_when, place_related, place_description, and place_depiction.
Contributed data is most readily managed in that form. Upon
accessioning, records are added to the index in the manner described
under Reconciliation above.
An API
This part of the WHG platform is one of the most important, and the
least developed right now. Stay tuned for further developments. Our
intention is to provide access to both contributors’ individual records
and datasets from the database (when designated by their owner as
public), and to the aggregating index records; both with numerous and
useful filtering capabilities.
Content
Our index has been instantiated with records from modern gazetteer
resources: 1) about 1,000 of the world’s most populous cites from
GeoNames, 2) ~1.8 million place records from Getty TGN, 3) about 1,500
societies from the D-Place anthropological repository; and 4) major rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges from Natural Earth and Wildlife Research Institute.
To this modern “core” we have begun adding historical data: 1) 10,600 entities harvested from the index of the Atlas of World History (Dorling Kindersley, 1995), offering broad but shallow global coverage; and 2) our first specialist gazetteer, HGIS de las Indias,
which consists of approximately 15,000 settlements and territories in
colonial Latin America. There are several additional large datasets in
the queue, which we will be adding in partnership with contributors.
Some are previewed as heat maps on our Maps page. Broad coverage of modern names with increasing historical depth and connections supplied by trace data.Our Pelagios Connections
The WHG platform borrows extensively from the Peripleo application developed by Rainer Simon of the Pelagios project, extending it significantly in a few ways. Our backend architecture closely mimics that underlying both Peripleo and the Recogito
annotation tool, and we are actively collaborating with Rainer and the
entire Pelagios Network team on several aspects of this work. In
particular, we are co-developing the data format standards for
contributions to both systems: Linked Places format, and a nascent Linked Traces annotation format.
Feedback
We welcome suggestions, critiques, even praise :^) – and there is an
email form on the site which makes it easy to offer it. Please bear with
us in this active development stage and check back as we realize the
system’s potential more fully over the next several months. Look for
further blog posts and follow us on Twitter; we tweet progress and
related information as @WHGazetteer and @kgeographer.
Mythes et images au Cabinet des Médailles propose la découverte
d'une sélection d'œuvres conservées dans les collections d’antiques
d’époque classique, un des fonds les plus abondants et riches du
département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques de la BnF ou "Cabinet
des médailles". Cette exposition virtuelle met en scène ces œuvres
grecques, étrusques et romaines dans l'historique du musée et des
parcours thématiques, et offre grâce à la 3D une visite du Cabinet des
médailles du roi ou « salon Louis XV » et la visualisation complète de
plusieurs objets antiques. D’autres parcours thématiques seront proposés
ultérieurement.
K.A.S.A. è l’acronimo di Koiné archeologica, sapiente antichità. E’ uno dei progetti finanziati dal III Programma interregionale IIIA Italia-Malta, anno 2004-2006, promulgato dalla Regione Sicilia con contributi della Comunità Europea. Esso prevede la partecipazione di tre partners,
la Facoltà di Lettere, L’Università di Malta e la Officina di Studi
Medievali di Palermo, per la realizzazione di itinerari turistici
integrati che leghino in percorsi unitari le province di Siracusa e
Ragusa e l’arcipelago maltese.
Il progetto ha come obiettivo
l’utilizzo delle potenzialità insite nel patrimonio culturale di tipo
archeologico-monumentale di queste aree per pervenire ad un triplice
obiettivo: approfondire la conoscenza del patrimonio comune contribuendo a rinsaldare l’identità delle comunità locali; riqualificare
in senso culturale i flussi turistici già esistenti tra l’area iblea e
Malta, incrementando quello proveniente da altre aree italiane ed
europee, inserire siti minori finora poco conosciuti all’interno dei circuiti.
Il
denominatore comune alle proposte che verranno fatte sarà quello di
tipologie monumentali e fenomeni culturali analoghi tra le due isole;
verranno inclusi cioè siti e monumenti che mostrino contatti diretti
ovvero convergenze tipologiche.
L’area
coinvolta dal progetto è caratterizzata da una domanda notevole di
conoscenza delle proprie radici e da un forte senso di identità,
dimostrato anche dalla presenza di ben due corsi di laurea destinati ai
Beni Culturali a Siracusa.
Antesteria. Debates de Historia Antigua surge como plasmación de algunas de las aportaciones
más brillantes presentadas, defendidas y debatidas a lo largo de los Encuentros
de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historia Antigua de la Universidad Complutense de
Madrid. Surge por tanto con el fin primordial de difundir los resultados de
estas investigaciones para contribuir al desarrollo de la ciencia histórica y a
la promoción de los jóvenes investigadores que en ella se inician o dan sus
primeros pasos.
La agrupación de Jóvenes
Investigadores de Historia Antigua de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid está
constituida por los becarios y antiguos becarios del Departamento de Historia
Antigua de dicha universidad, y tiene como objetivo principal el intercambio,
la colaboración y el acercamiento, a nivel académico pero también personal, en
aras de fomentar un clima de desarrollo científico de calidad y de convivencia
cordial y enriquecedora.
Dentro de esta
agrupación, la principal actividad desarrollada ha sido la organización y
celebración de los Encuentros de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia Antigua,
unas Jornadas de Investigación anuales abiertas a la participación de todos los
jóvenes investigadores predoctorales y postdoctorales de las distintas
universidades y centros de investigación españoles y extranjeros, y cuyo
espíritu no es muy distinto del que anima a la propia agrupación: crear un
lugar de encuentro e intercambio científico que permita a los investigadores
que están desarrollando sus primeros pasos en el mundo de la investigación
obtener una amplia perspectiva de los ámbitos de estudio más en boga y conocer
a las personas que puedan estar desarrollando trabajos cercanos o conectados
con los suyos. Todo lo cual se logra mediante la generación de un foro en el
que cada investigador puede exponer brevemente su objeto de estudio o sus
líneas de investigación, pero en el que los debates y coloquios distendidos
pero con un alto nivel científico adquieren un papel protagonista.
Egyptian coffins are inscribed with spells and images which stand in for spells. All function together as a machine to resurrect the deceased and to guide them safely through the next world. Given this function, its perhaps surprising that the texts from coffins are usually published completely divorced from their position on the coffin. Any additional meaning conferred on the texts by their placement on the surrogate body or relative to each other and the vignettes is lost. In order to understand a coffin as a magical machine, it's necessary to view the spells in 3D so that this relationship can be taken into account.
The aim of this project is to explore the relationship between texts and their positioning on a magical object through building annotated 3D models of coffins displaying the texts and translations.
The book series
Mediterranean Reconfigurations is devoted to the analyses of
historical change in the Mediterranean over a long period (15th - 19th
centuries), challenging totalizing narratives that “Westernize”
Mediterranean history as having led naturally to European domination in
the 19th and 20th centuries. In reality, the encounters of Muslim,
Jewish, Armenian and Protestant merchants and sailors with legal customs
and judicial practices different from their own gave rise to legal and
cultural creativity throughout the Mediterranean. Through the prism of
commercial litigation, the series thus offers a more accurate and deeper
understanding of the practices of intercultural trade, in a context
profoundly shaped by legal pluralism and multiple and overlapping spaces
of jurisdiction. Comparative case studies offer empirically-based
indicators for both regional and more general processes, here called
"Mediterranean reconfigurations", e.g. the changing interplay and
positioning of individual and institutional actors on different levels
in a variety of commercial and legal contexts.
The
development of the Spanish Navy in the early modern Mediterranean
triggered a change in the balance of political and economic power for
the coastal populations of the Hispanic Monarchy. The establishment of
new permanent squadrons, endowed with See More
The Association of Ancient Historians was founded with two essential objectives. The first of these is to foster a regular forum for scholarly interaction among historians of the Ancient Mediterranean--especially among those who study the Greeks and Romans--and secondly, to do so in a manner that emphasizes collegiality and social interaction.
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