The Royal Library of Belgium (KBR; Nomisma URI: http://nomisma.org/id/kbr) is the newest organization to join the Nomisma.org consortium, providing data for about 750 Roman Republican coins in its collection to Coinage of the Roman Republic Online.
The Royal Library of Belgium is one of the largest numismatic
collections in Europe, with more than 200,000 objects, and the first
Belgian institution to make part of their collection available as Linked
Open Data to Nomisma. We hope to integrate their Roman Imperial and
Greek coins in other type projects eventually.
There
are now nearly 60,000 coins available in CRRO (connected to about 2,000
types), making it the most comprehensive resource of its type on the
web.
La période entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C. marque le début de l’entreprise de
conquête systématique, qui permit à Rome de devenir maîtresse de ce qui
était considéré comme la « terre habitée », avec les premières étapes
qu’en furent la soumission du Latium et l’achèvement des guerres,
longues et difficiles, contre les Samnites. Rome était enfin sortie du
conflit des ordres qui avait vu s’affronter les patriciens et les
plébéiens : elle avait désormais à sa tête une aristocratie regroupant
des représentants des deux parties de la cité, la nobilitas, qui
lança la ville dans une politique d’expansion, rendue possible par la
disparition des tensions du passé. Mais, comme tout impérialisme,
l’impérialisme romain devait se fonder sur une idéologie : l’auteur
montre que cela se fit par la construction d’une mémoire historique
attribuant à la cité, depuis sa fondation par Romulus, une mission de
domination universelle, voulue et garantie par les dieux. Cette
émergence d’une idéologie d’État se traduisit par la construction de
nouveaux temples, celui d’une nouvelle venue dans le panthéon romain, la
déesse de la Victoire Victoria et celui de Quirinus, c’est-à-dire le
fondateur de Rome divinisé. L’auteur étudie minutieusement les faits, en
analysant en détail les textes des auteurs anciens mais aussi ayant
recours aux données les plus récentes de l’archéologie, que la riche
iconographie fournie dans l’ouvrage permet d’appréhender.
Éditeur : Les Belles Lettres
Collection : Études Anciennes
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Année d’édition : 2021
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 novembre 2021
The newest issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
(vol. 9, issue 4), edited by Ann E. Killebrew and Sandra Scham, offers
two open-access articles, one of them open access for three months, the
other permanent open access. Would you be willing to link subscribers to
your listserv to the articles on JSTOR? We would very much appreciate
if that were possible.
Here are the links:
“Ruined Cities in Cyprus”: How a Three-Hundred-Word Letter Kick-Started the Preservation of Cyprus’s Medieval Structures Danai Konstantinidou (***Open Access for 3 Months*** on JSTOR)
Hidden Mediterranean History/Histories: The Church of the Panagia tou Potamou in Kazafani (Ozanköy), Cyprus Thomas Kaffenberger, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Michael J. K. Walsh, and Werner Matthias Schmid (***Permanent Open Access*** on JSTOR)
The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) is a Python library
offering natural language processing (NLP) for the languages of
pre–modern Eurasia. Pre-configured pipelines are available for 19
languages.
Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo (Associate Professor of Classics); Tesserae (Principal Investigator)
Gregory Crane, Universität Leipzig (Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities), Tufts University (Professor of Classics); Perseus (Editor–in–Chief) and Open Philology (Director)
Peter Meineck, New York University (Associate Professor of
Classics); Aquila Theatre (Founder), Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives
(Founder, Director)
Leonard Muellner, Brandeis University (Professor Emeritus of
Classical Studies); Center for Hellenic Studies (Director of
Publications, Information Technology and Libraries)
During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher
(1602-1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the
learning of his age. He had over 760 correspondents, including
scientists, Jesuit missionaries and world potentates. The subjects
discussed in his voluminous correspondence cover the entire range of his
interests. Letters sent to Kircher were commonly accompanied by curious
natural objects or artefacts for Kircher’s expanding collection in Rome
and reports of astronomical observations or experiments performed by
the global network of Jesuit missionaries. In return, Kircher sent his
powerful patrons medicines and balsams produced in the pharmacy of the
Jesuit college in Rome, and elaborate machines of his devising such as
the Mathematical Organ, and example of which is now preserved in the Museo Galileo in Florence.
The Siddham database is a resource for the study of inscriptions from South and Central Asia.
The project focuses on the period of the Guptas (circa 320 to 550), a
pivotal moment in the history of Asia, marked by an astonishing
florescence in every field of endeavour. The Gupta kingdom and its
networks had an enduring impact on India and a profound reach across
Central and Southeast Asia in a host of cultural, religious and
socio-political spheres.
The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the
School of Oriental and African Studies, and funded by an ERC-Synergy
grant for 2014-2020.
Le dialogue de Cicéron De natura deorum (La nature des dieux)
met en scène la confrontation de trois interlocuteurs qui représentent
chacun une école philosophique : l’épicurien Velléius et le stoïcien
Balbus exposent les éléments de doctrine élaborés dans leur école
respective pour traiter la question du divin tandis que Cotta, le
représentant de la Nouvelle Académie, met à l’épreuve la cohérence des
deux exposés et les soumet l’un après l’autre à un examen critique.
L’exceptionnelle richesse documentaire de ce dialogue a suscité des
éditions commentées de vastes proportions : de Mayor (1880-1885) à Pease
(1955-1958), le travail fourni sur les sources grecques, sur les cultes
grecs et romains, sur la postérité antique, tardo-antique et chrétienne
est si complet qu’il fournit une base irremplaçable. Mais ces données
exigent une interprétation d’ensemble qui tienne compte du projet
philosophique de Cicéron ; or ce projet a été jusqu’ici sous-estimé pour
deux raisons :
–
le dialogue de Cicéron a été lu surtout comme un témoin, souvent
unique, et à ce titre utilisé pour reconstituer des pans entiers de la
philosophie hellénistique ;
– sur un
autre plan, le texte a été établi d’après une vulgate qui ne permet pas
de comprendre qu’on a affaire à un travail en cours dont les
modifications sont liées à la rédaction des autres œuvres de physique
que sont le De diuinatione, le De fato et le Timaeus.
The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition is a
project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and hosted by
both the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen and the
Göttingen State and University Library. It aims to index and make
accessible the Ahiqar story in its Syriac and Arabic transmission
branches.
Aetia is a
collection of elegiac poems in four books that deals with the
foundation of cities, unusual religious ceremonies, and unique local
traditions from around the Greek world.It
survives not in manuscript form but in papyrus fragments and quotations
by later authors. This site is not a complete collection of every
identifiable scrap of the Aetia, as is Annette Harder's monumental print edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). But
all coherent, understandable fragments are included, as well as some
very short fragments with good explanatory scholia (commentary by
ancient scholars).
This project was originally conceived by Prof. Susan Stephens of Stanford University, as a way to achieve four goals:
increase access among classicists at every career stage (from undergraduate to senior scholar) to the fragmentary text of the Aetia
provide a format for an exchange of information for scholars who are working on aspects of the poem
allow immediate integration of new papyrus finds
use the visual and spatial capabilities of the web
El objetivo del Banco de Datos de Lenguas Paleohispánicas HESPERIA es la
recopilación, ordenación y tratamiento de todos los materiales
lingüísticos antiguos relativos a la Península Ibérica (y los relacionados
con ella del sur de Francia), con la exclusión de las inscripciones latinas, griegas y
fenicias.
El Banco de Datos HESPERIA incluye:
Todos los textos en lenguas paleohispánicas (ibérico, celtibérico, lusitano y la del Suroeste).
Las inscripciones monetales paleohispánicas.
La onomástica indígena (antropónimos,
topónimos, etnónimos y teónimos de las lenguas mencionadas, así como del
vascón o del turdetano) transmitida en fuentes epigráficas o literarias grecolatinas.
Las glosas hispánicas transmitidas por los autores antiguos.
El Banco de Datos HESPERIA de Lenguas Paleohispánicas está mantenido por un equipo de investigadores
pertenecientes a la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea, Universidad de Zaragoza y Universitat de Barcelona, con financiación del Ministerio
de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España.
Over the last forty years or so, our understanding and appreciation of the Latin literature of the Flavian age have been
radically improved. Among all the writers involved in this influential, complex and ongoing process of re-evaluation,
Publius Papinius Statius (40-96 CE) has enjoyed what may be fairly described as a renaissance. Today his stock is high,
as attested by the publication of a regular stream of monographs, commentaries, translations and editions of his three
surviving works, the Thebaid, the Silvae and the Achilleid.
It seems fair to say that of the three, it is the last that has received the least attention. Its incomplete state
(only the first book and 167 verses were complete at the time of the poet's death) lies at the heart of the matter,
but the radical change in style from the Thebaid has also certainly contributed to the poem's reception,
at least until recently, when its status as a kind of fragment and its quirky and partially Ovidian manner,
its generic ambivalence and its remarkably complex allusivity have come to be seen as distinctly positive features
of a text that still requires further study. On the digital front, recent years have seen the timid beginnings
of what is surely destined to become a major trend, the preparation of open access, high quality, online critical
editions of Greek and Latin texts. Two excellent examples are the edition of Catullus Online prepared by
Professor D. Kiss of the University of Barcelona (http://www.catullusonline.org/CatullusOnline)
and that of Callimachus' Aetia by Professor S. Stephens of Stanford University
(http://dcc.dickinson.edu/callimachus-aetia/the-aetia).
This site is devoted to produce a full open access critical edition of the Achilleid. When complete, in addition to
a new critical text the site will contain translations, images of the largest possible number of manuscripts and links to
all the manuscripts that are available online elsewhere, and further links to major online, open access research tools
in the field of Classics. It is our aim to explore the ways in which new technologies can combine with the established
techniques and the high standards of traditional classical philology, and in doing so to offer to the scholarly community
an enriched edition of Statius' Achilleid located within the rapidly evolving
network of digital tools being developed for the study and teaching of Latin literature.
Keen to share our current research and data with
users, we are constructing a platform that will continue to evolve as
our ongoing work develops. Concerning the apparatus criticus (cf. the
website page called “The Poem”), at the moment the site only displays a
sample of the lessons covering lines 1-19 of the first book, taken from
many witnesses that have not been studied or taken into account in
earlier editions of the poem, even by the most recent edition: Papinius Statius: Thebaid and Achilleid,
ed. and transl. by Hall J.B., Ritchie A.L., Edwards M.J., 3 vols.,
Newcastle 2007-2008. In the apparatus, we have employed the usual
abbreviations; in addition, by the sign /, we have indicated the cases
where a character is illegible due to deletion and / or correction; by
the sign [---], we have indicated that the character(s) are missing due
to a physical accident (tearing of the page, for example); by the sign?,
that we still hesitate over our reading. This is a first attempt at the
visualisation of a high number of witnesses and, as such, it is very
much a work in progress. Please feel free to contact us with any
questions or suggestions at : achilleid@unige.ch.
The research carried out to produce this
website was made possible thanks to the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNSF) who has financed two consecutive projects: Towards a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius, http://p3.snf.ch/project-170010 (2016-2019) and Digital Statius: the Achilleid, http://p3.snf.ch/Project-189375 (2019-2021).
Author: Conrad Schmidt, Stephanie Döpper, Jonas Kluge, Samantha
Petrella, Ullrich Ochs, Nick Kirchhoff, Susanne Maier und Mona Walter
Hardback; 210x297; 590 pages; 358 figures, 68 plates (colour throughout). German text.. 803 2021 Arabia Orientalis: Studien zur Archäologie Ostarabiens 5. Available both in print and Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781803271002. Epublication ISBN 9781803271019.
Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah
presents the results of a survey conducted in 2015 and beyond by the
Institut für die Kulturen des Alten Orients of the Universität Tübingen
in Al-Khashbah, one of the largest Early Bronze Age sites on the Omani
Peninsula. Ten monumental buildings, 273 tombs and other structures from
the Hafit (3100-2700 BC) and Umm an-Nar periods (2700-2000 BC) were
documented here. This makes Al-Khashbah ideally suited for the
investigation of the beginnings of complex settlements and social
structures in northern Inner Oman at the transition from the 4th to the
3rd millennium BC, because many of the achievements previously
attributed to the Umm an-Nar period, such as monumental architecture and
the smelting of copper, can already be proven here in the preceding
Hafit period. In the Umm an-Nar period, the development of Al-Khashbah
continues steadily, giving the site additional importance. According to
the results of the survey, however, copper production at the site no
longer seems to play a role in this period.
Aus den auf die frühe Bronzezeit folgenden Epochen des 2. und 1.
Jahrtausends v. Chr. sowie des 1. und 2. Jahrtausends n. Chr. gibt es in
Al-Khashbah nur äußerst wenige Befunde. Erst im 18.–20. Jahrhundert n.
Chr. erfährt der Ort eine intensive Wiederbelebung, wovon insbesondere
die alte Lehmziegelsiedlung im Norden der Palmenoase, eine kleine
Siedlung im Osten des Untersuchungsgebiets, eine Reihe von
Bewässerungsanlagen, mehrere Friedhöfe, Petroglyphen sowie zahlreiche an
der Oberfläche gefundene spätislamische Keramikscherben zeugen.
La collection Grands Sites Archéologiques contribue activement à la valorisation de la recherche sur le patrimoine et l'archéologie. À l’initiative du ministère de la Culture, elle est coordonnée par le musée d'Archéologie nationale,
Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Les chercheurs français y
présentent le fruit de leurs recherches de manière compréhensible pour
tous, à l’aide de contenus numériques interactifs (modélisations 3D,
cartes et chronologies interactives, etc.). La collection accueille en moyenne 2 millions de visites par an. Elle se divise en deux séries : Archéologie en France et Patrimoine du Proche-Orient.
It’s the Very Nearly Live from the ASOR 2021 Conference With Extra
Special Guests Edition!
A conference you say? That’s right, we’re here in Chicago at the 2021
ASOR meeting with a host of special guest stars. The topic—conferences
and conference experiences. There are some important lessons here.
The BFSA publishes an annual bulletin (formerly the Bulletin of the
Society for Arabian Studies) in the spring giving information on current
research, publications, field work, conferences and events in the
Arabian peninsula in fields ranging from archaeology and history to
natural history and the environment. It also carries feature articles
and book reviews.
Submissions for short notices of ongoing or forthcoming research are
welcome, as is information on interesting conferences, exhibitions and
events relating to the study of the Arabian Peninsula.
Notices are intended to raise awareness of the range and scope of
current research in the Arabian Peninsula. They should be short
abstracts or summaries, between 300- 700 words, followed by
bibliographic references to recent publications and links to relevant
department or project websites. Photographs would be welcome, too, and
should be at least 300 dpi; please indicate the copyright in each case.
Research notices published by the Bulletin constitute an excellent means
to raise the profile of your research amongst peers and provides a
platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Email your contribution
to current_research@thebfsa.org.
Current and back issues can be purchased at the Seminar for Arabian
Studies in July each year or from the BFSA (contact@thebfsa.org).
Printed back-copies of the Bulletin are £5.00 each. Previous issues may
also be downloaded free of charge in pdf format by clicking on the cover
images below.
The 2020 issue is available to download here as a compressed pdf.
In the 1910s an exceptional lot of more than 1,800 papyri was
unearthed by the ‘sebakhin’ (local diggers searching for decayed
mudbricks used as a fertilizer) in the ancient site of Philadelphia in
the northeast of the Fayum region, in Egypt. This collection of
documents constitutes the richest Greek archive on papyrus hitherto
unearthed and dates from the mid-3rd century BC. These papers, collected
in ancient times and kept together for more than 2000 years, are today
held in different collections around the world. While the vast majority
were acquired by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the rest entered European
and American collections, from London and Manchester to Florence and
Paris, from Ann Arbor to New York.
Map of the Arsinoite nome taken from The Fayum Project. Philadelphia was located on the north-eastern border.
These precious survivals have allowed scholars to reconstruct the
phases of the career of the owner of these papers: Zenon, son of
Agreophon, born around 285 BC and originally from Caunus (modern
Dalyan), in ancient Caria (southwest of modern Turkey). Covering a
period of some thirty years (261-229 BC), the archive includes private
and official letters, accounts, contracts, petitions as well as a few
literary texts. Besides dealing with official and business matters, some
correspondence from this archive is more personal in tone, providing
details on Zenon’s life, family and friends.
The documents reveal that from around 261 BC, Zenon served as a
business agent and private secretary of Apollonius, the finance minister
(dioiketes) of the country, advisor to King Ptolemy II
Philadelphus (reigned 285 BC – 246 BC). In the first phase of his
career, Zenon was travelling as a representative of Apollonius to
Palestine, which at that time was under the control of Ptolemy.
Complete letter from Glaucias to Apollonius, reporting on various business matters and dated 257 BC (British Library, Papyrus 2661)
Gajdukevich, V. F. (1981) : Bosporskie goroda (Ustupchatye sklepy. Éllinisticheskaja usad’ba. Ilurat), Leningrad [Villes du Bosphore (Cryptes à gradins. Manoir hellénistique. Ilurat)].
L’ouvrage publie les résultats des travaux
des expéditions assez anciennes de l’Institut d’archéologie de
l’Académie des sciences de l’URSS dirigées par V. F. Gajdukevich
consacrées aux grands kourganes à gradins, à un manoir hellénistique
près de Myrmékion et à la forteresse bosporane d’Ilourat.
ournal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting: From the First to the Seventh Century (JJMJS) is
a peer-reviewed academic open access journal, published electronically
in co-operation with Hebrew University (Jerusalem), University of Oslo
(Oslo), and DePaul University (Chicago).
JJMJS is
an independent and scholarly journal registered as a non-profit
organization in Norway (Org. no. 918437312) and does not represent any
particular theological school or religious organization. The purpose of JJMJS is to
advance scholarship on a crucial period in the early history of the
Jewish and Christian traditions, from the first to the seventh century,
when they developed into what is today known as two world religions,
mutually shaping one another as they did so. JJMJS publishes
high-quality research on any topic that directly addresses or has
implications for the understanding of the inter-relationship and
interaction between the Jesus movement and other forms of Judaism, as
well as for the processes that led to the formation of Judaism and
Christianity as two related but independent religions.
The
primary fields of study included in the journal's purview are:
Christian Origins, New Testament Studies, Early Jewish Studies
(including Philo and Josephus), the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha, Rabbinic Studies, Patristics, History of Ancient
Christianity, Reception History, and Archaeology. Methodological
diversity and innovation is encouraged.
JJMJS is
governed by the editorial committee in accordance with an agreement
between its three academic partner institutions. The Editor-in-Chief and
the Co-editors are responsible for the academic standard and general direction of the journal.
JJMJS Issue 7 (2020)
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Map of the Arsinoite nome taken from The Fayum Project. Philadelphia was located on the north-eastern border.
Complete letter from Glaucias to Apollonius, reporting on various business matters and dated 257 BC (British Library, Papyrus 2661)
