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.
A KBR coin (Inv. II, 64.869) linked to RRC 250/1 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.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Royal Library of Belgium joins Nomisma
Romulus, Quirinus et Victoria: La construction d'une mémoire collective à Rome entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C.
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
- EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782251452609
- EAN électronique : 9782251916019
- DOI : 10.4000/books.lesbelleslettres.28562
- Nombre de pages : 368 p.
The newest issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
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 LetterKick-Started the Preservation of Cyprus’s Medieval StructuresDanai Konstantinidou(***Open Access for 3 Months*** on JSTOR)
Hidden Mediterranean History/Histories: The Church of the Panagia touPotamou in Kazafani (Ozanköy), CyprusThomas Kaffenberger, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Michael J. K. Walsh, andWerner Matthias Schmid(***Permanent Open Access*** on JSTOR)
https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.4.0336
Monday, November 29, 2021
The Classical Language Toolkit
The Classical Language Toolkit
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.
Maintainers
Academic Advisors
- 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)
Athanasius Kircher at Stanford: Correspondence
Note: In order to consult the Kircher correspondence, it is first necessary to download and install the Luna Insight software.
About the Correspondence
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.
siddham - The South Asia Inscriptions Database
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.
La nature des dieux, Cicéron
Édité par Clara Auvray-Assayas
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.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Ahiqar - The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition
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.
Callimachus: Aetia
This site contains a Greek text, English translation, notes, and vocabulary for Aetia (Αἴτια, "Causes") by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus (310/305–240 BC), along with an introduction, an interactive map of places mentioned, a bibliography, and images of the papyrus fragments on which the text is largely based.
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
Hesperia - Banco de datos de lenguas paleohispanicas
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.
Digital Statius: The Achilleid
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).
The Manuscripts
Dilke’s Interactive Apparatus
The Website
The Team
The Events
Thanks
Friday, November 26, 2021
Open Access Journal: plekos: Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike
[Pirst posted in AWOL 11/6/09. Updated 26 November 2021]
plekos: Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike
ISSN: 1435-9626
Plekos ist eine Internet-Fachzeitschrift (ISSN: 1435-9626) für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike. Plekos veröffentlicht wissenschaftliche Besprechungen zu Neuerscheinungen vor allem aus dem Bereich der spätantiken Geschichte, Philologie und Archäologie. Neben dem Schwerpunkt auf der Spätantike werden auch Publikationen aus Nachbardisziplinen und -epochen rezensiert, etwa solche zur römischen Kaiserzeit, zum Byzantinischen Reich, zum Kulturkreis des Oriens Christianus sowie zum frühen Mittelalter und zu den ersten islamischen Jahrhunderten. Besprechungen erscheinen in deutscher, englischer, französischer, italienischer und spanischer Sprache.
Plekos wurde 1998 gegründet und bis 2016 herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Joachim Gruber (Erlangen) sowie von Prof. Dr. Kai Brodersen (Erfurt), Prof. Dr. Martin Hose (München), Prof. Dr. Peter von Möllendorff (Gießen), Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Prostmeier (Freiburg), Prof. Dr. Stefan Rebenich (Bern) und Dr. Marcus Reuter (Trier).
Titelseite und Inhaltsverzeichnis
Titelseite und Inhaltsverzeichnis im PDF-Format (Stand 23. Oktober 2021)
Rezensionen
Roald Dijkstra (ed.): The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60–800 CE). The Anchors of the Fisherman. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2020 (Euhormos 1).
(Richard Westall) [9 Jan 2021]
Klaus Belke: Tabula Imperii Byzantini 13. Bithynien und Hellespont. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2020 (Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 513).
(Peter Riedlberger) [20 Jan 2021]
Klaus-Peter Todt/Bernd Andreas Vest: Tabula Imperii Byzantini 15. Syria (Syria Prōtē, Syria Deutera, Syria Euphratēsia). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2015 (Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 438).
(Marlena Whiting) [30 Jan 2021]
Roger S. Bagnall/Alexander Jones (eds.): Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts. A Codex from Late Antique Business Education (P.Math.). New York: New York University Press 2019.
(Fabio Acerbi) [7 Feb 2021]
Tobias Hüttner: Pietas und virtus – spätantike Aeneisimitation in der Iohannis des Goripp. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač 2020 (Schriftenreihe altsprachliche Forschungsergebnisse 15).
(Thomas Gärtner) [19 Feb 2021]
Richard Miles (ed.): The Donatist Schism. Controversy and Contexts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2016 (Translated Texts for Historians. Contexts 2).
(Jesse Hoover) [22 Feb 2021]
Min Seok Shin: The Great Persecution: A Historical Re-Examination. Turnhout: Brepols 2018 (Studia antiqua Australiensia 8).
(Ulrich Lambrecht) [28 Feb 2021]
Wolfgang Czysz: Kastell Dambach am raetischen Limes. Ausgrabungen im Vicus am Rand des Moosgrabentals (2008). Mit Beiträgen von Philip I. Buckland, Jörg W. E. Faßbinder, Rudolf Haensch, Verena Hasenbach, Franz Herzig, Susanne Klonk, Geoffrey Lemdahl, Roland Linck, Ursula Meier, Andreas Murr, Britt Nowak-Böck, Göran Possnert, Andreas Scharf, Wolfgang Schmid, Ingela Sundström, Richard Vogt und Lucia Wick. Kallmünz/Opf.: Michael Lassleben 2020 (Materialhefte zur Bayerischen Archäologie 113).
(Ulrike Ehmig) [19 Mar 2021]
Nicholas Banner: Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus. Cambridge u. a.: Cambridge University Press 2018.
(Benedikt Krämer) [28 Mar 2021]
Q. Aurelius Symmachus: Amtliche Schreiben. Relationes. Lateinisch-deutsch. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Alexandra Forst. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2020 (Sammlung Tusculum).
(Sara Fascione) [29 Mar 2021]
Stephan Renker: A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press 2020 (Bamberger Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Medien 29).
(Silvio Bär) [31 Mar 2021]
Silvio Bär: Herakles im griechischen Epos. Studien zur Narrativität und Poetizität eines Helden. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2018 (Palingenesia 111).
(Simone Finkmann) [8 Apr 2021]
Niels Hannestad: What Did the Sarcophagus of Symmachus Look like? Late Antique Pagan Sarcophagi. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 2019.
(Bente Kiilerich) [12 Apr 2021]
Jared Secord: Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire. From Justin Martyr to Origen. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2020 (Inventing Christianity).
(Emanuela Prinzivalli) [28 Apr 2021]
Sammelrezension: Forschungen zur byzantinischen Sakralarchitektur des siebten bis neunten Jahrhunderts
- Sabine Feist: Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2019 (Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz. Reihe B: Studien und Perspektiven 46).
- Sabine Feist (Hrsg.): Transforming Sacred Spaces. New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2020 (Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz. Reihe B: Studien und Perspektiven 48).
(Andreas Klingenberg) [30 Apr 2021]
Egert Pöhlmann: Ancient Music in Antiquity and Beyond. Collected Essays (2009–2019). With a preface by Georg Heldmann. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2020 (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 381).
(Jutta Günther) [11 May 2021]
Fritz Mitthof/Gunther Martin/Jana Grusková (Hrsgg.): Empire in Crisis: Gothic Invasions and Roman Historiography. Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung zu den Wiener Dexipp-Fragmenten (Dexippus Vindobonensis), Wien, 3.–6. Mai 2017. Wien: Holzhausen 2020 (Tyche-Supplementband 12).
(Ulrich Huttner) [22 May 2021]
Arash Zeini: Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity. The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2020 (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia).
(Tino Shahin) [28 May 2021]
Eleonora Dell’Elicine/Céline Martin (Hrsgg.): Framing Power in Visigothic Society. Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2020 (Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia 7).
(Christian Stadermann) [30 May 2021]
Christopher Burden-Strevens: Cassius Dio’s Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic. The Roman History, Books 3–56. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2020 (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 7).
(Richard Westall) [13 Jun 2021]
Hervé Inglebert (éd.): L’alimentation dans l’Antiquité tardive. Turnhout: Brepols 2020 (Antiquité Tardive 27, 2019).
(Janick Auberger) [24 Jun 2021]
François Chausson/Sylvain Destephen (eds.): Augusta, Regina, Basilissa. La souveraine de l’Empire romain au Moyen Âge. Entre héritages et métamorphoses. Paris: Éditions de Boccard 2018 (De l’archéologie à l’histoire 71).
(Alexander Thies) [27 Jun 2021]
Caillan Davenport: A History of the Roman Equestrian Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019.
(Richard Westall) [30 Jun 2021]
Pauline Allen/Bronwen Neil: Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity. The Christianisation of a Literary Form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020.
(Henning Ohst) [17 Jul 2021]
Edward O.D. Love: Code-Switching with the Gods. The Bilingual (Old Coptic-Greek) Spells of PGM IV (P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574) and their Linguistic, Religious, and Socio-Cultural Context in Late Roman Egypt. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2016 (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. Beihefte 4).
(Arietta Papaconstantinou) [20 Jul 2021]
Kristina Sessa: Daily Life in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018.
(Christian Laes) [23 Jul 2021]
Sara Fascione: Gli ‘altri’ al potere. Romani e barbari nella Gallia di Sidonio Apollinare. Bari: Edipuglia 2019 (Biblioteca tardoantica 12).
(Giulia Marolla) [28 Jul 2021]
Rocco Palermo: On the Edge of the Empires. North Mesopotamia during the Roman Period (2nd–4th c. CE). London/New York: Routledge 2019 (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East).
(Leonardo Gregoratti) [10 Aug 2021]
Alessandro Garcea/Michela Rosellini/Luigi Silvano (eds.): Latin in Byzantium I. Late Antiquity and Beyond. Turnhout: Brepols 2019 (Corpus Christianorum. Lingua Patrum 12).
(Tommaso Mari) [12 Aug 2021]
Anita Di Stefano/Marco Onorato (eds.): Lo specchio del modello. Orizzonti intertestuali e Fortleben di Sidonio Apollinare. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo Editore 2020 (Studi latini n.s. 94).
(Sara Fascione) [18 Aug 2021]
Hiltrud Merten: Die frühchristlichen Inschriften aus St. Maximin bei Trier. Mit einem Anhang der paganen Steindenkmäler. Ausgrabungen des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier 1978–1990. Trier: Selbstverlag des Museums am Dom Trier 2018 (Kataloge und Schriften des Museums am Dom Trier 8).
(Antonio Enrico Felle) [26 Aug 2021]
Sammelrezension: The Great Palace in Constantinople and Late Antique Palatine Architecture
- Nigel Westbrook: The Great Palace in Constantinople. An Architectural Interpretation. Turnhout: Brepols 2019 (Architectural Crossroads. Studies in the History of Architecture 2).
- Lynda Mulvin/Nigel Westbrook (eds.): Late Antique Palatine Architecture. Palaces and Palace Culture: Patterns of Transculturation. Turnhout: Brepols 2019 (Architectural Crossroads. Studies in the History of Architecture 5).
(Emanuel Mayer) [1 Sep 2021]
Patrick Brimioulle: Das Konzil von Konstantinopel 536. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2020 (Roma Aeterna 8).
(Maria Constantinou) [12 Sep 2021]
Catherine Ware (ed. and tr.): A Literary Commentary on Panegyrici Latini VI(7). An Oration Delivered before the Emperor Constantine in Trier, ca. AD 310. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021.
(Adrastos Omissi) [22 Sep 2021]
Jutta Günther: Musik als Argument spätantiker Kirchenväter. Untersuchungen zu Laktanz, Euseb, Chrysostomos und Augustinus. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019 (Philippika 132).
(Markus Stachon) [25 Sep 2021]
Alberto Cafaro: Governare l’impero. La praefectura fabrum fra legami personali e azione politica (II sec. a.C. – III sec. d.C.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2021 (Historia-Einzelschriften 262).
(Richard Westall) [30 Sep 2021]
Stefan Rebenich/Hans-Ulrich Wiemer (Hrsgg.): A Companion to Julian the Apostate. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2020 (Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World 5).
(Ulrich Lambrecht) [15 Oct 2021]
The Council of Ephesus of 431. Documents and Proceedings. Translated by Richard Price with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Graumann. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2020 (Translated Texts for Historians 72).
(Wolfram Kinzig) [23 Oct 2021]
Jürgen Strothmann (Hrsg.): Civitates, regna und Eliten. Die regna des Frühmittelalters als Teile eines ‚unsichtbaren Römischen Reiches‘. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2021 (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 124).
(Hendrik Hess) [25 Oct 2021]
Thomas Völling: Olympia in frühbyzantinischer Zeit. Siedlung – Landwirtschaftliches Gerät – Grabfunde – Spolienmauer. Bearbeitet von Holger Baitinger, Sabine Ladstätter und Arno Rettner. Mit einem Beitrag von Martin Miller. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2018 (Olympische Forschungen 34).
(Andreas Klingenberg) [27 Oct 2021]
Lukas Lemcke: Bridging Center and Periphery. Administrative Communication from Constantine to Justinian. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2020.
(Peter Riedlberger) [28 Oct 2021]
Rafał Toczko: Crimen Obicere. Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine’s anti-Donatist Correspondence. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2020 (Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte 120).
(Jesse Hoover) [5 Nov 2021]
Sophie Röder: Kaiserliches Handeln im 3. Jahrhundert als situatives Gestalten. Studien zur Regierungspraxis und zu Funktionen der Herrschaftsrepräsentation des Gallienus. Berlin u.a.: Peter Lang 2019 (Prismata 23).
(Ulrich Lambrecht) [10 Nov 2021]
Nicola Spanu: Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles: A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus’ Treatise on Chaldean Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge 2021 (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies).
(Jonathan Greig) [15 Nov 2021]
Christian Brockmann/Daniel Deckers/Dieter Harlfinger/Stefano Valente (eds.): Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege. 2 volumes. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2020.
(Caroline Macé) [20 Nov 2021]
Sammelrezension: Eine neue Gellius-Edition mit textkritischem Begleitband
- Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae. Ab Leofranco Holford-Strevens recognitae brevique adnotatione critica instructae. Tomus 1: Praefatio et libri I–X. Tomus 2: Libri XI–XX. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020 (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis).
- Leofranc Holford-Strevens: Gelliana. A Textual Companion to the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.
(Dennis Pausch) [25 Nov 2021]
Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah
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.
Patrimoine du Proche-Orient: Série de la collection Grands sites archéologiques
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.
Thursday, November 25, 2021
A very special new episode of our podcast, This Week in the Ancient Near East
A very special new episode of our podcast, This Week in the Ancient
Near East, is now available:
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.
Part 1-The Ballroom Tapes
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/it-s-the- very-nearly-live-from-asor- 2021-conference-with-extra- special-guests-edition-part-1- the-ballroom-tapes/
Hear what Professor Eric Cline, Dr. Matthew Adams (the one with a J.),
Dr. Yorke Rowan, and Professor Morag Kersel think about all aspects of
conference-going, the good the bad and the ugly.
Part 2-After Hours
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/it-s-the- very-nearly-live-from-asor- 2021-conference-with-extra- special-guests-edition-part-2- after-hours/
What happens when a bunch of archaeologists get together in the
evening, start drinking bourbon and let their graying hair down? It’s
an after hours edition with the one and only Professor James Hardin,
who rather charmingly, can’t stay on script. He takes us to some
surprising places, including some related to archaeological
storytelling.
Part 3-The Last Waltz
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/it-s-the- very-nearly-live-from-asor- 2021-conference-with-extra- special-guests-edition-part-3- the-last-waltz/
Yes, we’re still here at the archaeology conference, but now we’re
interrogating an entirely new crowd about the question of conferences,
namely Professor Andrea Berlin, Dr. Margaret Cohen and Professor
Alexandra Ratzlaff. The questions are mostly the same, but the answers
from these three leading female scholars are quite different.
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2009. Updated 24 Novermber 2021]
Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
ISSN: 1361-9144
ISSN: 2050-2036
Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
ISSN: 1361-9144
ISSN: 2050-2036
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.
2017
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