Orient & Méditerranée est une Unité Mixte de Recherche, UMR 8167 en Sciences historiques, philologiques et religieuses, associant le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, l’Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, l’Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1, l’École Pratique des Hautes Études et le Collège de France.
L’Unité rassemble six équipes
Les recherches portent sur le Proche-Orient et le Monde méditerranéen dans l’ensemble des disciplines des sciences humaines aux époques antique et médiévale
- Mondes pharaoniques
- Mondes sémitiques
- Antiquité classique et tardive
- Médecine grecque
- Monde byzantin
- Islam médiéval
Friday, April 8, 2016
Le Laboratoire Orient et Méditerranée
Le Laboratoire Orient et Méditerranée
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Open Access Journal: Nova antička Duklja: zbornik radova - New Antique Doclea
Nova antička Duklja: zbornik radova - New Antique Doclea
ISSN: 2337-0165
ISSN: 2337-0165
Roman town Doclea is the most significant ancient locality in Montenegro. It is 4 km far away from Podgorica, up the river Moraca. It was situated on the wide flat plateau between the rivers Zeta, Moraca and Siralija Creek.
The strategic position was the main reason why the town was built at this specific place. The space bordered by three river basins was unapproachable during almost the whole year because high water level, and protected by upright cliffs and very easy to defend. Although it was defended by nature and protected by rivers, it was fortified by mighty walls, towers and bastions which surrounded plateau on which the town was situated.
- Collection of works NEW ANCIENT DOCLEA
- Collection of works NEW ANCIENT DOCLEA II
- Collection of works NEW ANCIENT DOCLEA III
- Collection of works NEW ANCIENT DOCLEA IV
See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Panoply - a space devoted to helping you enjoy, teach, and research the ancient world
[First posted in AWOL 18 April 2013, updated (all new website) 6 April 2016]
Panoply Vase Animation Project
Panoply Vase Animation Project
Welcome to Panoply, a space devoted to helping you enjoy, teach, and research the ancient world. See Steve Simons’ amazing animations bring ancient Greek vase scenes to life; discover new ways to use animation; find out about Sonya Nevin’s research; and follow our blog for up-to-date news on events, progress, and interviews.
Steve has been making vase animations since 2007. With a history in software engineering, Steve studied multimedia design before becoming a freelance animator.
Sonya did her doctorate on ancient Greek warfare at University College Dublin. She is now a research fellow and visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton in London. She has worked and volunteered in the Ure Museum, the UCD Classical Museum, and the Royal Museums Greenwich. Sonya’s research and teaching interests include religion, warfare, and historiography.
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CREWS Project: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a European Research Council funded project hosted at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.The aim of the CREWS project is to take an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the history of writing, developing new methodologies for studying writing systems and their social context. The project researchers will be working on specific case studies relating to inscriptions of the ancient Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Levant (c.2000-600 BC). By looking at the ways in which writing systems were developed and used, we can study not only the systems themselves and the languages written in them, but also the cultural settings in which they were adapted and maintained.
By focusing on the Mediterranean in 2nd and 1st millennia BC, the project will be able to investigate writing during a period when we know there were high levels of contact between different areas. Against this backdrop of linguistic and cultural interconnections, a study of how writing was passed on and adapted for new uses has the potential to give new insights into social history. Writing is more than just a vessel for recording language: it is a tool that is shaped by and contributes to the society in which it exists.
For an introduction to the concepts underpinning the project see the welcome post here.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Ancient European Languages And Writings
Ancient European Languages And Writings
AELAW has been developed with the aim of co-ordinating a wide group of international researchers dedicated to the study of the different ancient European languages and writings with the objective of creating an ample work team capable of establishing the foundations for the creation, for the first time, of a large online databank which will permit the cataloguing of all the currently known documents in this type of languages, thus introducing this important part of the European cultural heritage into the 21st century.
The construction of the Roman Empire generated a complex dialectic between local and global tendencies which presents more than a few points of contact with the world today. In the field of languages and written culture it supposed, on one hand, the affirmation of a society with an elevated literacy rate, a noteworthy literary culture and a growing use of public writing as an instrument of communications, social affirmation and commemoration; and, on the other, a long process of coexistence between languages of general use (Latin and Greek) and many other local ones which gave rise to phenomena of bilingualism and multilingualism in a context in which the language did not play the identifying role it has developed in the Europe of nations. The result of this coexistence in western Europe was the triumph of the Latin language and alphabet with varied results for the local languages: in some cases extinct at the begininning of our Era (Etruscan or Iberian) and in other cases conserved until the end of the Ancient period (Gallic or Punic) or, exceptionally until today (Basque).
Public Monuments in Roman Greece
Public Monuments in Roman Greece
The database is intended as a fully searchable catalogue of monuments known to have stood in the public spaces of cities in Greece from the time that Rome began to expand its influence into the Greek world (c.200 BC) to the height of the Roman Empire (c.200 AD). Monuments that were set up before that time and which are known to have still been standing are included as are monuments that are attested as being set up during that period. Initially the database will focus on three main case studies – Athens, Messene and Corinth but includes some monuments from outside those cities, which have been encountered while working through the primary and secondary literature. The database is a work in progress. For a summary of what is currently included see below. Feedback on the project as a whole or on individual database entries would be most welcome. Please follow this link to submit a feedback form.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Digital Mishnah
Digital Mishnah
The Digital Mishnah Project will provide users with a database of digitized manuscripts of the Mishnah from around the world, along with tools for collation, comparison, and analysis. This demo provides fully marked up transcriptions of several major witnesses of tractate Neziqin (Bava Qamma, Bava Metsi'a, and Bava Batra), and illustrates basic functionalities. In addition the transcribed witnesses include several Genizah fragments, with an emphasis on those fragments that join other fragments to make up larger manuscriptsThe browse function presents metadata and a rendering of the transcription that which can be viewed with their metadata and approximately as laid out in the original text.
Manuscript witnesses are referred to by the catalog number in the Sussmann Thesaurus (S+0+Sussmann no.). Printed editions are provisionally given serial numbers.
Last update: 7/17/2014.
The compare function allows for the detailed comparison of witnesses. At its core it runs a set of texts through CollateX, which aligns matching words ("tokens"). The Digital Mishnah site remerges this output with the original textual data and represents the results both as an alignment table, and as a text with critical apparatus. The user can determine the passage, the witnesses, and the order. Because we anticipate that a number of users will prefer a parallel-column ("synoptic") presentation, the collate page shows an arrangement of the selected passage arranged in parallel columns by witness in the user-specified order. Note: The previous version of this set of functions is at collate.
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