Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung)

Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung)

The project Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung) is a long-term project funded within the framework of the Academies' Programme (coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities) under survey of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg. The funding will be provided for 25 years, from 2016–2040. The project is hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies at the Universität Hamburg. It aims at creating a virtual research environment that shall manage complex data related to the predominantly Christian manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands.

You are very welcome to join us and contribute to the digitization and digital description of the manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands. See the section on contributing and reusing data below.

Vetus Latina - Resources for the study of the Old Latin Bible

[First posted in AWOL 27 January 2013, updated 27 March 2019]

 Vetus Latina - Resources for the study of the Old Latin Bible

This website, online since 2003, provides resources on the Vetus Latina for scholars and students engaged in the study of the early Church and the history of the Bible. A number of these are related to the scholarly edition produced by the Vetus Latina Institute and its collaborators. It also hosts additional material for a monograph on The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its History, Texts, and Manuscripts published by Oxford University Press in 2016 (further information here.

Introduction

Vetus Latina Editions

Old Latin Manuscripts    Gospels    Rest of NT    Concordance of Sigla

Patristic Abbreviations

Prefaces, Prologues and Capitula

Latin Gospel Manuscripts with Fischer's sigla

Links

The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece

[First posted in AWOL 19 May 2016, updated 27 March 2019 (new URLs)]

The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece

This is the homepage of the Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece Project, based in the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, directed by Alan H. Sommerstein, and funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which has created a database of all references to oaths in Greek texts of all kinds from the earliest alphabetic inscriptions down to 322 BC, the year of the death of Aristotle and the end of the classical Athenian democracy, and is now engaged in the analysis and interpretation of this evidence, preparing a two-volume study of The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece (click here for details of this and our other publications).

The oath (if you’re not quite sure what an oath is – or even if you think you are – read this explanation) was an institution of fundamental importance across an enormously wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, its binding force one of the most important contributions of religion to social stability and harmony. For this reason, oaths are uttered, prescribed, or referred to in almost every kind of literary or inscriptional text we have from archaic and classical Greece, and a comprehensive study of the subject requires a survey covering all these texts. Until the project began its work in 2004, no such survey existed. Indeed there had been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the oath in ancient Greek society since 1902, though during the century since then much new evidence had become available and the study of society, ancient and modern, had been revolutionized. The aim of the project was to fill this gap by the creation and exploitation of our database. It has been created mainly by Andrew Bayliss and Isabelle Torrance , under the general direction of Alan Sommerstein, with valuable assistance from Jennifer Edmond and her successor Teri Browett of the Humanities Research Centre, and Richard Tyler-Jones from the Academic and Research Applications Team. As promised from the start, the database is now being made available for general use. Here you can quickly search among our 3700-plus records using a wide range of search criteria, and find the answers to questions that we may not even have thought of asking.

Links

• Home Page
• What is an Oath?
• Project Team
• Publications
• Database
• Canon (Literary)
• Contact

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Open Access Journal: ICONEM Newsletter

ICONEM Newsletter

Founded in 2013, Iconem is an innovative startup that specialises in the digitisation of endangered cultural heritage sites in 3D. We work with international organisations, national governments, local authorities, and world class museums such as UNESCO, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the Sultanate of Oman, the City of Paris, and the Louvre. We design site-specific architectural 3D models; large-scale urban and rural 3D models; museum exhibitions; and training for local professionals.

03/22/2019 - Europe supports Time Machine - Iconem March Newsletter

02/08/2019 - Murad Khani in 3D, Iconem in NYC, and exhibition tickets in Iconem's Winter Newsletter

12/20/2018 - Mont-Saint-Michel in 3D and more in Iconem’s 2018 Year in Review

11/08/2018 - Iconem museum expositions worldwide – Iconem’s November Newsletter

10/17/2018 - Iconem event - Get a free ticket to the Salon International du Patrimoine

10/04/2018 - “Cités millénaires” exhibition opens 10 October – Iconem’s October Newsletter

09/06/2018 - Mark your calendars! Exhibitions, UNESCO, European Heritage Days… Iconem’s September Newsletter

08/02/2018 - Iconem’s August Newsletter - Travel to the South of France in 3D

07/13/2018 - Iconem's July Newsletter - Qalhat's inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list!

06/07/2018 - Cultural heritage and AI - Iconem's spring newsletter

04/26/2018 - Exciting news from Iconem - April Newsletter

03/27/2018 - Our latest 3D model and more! Iconem's March Newsletter

02/27/2018 - Cultural heritage and technology - Iconem's February Newsletter

01/26/2018 - Happy New Year! Iconem's January Newsletter

12/15/2017 - 2017 in Review - Afghanistan, south of France, Iraq, Oman, Spain, Syria…

11/15/2017 - Iconem October 2017 Newsletter - Iconem around Paris, Europe, and in the media!

10/25/2017 - INVITATION Gagnez 20 places pour la conférence "Reconstruire Alep" (3 nov.) avec la DGAM et l'AKTC

10/06/2017 - Follow Iconem mission in Kurdistan: zoroastrian site, castle, ancient village seen from drone

09/07/2017 - Find out what we did this summer !

08/03/2017 - [NEW FORMAT] Iconem in July: photos, 3D and interview

See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Digitized publications of Mark Lidzbarski at Menadoc

Digitized publications of Mark Lidzbarski at Menadoc

• Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften Lidzbarski, Mark   Weimar : Felber, 1898

• Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften / T. 2 : Tafeln Lidzbarski, Mark   Weimar : Felber, 1898

• Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften / T. 1 : Text Lidzbarski, Mark   Weimar : Felber, 1898

• Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer Lidzbarski, Mark   Giessen : Töpelmann, 1905-

• Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer / 2 : Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar Lidzbarski, Mark   Giessen : Töpelmann, 1915

• Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer / 1 : Text Lidzbarski, Mark   Giessen : Töpelmann, 1905

Taymāʾ I: Archaeological Exploration, Palaeoenvironment, Cultural Contacts

Taymāʾ I: Archaeological Exploration, Palaeoenvironment, Cultural Contacts

edited by Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann, Muhammad al-Najem. Hardback; 210x297mm; xii+268 pages; illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (66 plates in colour). 499 2018 Taymāʾ: Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project 1. Available both in print and Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690439. Epublication ISBN 9781789690446. 

Archaeological investigations in the north-western part of the Arabian Peninsula has increased during the last 15 years. One of the major sites in the region is the ancient oasis of Taymāʾ, known as a commercial hub on the so-called Incense Road connecting South Arabia with the Eastern Mediterranean. In the context of this new research a multidisciplinary project by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) and the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) has been investigating the archaeology and ancient environment of Taymāʾ since 2004. A major aim of this project was the development of new perspectives of the site and the region, characterised by elaborating the local socio-cultural and economic contexts. So far, Taymāʾ has been known mainly through exogenous sources.

The present volume is the first of the publication series of the Saudi-German archaeological project and focuses on three fundamental aspects of research at Taymāʾ: the current archaeological exploration of the oasis is contextualised with previous and ongoing research within the region, while at the same time offering a first overview of the settlement history of the site, which may have started as early as more than 6000 years ago. New information on the palaeoenvironment has been provided by multiproxy- analysis of sediments from a palaeolake immediately north of the settlement. The results indicate an Early Holocene humid period in the region that is shorter than the so-called African Humid Period. The abrupt aridification at around 8 ka BP, known from other regions in the Near East, is also attested in north-western Arabia. The reconstruction of the past vegetation of the site and its surroundings demonstrates that oasis cultivation at Taymāʾ started during the 5th millennium BCE with grapes and figs, rather than with the date palm. According to hydrological investigations on water resources, groundwater aquifers provided the main source of local water supply. These were exploited through wells, some of which have been identified in the area of the ancient oasis. Finally, since the time of early travellers to Northwest Arabia evidence of cultural contacts has been observed in the records from the site, which had been occupied by the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus (556–539 BCE) for ten years. A historical-archaeological essay on Egypt and Arabia as well as a study on the ambiguous relationship between Assyria and Arabia – characterised by conflict and commerce – shed new light on the foreign relations of ancient Taymāʾ.

About the Editors
ARNULF HAUSLEITER is researcher at the DAI’s Orient Department for the Taymāʾ project, funded by the German Research foundation (DFG). He has been field director of the excavations at Taymāʾ since 2004 and has co-directed the project with Ricardo Eichmann.

RICARDO EICHMANN is director of the Orient Department at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. He is the head of the German component of the Taymāʾ project and has co-directed it with Arnulf Hausleiter.

MUHAMMAD AL-NAJEM is head of the Antiquities Office of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) and director of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Taymāʾ, Province of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

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Online Exhibition: Life Among Ruins: Greece & Turkey Between Past and Present

Life Among Ruins: Greece & Turkey Between Past and Present

The exhibition "Life among ruins" explores the relationship of people of different social and ethnic groups and from different periods (Byzantine, Ottoman and Early Modern) in the Eastern Mediterranean with ruined remains of an earlier past. It investigates the impact of the past and its ancient ruins on people's lives, dreams and ideals in later periods.

The exhibition is divided in two parts:
A photographic exhibition, featuring photos of the 1930’s to 1950’s from excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ascsa) in the Athenian Agora, is hosted at the Allard Pierson Museum at Amsterdam (nl) between 21.10.2011 and 29.01.2012.

An online exhibition featuring drawings, sketches and maps of European travellers, who visited the Eastern Mediterranean between the 17th and 19th centuries. These illustrations come from printed books and maps of the 'Bijzondere Collecties' of the University of Amsterdam (nl). These images provide invaluable information on the antiquities themselves as well as on daily life in pre-modern Greece and Turkey.

introduction
the profile of the travellers
from a dutch point of view
the power of monuments
idealized landscapes
in search of antiquities
everyday life among ruins
in the service of the divine
athens: a place or an ideal?
ancient vs. contemporary
acknowledgements
selected bibliography
catalogue
links and resources travellers