Welcome to the Database of The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens, a project whose objective is to show the relationship between public inscriptions and urban space in ancient Athens
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Every inscription, carved on stone and set up in the city space, can be
also seen as a communication medium. Public documents (decrees, laws,
treaties, accounts, lists, etc.) can be therefore considered as special
objects, through which the 'voice' of the polis community is
made tangible, becoming monument. In order to appreciate such an ancient
communicative phenomenon in its entirety, it is important not to
disjoint it from its physical presence and fruition in the polis-space,
just as it is important not to ignore the double nature of the
epigraphic documents as texts as well as monuments. In this regard, The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens
is specially focused on the places of publication of the Athenian
public inscriptions (i.e. documents issued from the late 6th century to
Late Antiquity, and set up in the asty), grounding on the idea
that urban spaces are able to complete, and even to enrich with further
ideological or cultural overtones, the original message of the inscribed
texts; and that these latter, with their very presence in the city, are
able to produce a different sort of public space as 'written space'.
The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens project is funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research in the frame of the SIR Programme (Scientific Independence of young Researchers) 2014, and hosted by the Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin.
The ELA Database is an open-access online resource aimed at providing
to scholars a new research tool for a topographical study of the
Athenian public inscriptions as communication media in the frame of The
Epigraphic Landscape of Athens project
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The ELA Database population is currently in progress. Please consult the News
section of the website for information about the current coverage, and
the groups of inscriptions that are being scheduled for publication in
the database. Updates on publications, conference speeches, and other
activities related to The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens project are
also provided on this page.
You are anytime welcome to write to us at anytime for enquiries at
chiara.lasagni@unito.it. Of course, relevant comments and suggestions,
or new collaboration proposals are more than appreciated.
A training demo of the database form is available in the
Backend section of the website, through the login info “demo@epigraphiclandscape.unito.it” (user) - “demo” (password).
How to cite the ELA Database as a source of reference
The ELA Database records can be referred to in long or in abbreviated
form. As for the latter, we recommend to use the abbreviation "ELA"
followed by the ELA-id number. For citations in the long form, please
consult the post note attached to each record:
e.g.: ELA no. 144 = Lasagni, Chiara, Fragment of an honorific decree,
2017. DOI: 10.13135/ELA-141
L'archéologie cognitive, née dans le monde
anglo-saxon, a d'abord fait l'objet de maintes proclamations et
développements théoriques, ce qui explique peut-être son faible impact
sur la recherche française. Si elle n'a pas encore réussi à se
constituer en discipline incontestable, c'est sans doute qu'elle se
présente aujourd'hui beaucoup plus comme une série de questions qui se
posent à la croisée-des disciplines que comme une branche particulière
de l'archéologie. Principalement constituée... Lire la suite
Éditeur : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
Collection : Cogniprisme
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Année d’édition : 2011
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 29 novembre 2019
This volume offers detailed studies into the Physiologus, a Greek manuscript probably written in Egypt in the 2nd century CE. The Physiologus
was the first Christian text to sum up a general understanding of
nature using biblical and pagan sources and it has an extensive
reception history throughout the medieval period. Its symbolic use of
animals and plants, etc., has deeply influenced visual arts, literature,
and heraldry, but this visual language often remains enigmatic. This
book, going back to a project of the Swiss National Foundation (Das ‹Evangelium der Natur›. Der griechische Physiologus und die Wurzeln der frühchristlichen Naturdeutung) offers new insights into the origins and the interpretation of this symbolic language.
This index contains primary spatial, toponym, attribute, and external
link information on approximately two hundred and fifty locations
across the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East where texts written
in cuneiform and derived scripts have been found. The index has been
prepared by Rune Rattenborg as part of Memories For Life: Materiality and Memory of Ancient Near Eastern Inscribed Private Objects a
research project based at Uppsala University and the University of
Cambridge financed by a Research Project Grant from the Swedish Research
Council (grant no. 2016-02028). The intention is to continuously update
this index to provide an easy digital geographical reference for
Assyriologists, Near Eastern Archaeologists, and other researchers with
an interest in the cuneiform script. New download versions will appear
regularly. Time permitting, we will aim to expand the index to contain
also basic periodisation and bibliographical information for easy
reference, along with quantitative data.
The current version of the index is stored with the University of Uppsala Department of Linguistics and Philology, hosted by Jakob Andersson and is available for download through links here. The index is supplied in .kml (suitable for use with GIS applications and Google Earth), .csv (for database integration) and .geojson (for GIS and web mapping applications).
This descriptive text is downloadable as .rtf.
The index contains a total 14 fields, namely one primary ID, three
integer fields for accuracy and data links, eight string fields with
toponyms, and two spatial data fields. Index fields include site_id (string), accuracy
(integer), cdli_provenience_id (integer), pleiades_id (integer),
com_name (string), anc_name (string), transc_name (string), ara_name (string), fas_name (string), heb_name (string), gre_name (string),cdli_legacy (string),lat_wgs1984 (integer) and lot_wgs1984 (integer). Coordinates
given use the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference system (EPSG
4326). Site locations have been traced from archaeological gazetteers
and web mapping services (e.g. Pleiades and OpenStreetMap) and digitally
generated from optical recognition using current and legacy satellite
imagery datasets in QGIS 3.6. Below is a description of the individual
data fields contained in this index.
site_id (Primary ID)
The primary ID for each record is an arbitrary and unique three-letter code.
accuracy (Locational accuracy)
This field gives an assessment of the level of accuracy with which
the geographical location given can be said to relate to the historical
location on a four-tier scale, 3 being certain, 2 being representative, 1 being tentative, and 0 being
unknown. Accuracy levels reflect site visibility and delineation. Where
a discrete site outline can be traced, the site has been drawn as a
polygon and the location derived from the resulting centroid, giving a
value of 3. Where the site can be positively located, but not drawn (e.g. Bisutūn), the value is given as 2. Where a site location can be placed with reasonable certainty, but not positively located, the value is given as 1. Where the location cannot be defined with any reasonable degree of certainty, the value is 0.
cdli_provenience_id (Primary ID)
The numerical provenience ID for the corresponding site in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
catalogue, if available. The previously employed set of provenience
values can be found in the cdli_legacy field (see below). As integer
record IDs will be employed by the CDLI going forward, legacy
provenience values should be employed for reference only.
pleiades_id (Pleiades ID)
The primary ID of the corresponding place record in Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Ancient Places, if available. The stable link will be https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/[PleiadesID]. Please note that, while the record entity in the current index matches the record entity in Pleiades, the geographical location of the record contained in this index and the associated Pleiades record may not be the same. Records in this index not found in Pleiades will be added to the latter repository in due course.
com_name (Common name)
This field gives a common toponym for the location, most often the
one by which the site has commonly appeared in the literature. It can be
used for initial information searches, and also serves as the primary
toponym in spatial index files supplied below. As names in this field
rarely abide by uniform rules of transcription and are drawn from across
different languages, they are poorly suited to be used as formal
reference names.
anc_name (Ancient name)
This field gives a common rendering of the ancient name of the site
in question, if known, based on readings from cuneiform texts. Places
can, of course, have many names, and the current index is not intended
to provide an exhaustive collection of all variant ancient writings or
toponyms attested for individual records.
transc_name (Transcribed name)
This field give the modern name in Latin script maintained from the
original when dealing with Maltese or Turkish toponyms or transcribed as
accurately and consistently as possible from Arabic, Farsi, Greek or
Hebrew toponyms. Where names in multiple languages are found, the
transcribed name is drawn from the principal language of the national
entity currently associated with the record in question.
ara_name (Arabic name)
The Arabic name of the site, if applicable and available. Values
derive from archaeological reports or from online resources e.g.
Wikipedia (Arabic) and OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms
in Arabic may vary, and so discrepancies between values given in this
index and other repositories may occur.
fas_name (Farsi name)
The Farsi name of the site, if applicable and available. Values
derive from archaeological reports or from online resources, e.g.
Wikipedia (Farsi) and OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms
in Farsi may vary, and so discrepancies between values given in this
index and other repositories may occur.
gre_name (Greek name)
The Greek name of the site, if applicable and available. Values
derive from archaeological reports or from online resources, e.g.
Wikipedia (English or Greek) and OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling
of toponyms in Greek may vary, and so discrepancies between values given
in this index and other repositories may occur.
heb_name (Hebrew name)
The Hebrew name of the site, if applicable and available. Values
derive from archaeological reports or from online resources, e.g.
Wikipedia (Hebrew) and OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms
in Hebrew may vary, and so discrepancies between values given in this
index and other repositories may occur.
cdli_legacy (CDLI legacy provenience)
All associated legacy provenience values found in the current catalogue of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initative (www.cdli.ucla.edu)
are given in this field, separated by ” : “. Where both a certain and a
speculative value for the same provenience record exists (that is, the
uncertain value is followed by “?”), the latter has not been included.
lat_wgs1984 (Latitude)
Latitude of the record location in decimal degrees in the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference system (EPSG 4326).
lon_wgs1984 (Longitude)
Longitude of the record location in decimal degrees in the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference system (EPSG 4326).
As the journal of the UCL Institute of Archaeology Heritage Studies Section, Present Pasts
contains global and cross-cultural perspectives in the fields of
Cultural Heritage Studies, Public Archaeology and Museum Studies. The
journal encourages debate on contentious issues, and seeks to give voice
to a wide range of stakeholders in the Heritage sector.
Groma is an open access peer-reviewed e-journal of the Department of History and Cultures (DISCI) of the University of Bologna focusing on the different methodologies applied to archaeology.
Particular attention is paid to Mediterranean archaeology and to specific methodological aspects such as archaeological documentation and landscape archaeology.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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