Monday, January 27, 2020

Attic Inscriptions Online Update

Attic Inscriptions Online Update:
27 January 2020: Today we publish AIUK 4.2 (British Museum, Decrees of the Council and Assembly), with corresponding briefer editions on the main site. These include, from the 5th century BC, Decrees about the Eleusinian Mysteries, about Erythrai, about Hestiaia, about a treaty with Rhegion, about the tribute, about building a temple; from the 4th century BC, Honours for Euagoras of Salamis, 394/3 BC, for a man from Argos, for a seer (?), with relief, for Asandros of Macedon, 314/3 BC; and from Hellenistic and Roman Athens, Honours for Spartokos III of the Bosporan kingdom, 285/ 4 BC, Honours, 259/8 BC, Decree, 255/4 BC, Decrees honouring the prytany of Ptolemais, 192/1 BC, honouring ephebes, 40/39 or 39/8 BC, on the conveyance of sacred objects for the Eleusinian Mysteries. We also publish editions on the AIO main site, with Greek texts, of the 5th-cent. decree awarding citizenship to Euagoras of Salamis; and of four decrees of tribes etc. relating to the ephebate in the years after 334/3 BC, AIO 1968, 1969, 1976, 1977, together with light revisions to RO 89 (notes) and to the ephebic dedications of the same period, IG II3 4, 329-352. We have continued adding Greek texts where an up-to-date Greek text is not available elsewhere in open access, completing coverage of entries first published on AIO in 2013 and 2014, also lightly revising the translations and notes. We also publish today the second edition of our Short Guide to Materials on AIO.
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Spatial Index of U2 Aerial Photography of the Middle East, 1958-1960

Spatial Index of U2 Aerial Photography of the Middle East, 1958-1960

Ur, Jason; Hammer, Emily, 2018, "Spatial Index of U2 Aerial Photography of the Middle East, 1958-1960", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VD74QX, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:pbkxs4snxBnwjHehe9wwiA== [fileUNF]
and the related open access article:

Near Eastern Landscapes and Declassified U2 Aerial Imagery

Abstract

Recently declassified photographs taken by U2 spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s provide an important new source of historical aerial imagery useful for Eurasian archaeology. Like other sources of historical imagery, U2 photos provide a window into the past, before modern agriculture and development destroyed many archaeological sites. U2 imagery is older and in many cases higher resolution than CORONA spy satellite imagery, the other major source of historical imagery for Eurasia, and thus can expand the range of archaeological sites and features that can be studied from an aerial perspective. However, there are significant barriers to finding and retrieving U2 imagery of particular locales, and archaeologists have thus not yet widely used it. In this article, we aim to reduce these barriers by describing the U2 photo dataset and how to access it. We also provide the first spatial index of U2 photos for the Middle East. A brief discussion of archaeological case studies drawn from U2 imagery illustrates its merits and limitations. These case studies include investigations of prehistoric mass-kill hunting traps in eastern Jordan, irrigation systems of the first millennium BC Neo-Assyrian Empire in northern Iraq, and twentieth-century marsh communities in southern Iraq.
Las fotografías tomadas por aviones espía U-2 durante los años 50 y 60, recientemente desclasificadas, son una nueva fuente de imágenes aéreas muy útil para la arqueología euroasiática. Tal como otras fuentes de imágenes históricas, las fotografías de los U-2 son una ventana hacia un pasado antes de la destrucción de muchos sitios arqueológicos a manos de la agricultura y el desarrollo modernos. Las imágenes de los U-2 preceden aquellas tomadas por los satélites espía CORONA, la otra fuente principal de imágenes históricas de Eurasia, y en muchos casos son de más alta resolución. Por lo mismo, expanden el rango de sitios y rasgos arqueológicos que se pueden estudiar desde una perspectiva aérea. Sin embargo, existen obstáculos significativos para conseguir y acceder a imágenes de localidades particulares, y por lo tanto los arqueólogos todavía no acostumbran a valerse de ellas. En este artículo tenemos como meta disminuir estos obstáculos a través de una descripción del conjunto de imágenes de los U-2 y de un método para acceder a ellas. También proveemos el primer índice espacial de fotografías de los U-2 del Medio Oriente. Una breve discusión de casos prácticos usando estas imágenes demuestra sus ventajas y limitaciones. Estos casos incluyen investigaciones de trampas de caza prehistóricas en el este de Jordania, sistemas de irrigación del imperio Neo-asirio del primer milenio a.C. en el norte de Irak y de comunidades del siglo XX que habitaban en los humedales del sur de Irak.
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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Classics Podcasts from the University of London, Institute of Classical Studies

[First posted in AWOL 7 June 2017, updated 25 January 2020]

Classics Podcasts from the University of London, Institute of Classical Studies
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Helena and the Women of the Tetrarchy

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Julia Hillner, Sheffield
Thursday 14 November 2019

Towards a Cultural and Social History of Breastfeeding in Antiquity

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): April Pudsey, Manchester Metropolitan
Tuesday 29 October 2019

Women and cultural change in the Roman West: New light on an old topic

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Louise Revell, Southampton
Thursday 17 October 2019

Octavia: First First Lady of Rome?

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Beth Severy Hoven, Macalester
Thursday 10 October 2019

ICS/BSA Lecture: Sacrificial rituals in the Mycenaean palatial centre of Kydonia (Khania, Crete)

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s):
Thursday 3 October 2019

Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture: 'Recent Excavations at Gournia, Crete: New Archaeological Finds and Cultural Perspectives'

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Vance Watrous
Wednesday 5 June 2019

J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture: Forming/Informing the modern world? The role of classical scholarship

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s):
Wednesday 8 May 2019

Antiquity, Abolition, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Arts'

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s):
Thursday 13 June 2019

Clerical exile and late antique communities

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Julia Hillner, Sheffield
Thursday 7 March 2019

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture, What is Plato’s Republic About? Towards a Theory of Resilience

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
Wednesday 13 March 2019

Silvia Davoli – Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Dr Silvia Davoli
Wednesday 13 February 2019

The Venice Time Machine Project: Digitising Heritage in Time and Space

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Frederic Kaplan, Isabella di Lenardo
Thursday 24 January 2019

Carlo Ginzburg – Unintended Convergences: Ernesto de Martino and Aby Warburg

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Professor Carlo Ginzburg
Thursday 6 December 2018

Reflections on Mantegna and Bellini

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Professor Bill Sherman
Thursday 22 November 2018

Mnemonic Waves – Postgraduate Symposium

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Professor Caroline van Eck, Professor Claudia Cieri Via
Friday 15 November 2019

Jhumpa Lahiri and Bill Sherman – A Conversation About Risk and Bob Dylan

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Jhumpa Lahiri and Bill Sherman
Wednesday 31 October 2018

Peter Adamson – Why Should Historians of Philosophy Care about Astrology?

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Professor Peter Adamson
Monday 27 August 2018

Curatorial Conversations: Exchanging Glances: The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Exhibitions

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Dr Melanie Holcomb
Tuesday 12 March 2019

Dissecting the Visceral Body, Across Time and Disciplines

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s):
Friday 1 March 2019

Word and Image in times of Crisis – Roundtable Discussion

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s):
Thursday 21 February 2019

ICS/BSR Lecture 'Paestum: what new excavations and scientific analysis tell us about a Greek city in Italy

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Tuesday 26 February 2019

T.B.L. Webster Lecture: ‘Brecht and Greek tragedy: radicalism, traditionalism, eristics’

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Martin Revermann, University of Toronto
Wednesday 14 November 2018

Ancient Magic

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Prof. Helen King , Dr. Gabriel Bodard, Dr. Celia Sánchez Natalías, Dr. Sophie Page, Roz Kaveney
Wednesday 31 October 2018

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture "The Goddess and Damned Wrath: How a Linguist Reads the 'Iliad'"

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Joshua Katz, Princeton University
Tuesday 8 May 2018

J. P Barron Memorial Lecture "Socrates, Eros and Magic"

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Angie Hobbs, University of Sheffield
Wednesday 6 June 2018

ICS Public Engagement Workshop

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s):
Thursday 22 March 2018

Is Charles Holden’s Warburg a Good Building?

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Speaker(s): Eitan Karol (Louis Karol Architecture & Interiors, and author of Charles Holden: Architect), Elizabeth Flowers and Hugo Braddick (Haworth Tompkins), Liza Fior (muf architecture & art), and Neil Bingham (Curator of Architecture, Victoria and Albert Museum). Moderated by Bill Sherman (Director, Warburg Institute)
Saturday 17 March 2018

Master and Apprentice: Transferring Skills in the London Huguenot Communities

Warburg Institute
Speaker(s): Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum
Wednesday 21 February 2018

ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 'January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon'

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Professor Rita Volpe, Roma Tre University
Tuesday 20 February 2018

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero

Institute of Classical Studies
Speaker(s): Anthony Corbeill, University of Virginia
Wednesday 24 January 2018

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Open Access Publications de l’École française de Rome at OpenEdition Books

[First posted in AWOL18 October 2014, updated 25 January 2020]

Publications de l’École française de Rome
at OpenEdition Books
Publications de l’École française de Rome 
L'École française de Rome publie les travaux de ses membres et le résultat des ses activités scientifiques en histoire, archéologie et dans les sciences sociales. Les ouvrages sont principalement publiés au sein des séries traditionnelles : la Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR) créée en 1876, et la Collection de l'École française de Rome (CEF) créée en 1964.

And see also Publications de l'École Française de Rome at Persée Proceedings and Series
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