Les enfants d'Acca Larentia: Hommages à John Scheid

Les enfants d'Acca Larentia: Hommages à John Scheid

Under the direction of Sylvia Estienne, Valérie Huet, Francesca Prescendi and Meriem Sebaï

Placer ce volume d'hommages sous l'égide d'Acca Larentia, nourrice et mère adoptive du fondateur de Rome, n'est pas seulement faire écho au titre donné par John Scheid à sa thèse d'état, Romulus et ses frères, mais également rappeler qu'en faisant tout au long de sa carrière du culte des frères arvales un des éléments centraux de sa recherche, celui-ci ne s'est pas restreint à une vision étroite des religions romaines, mais a largement contribué à en redéfinir les contours et les enjeux. Les éditrices de ce volume ont fait le choix de réunir des contributions d'experts qui dialoguent avec la production scientifique de John Scheid.

Publisher: Publications du Centre Jean Bérard

Place of publication: Naples

Published on OpenEdition Books: October 29, 2026

Digital ISBN: 978-2-38050-057-8

DOI: 10.4000/171ab

Series: Études | 16

Year of publication: 2026

ISBN (Print version): 978-2-38050-054-7

Number of pages: 536

Sylvia Estienne, Valérie Huet and Francesca Prescendi

Introduction

Première partie. Les dieux, l'État et l'individu

Clifford Ando

Mommsen, public law and German legal theory

Dario Mantovani

Nefas est deorum formas insculpi anulis. Ateius Capito et l’histoire de Rome dans un anneau

Michel Humm

Le roi et le pontife. De l’ordo sacerdotum au collège pontifical

Jörg Rüpke

L’invention de la religion d’État dans le discours de Cicéron « Pour sa maison »

Maud Pfaff-Reydellet

L’éloge du prince et les débuts du « culte impérial » dans les Pontiques d’Ovide

Michel Christol

Domitien dans les grands collèges sacerdotaux au début de son principat

Annie Vigourt

Les temples dans les présages de mort concernant les princes des trois premiers siècles

Bärbel Schnegg

Laetitia publica

Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier

Le panthéon civil dans une ville de garnison romaine : l’exemple de Mayence

Deuxième partie. Quand faire, c'est croire : au sujet des rituels

Jean-Claude Lacam

Dans les fers du rite : l’obéissance dans les Tables de Gubbio

Dominique Briquel

Sur une proposition de reconstitution du rituel des Féries Latines

Yann Berthelet

Immolare hostiam auspicarique. Quelques réflexions sur la complémentarité entre sacrifice et prise d’auspices

Sarah Rey

Sincères sacrifices. À propos de Plaute, Ménechmes, 290

Philippe Borgeaud

Végétarisme, sarcophagie, et religion civique

Valérie Huet

À propos de sacrifices de volatiles sur les sarcophages dionysiaques

William Van Andringa

Ce qu’il est coutumier de faire : tradition et variations rituelles en archéologie

Troisième partie. Fana, templa, delubra : les paysages religieux

Pierre Gros

Vitruve et le Panthéon d’Agrippa

Eckhard Wirbelauer

Feuer in der Stadt? Zur Verehrung von Volcanus und Stata Mater im kaiserzeitlichen Rom

Marie-Odile Charles-Laforge

Venus Pompeiana protectrice de la navigation ?

Audrey Bertrand

Fragments d’un paysage romain : Epidaurum, colonie de Rome en Dalmatie

Anne-Lise Pestel

Les cultes du Basso Sarca et son intégration dans le territoire de Brixia

Maria Romana Picuti

Cognata calci res gypsum est (Plin., Nat. 36, 182). Riti di seppellimento tra fonti letterarie e ritrovamenti archeologici: il luogo di culto di Cancelli presso Foligno

Olivier de Cazanove

Descendre dans l’eau. Bassins et escaliers dans les lieux de culte de Gaule romaine

Nicole Metzler-Zens, Jeannot Metzler, Catherine Gaeng et al.

Aspects du rituel funéraire en pays trévire du i^er siècle avant au début du i^er siècle de notre ère

Quatrième partie. Questions romaines et grecques

Jesper Svenbro

Le cri « annuel » à Lesbos

Francesca Prescendi

Minuti, medioxumi, patellari…Réflexions sur les dénominations des dieux à partir de la Cistellaria de Plaute

Françoise Van Haeperen

Penser une divinité romaine peu connue, Maia

Nicole Belayche

La virtuosité rhétorique : un outil pour une transcendance dans les Hieroi logoi d’Aelius Aristide

Philippe Moreau

Questions romaines : l’ἄδεια accordée à Tibère en 14 après J.-C. (Dio, 56, 31, 3)

Monique Dondin-Payre

L’Europe contre Rome, de Vercingétorix à Varus : la patrimonialisation des figures historiques

Addendum

Jean-Michel David

Volusius Himerus, prêtre et secrétaire au service d’un sénateur

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Leningrad Codex TEI

Leningrad Codex TEI: A digital edition of the Leningrad Codex.

The Leningrad Codex is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. Many projects have transcribed its biblical text; few have encoded its layout. This digital edition treats the codex not just as a text, but as an object.

Download whole edition (.zip)GitHub repository

Goals

• Accessibility — a digital edition of the codex, encoded in TEI and released under a permissive MIT license, with a quick download link and this online viewer.
• Transparency — the generation process is documented, with special regard to how AI was used.
• Reproducibility — the pipeline that produced the edition is published and configurable.
• Community — an unaffiliated, community-driven endeavor. See the contributing guide.

Method

The edition is encoded with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), which provides the framework for describing the manuscript in a machine-readable way using XML. Recent advances in AI, combined with existing open data, make this work feasible at scale: multi-modal models draft the columnar layout of each folio side, which is then cross-checked and corrected.

Each folio side is one TEI document carrying the main biblical text only — the ketiv consonantal text as written — with verse milestones marking where each verse begins and samekh/pe paragraph-division markers inline. Per-word biblical references are derived at index time, not stored per word.

Data

The biblical text in the edition was not transcribed directly from the images. The text used is the Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex (UXLC) maintained by Christopher V. Kimball and accessible on the tanach.us site. For this reason, the text in the edition may differ from the images in the manuscript. That is an intentional choice.

The text determined to be on each folio was derived from Ben Denckla's index of the Leningrad Codex.

The verse zones that mark where each verse sits on the facsimile image come from the Masoretica handwritten text recognition (HTR) of the Leningrad Codex by Idan Dershowitz.

Each folio page ends with a Credits section. It lists the people and data sources named in the respStmt elements of that folio's TEI header, including the contributors who encoded it.

Transparency & AI use

AI tools were integral to this project, used for:

• Generating the code in the repository
• Aligning the biblical text to the columns and lines of a folio

The alignment work is fully documented per folio:

• The facsimile image used (URL and sha256) is recorded in the TEI header
• The model and parameters are recorded in the TEI header
• The prompt is linked to a commit sha

The pipeline and prompts are published in the repository, and the full history is visible in git. Contributors were allowed to use any model. Each folio page indicates which model was used for alignment.

Reproducibility

The pipeline that generated the edition is published so future researchers can re-run it and configure it to different models and inference strategies — with the caveat that AI outputs are not always reproducible. See thepipeline docs in the repository.

Reuse

The edition is MIT licensed. Browse it folio by folio, fetch raw TEI per folio at /edition/Fxxx[A|B].xml, read the manifest at/edition/index.xml, fetch an IIIF manifest with the verse zones per folio at /iiif/Fxxx[A|B].json, or grab the whole-edition zip. Agents should prefer the XML over scraping this site — see /llms.txt.

The Author

I'm Charles Loder, the initial author of this project. You can find more about my work and contact me through my social media profiles:

• GitHub
• Academia.edu
• Twitter
• Bluesky

Learn more about this project on GitHub or download the whole edition (.zip).

Cite this project

Bibliography (SBL/Chicago): Leningrad Codex TEI contributors. Leningrad Codex TEI (v1.2.0). 2026. https://leningrad-codex-tei.netlify.app.

 

 

 

Palaephatus /On Unbelievable Tales

Palaephatus /On Unbelievable Tales

Introduction and notes by R.J. Barnes and Matthew Gorey

 

This site presents a Greek text of On Unbelievable Tales (Περὶ ἀπίστων), by a certain Palaephatus, who is thought to have lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. This edition includes running vocabulary lists and notes on the Greek intended for learners of Ancient Greek at the intermediate level—those who have completed their study of the fundamentals of grammar, but who have not yet embarked on extensive reading of unadapted ancient texts. There are also images, mostly of ancient Greek vase paintings and sculpture, that illustrate the myths Palaephatus discusses. The Greek text is essentially that of Festa's 1902 Teubner, with a few small changes. 

R.J. Barnes (Lecturer in Classics at Purdue University) and Matthew Gorey (Associate Professor of Classics at Wabash College) prepared the Greek text, wrote the notes and vocabulary lists, and suggested images for the media tab. DCC's Content and Copy Editor Meagan Ayer created the pages and menus, identified further images, uploaded them and equipped them with metadata. She also edited, proofread, and uploaded the notes, vocabulary, and introductory material. 

Lastly, over the past three years, several cohorts of Intermediate Greek students at Wabash College and Purdue University beta-tested various sections of the commentary. Special thanks are due to James Day (Purdue) and Logan Weilbaker (Wabash), who provided feedback and proofreading on the full text as intermediate Ancient Greek students. 

Cover image: Terracotta vase in the form of a ketos (sea monster). Greek, Cretan or South Italian, 2nd half of the 7th century BCE. Metropolitan Museum 2009.529. Image source. 

• Preface
• Introduction
• Theory of Myth
• Text and Editions
• Greek text and notes
• Abbreviations
• Grammatical Index
• References

 

Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary

Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary

The Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary is a research project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. It is part of the Academies’ Programme, funded by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Free State of Saxony and coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. This measure is co-financed by the Saxon State government out of the State budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.

Das Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary ist ein Forschungsvorhaben der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Es ist Teil des Akademienprogramms, das von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und dem Freistaat Sachsen gefördert und von der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften koordiniert wird. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushalts.

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Total Entries

12,588

Draft

4,317

Review

116

Published

116

Deleted

1,006

New

11,490

Attestations

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Silver in the Roman, Early Byzantine and Sasanian Worlds: Studies Based on the British Museum Collection of Silver Plate

Silver in the Roman, Early Byzantine and Sasanian Worlds: Studies Based on the British Museum Collection of Silver Plate

Lang, Janet

Craddock, Paul

 

The British Museum holds some of the most extensive collections of Roman, Early Byzantine and Sasanian silver plate in the world, from Britain, Europe, the Mediterranean and Iran. These objects have featured in a number of major exhibitions and publications, but very little has been published on how the manufacture of these objects developed over time and their overall cultural and social significance. Using unpublished scientific data, this volume presents new insights into the manufacture and decoration of silver plate from Britain to Iran, including the extraction of silver metal, workshop traditions and the recycling of older material. One area of focus is how the adoption of silver for coinage in the first millennium BC had a profound and lasting influence on the technology, economy and artistic production of silver plate during this period.

Wider contextual essays study the role of silver plate in the Roman, early Byzantine and Sasanian worlds, including how silver plate was used in diplomatic exchanges, ostentatious displays of wealth, taxation and votive gifts to the gods. This multi-disciplinary approach allows comparisons to be made between how silver plate was used, providing unique insights into these objects of wonder.

Publisher

British Museum

Place of publication

London

Official URL

https://doi.org/10.48582/jpx6-eg79

Related URL

https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/silver-in-the-roman-early-byzantine-and-sasanian-worlds.html

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

DOI

10.48582/jpx6-eg79

 

 

MOSAIKON Final Report

MOSAIKON Final Report

Getty Conservation Institute (Author), Getty Foundation (Author), ICCROM (Author), ICCM (Author)

Publication date

• 2026

Language

• English

Series

• Foundation Impact Reports

Publisher/Imprint

• Getty Conservation Institute

 

A strategic initiative dedicated to advancing the conservation, presentation, and management of archaeological mosaics in the Mediterranean region, MOSAIKON was launched in 2008 by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), and the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM). Over the next fifteen years, with the collaboration of regional government authorities and an international group of conservation professionals and consultants, MOSAIKON helped prepare over two hundred decision-makers, site managers, museum professionals, and conservation technicians to protect and conserve the region’s extraordinary archaeological heritage.

This final report on the project summarizes MOSAIKON’s numerous accomplishments and contributions to the field. It documents the transformative effect that MOSAIKON—through training, capacity building, research, model projects, publications, and support for the professional community—has had on the region. It includes case studies from MOSAIKON’s training and capacity-building efforts in Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey and describes MOSAIKON’s model conservation project on the sustainable conservation of in situ mosaics at Bulla Regia. It identifies challenges, lessons learned, and future opportunities for the preservation of Mediterranean archaeological heritage, followed by appendices and a bibliography of publications, websites, videos, and didactic materials produced during MOSAIKON.

Political transitions, lack of economic resources, and the increasing impacts of climate change present serious challenges to the conservation of invaluable cultural heritage in this region. It is hoped that this summary of the landmark achievements of MOSAIKON will encourage future efforts to build upon MOSAIKON’s foundation and meet these challenges.

Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources

Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources

Edited by Judith Barr, Nicole Budrovich, and David Saunders

Contributors

• C. Brian Rose
• Stephen W. Clark
• Stephen K. Urice

Publication date

• 2026

Print length

• 256 pages

Illustrations

• 41 color and 10 b/w illustrations

Language

• English

Publisher/Imprint

• J. Paul Getty Museum

ISBN

• 979-8-88712-021-8 (paperback)
• 979-8-88712-023-2 (PDF)
• 979-8-88712-024-9 (HTML)
• 979-8-88712-022-5 (e-book)

 

The first of its kind, this book is an accessible, comprehensive primer of methods and resources for researching the provenance of Mediterranean (Greek, Roman, and Etruscan) antiquities. In addition to outlining effective strategies for documentation and investigation, the volume features an annotated guide to key archives, databases, and twentieth-century dealers to facilitate a broad spectrum of research endeavors. Building upon a decade-long review of the Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, it draws together instructive case studies, legal perspectives, and practical experience to provide an efficient reference for museum professionals, scholars, collectors, and students. The authors aim to emphasize the need for diligent provenance research and to shorten the learning curve for such projects.

The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at getty.edu/publications/provenance-research and includes zoomable illustrations. Also available are free PDF and EPUB downloads of the book.

Foreword - Verena Lepper

Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: An Introduction - Judith Barr, Nicole Budrovich, and David Saunders

Chapter 1: Mediterranean Archaeology and Provenance Research: A Diachronic Perspective - C. Brian Rose

Chapter 2: Methods and Resources - Judith Barr and Nicole Budrovich

Chapter 3: Legal Perspectives on Acquisitions of Mediterranean Antiquities - Stephen W. Clark and Stephen K. Urice

Appendix 1: Annotated Resource Guide - Judith Barr

Appendix 2: Dealer Biographies - Nicole Budrovich

Bibliography

Acknowledgments - Judith Barr, Nicole Budrovich, and David Saunders