Thursday, October 31, 2019

A note to those who attempt to subscribe via Feedburner

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Pella: Coinage of the Kings of Macedonia

[First posted in AWOL 19 November 2015, updates 31 October 2019]

Pella: Coinage of the Kings of Macedonia
As a component of the National Endowment of the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, PELLA is an innovative research tool aiming, among other things, to provide a comprehensive typology and catalogue of the coinages struck by the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (c. 700–310 BC), arguably the most influential coinages of the ancient Greek world. Fueled first by indigenous precious metal mines in their native Macedonia, and later by the spoils of their conquests, including the rich treasures of the Persian Empire, the Argeads’ numismatic output was monumental. For centuries after their deaths, coins in the name of Philip II (ruled 359–336 BC) and Alexander the Great (ruled 336–323 BC) continued to be produced by successor kings, civic mints, and imitators from Central Asia to Central Europe. The coinage of the Argeads themselves and that produced in their names has been extensively studied, but to date no comprehensive, easily accessible catalogue of their coinages exists. PELLA is designed to fill that gap, cataloguing the individual coin types of the Argead kings from Alexander I (ruled 498–454 BC), the first of the Macedonian kings to strike coins, down to Philip III Arrhidaeus (ruled 323–317 BC), the last of the titular kings to do so. Included as well as are the numerous posthumous civic and successor coinages struck in the names of the kings.
The current version of PELLA provides links to examples of the coinage (in the name) of Alexander the Great and Philip III Arrhidaeus present in a dozen collections located in the United States and Europe (see Contributors). The PELLA project currently focuses on the coinage (in the name of) Alexander III and Philip III, using reference numbers from Martin Price's  The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus  , London 1991, as the means of organizing the coinages from various institutions. The next stage will focus on the coinage (in the name of) Philip II, using Le Rider,  Le monnayage d'argent et d'or de Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 a 294 , 1977, as the means of organizing the coinages. Pella will then focus on the coinages of Alexander I to Perdiccas III using SNG ANS as the means of organizing the coinages from various institutions.
PELLA is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. Coin type data are made available with an Open Database License. All images and data about physical specimens are copyright of their respective institutions. Please see the Contributors page for further details about individual licenses. The current version of PELLA uses the numbering system and typology originally created and published in Price (1991) with the addition of modifications that greatly enhance the volume’s usefulness as an online resource.
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Krateros, the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study

Krateros
Welcome to Krateros, the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study.

The squeezes, which are three-dimensional, mirror image impressions of inscriptions, were created and donated to the Institute by the Epigraphical Museum in Athens and some of the greatest epigraphers of the twentieth century, including Louis Robert, Charles Edson, Sterling Dow, and David Moore Robinson. Stephen Tracy, Professor Emeritus of the Ohio State University and former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, has written an introductory primer on the squeeze collection, and Christian Habicht, the late Professor of Ancient History at the Institute, has provided an overview of the Origin and Development of the squeeze collection. The digitization project is funded with generous gifts by the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and the Fowler Merle-Smith Family Trust.

The digitization of these squeezes is a work in progress, and thus new items will regularly be uploaded. The team’s current focus is on squeezes pertaining to Inscriptiones Graecae Volume II, second edition, i.e., IG II(2). These squeezes will be uploaded in more or less ascending order by their IG II(2) number. Please note: although conventional practice is to indicate the edition of a published work with a superscript Arabic numeral (so, e.g., the third edition of Inscriptiones Graecae volume I would be IG I3), on this website and in the Krateros database we instead place the Arabic numeral in parentheses. Thus, the third edition of Inscriptiones Graecae volume I is rendered IG I(3). We have elected to take this approach for the sake of consistency, as the metadata fields in our database do not permit the use of superscript formatting.
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Coming Soon: Online Open House | Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship, with Rachele Pierini

Online Open House | Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship, with Rachele Pierini
We are excited to welcome Rachele Pierini, University of Bologna for an Online Open House. The topic of the discussion is “Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship: Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design.” The event will be live-streamed on Thursday, November 7 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded.

You might like to read “Reinventing Old Craftsmanship – Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design” for the event.

You can watch the event on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel, and the video recording will be posted here afterwards.
R

achele Pierini was trained in Classical Philology at the University of Bologna and in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Madrid. She is a philologist and a linguist who specializes in Bronze Age Aegean scripts, with a focus on Linear B. After having held several Post-Doctoral Fellowships (University of Bologna) and having spent a number of research periods abroad as Visiting Scholar in internationally renowned universities (Complutense University of Madrid; University of Cambridge), she is currently a Teaching Tutor in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Bologna and has been recently awarded the prize of Cultural Ambassador by her native country. Her research mainly concerns the Greek language, both in its diachronic development (especially its initial stages, from the Proto-Indo-European origins to the earliest Linear B attestations) and in its relationship with substratum and nearby languages.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Open Access Monograph Series: Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard

[First posted in AWOL 7 July 2017, updated 30 Octrober 2019]

Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
Dans les Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard sont publiés les résultats d’une recherche ponctuelle, issue d’un séminaire, d’un colloque ou d’une monographie, sur un thème précis en histoire ancienne et en archéologie.
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Dossier. Corps antiques : morceaux choisis: Ancient Bodies: Selected Pieces

Dossier. Corps antiques : morceaux choisis: Ancient Bodies: Selected Pieces
Dossier. Corps antiques : morceaux choisis
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Français English
Le dossier « Corps antiques : morceaux choisis » s’intéresse aux représentations d’un membre ou d’un organe conçu dans sa singularité, aux dispositifs d’isolement et de distinction visuels et symboliques dans les discours, les images, les assemblages votifs grecs et romains, et les constructions muséographiques contemporaines.
  • Éditeur : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Daedalus
  • Collection : Mètis | N.S.17
  • Lieu d’édition : Paris-Athènes
  • Année d’édition : 2019
  • Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 30 octobre 2019
  • EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782713228087
  • EAN électronique : 9782713231735
  • Nombre de pages : 294 p.

Dossier : Corps antiques : morceaux choisis

Florence Gherchanoc et Stéphanie Wyler
Après les corps en morceaux : morceaux choisis, morceaux de choix, en Grèce et à Rome

“Bodies in Pieces”: Selected Pieces, Finest Excerpts, in Greek and Roman Worlds

Olivier de Cazanove
Pieds et jambes

Enquête sur une catégorie « banale » d’offrandes anatomiques

Feet and Legs. An Inquiry into a “Trivial” Category of Anatomical Offerings

Laurent Haumesser
Faire des pieds et des mains

Quelques remarques sur les représentations de parties isolées du corps dans l’Antiquité et sur leur réception à l’époque moderne

Finding their Feet. Considerations on the Representations of Isolated Body Parts in the Ancient World and their Modern Reception

Véronique Dasen
La mémoire au coin de l’oreille

Memory and Ear Lobe

Nikolina Kéi
Du corps mutilé aux membres magnifiés

From Body in Fragments to Body Fragments

Varia

Eric Driscoll
Beazley’s Connoisseurship: Aesthetics, Natural History, and Artistic Development

L’expertise de Beazley : esthétique, histoire naturelle et développement artistique

Sandra Boehringer et Claude Calame
Sappho au début du xxie siècle : genre et poésie érotique

Sappho in the 21th Century: Gender and Love Poetry

Dylan Kenny
The Force of Description in Alcaeus Fr. 140 V

Le pouvoir de la description dans le fragment d’Alcée 140 V

Adrien Zirah
Le nom chez Thucydide

Éléments pour une compréhension anthropologique des idées linguistiques à la fin du ve siècle avant notre ère

The Name in Thucydides: Elements of an Anthropological Approach to Linguistic Thoughts from the late 5th Century BC

Edoarda Barra
Philoxène l’Anaxagoréen

Philoxenus the Anaxagorean

Despina Chatzivasiliou
Retour sur l’arkteia : lieux de culte et pratiques rituelles en Attique

Reconsiderations of arkteia: Sanctuaries and Rituals in Attica

Lavinia Foukara
The Apollonian Triad, the Symposion, and Athenian Elite

La triade apollinienne, le symposion et l’élite athénienne

Alain Petit
Dionysos et la libération de l’âme dans la tradition philosophique orphique

Dionysos and the Liberation of the Soul in the Orphic Philosophical Tradition

Nicole Belayche
Antinoos divinisé : des mots grecs pour l’écrire

Antinous Divinized: the Greek Words to Express it


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Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World

Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World
David Warburton, Shiyanthi Thavapalan (eds.)
 
Reihe: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 70
Jahr: 2020
Seiten:
DOI: 10.17171/3-70
Shortlink: www.edition-topoi.org/books/details/1595
In The Value of Colour,  an interdisciplinary group of scholars come together to examine economically relevant questions concerning a narrow slice of social and cognitive history: namely, colours. Traditionally, the study of colours has been approached from a cultural or linguistic perspective. The essays collected in this volume highlight the fact that in earliest human history, colours appear in contexts of prestige (value) and com-merce. Acquisition, production, labour, circulation and consumption are among the issues discussed by individ-ual authors to show how colourful materials acquired meaning in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Spanning the Palaeolithic to the early Imperial Rome, the contributions also demonstrate the many questions asked and approaches used by historians in the growing fi eld of Colour Studies



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Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition

Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition
Author: Richard Hope Simpson
Cover image for Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition

About This Book


Richard’s intention, after over 60 years of study and field work, was to publish his final thoughts on the subject and make them readily available for all scholars to use, free of cost, wherever they may live. Knowing that his time was limited, and that he would be unable to respond to reviewers’ comments, he chose, of necessity, not to submit his manuscript for peer review. It was his wish that the book be offered as-is.
This open textbook has been published openly using a Creative Commons license and is offered in various e-book formats free of charge.
  1. Title Page
  2. About This Book
  3. Dedication
  4. List of Maps
  5. List of Plates
  6. Preface and Acknowledgements
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Chronology
  9. Introduction
  10. I. Main Body
    1. 1. Mycenaean Greece: The Present State of Exploration
    2. 2. Troy and the Trojan War: Archaeology, History and the Epic Traditions
    3. 3. Greek Epic and Mycenaean Archaeology
    4. 4. The Catalogue of the Ships in the Iliad
    5. 5. Commentary
  12. Appendix A
  13. Appendix B
  14. Select Bibliography

License
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Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition by Richard Hope Simpson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This open textbook has been published openly using a Creative Commons license and is offered in various e-book formats free of charge.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Release Notes: Alpheios Reading Tools Desktop Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox and Safari)

Release Notes: Alpheios Reading Tools Desktop Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox and Safari)
Alpheios Logo

Version 3.0.1.82/83

This is the first release of Alpheios 3.0 that includes support for Safari. All 3.0 features are now available in the Safari Browser Extension as well as Chrome and Firefox. (See below for full details of the Alpheios 3.0 new features and enhancements.)
This is an incremental release for Chrome and Firefox and includes the following bug fixes:
  • Improved handling of user session timeouts.
  • Eliminated sticky word selection after deactivation and reactivation of the extension.
  • Eliminated lexicon loading message when no lexicons were selected.
  • Fixed inconsistent language selection behavior when changing languages using the toolbar lookup.
  • Fixed locative ending errors in the Latin Noun Inflection Table.
  • Back-To-TOC button in the Smyth Grammar is now functional.

Version 3.0

This is a major release. The user interface has been completely refreshed with a new design for compliance with web accessiblity standards.

New Features

  • Alpheios Toolbar: the new floating toolbar provides quick access to word lookup and all Alpheios resources.
  • Usage Examples (Latin only): search for usage examples of a word in the canonical Latin corpus from the Packard Humanities Institute.
  • User Word Lists: all words you look up get added to your wordlist. Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your wordlist.
  • Persistent Options Configuration: Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your application preferences.

Enhancements

  • After dragging the popup to a new location on the page, the location is retained between lookups (and sessions/workstations if you login to a user account)
  • User configuration options can be reset to default values.
  • A custom alpheios-word-node data attribute can be used on a page to identify words which contain HTML markup (such as in texts which use the Leiden markup conventions). See the FAQ for more information on how to take advantage of this feature.
  • We have reduced output to the browser console, except when log level is set to verbose.

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World-Historical Gazetteer: Beta Release v. 0.2

World-Historical Gazetteer: Beta Release v. 0.2
At long last we are ready to offer a v0.2 beta release of the World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) at http://dev.whgazetteer.org. We hope that spatial historians and spatio-temporal infrastructure developers will be interested in taking a look at what we are building, experimenting with their data or provided samples. It is a “sandbox,” so nothing will be saved for the time being (that will change soon). There are 5-6 months remaining in the term of our initial NEH grant, time enough to complete most of what we planned for this phase, and to incorporate more suggestions from users and potential contributors as we move toward future planning and development.
The site includes a brief guide titled “WHG Beta Release: A Tour,” which outlines what is there, what you can do and how, remaining challenges, and what is in the works. What follows is a higher level introduction.
Places and Traces
The World Historical Gazetteer is a Linked Open Data platform for publishing, linking, discovering, and visualizing contributed records of attested historical places and traces. Our initial focus has been on places, but we are working experimentally to demonstrate their integration within the platform with what we now call traces–defined as web resources about historical entities for which location in time and space is of scholarly and general interest. We are considering three classes of traces for the time being: agents (people and groups), works (e.g. artifacts, texts, datasets), and events (e.g. journeys, conflict). Our objective has been to create the first large-scale spatial infrastructure for world history: oriented toward documenting the human past at the global scale, and particularly the geography of global and transregional connections.
Our accessioning process is intended to eventually be largely self-directed; getting it to that stage means working directly and hands-on with our early contributors.
LOD Publication
Registered users of WHG can publish their place records as Linked Open Data simply by uploading them in Linked Places format (or the LP-TSV version intended for relatively simpler records). We see LOD publication as a key feature for researchers who are not in a position to stand up their own web interfaces with per-place pages. Once uploaded, each record will have a permanent URI and be accessible in our graphical interface and API; on their way to being LOD in good standing. The dataset can be browsed immediately by its owner in a searchable table and map, but turning the uploaded dataset into a contribution for accessioning requires some further steps. The data needs to have as many asserted links to name authorities as possible, and augmentations of geometry where that is missing and findable. We provide reconciliation services for that purpose.
Reconciliation
Simply put, reconciliation is the process of identifying matches between records of named entities. In this case the records are for places, and the matches are between a researcher’s records and those in existing place name authorities. So far, we provide reconciliation services for the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) and Wikidata; DBpedia and GeoNames are planned.
The reconciliation process has two steps: 1) sending records to the authority, and 2) reviewing the prospective matches returned and accepting or declining them as appropriate. The results of this somewhat laborious process are 1) links, and 2) more geometry. Once augmented in this way, a dataset is ready for accessioning.
Accessioning
The last step is another reconciliation effort — this time to the WHG index. Each record is compared to the growing WHG index to determine if we have a contributed attestation for the place yet or not. If we do, the incoming record becomes a “child” or “leaf” in the set of attestations for the place. If the place is not yet accounted for, the new record becomes a “parent” — the seed for a new set of attestations. At this stage, an automatic linking can be made if two records share an authority match, but the rest will have to be reviewed as described above.
Graphical Interface
The opening screen of WHG offers users search of places and traces. We try to offer enough context on the opening screen to identify the likeliest match. Once you identify a place of interest, clicking its name take you to a “place portal” screen–where everything we have about the place, or linked to it in some way, will appear: attestations from contributors, associated traces, nearby places, physical geographic context (rivers, watersheds, ecoregions). The place portal is very much a work-in-progress at this stage. Several other features are also on our near-term to do list, including advanced search; more and better maps; user data collections; project team ‘workspace’; batching of reconciliation tasks; and more.
A Word About Architecture
There are two data stores within the WHG platform: a relational database (PostgreSQL) and a high-speed index (Elasticsearch). All uploaded data gets imported to a set of relational tables whose names correspond to the elements of Linked Places format: places, place_name, place_type, place_geom, place_link, place_when, place_related, place_description, and place_depiction. Contributed data is most readily managed in that form. Upon accessioning, records are added to the index in the manner described under Reconciliation above.
An API
This part of the WHG platform is one of the most important, and the least developed right now. Stay tuned for further developments. Our intention is to provide access to both contributors’ individual records and datasets from the database (when designated by their owner as public), and to the aggregating index records; both with numerous and useful filtering capabilities.
Content
Our index has been instantiated with records from modern gazetteer resources: 1) about 1,000 of the world’s most populous cites from GeoNames, 2) ~1.8 million place records from Getty TGN, 3) about 1,500 societies from the D-Place anthropological repository; and 4) major rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges from Natural Earth and Wildlife Research Institute.
To this modern “core” we have begun adding historical data: 1) 10,600 entities harvested from the index of the Atlas of World History (Dorling Kindersley, 1995), offering broad but shallow global coverage; and 2) our first specialist gazetteer, HGIS de las Indias, which consists of approximately 15,000 settlements and territories in colonial Latin America. There are several additional large datasets in the queue, which we will be adding in partnership with contributors. Some are previewed as heat maps on our Maps page.
Broad coverage of modern names with increasing historical depth and connections supplied by trace data.
Our Pelagios Connections
The WHG platform borrows extensively from the Peripleo application developed by Rainer Simon of the Pelagios project, extending it significantly in a few ways. Our backend architecture closely mimics that underlying both Peripleo and the Recogito annotation tool, and we are actively collaborating with Rainer and the entire Pelagios Network team on several aspects of this work. In particular, we are co-developing the data format standards for contributions to both systems: Linked Places format, and a nascent Linked Traces annotation format.
Feedback
We welcome suggestions, critiques, even praise :^) – and there is an email form on the site which makes it easy to offer it. Please bear with us in this active development stage and check back as we realize the system’s potential more fully over the next several months. Look for further blog posts and follow us on Twitter; we tweet progress and related information as @WHGazetteer and @kgeographer.
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Monday, October 28, 2019

Aramaic Texts from Egypt (also including Phoenician and Hebrew)

[First posted in AWOL 28 October 2015, updated 28 October 2019]

Aramaic Texts from Egypt (also including Phoenician and Hebrew)
(currently 1306 records).

An online metadata database project by A. Schütze
(Institut für Ägyptologie, Universität München)
 
in cooperation with the project Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt (M. Depauw)
Data processing: A. Schütze
General coordination: M. Depauw
Database structure (Filemaker 7): B. Van Beek, S. Gülden
Online version (PHP & MySQL): J. Clarysse, B. Van Beek
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Online Exhibition : Mythes et images au Cabinet des Médailles

Mythes et images au Cabinet des Médailles
Mythes et images au Cabinet des Médailles propose la découverte d'une sélection d'œuvres conservées dans les collections d’antiques d’époque classique, un des fonds les plus abondants et riches du département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques de la BnF ou "Cabinet des médailles". Cette exposition virtuelle met en scène ces œuvres grecques, étrusques et romaines dans l'historique du musée et des parcours thématiques, et offre grâce à la 3D une visite du Cabinet des médailles du roi ou « salon Louis XV » et la visualisation complète de plusieurs objets antiques. D’autres parcours thématiques seront proposés ultérieurement.
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SESPOA: Sceaux et empreinst de sceax du Proch-Orient ancien

See now here.
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Open Access Journal: Koiné archeologica, sapiente antichità

 [First posted in AWOL 25 August 2011. Updated 28 October 2019]

KASA – Koiné archeologica, sapiente antichità
K.A.S.A. è l’acronimo di Koiné archeologica, sapiente antichità. E’ uno dei progetti finanziati dal III Programma interregionale  IIIA Italia-Malta, anno 2004-2006, promulgato dalla Regione Sicilia con contributi della Comunità Europea. Esso prevede la partecipazione di tre partners, la Facoltà di Lettere, L’Università di Malta e la Officina di Studi Medievali di Palermo, per la realizzazione di itinerari turistici integrati che leghino in percorsi unitari le province di Siracusa e Ragusa e l’arcipelago maltese.

Il progetto ha come obiettivo l’utilizzo delle potenzialità insite nel patrimonio culturale di tipo archeologico-monumentale di queste aree per pervenire ad un triplice obiettivo: approfondire la conoscenza del patrimonio comune contribuendo a rinsaldare l’identità delle comunità locali; riqualificare in senso culturale i flussi turistici già esistenti tra l’area iblea e Malta, incrementando quello proveniente da altre aree italiane ed europee, inserire siti minori finora poco conosciuti all’interno dei circuiti.

Il denominatore comune alle proposte che verranno fatte sarà quello di tipologie monumentali e fenomeni culturali analoghi tra le due isole; verranno inclusi cioè siti e monumenti che mostrino contatti diretti ovvero convergenze tipologiche.
L’area coinvolta dal progetto è caratterizzata da una domanda notevole di conoscenza delle proprie radici e da un forte senso di identità, dimostrato anche dalla presenza di ben due corsi di laurea destinati ai Beni Culturali a Siracusa.

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

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