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
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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