Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Open Access Journal: Revue archéologique

[First posted in AWOL 29 October 2012, updated 30 June 2020]

Revue archéologique 
ISSN: 0035-0737 
ISSN en ligne: 2104-3868
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Créée en 1844, la Revue archéologique est l'un des plus anciens périodiques scientifiques français. Très lu en France, il est aussi l'un des plus connus à l'étranger, et constitue une référence sur le plan international. Il n'est l'organe ni d'une institution ni d'une école et son indépendance rédactionnelle est totale : le seul critère est celui de la qualité et de l'originalité de la recherche, comme le démontrent le haut niveau et la diversité de ses collaborateurs.
Le domaine d'élection de la Revue archéologique est l'Antiquité classique, mais elle fait aussi une large part aux civilisations périphériques, de l'Italie étrusque à l'Asie centrale en passant par l'Anatolie. Sur le plan des méthodes, elle s'intéresse à tous les domaines de la recherche : géographie historique, architecture et urbanisme, sculpture, peinture et céramique, artisanat. Les études de technique, d'iconographie, l'histoire de l'art et les problèmes historiques et sociaux liés à l'archéologie sont largement représentés, sans aucune exclusive épistémologique. En outre, la Revue se distingue par sa qualité graphique, avec une illustration en couleurs chaque fois que cela est nécessaire.

Plusieurs rubriques tiennent le lecteur informé de l'actualité de la recherche : les comptes rendus bibliographiques, le Bulletin de la Société française d'Archéologie classique, avec le résumé des conférences mensuelles de cette société, et enfin des chroniques bibliographiques, parmi lesquelles les Recherches récentes sur les verres grecs et romains et le Bulletin d'architecture du monde grec.


Revue bénéficiant de la reconnaissance scientifique du CNRS. 
This journal is available in English on Cairn International
Moving wall. Open access through 2018

Clavis Clavium

Clavis Clavium
Clavis clavium is an integrated reference database and collaborative update platform to open up Patristic, Medieval and Byzantine texts.
The aim of the project is to unite the leading claves into one database.
This is an ongoing effort to update and extend the knowledge of texts, authors and saints.

EpiDoc

EpiDoc
EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents. It uses a subset of the Text Encoding Initiative's standard for the representation of texts in digital form and was developed initially for the publication of digital editions of ancient inscriptions (e.g. Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, Vindolanda Tablets Online). Its domain has expanded to include the publication of papyri and manuscripts (e.g. Papyri.info). It addresses not only the transcription and editorial treatment of texts themselves, but also the history and materiality of the objects on which the texts appear (i.e., manuscripts, monuments, tablets, papyri, and other text-bearing objects).

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Open Access Journal: Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon)

Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon)
ISSN: 2664-1100
Die Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon) ist eine Reihe, die für Publikationen aus dem Bereich der Alten Geschichte und Altertumskunde sowie der Epigraphik und Papyrologie zur Verfügung steht. Das können sowohl monographische Werke als auch Sammlungsbände, wie etwa Akten zu Kongressen, umfassen.
Die WBAGon möchten für Autoren von höchstqualifizierten Publikationen eine rasche und unkomplizierte Plattform bieten, ihre wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse einem möglichst breiten Publikum frei zugänglich machen.
Interessierte Autoren können direkt mit der Redaktion in Kontakt treten.
Manuskripte können als Worddokumente (doc oder docx) sowie als PDF per E-Mail an die Redaktion (franziska.beutler@univie.ac.at; katharina.knaepper@univie.ac.at) eingereicht werden. Die Autoren werden gebeten, für eine Einheitlichkeit der Zitierweise innerhalb eines Bandes zu sorgen. Es werden unten stehende Richtlinien empfohlen, aber auch andere Zitierweisen werden akzeptiert. Eine individuelle Gestaltung nach den Bedürfnissen des Bandes ist nach Absprache mit der Redaktion möglich.
Für Inhalt und Form der Beiträge sind sachlich und rechtlich allein die Autoren bzw. die Herausgeber des Bandes verantwortlich
Bd. 3 (2020): Municipal Structures in Roman Spain and Roman Italy. A Comparison, Proceedings of the Colloquium Vienna, 3rd July 2018
Municipal Structures in Roman Spain and Roman Italy. A Comparison
Proceedings of the Colloquium
Vienna, 3rd July 2018

edited by Federico Russo

Idem ius municipi flavi Irntiani esto, quod esset, si municipi Italiae libertus esset. Questa breve citazione, tratta da un capitolo della Lex Irnitana che pone un preciso parallelo tra il municipio irnitano e un qualunque municipio sul suolo italico a proposito della procedura della manumissio, sintetizza in modo icastico l’essenza e lo spirito dell’incontro internazionale che è stato ospitato dall’Institut für Alte Geshichte dell’Università di Vienna nel luglio 2018. In sintesi, la premessa da cui i lavori hanno preso l’avvio, e che è alla base dei contributi raccolti nelle prossime pagine, si fonda sulla considerazione che ciò che valeva per una comunità spagnola, poteva valere anche per una comunità italica, e viceversa, ad indicare una stretta vicinanza tra aree pure così distanti (e non solo dal punto di vista geografico)
La vicinanza in tema di norme, leggi, regolamenti e disposizioni varie tra i municipi (o le colonie) della Spagna romana e le comunità dell’Italia appare come fatto noto già in età antica, e come tale è stato a più riprese studiato dalla critica moderna. Naturalmente, a questi due poli se ne aggiunge un terzo, vale a dire Roma, che, con la sua produzione legislativa relativa alla gestione dell’Impero ma anche dell’urbs stessa, avrà senza dubbio funzionato da punto di riferimento (o modello tout court), più o meno diretto, per le leggi che regolavano la vita amministrativa delle comunità locali, italiche e provinciali.
Alla luce di tali richiami, espressamente denunciati dalla documentazione epigrafica a nostra disposizione, è parso tanto doveroso quanto stimolante esplorare ulteriormente alcuni aspetti delle strutture amministrative dei centri locali spagnoli e italici per individuare ulteriori analogie e differenze tra di essi, spesso rimaste in ombra o inesplorate. Un approccio di questo tipo ha certo contribuito a migliorare la nostra conoscenza delle strutture ammnistrative locali e, per conseguenza, le modalità tramite cui, al momento di una fondazione coloniale o municipale, le leggi di un centro locale assumevano la loro fisionomia.
Vorrei concludere questa breve introduzione esprimendo la mia gratitudine, oltre che agli autori, agli ospiti e ai partecipanti del Convegno, all’Austrian Science Fund (FWF), che ha finanziato l’incontro entro il Progetto M-2142, e all’Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik dell’Università di Vienna, che lo ha ospitato e supportato.
Desidero in particolare ringraziare, per l’impagabile collaborazione e aiuto offerti, il Prof. F. Mitthof, il Prof. H. Taeuber, il Prof. E. Weber e la Dr. F. Beutler.
Inoltre, esprimo la mia gratitudine ai curatori di WBAGon per aver accettato la pubblicazione di questi contributi ed in particolare alla Dr. F. Beutler per averne seguito il processo editoriale con grande attenzione.
Un sentito grazie va, infine, a tutti coloro che in vario modo, con idee, suggerimenti e critiche, hanno preso parte alla stimolante discussione che ha avuto luogo in occasione dell’incontro e alla successiva fase di pubblicazione.
Federico Russo
(Università di Milano)
Veröffentlicht: 2020-04-23
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Onlineportal Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde Graz

Onlineportal Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde Graz
http://gams.uni-graz.at/archive/objects/context:age/datastreams/THUMBNAIL/content
Mehrere Projekte des Instituts für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde verdichten sich hier zu einem Onlineportal Alte Geschichte:
"Zwischen Hellenenbewußtsein und Poliszugehörigkeit", kurz Ethnos, befasst sich mit der Ausprägung einer kollektiven Identität, die seit dem 8. Jh. v. Chr. durch die Zersplitterung eines großen Teils der griechischen Mittelmeerwelt in Stadtstaaten (Poleis) zu beobachten ist. Eine Sammlung kommentierter Quellen soll Aufschlüsse über Bündnisse bzw. Feindschaften griechischer Poleis geben.
Das Projekt "Gewalt in antiken Gesellschaften" geht der Frage nach der Empfindung und Darstellung von Gewalt in der Antike nach. Dazu werden gewaltschildernde Textpassagen griechischer und lateinischer Autoren ausgewählt. Im Laufe des Jahres 2011 sollen diese textlichen Darstellungen durch eine Bildersammlung ergänzt werden.
Das bereits 2007 umgesetzte Projekt "Spectatores" bietet Quellen zum Zuschauerwesen im Altertum in Original und Übersetzung. Ergänzt wird das Material durch bibliographische Hinweise.
Die Numismatische Sammlung des Instituts umfasst beinahe 4000 antike Münzen, großteils römerzeitliche Prägungen. Die elektronische Beschreibung des Bestandes enthält Digitalisate wie auch umfangreiche Beschreibungen der Objekte.
Das Institut verwahrt auch eine Epigraphische Sammlung in Form von ca. 1000 Abklatschen lateinischer und griechischer Inschriften. Diese stehen in Faksimileform wie auch mit Transkription, Kommentar und Übersetzung für Studierende, Lehrende und Forschende online zur Verfügung.
An der Fertigstellung des Projektes "Prosopographie der antiken Hetären" wird derzeit noch gearbeitet.
Das Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung zeichnet für den technischen Rahmen - in Form eines Asset Management Systems - und das Design verantwortlich. Die Daten liegen im XML-Format vor und stehen damit auch zukünftigen Portallösungen flexibel zur Verfügung.

Monday, June 29, 2020

Qurna in the Sky

[First posted in AWOL 13 November 2017, updated 29nJune 2020]

Qurna in the Sky
Map of Qurna with inset

From the hillside to the sky

Qurna is the name of an area on the west bank at Luxor, Egypt, in the world cultural heritage site of the Theban Necropolis. Along a stretch of hillside running about 3 kilometres from south to north there was a collection of hamlets mainly arranged in family groups. The houses were built along the lower slopes of the Theban hills, where there are tombs of many periods. The authorities saw the residents and their houses as a danger to the tombs and monuments, and for decades there were plans to relocate the people. From 2006 to 2009 nearly all the houses on the hillside were demolished – even though some of them were over 100 years old and thus covered by laws to preserve them. No programme of recording was done before the bulldozers moved in. The built heritage of the Qurnawi meant nothing to the authorities.

If you would like to learn about various Qurna exhibition projects on the hillside before 2010, and read articles on its history and see additional photos do look at www.qurna.org

Qurna in the sky is a small attempt to give their heritage back to the Qurnawi who now live in new settlements to the north. Most of the photos on this website were taken between 1997 and 2001 by Caroline Simpson, an English woman who went often to Qurna, and who took the photos just for her own interest. Some of the photos here are old postcards which show local life about 100 years ago. Some of Caroline's are collected here by theme such as 'crafts' or 'religion and spiritual', but the majority are of the houses.

How to find your way in Qurna in the sky

The house photos are divided into their local geographical and community areas. The names of the house owners have been entered in a spreadsheet in English and in Arabic. You can search for an area name, or for the name of a house-owner. If your parents or grandparents lived there, you can find your family house.

It was a very lovely and special place, so even if you never went there you can discover it here. Qurna has been destroyed on the hillside, but this is an attempt to make it live again 'in the sky'.
Thank you to Mohamed Ali Mansour and Mahmoud Hashash for the identification of the houses.

Digital Marmor Parium

 [First posted in AWOL 20 December 2014, updated 29 June 2020]

Digital Marmor Parium
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The Digital Marmor Parium is a project directed by Monica Berti at the University of Leipzig for producing digital data about the Parian Marble. This document is a Hellenistic chronicle on a marble slab coming from the Greek island of Paros. The inscription preserves a Greek chronology (1581/80 - 299/98 BC) with a list of kings and archons accompanied by short references to historical events mainly based on the Athenian history.

This work is part of the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Gracorum (DFHG), which is a digital collection of ancient Greek fragmentary historians that includes also an edition of the text of the Parian chronicle with a Latin translation, a chronological table, and critical notes.

The aim of the project is to provide images and drawings of the inscription, and digital data about named entities (geographical and personal names), chronological expressions, and linguistic information preserved by the text of the Parian Marble.

EpiDoc XML encodings of the inscription are available through the GitHub repository of the project.

Open Access Journal: Open Journal of Archaeometry

[First posted in AWOL14 July 2017, updated 29 June 2020]

Open Journal of Archaeometry
The Open Journal of Archaeometry is a peer-reviewed, Open Access, international scientific journal published by PAGEPress Publications. It is devoted to the publication of research articles, short communications and review papers on every aspect of archaeometry. Archaeometry – also known as archaeological science – applies scientific techniques to the analysis of archaeological materials. Research topics mainly comprise the following disciplines and analyzing techniques: chemical and physical analyses of artifacts, concerning provenance, technology types of use and authenticity; dating methods providing archaeologists with numerical and relative chronologies; environmental approaches providing information on past changes in landscape, climate, flora, and fauna; anthropological studies dealing with diet, nutrition, health and pathology; mathematical methods for data treatment with the purpose of handling, analyzing, and modeling large data sources; remote-sensing and geophysical-survey applications assisting underground and underwater archaeology; conservation sciences involving the study of decay processes and the development of appropriate methods of conservation and restoration.

Announcement of closure

Open Journal of Archaeometry is no longer open to new submissions. All papers that have been published will be permanently accessible under the terms of open access, both at: https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/arc/issue/archive and via the Portico digital preservation service.

PAGEPress would like to thank the past Editor-in-Chief, and the Editorial Board for all their efforts over the past years.

Unfortunately, the number of authors in this field contributing to the journal was not as high as expected.

  • Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018)
    Published: 2018-06-13
  • Vol 3, No 1 (2016)
    Published: 2016-04-15
  • Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014)
    Published: 2014-09-19

  • Sunday, June 28, 2020

    Open Access Journal: Teaching Classical Languages (TCL)

    [First posted in AWOL 22 April 2011. Updated 28 June 2020]

    Teaching Classical Languages (TCL)
    ISSN 2160-2220
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    Teaching Classical Languages (ISSN 2160-2220) is the only peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to the teaching and learning of Latin and ancient Greek. It addresses the interests of all Latin and Greek teachers, graduate students, coordinators, and administrators. Teaching Classical Languages welcomes articles offering innovative practice and methods, advocating new theoretical approaches, or reporting on empirical research in teaching and learning Latin and Greek. As an electronic journal, Teaching Classical Languages has a unique global outreach. It offers authors and readers a multimedia format that more fully illustrates the topics discussed, and provides hypermedia links to related information and websites. Articles not only contribute to successful Latin and Greek pedagogy, but draw on relevant literature in language education, applied linguistics, and second language acquisition for an ongoing dialogue with modern language educators.
    Please click the issue title below to see the issue's cover, front matter, abstracts and links to articles. Alternatively, in cases where it it is a link you can click the article title below to view an individual article.
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    Welcome to Teaching Classical Languages (TCL). TCL is the peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to exploring how we teach (and how we learn) Greek and Latin. TCL is sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).
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