The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT has released its prototype of Layer Cake, a 3-axes mapping tool that enables users to build maps layering narrative, time, and space simultaneously. Envisioned by AKDC Program Head, Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D., the tool has become a reality thanks to the programming expertise of James Yamada (Master in Design Studies, Harvard GSD).
Ali Asgar Alibhai (Ph.D. candidate, Harvard NELC) provided the content for the pilot project by analyzing textual sources of Ibn Jubayr’s 12th century pilgrimage from Spain to Mecca. The resulting map documents Ibn Jubayr’s travels temporally, geographically, and with accompanying descriptions of the cities and sites he visited. Images and information about those cities and sites is linked to Archnet–AKDC’s globally-accessible, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world–to provide more context.
While James, Ali, and Sharon continue to develop the tool and refine the interface, we welcome users to view Ibn Jubayr’s travels in Layer Cake and provide feedback for this test case. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to the project PI, Sharon C. Smith.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
AKDC debuts new data visualization tool: Layer Cake
AKDC debuts new data visualization tool: Layer Cake
Wall Map now Available: Asia Minor in the Second Century C.E.
Wall Map now Available: Asia Minor in the Second Century C.E.
After several years of preparation, AWMC’s newest wall map is now available online. This map is a successor to that of J.G.C. Anderson (1903) and its partial revision by W.M. Calder and G.E. Bean (1958). It was displayed in draft at the ‘Roads and Routes in Anatolia’ conference organized by the British Institute at Ankara (March 2014). It was then revised with a view to being issued with the volume planned to follow that meeting in due course. Meantime the Center is now making the map available online.
The map may be downloaded from Dropbox at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mf0r8zw9rk1ckiv/Asia%20Minor% 20Map%20FINAL.tif?dl=0
This work is licensed under CC-by-4.0
Shaping the Mediterranean basin: islands, coastlines and cultures across time
Shaping the Mediterranean basin: islands, coastlines and cultures across time
By bridging approaches and methodologies from geosciences, archaeology and history, geoarchaeology is transforming our understanding of the history and cultures that have shaped the Mediterranean basin over millennia. The sheer diversity of current research offers an excellent opportunity for moving beyond geographical frontiers and to begin addressing the needs of a multifaceted and evolving Mediterranean world. This workshop calls upon environmental scientists, archaeologists and historians to discuss and share research advances in the geoarchaeology of Mediterranean islands and coastlines. The workshop will address issues, challenges and prospects of current research on Mediterranean island and coastal environments.Table of Contents
Oral papers
Posters
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Open Access Journal: ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte
[First posted in AWOL 13 January 2011. Updated 21 February 2017]
ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte
ISSN 2039-4543ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte
Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte - Università degli studi di Cagliari
2014
V. 3 (2014)
Terzo numero di ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio
2013
V. 2 (2013)
Secondo numero di ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio
2012
Ricerca e Confronti 2010 (Supplemento ArcheoArte 1)
Atti delle giornate di studio di archeologia e storia dell'arte a 20 anni dall'istituzione del Dipartimento di Scienze archeologiche e storico-artistiche dell'Università di Cagliari (Cagliari, 1-5 marzo 2010)
2010
V. 1 (2010)
News from the PSI – Papiri della Società Italiana
PSI – Papiri della Società Italiana Project News
Dear colleagues,
just a quick update about the psi-online project, on behalf of all the
friends (and all the Institutions) involved in it. On our website
(www.psi-online.it) it is now possible to browse images and datas about
P. Flor. I, PSI inv. (around 300 papyri kept in the Istituto Vitelli but
not published in the main PSI series, as PSI Com9, PSI Congr.XX; see the
list in PSI XVI, pp. 313-334), P. Tebt. Pad. I and a number of P. Tebt.
Pad. inv. (i.e., not yet published).
During next months we will add also P.Prag. II-III and P.Flor. II-III to
the database, as well as more informations on the collections involved.
Carissimi saluti,
Lucio Del Corso
Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
Dipartimento di scienze umane, sociali e della salute -
Laboratorio di ricerche storiche e archeologiche dell'antichità
Monday, February 20, 2017
Elyonim veTachtonim: Electronic inventory of angels, demons and ghosts in the early rabbinic literature
Elyonim veTachtonim: Electronic inventory of angels, demons and ghosts in the early rabbinic literature
What's in the name?
A passage in tractate bMegillah 11a-b conveys a tradition of three kings who have “ruled over the whole firmament” (Heb. shloshah malkhu bakipah): Ahab, Ahasuerus and Nebuchadnezzar. These emperors, however, are surpassed in proficiency and the range of power by king Solomon about whom it is said that “he ruled over the denizens of the upper world as well as of the lower (Heb. al haelyonim veal hatachtonim)”. The phrase itself came to function as a merism denoting the totality of the supernatural creatures, both good and evil.
What's inside?
Elyonim veTachtonim is also the code name for the project aimed at reconstructing the comprehensive inventory of the entities of various classes in the early rabbinic literature [ERL]. Since the task is laborious, the sources vast and the human resources scarce, the project expands gradually but slowly.
What's the purpose?
First of all, the database serves the function of a specialized thematic concordance and as such provides the means for a quick localization and juxtaposition of all the appearances of a given entity. Second, the detailed division into separate units allows the introduction of the quantitative methods of analysis, some of which are already published in the "summaries" sheets of the database. Third, the manipulation with the hashtags and filtering commands makes it possible to discern some particular regularities like the correlation between the given entity, topic and genre. This is just a small fraction of the potential applications, and the larger the database the more diverse the purposes.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Open Access Journal: Lettre du Répertoire des Inscriptions Libyco-Berbères
Lettre du Répertoire des Inscriptions Libyco-Berbères
ISSN: 1260-9676
ISSN: 1260-9676
Épigraphie Libyco-Berbère
La Lettre du RILB (Répertoire des Inscriptions Libyco-Berbères)
EPHE - Section des sciences historiques et philologiques
Directeur de la publication : Lionel Galand
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