Saturday, March 15, 2014

Oriental Institute Diyala Excavations Publications

Oriental Institute Diyala Excavations Publications
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Significance of Excavations: Located in the lower Diyala river basin northeast of Baghdad, excavations at the sites of Tell Agrab, Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Ishchali (ancient Neribtum), and Khafaje (ancient Tutub), have provided some of the most comprehensive data for Mesopotamian archaeology and chronology. Undertaken by the University of Chicago‚ Oriental Institute (1930-1937) and by the University of Pennsylvania (1938-1939), these projects were of an unprecedented scale. Up to 25% of the total area of each site were excavated, uncovering not only the remains of palaces and temples, but also of houses, manufacturing facilities, streets, and urban defensive systems, with some soundings extending as deep as 16 meters below the mounds‚present surfaces. Covering the time between the late Uruk period and the end of the Old Babylonian period (3000-1700 BC), the Diyala material represents a crucial part of Mesopotamia's early history during which large territorial states emerged, cities grew to unprecedented sizes, and the cuneiform writing system emerged.
[Description from the DiyArDa Project]
Preliminary Reports
Final Reports
Philological Reports

See also the 

And for an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see
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Friday, March 14, 2014

IraqCrisis: Communicating substantive information on cultural property damaged, destroyed or lost in Iraq, Syrias, Yemen, and Elsewhere

IraqCrisis
IraqCrisis: Communicating substantive information on cultural property damaged, destroyed or lost from Libraries and Museums, and archaeological sites in Iraq during and after the war in April 2003, and on the worldwide response to the crisis.

La liste d'abonnes "IraqCrisis" est fournie et variee, venant de tres nombreux pays. Toutes les interventions sont les bienvenues, qu'elles soient redigees en francais, en allemand, en anglais, en arabe, ou en toute autre langue requise pour diffuser une information sur le sujet considere.
Die "IraqCrisis list" wendet sich an ein breitgefachertes internationales Publikum. Beitrage auf Franzosisch, Deutsch, Englisch, Arabisch oder in beliebigen anderen Sprachen, die Informationen zu diesem Thema vermitteln konnen, sind willkommen.

The IraqCrisis list has a broad and varied international subscribership. Submissions are welcome in French, German, English, Arabic and any other language required to communicate information on the subject matter.

IraqCrisis oroginated one of the projects of the Iraq Museum Working Group at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
Subscribe by Email
On Twitter @IraqCrisis
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IraqCrisis was founded in April 2003  as an email lists to share substantive information on damage to archaeological sites, libraries, and museums following the American invasion of Iraq that Spring. It has remained active these past twelve years. It still seeks to assist in passing along reliable reports of risk and damage to cultural property during the current crisis.

In 2014, in response to the widening conflict, IraqCrisis expanded its scope to cover Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.
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Open Access Monograph Series: Giza Mastabas Series Online

The Giza Mastabas Series
In 1902 the Egyptian Antiquities Service (now called the Supreme Council of Antiquities) granted permits for scientific excavations at the royal pyramids and private mastaba tombs of Giza. The American team under George A. Reisner (1867–1942), eventually became the Joint Egyptian Expedition of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1905, and continued almost uninterrupted until Reisner's death in 1942. The Expedition formally closed in 1947. Despite the publication of his monumental History of the Giza Necropolis I–II, Reisner was unable to see through the press an additioal 5,000 pages of unpublished manuscript (Giza Necropolis II, III, IV), or begin the tomb-by-tomb publication series he originally envisioned. This task was initiated by William Kelly Simpson in the early 1970s in the form of the Giza Mastabas Series. The goal of the project is to continue and complete the publication of Reisner’s excavations at Giza, fully documenting the mastaba tombs with descriptive text, hieroglyphic translations, facsimile line drawings, plans, sections, and photographs.
Giza Mastabas Vol. 1: The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III
Dows Dunham and William Kelly Simpson

 Giza Mastabas Vol. 2: The Mastabas of Qar and Idu<
William Kelly Simpson

 Giza Mastabas Vol. 3: The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II
William Kelly Simpson

 Giza Mastabas Vol. 4: Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, Part I
William Kelly Simpson

 Giza Mastabas Vol. 5: Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000
Kent R. Weeks

 Giza Mastabas Vol. 6: A Cemetery of Palace Attendants
Ann Macy Roth

 Giza Mastabas Vol. 7: The Senedjemib Complex, Part 1
Edward Brovarski

Giza Mastabas Vol. 8 Part I: Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100
Peter Der Manuelian
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Location: Al-Jizah, Tag Ad Dewal, Embabah, Giza, Egypt

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Open Access Monograph Series: Exploration Archéologique de Délos

Exploration Archéologique de Délos
Série consacrée à la publication finale des fouilles et des recherches menées par l'EfA sur le site de Délos. Paraît depuis 1909.
See AWOL's full list of open access publications at:
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Latin Library

The Latin Library
These texts have been drawn from different sources. Many were originally scanned and formatted from texts in the Public Domain. Others have been downloaded from various sites on the Internet (many of which have long since disappeared). Most of the recent texts have been submitted by contributors around the world. I have tried to indicate on the Credit Page the edition and date of the original text and who (if known) was responsible for the initial HTML conversion. For the core of the classical texts, special acknowledgement is due to the submissions of Konrad Schroeder, Nicholas Koenig, Andrew Gollan and others to the Project Libellus. These have been downloaded with the permission of the contributors and presented here with additional HTML formatting.

Occasionally texts are submitted by contributors or discovered on the Internet without indication of the edition from which they derive. If I am unable to identify the edition (which is often the case), I have attempted, if feasible, to conform the text to an out–of–copyright edition.

The texts are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions. Despite constant effort to remove “scanner artifacts” and other typographical errors, many such errors remain. The texts are presented merely for ease of on–line reading or for downloading for personal or educational use.
No morphological or vocabulary aid is presented with the texts. Many sites exist for various texts and, most comprehensively, the outstanding Perseus site, where the texts are presented section by section with morphological links.

There are no translations at this site. Please don’t ask. David Camden’s excellent Forum Romanum has a comprehensive list of translations available on line.
I have taken every reasonable precaution to ensure that the Latin texts presented here are in the Public Domain. If any copyright is claimed, please advise us immediately so that we may remove the offending text from the Library.

We need additional texts to expand the Library. We also need your help in making these texts as accurate as possible. If you have other texts to submit, or corrections to the present ones, please contact: latinlibrary@mac.com
Ammianus Apuleius Augustus Aurelius Victor Caesar Cato
Catullus Cicero Claudian Curtius Rufus Ennius Eutropius
Florus Frontinus Gellius Historia Augusta Horace Justin
Juvenal Livy Lucan Lucretius Martial Nepos
Ovid Persius Petronius Phaedrus Plautus Pliny Maior
Pliny Minor Propertius Quintilian Sallust Seneca Maior Seneca Minor
Silius Italicus Statius Suetonius Sulpicia Tacitus Terence
Tibullus Valerius Flaccus Valerius Maximus Varro Velleius Vergil
Vitruvius Ius Romanum Miscellany Christian Medieval Neo-Latin
 
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LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World

[First posted in AWOL 28 August 20012, updated 12  March 2014]

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
By Bill Thayer

Gazetteer

[image ALT: a map of the Old World showing the Roman Empire in purple]
[ 214 pages (not counting translations), 340 photos ]
The core of this site, in my own mind at least, is the Roman Gazetteer, a commented photo album of Roman towns and monuments. Rome • Assisi • Augusta Zilil • Cesi • Città di Castello • Fossato di Vico • Gubbio • Massa Martana • Mevania • Milan • Narni • Ostia • Perugia • Pitigliano • Rimini • Rusellae • Saintes • Spello • Spoleto • Todi • Trevi • Triponzo • 'Urvinum Hortense' • Vetulonia • Volubilis
Topical Indexes: amphitheatres • gates • hydraulic engineering (aqueducts and baths) • roads • theatres • tombs
Stray page (for now): Opus Sectile

Source Texts

[image ALT: Part of page of a parchment manuscript with a few words in Gothic script.]
Greek and Latin Texts — 51 complete works or authors from Antiquity:
A bare index to all books onsite — these and many others, though only those reasonably complete — is available here.
In progress:
[image ALT: A fragmentary Roman inscription set in a wall.]
A Latin Inscriptions Site on three levels:
  • for the expert: a bare listing with 200 inscriptions transcribed
  • for the student: a selection of 28 photographed inscriptions, sorted by level of difficulty, solutions presented separately
  • for the surfer: a topical and a geographical index to various webpages.

Secondary Works

Link to the homepage of the Smith's Dictionary subsite
William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, an encyclopedic work containing a lot of good basic information (and references to primary sources), was published in 1875: it is thus an educational resource in the public domain.
I've been putting a large selection of articles from it online, often as background material for other webpages. It is illustrated with its own woodcuts and some additional photographs of my own.
Chariots and carriages, the theatre, circus and amphitheatre, roads, bridges, aqueducts, obelisks, timepieces, organs, hair curlers; marriage & children, slaves, dance, salt mines, and an awful lot more; among which special sections on law, religion, warfare, daily life, and clothing.
[ 3/6/14: 1063 webpages —
395 woodcuts, 38 photos, 6 plans ]
Link to Daremberg & Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines
Far more detailed, more recent, and, by and large, better than Smith's Dictionary is Daremberg & Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines. If on this page it doesn't look like it, that's because the entire 10‑volume work is already online elsewhere in the original French: on my site the articles are in English — but I've translated just a very few of them. I'll be adding to them once in a while; they'll still remain a tiny selection.
[ 12/22/12: 24 pages, 22 woodcuts ]
Link to Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
Samuel Ball Platner's great work, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (as revised by Thomas Ashby in 1929), is another even more solid resource in the public domain. A scholarly encyclopedia with hundreds upon hundreds of articles on the remains of antiquity within the city of Rome, it is an excellent reference work for hills, streets, roads and monuments of all kinds, providing ancient sources and modern bibliographies. Something like 85% of it is online here; I'll eventually do all of it.
The dictionary includes 4 small maps of Rome (s.vv. Pomerium, Septimontium, Servian Wall, Servian Regions).
[ 3/3/14: 470 pages, 83 photos, 3 engravings ]
[image ALT: A decorative entrelacs of laurel and a cross, taken from the cover of the printed book.]
Pagan and Christian Rome: a splendid account, by Rodolfo Lanciani, the rightly famous 19c archaeologist and topographer, of how Rome made the transition from the capital of Antiquity to the great city of our own time. It's a case study on Late Antiquity, an excellent popular topography of Rome, a mine of information on the Catacombs and the tombs of apostles, emperors and popes, and a fascinating read. This Web edition is enhanced with additional photos of my own, useful links, etc.
[ 107 drawings, 16 photos, 12 maps & plans ]
[image ALT: A montage of the mosaic portraits of several Byzantine historical figures and the words 'J. B. Bury.']
J. B. Bury's History of the Later Roman Empire: "Generally acknowledged to be Professor Bury's masterpiece, this panoramic and painstakingly accurate reconstruction of the Western and Byzantine Roman Empire covers the period from 395 A.D., the death of Theodosius I, to 565 A.D., the death of Justinian. Quoting contemporary documents in full or in great extent, the author describes and analyzes the forces and cross-currents which controlled Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, the Persian and Teutonic regions; the rise of Byzantine power, territorial expansion, conflict of church and state, legislative and diplomatic changes; and scores of similar topics." (From the Dover edition jacket blurb)
[ 907pp of print in 35 webpages (plus indexes):
2 photos, 7 maps & plans ]
Link to the homepage of the Latin Texts section
I'm also slowly putting good editions of ancient and early mediaeval topographical texts onsite. For now, just two aside from Strabo: the Regionaries (Notitia, Curiosum, and Appendices) and the Ordo Benedicti; plus a very bad edition of Ptolemy's Geography, which will remain unfinished.
[Link to the Roman Britain homepage]
A growing section on Roman Britain now includes four books: Thomas Codrington's Roman Roads in Britain, long the standard authority in its field; two by John Ward — Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks and The Roman Era in Britain, a general survey with many excellent illustrations (especially of jewelry, combs, keys, and similar objects); and a regional resource, George Witts's Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire.
[Onsite link]
Not quite as scholarly as most of the other items listed on this page, The Rulers of the South — Sicily • Calabria • Malta, an excellent readable overview of the history of Southern Italy from prehistory down to the sixteenth century, is still carefully based on the sources; roughly two-thirds of it falls under Antiquity broadly defined.
[ 775pp of print in 16 webpages:
123 lithogravures or photos and 3 maps ]
[image ALT: A crowd of young women against a background of tall narrow arches; in front of them, two young men, naked except for a loincloth, each waving a large object like the handle of a leash. It is an 18c depiction of the ancient Roman festival Lupercalia. The image serves as the icon on this site for 'The Lupercalia' by A. M. Franklin.]
Alberta Mildred Franklin's doctoral thesis, The Lupercalia (1921), is a valiant effort at getting to the bottom of one of the strangest of Roman religious festivals; a serried investigation taking the reader thru Greek and Roman cults of the wolf, the goat, and the dog, the foundation legends of Rome, and several unsuspected by‑ways, it says absolutely nothing about Valentine's Day. . . .
[ 102pp of print in 13 webpages ]
[image ALT: The head and neck of the Capitoline Wolf, seen in right profile, against a field of nine vertical stripes, the heraldic arms of Catalunya. The image serves as the icon on this site for José Balari y Jovany's 'Influencia de la Civilización Romana en Cataluña'.]
Influencia de la Civilización Romana en Cataluña comprobada por la orografía (1888): an interesting philological monograph on the toponymy of Catalan mountains. The author seems to have been the first to notice that many terms for various types of mountains, in Catalunya and elsewhere in Occitania, derive rather unexpectedly from the Latin names for parts of the Roman amphitheatre and circus. [In Spanish]
[ 1/17/12: 71pp of print in 15 webpages ]
[image ALT: An engraving of a bird rummaging in a small rectangular box and pulling out a ribbon. It is an illustration of an ancient Graeco-Roman pyxis.]
Scholarly journals are a treasure-trove of interesting and very varied stuff; not all of it by any means is that difficult to grasp. The Antiquary's Shoebox is my collection of public-domain articles from them; like most shoeboxes, it accumulates scraps over time, as I discover items that catch my fancy. (A few of these are not related to ancient Rome, by the way, but to India or the ancient Middle East.)
[ 6/30/13: 130 articles ]
[image ALT: A beautiful small columned temple in perfect condition.]
The Tomb of Mausolus, by W. R. Lethaby: not Roman at all, but who's quibbling? An in-depth look at one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: and an attempt at reconstructing it.
[ 23 drawings, 4 plans ]

Topical Subsites

[image ALT: A portion of a stone bas-relief depicting a formation of a dozen or so soldiers under their own massed raised shields. It illustrates the 'testudo', a Roman military technique, and serves as the icon for the Roman Warfare section of this site.]
If you're specifically interested in military history, you can cut across all the material listed above (and a few other minor items) from the Roman Military History orientation page.
[ about 200 pages ]
[image ALT: A round stone medallion carved with a star. It is a detail from the façade of the cathedral of Orvieto (central Italy), and serves as an icon for the Ancient Astronomy and Astrology section of this site.]
For ancient astronomy and astrology — these disciplines, so different today, were not so sharply separated in Antiquity — Caelum Antiquum (The Ancient Sky) is an orientation page leading to a number of primary and secondary texts, but also to specific items on ancient chronology, eclipses, horoscopes, etc.
[ 5 books, plus about 15 other webpages ]
[image ALT: a map of the Old World showing the Roman Empire in purple]
A Roman Atlas, a collection of 19c maps covering most of the Roman world, some of them indexed with ancient and modern placenames, longitude and latitude (both modern and ancient according to Ptolemy), bibliographical refs, web links, etc.
[ 29 maps ]
[image ALT: A beautiful small columned temple in perfect condition.]
A catalogue of Roman Umbria: eventually, I hope to create similar catalogues of other parts of the Roman Empire.































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