Saturday, July 25, 2015

Open Access Monograph Series: Hethitologie Portal Mainz - Materialien

 [First posted in AWOL 16 March 2012, updated 25 July 2015]

Hethitologie Portal Mainz - Materialien
http://www.hethport.adwmainz.de/hpmm/logos/hpmm-logo4.gif
Immer mehr Internetseiten und Internetdatenbanken stellen schnell und kostengünstig wertvolle Informationen zur Verfügung. Dies gehört auch zu den Anliegen des Hethitologieportals. Dabei muss aber gewährleistet werden, dass der Autor solcher Angebote im Internet auch als solcher wahrgenommen wird und dass seine Arbeit in einer Form vorliegt, die nachvollziehbar zitierfähig ist. Arbeiten, die nicht auf Papier gedruckt vorliegen, besitzen derzeit und wahrscheinlich noch für eine längere Zeit eine geringere Reputation, nicht zuletzt wohl auch deshalb, da Veröffentlichungen im Internet wohlfeil sind. Das Zitieren von Internetseiten ist auch nicht ohne Tücken, da die elektronischen Adressen manchmal unerfreulich schnell nicht mehr erreichbar sind. Die Überprüfung eines Zitats kann schnell zum Ärgernis werden.

More and more websites and web based databases like the Hethitologie Portal Mainz provide valuable information quickly and freely. But it must be insured that the work of the authors of such web content is recognized and respected. Online publications still widely suffer from a lower reputation than printed works, probably because users feel that they are available at any time and no cost. The often ephemeral nature of websites also complicates the citation process. With this publication series we wish to provide snapshots of evolving and ever changing projects and ongoing research which make it easier to make references and document the stages of the work.

Die Publikation erfolgt zweigleisig: Zum einen können die Bände in gedruckter Form bei Harrassowitz erworben werden, zum andern werden sie als PDF zum herunterladen bereitgestellt. Ob die elektronischen Versionen die Papierversionen verdrängen werden, bleibt abzuwarten. Oft ist es angenehmer, ein reales Buch in Händen zu halten. Mit der elektronischen Version erhalten auch Kollegen in finanziell weniger gut ausgestatteten Regionen der Erde nun Zugang zu den neuesten Forschungsergebnissen.

The publications will be available as printed books from Harrassowitz and as downloadable PDF's. The future will show if the electronic version replaces the printed books. But still the feeling of having a book in hand is more pleasant than having it only in a virtual reality. A bonus of the electronic version is the access it provides to the newest research even for colleagues with low budgets.

Wir haben die PDF-Dokumente nicht gesichert gegen das Kopieren von Textpassagen. Damit soll es erleichtert werden, sich für eigene Forschungszwecke leicht Daten zusammenstellen zu können, ohne sie mühsam abschreiben zu müssen. Dies steht ganz im Einklang mit dem Grundanliegen des Portals, die Forschung zu erleichtern und effizienter zu gestalten. Damit sind die Daten allerdings nicht zur uneingeschränkten Nutzung freigegeben, sondern die Autorenrechte sind zu wahren und die übliche Zitierpraxis einzuhalten.

The PDF's are not copy-protected. The philosophy of the Hethitologie Portal Mainz is to facilitate work and improve the efficency of research by providing means to reduce mere mechanical work. Instead of typing notes it is easier and quicker to copy and paste files together for one's own private research. But this does not mean that the data may be used without restrictions. The normal rules of citation and the rights of the authors must be respected. 
Košak, Silvin
Konkordanz der hethitischen Keilschrifttafeln
1. Teil Die Textfunde der Grabungen in Bogazköy 1906-1912
2005
Košak, Silvin
Konkordanz der hethitischen Keilschrifttafeln
2. Teil Die Textfunde der Grabungen in Bogazköy 1931-1939
2005
Košak, Silvin
Konkordanz der hethitischen Keilschrifttafeln
3. Teil Die Textfunde der Grabungen in Bogazköy 1952-1963
2005
Košak, Silvin
Konkordanz der hethitischen Keilschrifttafeln
4. Teil Die Textfunde der Grabungen in Bogazköy 1964-2004 und Texte anderer Provenienz
2005
Košak, Silvin; Müller, Gerfrid G.W.
Konkordanz der hethitischen Keilschrifttafeln
5. Teil Indizes der Konkordanz
2005
Fuscagni, Francesco
Hethitische unveröffentlichte Texte aus den Jahren 1906-1912 in der Sekundärliteratur
2007
Marazzi, Massimiliano et al.
Sammlung hieroglyphischer Siegel
Band I: Vorarbeiten (2., revidierte und ergänzte Auflage)
2009

Die Entwicklung der keilschriftlichen sumerischen Beschwörungsliteratur von den Anfängen bis zur UR III-Zeit

Die Entwicklung der keilschriftlichen sumerischen Beschwörungsliteratur von den Anfängen bis zur UR III-Zeit
Dr. phil. Rudik, Nadezda
Dissertation: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena » Philosophische Fakultät, 2015
III-Zeit. Das Korpus umfasst 104 Beschwörungen und Rituale. Sie besteht aus drei Teilen: theoretischem, praktischem und den Anhängen. Im ersten Teil (Kapitel 1) wird das Korpus beschrieben und charakterisiert. Weiter werden hier die Daten theoretisch ausgewertet, die aufgrund der Textanalyse im praktischen Teil gewonnen wurden. Zu den wichtigsten Resultaten dieser Untersuchung könnte die Schlussfolgerung gezählt werden, dass die Beschwörungen als Wörter der Gottheiten verstanden wurden und somit einen Teil der offiziellen magisch-religiösen Literatur bildeten, die ihren Gebrauch im Kult fand. Außerdem werden im Kapitel die Kriterien formuliert, aufgrund derer die Beschwörungen als Gattung von anderen Gattungen unterschieden werden könnten. Schließlich wird hier die neue Gliederung des Textkorpus nach inhaltlichen und formalen Gesichtspunkten vorgeschlagen. Einzeln wird die Entwicklung der Beschwörungsformeln untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Formeln nur selten mit der Funktion der Beschwörung im Zusammenhang stehen. Ihre Aufgabe war es, die Beschwörungen mit der göttlichen Sphäre zu verbinden. Im praktischen Teil (Kapitel 2) werden die sumerischen Beschwörungen des 3. Jt. v. Chr. in der aktualisierten Umschrift publiziert, indem sie nach dem funktionalen Prinzip gegliedert werden, welches im Kapitel 1 formuliert wurde. Die Anhänge enthalten den technischen Apparat zu den untersuchten Texten: der Index der ausgewählten Begriffe; das Wörterbuch; die Tabellen, in welchen alle sumerischen Beschwörungen des 3. Jts. v. Chr. katalogisiert sind; die umfangreiche Bibliografie mit weiterführender Literatur. 

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Kurd Qaburstan

Kurd Qaburstan
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In 2013, the Johns Hopkins University acquired permission to begin archaeological fieldwork at Kurd Qaburstan in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Field seasons have been held May–July 2013 and May–June 2014. Project director is Glenn Schwartz, associate directors are Christopher Brinker and Adam Maskevich, geophysical director is Andrew Creekmore, and archaeological/Assyriological consultant is John MacGinnis.

Cuneiform Commentaries Project - Updates

From Enrique Jiménez [enrique.jimenez@yale.edu]:
Cuneiform Commentaries Project - Updates 
A few months after the official release of the Cuneiform Commentaries Project (http://ccp.yale.edu) in March 2015, we are happy to announce that CCP now includes over one hundred edited commentaries.

Whereas this amounts to just 12% of all known commentaries, it contains a flood of new information. To mention a few examples, the newly edited texts include new verbs (http://ccp.yale.edu/4.1.23 ll. 1-2), and previously unrecognized quotations from Ludlul (http://ccp.yale.edu/3.5.u7 l. 4), Enūma eliš (http://ccp.yale.edu/3.1.u35), and the god list An = Anu (http://ccp.yale.edu/3.1.u45).

Many of the newly edited commentaries were previously unpublished. Commentaries edited for the first time include, for instance, a commentary on the medical series Sagig from the “Sippar Collection” (http://ccp.yale.edu/4.1.18), an important cultic commentary (http://ccp.yale.edu/7.2.u103, edited by U. Gabbay, I. Finkel, and E. Jiménez), a commentary on physiognomic omens, with astrological concerns (http://ccp.yale.edu/3.7.2.K), and the only known commentary on a Namburbi ritual (http://ccp.yale.edu/2.3).

Several of the previously unpublished commentaries were also previously unidentified. The newly identified fragments of commentaries include commentaries on the divinatory series Šumma Ālu (http://ccp.yale.edu/3.5.1.B and http://ccp.yale.edu/3.5.6) and Bārûtu (http://ccp.yale.edu/3.4.1.I and http://ccp.yale.edu/3.4.2.E).

Several bugs and oddities of the website have been fixed during the past few months. In addition, the following changes have been introduced:

– Previously the individual records were accessible only by using the CDLI number as the URL path, e.g. http://ccp.yale.edu/P270807 – now it is also possible to access them using the CCP number as the path, e.g. http://ccp.yale.edu/4.1.23
– We have created a Newsletter, which will alert recipients of new additions to the corpus once or twice a month. Users can sign up for it at http://ccp.yale.edu/newsletter
– We have continued to upload photos of tablets. Currently the photographic archive of CCP comprises 2,750 photographs, most of them taken for the project
– Newly added functionality: it is now possible to download photographs. Thanks are expressed to Vincent Massaro (Senior Web Engineer, Yale ITS) for implementing this feature
– Added possibility to search commentaries by their rubric
– Added some 300 new bibliographical references
– Added references to transliterations of commentaries in Lambert’s Folios
– Changed the typography of the website to use the font Cardo

Several scholars have offered their generous feedback during the last few months. A special debt of gratitude is owed to U. Gabbay, who has carefully revised dozens of editions and made hundreds of invaluable suggestions. I.L. Finkel has also provided collations and suggestions for many passages. E. Robson generously shared the raw ATF files of some fifty commentaries mainly from Uruk that were edited for the portal “The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia” by M.-F. Besnier, Ph. Clancier, and herself. These editions are being revised, adapted and uploaded to CCP. Fifteen of them are already available, at http://ccp.yale.edu/catalogue?copy=GKAB&edition=2 N. Veldhuis has continued to assist in the preparation of the electronic editions. In addition, M. Frazer, U. Koch, and J.A. Sowers have actively cooperated with CCP.

Scholars working on commentaries are encouraged to contribute their suggestions and corrections using the forms found on the website (please find a set of instructions at http://ccp.yale.edu/home/how-use). We would also like to invite again Assyriologists around the world to contribute their editions of as yet unedited commentary tablets, for which they will receive full credit.

Oral History of Egyptology

Oral History of Egyptology
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The Society’s Director, Dr Chris Naunton, is leading a project to record the memories and experiences of Egyptologists. The personal history of the major players in Egyptology has had an important impact on the development of the subject, and in turn on our understanding of ancient Egypt. This has led to a growing appreciation of the importance of Egyptological archives and to public and media interest in the better known personalities in the field. However, most accounts of the history of Egyptology have concentrated on the earliest years of the subject. This project aims to create a new resource for the study of the more recent history of the discipline: an archive of recorded conversations capturing the thoughts and recollections of senior Egyptologists who have played a significant part in the development of our subject. The recordings now form part of the archives of the EES, and represent an invaluable complement to the photographs, notes and correspondence already housed at Doughty Mews.

Since 2008 the team has interviewed Professor Kenneth Kitchen, Professor Harry Smith, Eric Uphill, Jessie Aldred (widow of Cyril Alrdred) and Dr Robert Anderson and excerpts from the recordings have been made available online (see below). In addition cassette recordings of interviews made during the 1990s by Mrs Rosalind Janssen have been digitised, and copies of the recordings are now kept in the digital archive.

Recordings of some of the first interviews are now available online (see below and here). An article on the project's work to date was published in Egyptian Archaeology 36 (2010) and is available for download, here.

Cuneiform Digital Library Notes (CDLN) News

From Klaus Wagensonner
We are pleased to announce the publication of several new contributions to the Cuneiform Digital Library Notes (CDLN) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/index.php):

CDLN 2015:008
Klaus Wagensonner, A, B, C, … Word List Z
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/single.php?id=000061)

CDLN 2015:009
Emmert Clevenstine, MAH 15886 + 16295, a Rim-Sin Tabular Account in Geneva
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/single.php?id=000062)

CDLN 2015:010
Richard Firth, A note on groups of forged copies of Ur III tablets from Girsu
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/single.php?id=000063)

CDLN 2015:011
Xianhua Wang, Seal Type A on Clay Bullae from the Cornell University Collections
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/single.php?id=000064)

CDLN 2015:012
Armando Bramanti, The Cuneiform Stylus. Some Addenda
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/single.php?id=000065)

CDLN 2015:013
Klaus Wagensonner, A note on a new manuscript of ED Lu2 A and its colophon
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/single.php?id=000066)


We would like to take this opportunity to thank all contributors to CDLN for their support and would like to encourage scholars to contribute to the Notes in future as well.

References and bibliographies:
All bibliographical information is drawn directly from a MySQL database. It is therefore not necessary anymore to send fully formatted bibliographies along with submitted contributions. For all references that are included among the latest available bibliographies on KeiBi Online (<http://vergil.uni-tuebingen.de/keibi/>) it is possible to save references and export them into the BibTeX format and send this document along. A full bibliography was added on CDLN (<http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdln/php/bibliography.php>), which contains all references used in the various contributions. Clicking on a year leads to the respective contribution(s), where the chosen reference is used. Vice versa, each reference list links back to the full bibliography.

As a test run the “Abbreviations for Assyriology” maintained by CDLI:wiki (<http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=abbreviations_for_assyriology>) have been imported into the database as well. By hovering over abbreviations in the bibliographies the full form and additional information is given. Further features such as indices of texts mentioned are in preparation.

We do hope that these changes will increase the efficiency of CDLN and are therefore happy to receive contributions for the next publication of Notes on October 1, 2015.

Submitted contributions are preferably made available as text files or in the RTF format. If the contribution contains tables, word or pages documents may be submitted as well. We would appreciate as few formatting as possible. Please note that in order to aid the editing process, please be so kind to provide all images in separate files and not embed them in the submitted documents.

The CDLN, together with its sister publications Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin (CDLB; <http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlb.html>) and Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (CDLJ; <http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj.html>), are peer-reviewed publications that offer a persistent web presence under the auspices of the University of California system. As e-journals, the delay between submission and publication is well below that of academic print journals, while the interaction with cuneiform artifacts documented in the CDLI database offers obvious strengths for an interactive discourse. Authors should expect a two to four month interval between submission of a draft text with illustrations and its publication for substantive contributions to the CDLJ, at most two months for those made to the Bulletin, and approximately two weeks for the Notes that are conceived as an online venue for NABU-style communications that can include short philological or lexicographical contributions as well as regular updates of a more substantial nature describing the background or progress of, in particular, web-based research efforts. For submission guidelines including technicalities regarding bibliographical citations etc. please consult the information at <http://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=about-cdln>.

New submissions will appear in preprint status four times a year (January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1; notices of new submissions will be made to this list) and are clearly marked as such. During the preprint period, authors will be able to make small, non-substantive changes (e.g., typographical errors) to their submissions. After two weeks, these submissions are then archived.

Scholars are encouraged to send contributions to the CDLN at <klaus.wagensonner@orinst.ox.ac.uk>.

Jacob L. Dahl and Klaus Wagensonner
University of Oxford

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Open Access Journal: CRSN Newsletter (Classical Reception Studies Network)

 [First posted in AWOL 24 July 2012. Updated 22 July 2015]

CRSN Newsletter (Classical Reception Studies Network)
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The Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) aims to facilitate the exchange of information and to encourage collaboration in the field of classical reception studies by bringing together departments and individuals from across the world. Classical Reception Studies is the inquiry into how and why the texts, images and material cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome have been received, adapted, refigured, used and abused in later times and often other places.
For more information on the Network and its history, please go to the Network page which explains who we are and what we do.  The Events section lists current and future Classical Reception conferences, seminars, workshops and performances.
Newsletter 31, July 2014
Newsletter 30, June 2014
Newsletter 29, May 2014
Newsletter 28, April 2014
Newsletter 27, March 2014
Newsletter 26, February 2014
Newsletter 25, January 2014
Newsletter 24, December 2013
Newsletter 23, November 2013
Newsletter 22, October 2013
Newsletter 21, September 2013
Newsletter 20
, July 2013

Newsletter 19, June 2013
Newsletter 18, May 2013
Newsletter 17, April 2013
Newsletter 16
, March 2013

Newsletter 15, February 2013
Newsletter 14, January 2013
Newsletter 13, December 2012
Newsletter 12, November 2012
Newsletter 11, October 2012
Newsletter 10, September 2012
Newsletter 9
, July-August 2012

Newsletter 8, June 2012
Newsletter 7, May 2012
Newsletter 6, April 2012
Newsletter 5, March 2012
Newsletter 4, February 2012
Newsletter 3, January 2012
Newsletter 2, December 2011
Newsletter 1, November 2011