Wednesday, February 22, 2017

AKDC debuts new data visualization tool: Layer Cake

AKDC debuts new data visualization tool: Layer Cake
 
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.

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

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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

Marco Anzidei, Fabrizio Antonioli, Rita Auriemma, Alessandra Benini, Elena F. Castagnino Berlinghieri, Flavio Enei, Stefano Giorgi, Eleni Kolaiti, Nikos Mourtzas, Emanuela Solinas
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Carla Buosi, Paola Pittau, Paolo Orrù, Anna Maria Porcu, Giovanni Giuseppe Scanu, Marcella Sconamila
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Fekri Hassan
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Robyn Inglis, Lucy Farr, Charles French, Chris Hunt, Graeme Barker
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Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Cristiano Alfonso, Fabrizio Antonioli, Marco Anzidei, Rita Auriemma
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Paolo E. Orrù, Fabrizio Antonioli, Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Emanuela Solinas, Pier Giorgio Spano, Raimondo Zucca
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Yoann Poher, Philippe Ponel, Frédéric Guiter, Frédéric Frédéric Médail
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Jamie Woodward, Philip Hughes, Kathryn Adamson
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Andrea Luca Balbo, Jaime Frigola, Arnald Puy, Felix Retamero, Isabel Cacho, Helena Kirchner
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Helen Dawson
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Carlo Donadio, Micla Pennetta
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Alba Mazza
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Arnald Puy
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Steffen Schneider, Marlen Schlöffel, Albrecht Matthaei, Barbara Horeis, Brigitta Schütt
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Martin Seeliger, Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh, Anna Pint, Peter Frenzel, Stefan Feuser, Daniel Kelterbaum, Melanie Bartz, Dominik Brill, Helmut Brückner
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Simone Sèstito
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Aleksey V. Zinko, Victor N. Zinko
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Posters

Cristiano Alfonso
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Domenico Aringoli, Federica Erbacci, Marco Materazzi, Gilberto Pambianchi
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Guénaëlle Bony, Nicolas Nicolas Carayon, Clément Flaux, Nick Marriner, Christophe Morhanges
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Carla Buosi, Paola Pittau, Paolo Orrù, Emanuela Solinas, Giuseppe Giovanni Scanu
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Valentina Caminneci, Vincenzo Cucchiara, Giuseppe Presti
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Elena Flavia Castagnino Berlinghieri, Fabrizio Antonioli
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Riccardo Cicilloni, Antonio Forci, Marco Cabras
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Anna Depalmas, Claudio Bulla, Giovanna Fundoni
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Benoît Devillers, Guénaëlle Bony, Jean-Philippe Degeai, Jean Gasco, Hamza Oueslati, Morgane Sutra, Florian Yung
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Federico Di Rita, Giulia Margaritelli, Fabrizio Lirer, Mattia Vallefuoco, Sergio Bonomo, Lucilla Capotondi, Antonio Cascella, Luciana Ferraro, Donatella D. Insinga, Donatella Magri, Paola Petrosino
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Federico Di Rita, Donatella Magri
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Enrico Giannitrapani
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Rita T. Melis, Giovanni Azzena, Anna Depalmas, Elisabetta Garau, Francesca Montis, Giorgia Ratto, Marco Rendeli
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Rita T. Melis, Anna Depalmas, Giovanna Fundoni, Francesca Montis, Giorgia Ratto, Serafina Sechi, Silvia Vidili, Marco Zedda
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Gasmi Nabil, Felice Di Gregorio, Barbara Aldighieri
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Paolo E. Orrù, Giacomo Deiana, Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Enrico M. Paliaga, Cosimo Pignatelli, Arcangelo Piscitelli, Emanuela Solinas, Pier Giorgio Spanu, Raimondo Zucca
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Giacomo Paglietti, Carla Buosi, Giovanni Giuseppe Scanu, Paola Pittau
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Vincenzo Pascucci, Carla Del Vais, Stefano Andreucci, Giovanni De Falco, Anna Depalmas, Anna C. Fariselli, Rita T. Melis, Giuseppe Pisanu, Ignazio Sanna
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Micla Pennetta, Alfredo Trocciola, Carmine Minopoli, Renata Valente, Corrado Stanislao, Carlo Donadio
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Anna Pint, Martin Seeliger, Daniel Hoppe, Sabine Faas, Thomas Schmidts, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Sait Başaran, Peter Frenzel, Helmut Brückner
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Sebastian Ramallo Asensio, Milagros Ros Sala, Francisca Navarro Hervas, Jose Ignacio Manteca Martinez, Tomas Rodriguez Estrella, Josefina Garcia Leon, Miguel Martinez Andreu, Felipe Cerezo Andreo, Elena Ruiz Valderas, Alicia Fernández Diaz
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Tiphaine Salel
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Marlen Schlöffel, Steffen Schneider, Albrecht Matthaei, Brigitta Schütt
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Marco Serra, Valentina Mameli, C. Cannas
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Federica Sulas, Rita T. Melis, Charles French, David Redhouse, Sean Taylor, Giovanni Serreli, Francesca Montis, Giorgia Ratto
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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 2039-4543
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

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 Library: ETANA Core Texts

[First posted at ANCIENT WORLD BLOGGERS GROUP (AWBG), 30 June 2008 . Most recently updated 19 February 2017]

ETANA Core Texts
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The civilizations of the ancient Near East produced the world's earliest written texts — in hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and alphabets — with which they described the first empires, recorded the first legal codifications, preserved the first love songs, and registered the first contracts, among states or individuals. Not surprisingly, these cultures elicited broad curiosity among later civilizations, our own not excepted, resulting in a flood of evaluation, scholarly or otherwise. While the discovery of new texts always leads to new evaluation, it is remarkable how assessments arrived at decades ago continue to be of much value, not only because they often carry editions of original documents, but because they contain insights minted freshly after first exposure to major documents.
ETANA (Electronic Texts and Ancient Near Eastern Archives) has digitized, and continues to digitize, texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies. We have selected primarily editions that are outside of copyright, or with the permission of copyright holders. While the new electronic editions we have produced are under copyright, the ETANA project chooses to make these freely available for noncommercial teaching and research purposes.