Athens Western Hills

Athens Western Hills

 

The project ATHENS WESTERN HILLS was conceived and implemented by the nonprofit society Dipylon, in order to collect historical and cartographic data for the Ηills of the Muses, the Pnyx, and the Nymphs. The old maps of Athens preserve unique archaeological and historical information about the area, which is depicted on a single cartographic background, further enhanced with visual resources.

The rocky heights of the Hills have always been a place of inspiration for the passers-by. As the French archaeologist Émile Burnouf, one of the early admirers of the Hills, narrates in the mid-19th century: There, upon the highest areas of the hills the view reaches all the way to the sea and Piraeus, and extends further, to the surrounding mountaintops; the air roves about unhindered. The project ATHENS WESTERN HILLS is an archaeological and historical perambulation of the Hills through valuable testimonies depicted on early maps of Athens.

Apart from the known antiquities, such as the Pnyx and the Philopappos monument, there is a vast archaeological reserve and a noteworthy, as well as inexhaustible, documentation material with regard to the long life of this place. The recording of cartographic and photographic evidence of the past is but one step towards highlighting and transmitting this material that sheds light on some of the most important aspects of history that may be known or occasionally unknown.

The use of GIS has enabled us to set up a meticulous “body” of data pertaining to various periods of time. The final unified material is available freely in a webGIS environment, hoping it becomes a useful tool for the promotion of every relevant research

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Mapping Ancient Athens

Mapping Ancient Athens 

 

Athens has been a phenomenal city in the history of Western civilization. Our knowledge about its past is based on specific archaeological sites and systematically excavated monuments, recognizable and thoroughly studied, such as the Acropolis, the Kerameikos, the Agora, and the Olympieion. However, besides these open spaces, there is another, invisible, ancient city, brought into light by significant excavations undertaken within the scope of public works and hundreds of interventions in private plots of land. Wanting to direct research towards these so-called rescue excavations and urban archaeology, Dipylon envisioned developing an innovative digital platform containing all the scattered archaeological remains in the city.

The project assembles for the first time all the rescue excavations carried out in Athens in the last 160 years and covers an area of about 6.7 km² of modern urban space. The bilingual digital platform enables data retrieval from 1,470 excavation sites around two main axes: first, the use of space and second, the dating of the remains (e.g. road network of Classical times, houses of Hellenistic times, Roman baths). The methodology that we established led to the creation of 12 classes of space use, 65 categories of buildings/constructions, and 90 subcategories thereof. The dated archaeological remains were categorised into 11 historical periods.

The spatial location of the excavation sites was determined through multiple historical and cartographic sources; 670 published excavation plans were georeferenced, vectorized and then linked to descriptive data. The project lasted four years (2018-2021).

We tried to render on a map the image of the topography of ancient Athens as accurately as possible, which was a demanding task due to the vast amount of data. In this endeavour, the contribution of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens is invaluable for the inclusion of unpublished plans, in the framework of a memorandum of cooperation.

The words of the English traveller Christopher Wordsworth often resonated in our minds; in 1836, following the track of time on Athenian soil, he wrote: “How much of labour, and perhaps of error, we might have been spared, had we been present but for a single minute at the Macedonian entertainment, at which the Athenian orator Dimades, when in Philip’s court, and when Philip asked him what and what sort of place Athens was, drew a map of it on the table where they were sitting”. And Wordsworth came up with the following sentiment, which expresses our thoughts perfectly: “But still of how much pleasure too, arising from this inquiry, should we then have lost also!”. (Christopher Wordsworth’s, Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There, London 1836, p. 179).

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A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions

A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions

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Ouysook, P. (2021). A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.77295

Abstract

This dissertation is an analysis of the composition of the royal inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE). It is divided into seven chapters. The first two chapters are devoted to the identification of the compositional principles. In the first chapter, we begin with the composition of the extant twenty-nine multi-sectional inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar. In the second chapter, we narrow down to the composition of the ten longest inscriptions in the corpus. The length of these inscriptions ranges from around 2,000 to 400 words. In chapters 3 to 7, we explore different issues that analysing the composition of the inscriptions can illuminate, using the ten longest inscriptions as research sample. Chapter 3 contains our attempt to identify the diachronic profile of some inscriptions in the sample group, in order to create a model that will help establish the dating for the corpus that lacks explicit historical information. In chapter 4, we identify a structuring principle in the building lists, which are a major component among the longer inscriptions in the extant corpus. This principle is characterised by the arrangement of the temples according to their location along the Euphrates. In chapter 5, we look at how the inscriptions associated with the same building type share a common composition. In particular, we will see that the five inscriptions in the sample group, which are dedicated to the temples, all share a very similar basic composition. In chapter 6, we explore the characterisation of Nebuchadnezzar in the epithet lists and the prayer. We will demonstrate that the portrayals of NBK correspond to each subgroup of inscriptions that we identify in chapter 5. We will also see that NBK’s different selfportrayals in these inscriptions mirror the political divisions in his empire. In chapter 7, we look at NBK’s interaction with the Babylonian inscriptional tradition. We will compare his inscriptions with the Babylonian inscriptions of Ashurbanipal and Esarhaddon, as well as the inscriptions of Hammurabi. As we shall see, NBK’s inscriptions are much closer to the inscriptions around his period in terms of structural formulation. This conclusion offers another side to the argument, which purports that the Neo-Babylonian inscriptions contain elements that are similar to the inscriptions from the Old-Babylonian or Old Akkadian period.

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Babylonian, Archaeology, Nebuchadnezzar, Inscriptions, Babylon, Mesopotamia, royal inscriptions, Akkadian, Neo-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian Empire

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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.77295

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Neugebauer Microform Index of the Exact Sciences

Neugebauer Microform Index of the Exact Sciences

The IRCPS has prepared and now offers a digital version of the 26,002 file-cards prepared over 60 years by Otto Neugebauer (1899–1990), the renowned historian of the exact sciences. On these cards, Neugebauer wrote by hand the very detailed and meticulous notes that he used for research and publication throughout his career. These cards fall into two types. The first are subject-cards which divide the history of the exact sciences by time period, culture (Classical Greek and Roman, Babylonian, Egyptian, Islamic, Judaic, Byzantine, European) and topic (the various branches of the mathematical sciences such as arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy; scientific instruments, calendars, lexica, and so on). These subject-cards are keyed to the second type of cards, the bibliographical cards which record the literature and documents that Neugebauer consulted.

Please note that the button below will take you to a Dropbox download link. Download the compressed .zip file and open it on your computer. A User Guide for the Neugebauer index (PDF) is also included. The Guide may be read and printed using Acrobat Reader (version 8.0 or later). This software may be downloaded free of charge from Adobe.com.

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Open Access Monograph Series: Graeca Tergestina. Praelectiones Philologiae Tergestinae

[First posted 15 November 2016, updated 26 October 2021]

Graeca Tergestina. Praelectiones Philologiae Tergestinae 

• 11 Rhythmic Patterns in Pindar’s Odes [1]     Luciano Garosi 10 Iter responsionis. Le dedicatorie e le prefazioni ai tragici di Tournebus e Canter [1]     Andrea Tessier 09 «Paignion». Piccola Festschrift per Francesco Donadi [8]     a cura di Attilio Mastrocinque e Andrea Tessier 08 Aristotele ambiguo? Qualche riflessione sulla Poetica [1]     di Maria Grazia Bonanno 07 Charis. Studi offerti a Paola Volpe dai suoi allievi [8]     a cura di Stefano Amendola, Giovanna Pace 06 Passato e presente nei generi letterari ‘dionisiaci’ del V sec. a. C. [1]     di Bernhard Zimmermann 05 Il dolore di Fedra tra passato e presente [1]     di Paola Volpe 04 Peani in dattili tra Ellade classica ed età imperiale [1]     di Andrea Tessier 03 Aristofane tra antiche e moderne teorie del comico [1]     di Olimpia Imperio 02 La lettura del filologo [1]     di Maria Grazia Bonanno 01 Antichi versi greci. Considerazioni sullo statuto documentario delle fonti metriche [2]     di Liana Lomiento

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Open Access Monograph Series: Periploi – Studi Egei e Ciprioti

Periploi – Studi Egei e Ciprioti

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• Alberti Maria Emanuela
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  University of Crete, Greece
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  University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
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  British School at Athens, Greece

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AKROTHINIA 2

Edited by: Alberti, M.; Jasink, A.

Il lessico miceneo riferito ai cereali

Vittiglio, Nicola Antonello

Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas

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MUSINT 2

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Preistoria e Protostoria egea e cipriota

Bombardieri, L.; Graziadio, G.; Jasink, A.

AKROTHINIA

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Luoghi per lavorare, pregare, morire. Edifici e maestranze edili negli interessi delle élites micenee

Montecchi, Barbara

Modernità MinoicaL'Arte Egea e l'Art Nouveau: il Caso di Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo

Caloi, Ilaria

MUSINT Le Collezioni archeologiche egee e cipriote in Toscana

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Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology

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Le collezioni egee del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

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Il lessico miceneo riferito ai cereali

Il lessico miceneo riferito ai cereali

Nicola Antonello Vittiglio

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-647-7 Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca ISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

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This book constitutes a study of the lexicon of cereals as witnessed by the Mycenaean inscriptions. The study focuses both on the nouns used to designate cereals, on their compounds and derivatives, and on the terms with which they relate (adjectives, theonyms, toponyms, etc.). The volume is divided into three chapters. The first chapter analyses the six Mycenaean terms together with their derivatives and compounds - phonetically transcribed - which designate cereals or include their names: wheat, barley, wheat flour, barley flour, bakers (= those who bake bread) together with others nouns belonging to the same semantic field, such as seed. The second chapter focuses on three Mycenaean logograms designating cereals: *120, *121 and *129, interpreted respectively as wheat, barley and flour. The third chapter describes the wide set of terms appearing contextually in the inscriptions in which cereals are attested, and groups them according to their meaning: human and divine recipients, toponyms, adjectives, other administrative terms, etc. Finally, the conclusions present an overall assessment of the data analysed in the previous chapters, that is an assessment affecting the economic, political, social and religious sphere of the Mycenaean civilisation.

Il presente libro costituisce uno studio del lessico dei cereali testimoniato nelle iscrizioni micenee, sia dei termini che li designano, dei loro composti e dei loro derivati, sia dei termini con cui si relazionano (aggettivi, teonimi, toponimi, ecc.). Il volume è suddiviso in tre capitoli. Il primo analizza i sei termini micenei con i relativi derivati e composti, trascritti foneticamente, che designano cereali o includono i loro nomi: grano, orzo, farina di grano, farina di orzo, panettieri (= coloro che cuociono il pane) insieme ad altri sostantivi appartenenti allo stesso campo semantico come seme. Il secondo analizza tre logogrammi micenei che designano cereali: *120, *121 e *129, interpretati rispettivamente come grano, orzo e farina. Il terzo capitolo descrive il grande insieme dei termini che appaiono contestualmente nelle iscrizioni in cui si registrano cereali, raggruppandoli in base al loro significato: destinatari umani e divini, toponimi, aggettivi,altri termini amministrativi, ecc. In ultimo, le conclusioni presentano una valutazione di insieme dei dati analizzati nei capitoli precedenti, valutazione che interessa le diverse sfere: economica, politica, sociale e religiosa, della civiltà micenea.