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Fundmünzen der Antike (FdA)

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Fundmünzen der Antike (FdA)
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Im Projekt, das zunächst von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft getragen wurde und seit 1986 in der Obhut der Akademie ist, wird eine neue historische Quelle herausgegeben und ausgewertet: die antike Münze als Wertmesser, als Zahlungsmittel und als Trägerin des Umlaufs. Ziel ist, neues Wissen über das Verhalten des Nutzers des gemünzten Geldes angesichts von finanzpolitischen Maßnahmen der jeweiligen Obrigkeit zu gewinnen und die Rolle der Münze in Geschichte und Kultur ihrer Zeit schrittweise immer besser kennenzulernen. Angesichts des Untersuchungsgebietes und des -zeitraumes - es geht immerhin um den gesamten antiken Mittelmeerraum vom 7. Jh. v. bis zum 9. Jh. n. Chr. (im Ostmediterraneum kommen mit der byzantinischen Periode noch etwa 5 weitere Jahrhunderte hinzu) -, steht die intensive internationale Zusammenarbeit im Vordergrund, die sich in den Publikationen bestens widerspiegelt. 

Zu den Umlaufsanalysen auf der Grundlage eigens für diese Zwecke erarbeiteter Methoden kommen laufend neue Aspekte und Perspektiven für die Forschung hinzu: Datenerfassung und graphische Dokumentation auf EDV-Basis, metallurgische Untersuchungen, Erkenntnisse über die Nutzung von Münzen im kulturellen Bereich ihrer Zeit und anderes mehr.

One Off Journal Issues: LA GUERRA COMO PRÁCTICA Y COMO CONCEPTO EN EL ANTIGUO CERCANO ORIENTE

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LA GUERRA COMO PRÁCTICA Y COMO CONCEPTO EN EL ANTIGUO CERCANO ORIENTE  (= Anuario de la Escuela de Historia [ISSN: 1853-8835], Núm. 27 (2015)
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Leticia Rovira
1-3

PRESENTACIÓN


Leticia Rovira
5-8

DOSSIER


Juan B. LEONI
9-37

Davide NADALI
39-50

Mario LIVERANI
51-77

Augusto GAYUBAS
79-104

Jordi VIDAL
105-116

Artículos


Carolina VILLAR-LAZ
117-143

Sofía STEFANELLI
145-167

Desirée DEL VALLE OSELLA
169-200

Paola BONVILLANI
201-228

RESEÑAS DE LIBROS


Federico Luciani
229-237

Cecilia G. Molla
239-242

Álvaro M. Moreno Leoni
243-249



Ángel Horacio Molina
251-253

Digital humanities enhanced. Challenges and prospects of Ancient Studies. A retrospect on the DH-conference in November 2015 in Leipzig

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Digital humanities enhanced. Challenges and prospects of Ancient Studies. A retrospect on the DH-conference in November 2015 in Leipzig
by | Apr 19, 2016 |
We are very happy to publish the report that Julia Jushaninowa has written about DHEgypt2015 (Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond– Leipzig, November 4-6, 2015):
Digital humanities enhanced. Challenges and prospects of Ancient Studies. A retrospect on the DH-conference in November 2015 in Leipzig by Julia Jushaninowa (PDF).

Open Access Journal: Amirani: Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute

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 [First posted in AWOL 21 January 2010, Updated 20 April 2016]

Amirani: Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute
(= Amirani : Kavkasiologiis Saert'ašoriso Samec'niero-Kvlevit'i Sazogadoebrivi Institutis moambe = Amirani : Mitteilungsblatt des Internationalen Kaukasiologischen Gesellschaftlichen Forschungsinstitutes)

ISSN: 1512-0449
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The ICRI publishes the journal of Caucasology, entitled Amirani. Articles concerning the peoples, cultures and languages of the Caucasus, from the perspective of any of the humanities or social sciences, will be considered for publication. The articles may be written in English, French, Georgian, German, Russian, or any other language accessible to a significant number of Caucasologists.
There is Thousands of years of history to this region, with further studies continuously taking place which concern its people and culture. This journal aims to be a useful source for anyone looking to pursue an online education in the field of Caucasology. Through the Institutes commitment to establishing international and academic contacts, we are able to collate some of the most valuable articles on this subject.
By having each volume of Amirani available online, it vastly increases the accessibility of these materials to those who are interested in this particular topic. Its also invites those who have already gained completed significant studies on the Caucasus region to submit relevant and scholarly articles for publication. Archived articles are also available on this website, as is information on events of interest and other information-sharing activities.
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Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian

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[First posted in AWOL 14 February 2014, updated 20 April 2016]

Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian

Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries


Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian), a Semitic language written in the cuneiform script, was the native language of Babylonia and Assyria, the two main areas of Ancient Mesopotamia. It spread all over the Ancient Near East and was used, at least in written form and during certain periods, also from Elam in southwest Iran to Anatolia Syria, Palestine and even Egypt in the west. Written from ca. 2600 BC to the 1st century AD, Akkadian is one of the best attested languages of antiquity: the size of the Akkadian text corpus approximately corresponds to the size of the corpus of ancient Latin. 


The Akkadian lexicon is actually accessible through two large dictionaries, W. von Sodens Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (1958–1981, 3 volumes) and The Assyrian Dictionary of the University of Chicago (1956–2010, 20 volumes). Both dictionaries present Akkadian words with their meaning in context and a large number of references. As a huge reservoir for the history of Near Eastern languages and cultures, however, the Akkadian lexicon is still almost unexploited. The Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian, a joint project of the Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients (university of Jena) and the Altorientalisches Institut (Universität Leipzig), aims to analyse the Akkadian lexicon in the context of the Semitic language family and as the source, receptor and transmitter of loanwords and foreign words of Semitic and non-Semitic origin, part of which still survive in modern languages. 


The Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as a long-term project. The project leaders are Leonid Kogan (Moscow), Manfred Krebernik (Jena) and Michael P. Streck (Leipzig). The project started on July 1st, 2013. 


One module of the project is to create a Supplement to the Akkadian dictionaries mentioned above. This is the task of the Leipzig team (Michael P. Streck, Nadezda Rudik). The supplement is meant to provide new references for Akkadian words in the many texts published after the end of the Akkadisches Handwörterbuch and The Assyrian Dictionary of the University of Chicago as well as new secondary literature and corrections. The supplement is published online below. 

How to use the Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries
Text Corpus
Current State of Work

Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries:
A    B    D    E    G        I    K     L    M       P    Q    R    S        Š          U    W    Y    Z
Bibliography
Abbreviations
 Last update: March 8, 2016
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Elektronisches Handbuch der Keilschrifttexte aus Mari

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[First posted 1 July 2011. Updated 20 April 2016]

Elektronisches Handbuch der Keilschrifttexte aus Mari
Vor einigen Jahren hatten zwei Leipziger Doktoranden, die mit Texten aus Mari arbeiteten, die beinahe wahnwitzige Idee, für die eigenen Forschungszwecke die Texte aus Mari systematisch mit ihren Museums‐ bzw. Grabungsnummern (soweit bekannt) sowie der Primär‐ und Sekundärliteratur zu erfassen. Im Laufe der Zeit zeigte sich, wie umfangreich das Korpus und die Informationen zu den einzelnen Texten sind. Nach nunmehr 3 1/2 Jahren akribischer Sammelarbeit, die lediglich von der Erfüllung eines Kinderwunsches und dem Voranbringen der Doktorarbeit zeitweise unterbrochen werden musste, soll nunmehr das vorläufige Ergebnis dieser Arbeit der Altorientalistischen Welt zugänglich sein. Aufgrund der enormen Fülle des Materials befindet sich dieses Projekt verstaÅNndlicherweise immer noch im Status des „work‐in‐ progress“ und wird wohl auch in absehbarer Zeit kaum abgeschlossen sein können ... 

Blog: genderstudies.science: Gender and/or Agency from Ancient Near Eastern and Late Antiquity Civilizations

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genderstudies.science
For Scholars Studying Gender and/or Agency from Ancient Near Eastern and Late Antiquity Civilizations
The initiative, led by Vanessa Juloux (École Practique des Hautes Études, Paris), was presented during the last Mentoring Meeting of the Initiative on the Status of Women in ASOR (November 2015, Atlanta). 
The aim of the blog is to have a virtual meeting place that is open to all scholars interested in gender and/or agency.  We aim to have regular and diverse blog entries, covering among other subjects: events, new books, and other topics of interest.

Agnès Garcia-Ventura ("Sapienza", Università degli Studi di Roma) and Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki) collaborate with Vanessa Juloux to help promote the blog and solicit blog posts. We will be happy to welcome your proposals, feedback and content for the sections. Please do not hesitate to contact us:

vanessajuloux@icloud.com

agnes.ventura@gmail.com


Carmina Latina Epigraphica Hispaniae: Portal de poesía epigráfica latina: búsquedas icónicas y textuales

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[First posted in AWOL 7 October 2014, updated 21 April 2016]

Carmina Latina Epigraphica Hispaniae
Portal de poesía epigráfica latina: búsquedas icónicas y textuales- Latin epigraphic poetry database: iconographic and textual searches
C. Fernández Martínez, J. Gómez Pallarès, J. del Hoyo Calleja, editores.
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En 1964, Hans Krummrey, insatisfecho con los diversos criterios de las ediciones y colecciones de Carmina Latina Epigraphica (CLE) que le habían precedido, lanzó la idea de una nueva clasificación de estos CLE en un volumen independiente del Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), el que habrá de ser el XVIII, dedicado exclusivamente a los CLE y organizado según la geografía administrativa del Imperio Romano ("Zum Plan einer neuen Sammlung der CLE", Philologus 108, 1964, pp. 304-310). El citado trabajo constituye, en cierto modo, el acta fundacional del futuro CIL XVIII, en el que se inserta nuestro grupo de redacción, centrado en el material de Hispania (CIL XVIII/ 2), próximo a su publicación.


Como fruto de los trabajos de autopsia del material y de su edición y comentario filológico, ofrecemos a la comunidad científica interesada este Portal de Poesía Epigráfica Latina. El Portal presenta todos los materiales que el grupo ha venido trabajando desde 1994 bajo una perspectiva de web 2.0., interactiva y con capacidad para adaptarse a las distintas necesidades de un investigador. La primera redacción completa se ha cerrado en junio de 2013, pero la renovación y corrección de contenidos, dada la naturaleza del portal, será periódica.



In 1964, Hans Krummrey, dissatisfied with the previous editions and collections of Carmina Latina Epigraphica (CLE) arranged by various criteria, launched the idea of ​​a new classification of CLE in a separate volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). This volume, the 18th, will be exclusively dedicated to CLE and organised according to the administrative geography of the Roman Empire ("Zum neuen einer Sammlung der Plan CLE" Philologus 108, 1964, p. 304-310). The cited work is, somehow, the first step to the forthcoming CIL XVIII. Our group focused its activity on the metrical inscriptions from Hispania, which are to be published as the volume XVIII/2 of CIL. 
We now offer the scientific community this Epigraphic Latin Poetry Website, containing new editions based on a variety of reliable autopsy works and philological analysis. All the material produced by the group since 1994 is provided from a Web 2.0 perspective, interactive and adaptable to the different needs of its researchers. The first document drafting was finished in June 2013, however, given the nature of the website, it will be periodically updated.
Index I. Nomina uirorum et mulierum
Index II. Cognomina uirorum et mulierum
Index III - XII. III-XII
Index XIII. Metra
Index XIV. Topica sepulcralia
Index XV. Ordinatio
Index XVI. Loci similes apud auctores
Index XVII. Loci similes epigraphici
Index XVIII. Grammatica
Index XIX. Tabellae synopticae
Index XX. Titulorum sedes
Index XXI. Imaginum auctores et origo
Chartographia. Chartographia

Worldwide Directory of Museums with Near Eastern Collections

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Worldwide Directory of Museums with Near Eastern Collections
D. Homès-Fredericq with the collaboration of A. DeGraeve, Eric Gubel and I. Swinnen 

The World-Wide Directory of Museums lists museums with Ancient Near Eastern collections: national, regional, university museums and accessible private collections of Mesopotamia, the Levant, Iran, Anatolia, the Persian Gulf area and pre-islamic Arabia in general.

The Directory is intended for professionals, museum curators, archaeologists, philologists and students involved in Near Eastern studies, as well as tourists interested in visiting museums with Near Eastern collections. They will find the following information (wherever available): practical information about the museum: address (with telephone, fax, email), name of curator and/or director, opening day(s) and hours; description of thecollection (importance and more detailed geographical, chronological information, origin of the objects, …), bibliography about the collection: including exhibition catalogues, journals, books, articles about the Near Eastern collections, slide collections if mentioned, as well as current and new projects, besides other relevant facts. The bulk of this information was collected on the Internet.

Carmina Latina Epigraphica Galliae: Portal de poesía epigráfica latina: búsquedas icónicas y textuales

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[First posted in AWL 8 October 2014, updated 21 April 2016]

Carmina Latina Epigraphica Galliae
Portal de poesía epigráfica latina: búsquedas icónicas y textuales
C. Fernández Martínez, J. Gómez Pallarès, J. del Hoyo Calleja, editores.

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En 1964, Hans Krummrey, insatisfecho con los diversos criterios de las ediciones y colecciones de Carmina Latina Epigraphica (CLE) que le habían precedido, lanzó la idea de una nueva clasificación de estos CLE en un volumen independiente del Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), el que habrá de ser el XVIII, dedicado exclusivamente a los CLE y organizado según la geografía administrativa del Imperio Romano ("Zum Plan einer neuen Sammlung der CLE", Philologus 108, 1964, pp. 304-310). El citado trabajo constituye, en cierto modo, el acta fundacional del futuro CIL XVIII, cuyo fascículo 2, centrado en el material de Hispania está ya próximo a su publicación. 

Online Resources from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

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Online Resources from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
ISAW was founded to support research in the ancient world, and publication—in print, online, and in person—is one of the key ways we share our research methodologies and findings with both other scholars and the general public. This page describes some of publications that have been produced by ISAW or under its sponsorship. As outlined in the faculty statement on assessment of research (PDF), we aim for quality and long-term accessibility in all our research outputs, regardless of medium, while embracing collaboration and both traditional and new forms of review and assessment.

Ancient World Digital Library

05072015 New AWDL exampleISAW relaunched the AWDL portal in May 2015. In addition to a more attractive design and new features, the new portal also includes new content. AWDL's mission is enhance access to curated digital scholarly content related to the ancient world. The original AWDL Book Viewer will remain active until all of its content is migrated to the new portal. In addition to page images of many digitized volumes, AWDL currently hosts an online version of Roger Bagnall and Giovanni Ruffini. (2012) Amheida I. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1: Texts from the 2004–2007 SeasonsFor feature and content updates, see the ISAW Library Blog.

Ancient World Image Bank

The Tower Tomb of Ateban at the Roman city of Dougga, Tunisia. by Graham Claytor (2007)View and download over 3,000 free digital images of sites and objects from the ancient world, contributed by ISAW faculty, staff and friends. Check out the Ancient World Image Bank Group Photo Pool on Flickr for even more images provided by like-minded photographers around the world.

Ancient World Online

Find out about all the latest online and open-access material relating to the ancient world, regardless of where it's published.

The Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā

Image of Campa InscriptionThe Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā is a publication of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, realized in collaboration with ISAW. This project aims to recover, preserve, study and make accessible the corpus of inscriptions of ancient Campā (in present Việt Nam), written either in Sanskrit or in Old Cam.

Exhibitions

Rendering of Digital CaveLearn about the objects and cultures featured in ISAW's public exhibitions at 15 East 84th Street in New York. Even though these exhibitions eventually close or move on to other locations, the websites for them remain, providing permanent access to images, maps and other materials.

ISAW Papers

X-Ray Image of the Antikythera MechanismISAW Papers is an open-content scholarly journal that publishes article-length works on any topic within the scope of ISAW's scholarly research.

Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)

Coin of the Roman Emperor AugustusA joint project of the American Numismatic Society and ISAW, OCRE is a digital corpus of the coinage of the Roman Empire. At present, you can browse or search to find all coin types from Augustus to Hadrian (27 BC – AD 138), and links to examples present in the ANS collection.

Papyri.info

OstraconSearch and browse over 50,000 ancient Greek and Latin documents preserved on papyrus and other materials. Images, texts, translations and descriptions contributed by scholars and institutions around the world. Get the latest project news via the Digital Papyrology Blog.

Planet Atlantides

News aggregators for ancient studies. This site gathers together news, commentary and other posts from a variety of blogs and sites around the web and provides the aggregate in an easy-to-read web page as well as in a variety of web feed formats.

Pleiades

Pleiades Home PagePleiades is a historical gazetteer and more. It gives scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, share, and map historical geographic information about the ancient world. Pleiades is one hundred percent open source, one hundred percent openly licensed and one hundred percent editable.

Social Media

You can follow ISAW on TwitterFacebook, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Google+, or (via one of our web feeds) in your favorite feed reader or aggregator.

Open Access Library: Trismegistos

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[First posted in AWOL 16 September 2009. Most recently updated 22 April 2016]

Trismegistos
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Trismegistos [TM], called after the famous epithet of Hermes - Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing who also played a major role in Greek religion and philosophy, is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of texts from the ancient world, particularly late period Egypt and the Nile valley (roughly BC 800 - 800 AD).

The core component of TM is Trismegistos Texts, currently counting 675313 entries. When the database was created in 2005, it focused on providing information (metadata) on published papyrological documents from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Chronological boundaries are always artificial, and the nature of the sources soon suggested that BC 800 and AD 800 were more suited. Since egyptology does not know a disciplinary boundary between papyri and inscriptions, TM also decided to expand by adding all epigraphic material as well. Papyrology on the other hand includes also writing tablets from outside Egypt, which led us to widen our geographical scope to the entire ancient world. Finally, since the distinction between published and unpublished is increasingly less productive in a digital environment, we now no longer discriminate in that respect either. In principle, however, we still provide only metadata.

This means that Trismegistos increasingly wants to be a platform where information can be found about all texts from antiquity, thus facilitating cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research. This will of course only be possible through cooperation with all players in the field, since our aim is to lead people to the partner websites, where more information, often including also photographs, transliterations and translations of the texts, can be found.

Several aspects of the Texts database have been elaborated in the course of successive projects (see History) and have become separate databases linked with the core Trismegistos Texts database.
  1. The Collections database, built on the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections, is a set of currently 3720 modern institutional and private collections of texts and their 212658 inventory numbers. It is searchable both separately and in the Texts database.
  2. The Archives database, built on the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Archives, is a set of currently 497 collections of texts in antiquity, mainly in Egypt, and the 17521 texts that are part of these archives. It is searchable separately, leading to the texts themselves.
  3. The People database, building on the Prosopographia Ptolemaica, is a complex set of prosopographical and onomastic databases. It currently contains 493087 attestations of personal names of non-royal individuals living in Egypt between BC 800 and AD 800, including all languages and scripts and written on any surface.
  4. The Places database, expanding the geographic database of the Fayum project, is a set of currently 47670 places in Egypt and increasingly also outside (in view of the expansion of TM to the ancient world in general). It contains the currently 197357 attestations of toponyms in texts from Egypt (BC 800 – AD 800), but is also linked to the provenance field in Trismegistos Texts.
  5. Finally, because abbreviations are often different in the various disciplines, we have also started creating a Bibliography which resolves many of the short references we use in Trismegistos. The other way round it also wants to facilitate the search for all texts in a specific publication. Its coverage is patchy except for the publications dealing with Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic, where the Demotistische Literaturübersicht provides a much higher standard of bibliographic information.

Trismegistos Online Publications (TOP)

This series, edited by W. Clarysse (K.U.Leuven) / M. Depauw (K.U.Leuven) / H.J. Thissen (Universität zu Köln), aims to provide freely downloadable pdf-documents with scholarly tools based upon or providing links to the Trismegistos database.
Contributors can send in manuscripts in Word format to mark.depauw@arts.kuleuven.be. The editors will decide whether the manuscript fits in the series and can be accepted for reviewing. An anonymous version of the manuscript will then be sent to two or more peers for evaluation. On the basis of their report the editors will take a decision whether to publish it in the series or not. Authors will be given the anonymous notes of the reviewers and can be asked to implement changes to their manuscript.

TOP 1 (Click to download)
M. Depauw, C. Arlt, M. Elebaut, A. Georgila, S.A. Gülden, H. Knuf, J. Moje, F. Naether, H. Verreth, S. Bronischewski, B. Derichs, S. Eslah, M. Kromer
A Chronological Survey of Precisely Dated Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic Sources
Version 1.0 (February 2007), Köln / Leuven 2008, xiii, 232 pp.
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-04


TOP 2 (Click to download)
H. Verreth
A survey of toponyms in Egypt in the Graeco-Roman period
Version 2.0 (July 2013), Köln / Leuven 2013, 1253 pp. (12 Mb).
ISBN: To be determined (Version 1.0: 978-9-490604-0-35)
(The old version 1.0, from September 2008, is still available as well: click here to download in pdf).


TOP 3 (Click to download)
H. Verreth
The provenance of Egyptian documents from the 8th century BC till the 8th century AD
Version 1.0 (August 2009), Köln / Leuven 2009, 314 pp. (13.3 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-28


TOP 4 (Click to download)
A. Benaissa
Rural Settlements of the Oxyrhynchite Nome. A Papyrological Survey
Version 2.0 (May 2012), Köln / Leuven 2012, 496 pp. (8.4 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-42
(The old version 1.0, from October 2009, is still available as well: click here to download in pdf).


TOP 5 (Click to download)
H. Verreth
Toponyms in Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic texts from the 8th century BC till the 5th century AD
Version 1.0 (August 2011), Köln / Leuven 2011, 719 pp. (9.6 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-66


TOP 6 (Click to download)
K.A. Worp
A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity
Version 1.0 (February 2012), Leiden / Leuven 2012, 78 pp. (0.6 Mb).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-59


TOP 7 (Click to download)
J. Lundon
The Scholia Minora in Homerum. An Alphabetical List
Version 1.0 (November 2012), Köln / Leuven 2012, 250 pp. (2.0 Mb).
ISBN: 978-94-9060-407-3


TOP 8 (Click to download)
Y. Broux
Double Names in Roman Egypt: A Prosopography
Version 1.0 (January 2015), Leuven 2015, ix & 357 pp. (2.3 Mb).
ISBN: 978-94-9060-408-0


TOP 9
Y. Broux, with contributions from S. Vanbeselaere
Spaghetti Monsters al dente. An Introduction to Network Analysis for Historians
Leuven 2016.
ISBN: forthcoming

Further volumes are in preparation.

Trismegistos Online Publications Special Series (TOP SS)

Often a PhD thesis for some reason cannot be published immediately. In the years that follow, the authors do not find the time to revise the manuscript as they wanted. This in turn causes problems because new literature appears or the evidence of new sources needs to be incorporated. As a result, the manuscript often remains unpublished and the valuable insights risk to be inaccessible and thus lost for scholarship.
To prevent this, Trismegistos Online Publications have decided to open up a new 'Special Series', where valuable PhD theses or other scholarly manuscripts can be published with an ISBN number.
Contributors can send in manuscripts in Word or PDF format to mark.depauw@arts.kuleuven.be. The editor will consult experts about the quality of the manuscript without taking into account whether it is abreast of recent scholarly literature or developments.

TOP SS 1 (Click to download)
K. Geens
Panopolis, a Nome Capital in Egypt in the Roman and Byzantine Period (ca. AD 200-600)
Leuven 2014 [= Diss. Leuven 2007], xiii & 578 pp. (28.4 Mb).
ISBN: 978-94-9060-409-7


The TOP Special Series was created in 2014. Earlier manuscripts that have been made available in a similar way can be found below.
J. France
Theadelpheia and Euhemereia. Village History in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Leuven, 1999 (Click here; WARNING: large file 55 Mb !! ).
[Unpublished PhD thesis]


K. Vandorpe
Egyptische geografische elementen in Griekse transcriptie
In Dutch - (English title for reference only: Egyptian geographical elements in Greek transcription)
Leuven, 1988 (Click here; ZIP-file; after decompressing, you will get a folder containing the text itself - which has been split up in 2 parts – and an index to the text. All files are searchable PDF's. WARNING: large file 95,8 Mb !! ).
[Unpublished Master thesis, in Dutch]
 


H. Verreth
The northern Sinai from the 7th century BC till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sources
Leuven, 2006 (Click here).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-11
To open the pdf files, your computer has to have a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Some other applications can open pdf files as well, such as Preview on Mac OS X; however; the links in the pdf to the online database may not work in other applications (earlier versions of Preview e.g. do not recognize the links - this seems to have been fixed in Mac OS X 10.6 though).


EDEN — Epigraphische Datenbank Erlangen-Nürnberg

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EDEN — Epigraphische Datenbank Erlangen-Nürnberg
Herzlich willkommen auf der Epigraphischen Datenbank Erlangen-Nürnberg von Prof. Dr. Boris Dreyer!
 
Die Inschriften von Metropolis werden derzeit sukzessive veröffentlicht. Der komplette Datenbestand ist momentan nur ausgewählten Nutzern zugänglich.

Benutzerhinweise:
Oben rechts auf dieser Seite finden Sie die Schaltflächen "Navigate" und "Find", mit denen Sie die bisher eingestellten Inschriften, Orte, Fundstellen und Gottheiten auflisten und durchsuchen können. Für eine numerisch sortierte Auflistung aller inschriften, wählen Sie "Navigate", dann "Inschrift". Wenn Sie nach bestimmten Kategorien, wie beispielsweise "Fundstelle" oder "Titel", suchen möchten, wählen Sie "Find", dann "Inschrift". Nun können Sie eine differenzierte Suchanfrage stellen.

Um alle Inschriften aus Metropolis oder Magnesia angezeigt zu bekommen, können Sie auch auf den jeweiligen link oben klicken. Sie werden dann zu dem jeweiligen Ortseintrag weitergeleitet, mit dem alle zugehörigen Inschriften verknüpft sind.

Bitte beachten Sie, dass sich diese Datenbank derzeit im Aufbau befindet und einige Funktionen deshalb noch nicht einwandfrei funktionieren können. Für Anregungen und Verbesserungsvorschläge sind wir  dankbar.

Welcome to the Epigraphic Database Erlangen-Nürnberg of Prof. Dr. Boris Dreyer!

This database is currently under development, and accessible only to specially selected persons, for demonstration purposes.

 Instructions:
On the top right corner of this page, you can find the buttons "Navigate" and "Find", which can be used to browse all inscriptions, places, find spots and gods already added to the database. Choose "Navigate", then "Inschrift", to list all inscriptions in numerical order. If you would like to search for specific categories, such as "find spot" and "title", choose "Find", then "Inschrift". You can then ask a sophisticated query.

You can also click on the links above to view all inscriptions of Metropolis or Magnesia. You will then be redirected to the respective place entry with all the associated inscriptions.

Please keep in mind that this database is currently under development, which means that some features might not operate correctly. If you have any suggestions regarding the improvement of this database, feel free to contact us.

ArcheOrient-Le Blog

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ArcheOrient-Le Blog est animé par les membres de l’UMR 5133-Archéorient (CNRS/Lyon 2), unité constitutive de la MSH Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée. Ce carnet de recherche est un espace d’échange et de diffusion des activités de recherche en cours sur l’histoire et l’archéologie des sociétés et des environnements au cours de l’Holocène en Méditerranée et au Proche et Moyen-Orient.
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The blog aims to promote exchanges and to give greater visibility to new scientific information in the field of environmental and social history and archaeology, in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Open Access Ancient Language Textbooks and Primers

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Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world
Additional resources of thus type are accessible through the  Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) Project pages at the University of Minnesota.

And see also Lexicity
And see also  Smarthistory, a "multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook"

Textkit has a huge library of Greek and Latin textbooks

Learn Ancient Greek


Listed below is Textkit’s entire collection of Ancient Greek textbooks. All books are made available for full and free download in PDF format.

Greek Answer Keys

First Greek Book Key, John Williams White
First Greek Writer Key, Arthur Sidgwick
Greek Prose Composition Key, North and Hillard

Greek Composition Textbooks

First Greek Writer, Arthur Sidgwick
Greek Prose Composition, North and Hillard
Selections from the Septuagint, Conybeare and Stock

Greek Lexicon/Dictionary

Greek Reading Text

Greek Reference Grammars

Greek Grammar, William W. Goodwin
Greek Grammar, Herbert Weir Smyth

Greek Textbooks

A First Greek Course, Sir William Smith
First Greek Book, John Williams White
First Greek Grammar Accidence, W. Gunion Rutherford
First Greek Grammar Syntax, W. Gunion Rutherford

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Latin Answer Keys


Latin for Beginner’s Key, Benjamin L. D’Ooge

Latin Prose Composition Key, North and Hillard

Latin Composition Textbooks


A New Latin Prose Composition, Charles E. Bennett

Latin Prose Composition, North and Hillard

Latin Reading Text


Caesar’s Civil War in Latin, Charles E. Moberly



Cicero Select Orations, Benjamin L. D’Ooge







Selections From Ovid, Allen & Greenough

The Phormio of Terence in Latin, Fairclough and Richardson

Latin Reference Grammars


A Latin Grammar, Charles E. Bennett

New Latin Grammar, Allen & Greenough

Latin Textbooks


Beginner’s Latin Book, Collar and Daniell

Latin For Beginners, Benjamin L. D’Ooge

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    World Digital Library (WDL)

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    The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
    The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
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    Commentaries by Domizio Calderini on Works by Juvenal, Statius, Ovid, and Propertius
    Commentaries by Domizio Calderini on Works by Juvenal, Statius, Ovid, and Propertius
    Under the influence of Italian humanism and of his book-collector tutor János Vitéz, the Archbishop of Esztergom, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1443–1490), developed a passion for books and learning. Elected king of Hungary in 1458 at the age of 14, Matthias won great acclaim for his battles against the Ottoman Turks and his patronage of learning and science. He created the Bibliotheca Corviniana, in its day one of Europe’s finest libraries. After his death, and especially after the conquest of Buda by the Turks in 1541, the library ...
    Dialogues of the Gods
    Dialogues of the Gods
    This manuscript contains ten of the dialogues of Lucianus, a second-century rhetorician and satirist who wrote in Greek, in the Latin version of Livio Guidolotto (also seen as Guidalotto or Guidalotti). Livio, a classical scholar from Urbino, was the apostolic assistant of Pope Leo X, and he dedicated his translation to the pope in an introductory epistle of 1518 ("Romae, Idibus maii MDXVIII"; folio 150v). The latest possible date for the manuscript thus is 1521, the year Leo died. The emblem of Giovanni de' Medici, with the beam accompanied by ...


    “De Materia Medica” by Dioscorides
    “De Materia Medica” by Dioscorides
    This book exemplifies the transfer of knowledge across the centuries. During the first century, the Greek doctor and apothecary Dioscorides, who is considered the father of pharmacology, wrote a very important document on botany and pharmaceuticals. In the 10th century, during the times of ʻAbd al-Rahman III (891−961), caliph of Cordova, the work was translated into Arabic. In 1518 at the Escuela de Traductores de Toledo (the School of Translators of Toledo), Antonio de Nebrija made the first translation of the work in Spain into Latin. In 1555 in ...
    On the Sphere and the Cylinder; On the Measurement of the Circle; On Conoids and Spheroids; On Spirals; On the Equilibrium of Planes; On the Quadrature of the Parabola; The Sand Reckoner
    On the Sphere and the Cylinder; On the Measurement of the Circle; On Conoids and Spheroids; On Spirals; On the Equilibrium of Planes; On the Quadrature of the Parabola; The Sand Reckoner
    In the middle of the 15th century, a number of manuscripts by the third-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes began to circulate in the humanistic centers in the courts of Italy. Piero della Francesca (circa 1416–92), the Renaissance artist best known for the frescos he painted for the Vatican and for the chapels in Arezzo, transcribed a copy of a Latin translation of Archimedes’s geometry (a compilation of seven surviving treatises) and illustrated it with more than 200 drawings representing the  mathematical theorems in the texts. This manuscript, long ...
    Bucolics, Georgics, and the Aeneid
    Bucolics, Georgics, and the Aeneid
    This 15th-century manuscript, known as the Riccardiana Virgil, includes the texts of the three extant works of the great Roman poet Virgil,the Bucolics, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, and contains 88 miniature paintings in the lower margin of many of the vellum leaves. The miniatures, 86 in the Aeneid and one each in the Bucolics and the Georgics, are attributed to Florentine artist Apollonio di Giovanni and his workshop. Those illustrating the story of Aeneas reflect the influence of Benozzo Gozzoli, who in 1459 completed a suite of frescos ...
    Bashkioi Copy of “Slaveno-Bulgarian History”
    Bashkioi Copy of “Slaveno-Bulgarian History”
    This handwritten copy of Paisiĭ Khilendarski’s Istoriia slavianobolgarskaia (Slaveno-Bulgarian history) was made in 1841 by the priest Vasilii Manuilov. In addition to the main text, the manuscript contains accounts of two miracles of the Holy Mother. First published in 1762, Paisiĭ’s history encouraged the Bulgarians, who had been under Ottoman rule for centuries, to discover their national consciousness and to embrace the Bulgarian language. The work was so influential that it was copied by hand and excerpted many times without Paisiĭ being identified as the author or his ...
    Geography
    Geography
    Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100–circa 170), known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who lived and worked in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In his Geography, Ptolemy gathered all the geographic knowledge possessed by the Greco-Roman world. He used a system of grid lines to plot the latitude and longitude of some 8,000 places on a map that encompassed the known world at the height of the Roman Empire. Ptolemy’s work was lost to Europe in the Middle Ages, but around 1300 Byzantine ...
    The Four Books on Medicine by Octavius Horatianus and the Three Books by Abū Al-Qāsim, Distinguished Among All Surgeons
    The Four Books on Medicine by Octavius Horatianus and the Three Books by Abū Al-Qāsim, Distinguished Among All Surgeons
    This volume printed at the Argentorati shop in Strasbourg (present-day France) in February 1532 includes two works, the first of which is the Latin translation by Theodorus Priscianus (flourished around 400) of his own therapeutic compendium, the Euporista (Easily obtained remedies), originally written in Greek. The second work is the Latin translation of a section of the well-known Arabic medical work by Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi (also known by his Latinized name Albucasis, circa 936–1013), Al-Taṣrīf li man ‘ajiza al-ta’līf (The arrangement of [medical knowledge ...
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    A Clear Explanation of Averroes’ Introduction to the Commentary on Aristotle’s “Analytica Posterior”
    A Clear Explanation of Averroes’ Introduction to the Commentary on Aristotle’s “Analytica Posterior”
    This work is a commentary on Ibn Rushd’s prologue to his commentary on Aristotles’s Analytica Posterior (Posterior analytics) by the Italian philosopher and physician Giovanni Bernardino Longo (1528–99), published in Naples in 1551. Muhammad ibn Ahmed ibn Rushd (1126–98), known in the West by the Latinized version of his name, Averroes, was an intellectual luminary of the Islamic world. Although he wrote extensively on the religious sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and philosophy, his reputation in the West rests primarily on his commentaries on Aristotle. He belonged ...
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    Of Medical Substances
    Of Medical Substances
    The precious codex known as the Dioscurides Neapolitanus contains the work of Pedanius Dioscorides, the Greek physician who was born at Anazarbus near Tarsus in Cilicia (present-day Turkey) and lived in the first century AD during the reign of the Emperor Nero. Dioscorides wrote the treatise Perì üles iatrichès, commonly known in Latin as De materia medica (Of medical substances), in five books. It is considered the most important medical manual and pharmacopeia of ancient Greece and Rome and was highly regarded in the Middle Ages in both the Western ...
    Titus Andronicus

    City of God
    Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430) is generally considered one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time. He was born in Thagaste (present-day Souq Ahras, Algeria) in Roman-ruled Africa, the son of a pagan father and a Christian mother (Saint Monica). After studying in Carthage and teaching rhetoric in his native city, he moved to Rome in 383 and to Milan in 384. Under the influence of his mother and Ambrose, bishop of Milan, he converted to Christianity in 387. He was ordained a priest in 391 and rose ...
    Letters, Essays, and Sermons by Saint Gregory Nazianzus
    Letters, Essays, and Sermons by Saint Gregory Nazianzus
    This 18th-century manuscript is a collection of letters, essays, and sermons by Saint Gregory Nazianzus (died circa 389). The manuscript is thought to be the first Arabic translation from the original Greek and has not yet been edited or published. It is the second volume of a two-volume work. Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, is recognized as a Father of the Church in both the Eastern and Western traditions. He was born in Cappadocia (eastern Anatolia), where he spent much of his life. He was a ...
    Letters, Pedagogical Teachings, and Sayings of Saint Anthony of Egypt
    Letters, Pedagogical Teachings, and Sayings of Saint Anthony of Egypt
    This manuscript opens with the 20 letters “to the sons who follow his [Anthony’s] gentle path…and prayers to keep us from Satan’s example.” The letters are for the most part short, many not exceeding five folios. According to an introductory note, they are addressed to both men and women. The work is in a bold but relaxed hand. Each letter or other significant section is set off in red. There are no contemporary marginal glosses, but comments and corrections (some in English) in pencil were made by ...
    The History of the Roman Provinces of the Near East
    The History of the Roman Provinces of the Near East
    This Arabic manuscript is a history of the Roman provinces of the Near East, with special reference to King Herod the Great and the dynasty he founded. The manuscript lacks numerous pages at the beginning and end. The remaining portion contains the history of Roman Palestine during the first century BC until the destruction of the temple by Roman emperor Titus in 70 AD. The author, title, and date of copying are unknown. The work has been tentatively ascribed to the 17th century. The text is unadorned except for marking ...
    Annotated Edition of “The Book of Documents”
    Annotated Edition of “The Book of Documents”
    Shang shu (The book of documents), also called Shu jing (The book of history), is one of the Five Classics of the Confucian canon that greatly influenced Chinese history and culture. Translations of its title into English vary and include Classic of History, Classic of Documents, Book of History, Book of Documents, or Book of Historical Documents. There are many copies and versions of Shang shu, ascribed to Confucius, but its history is obscure. The work is a compilation of speeches by major figures and records of events in ancient ...
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    Annotated Edition of “The Book of Rites”
    Annotated Edition of “The Book of Rites”
    Li ji (The book of rites) is one of the Five Classics of the Confucian canon, which had significant influence on Chinese history and culture. The book was rewritten and edited by the disciples of Confucius and their students after the "Burning of the Books" during the rule of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, around 213 BC. The work describes the social forms, governmental system, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC). Li literally means "rites," but it also can be used to refer ...
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    Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government
    Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government
    Zi zhi tong jian (Comprehensive mirror to aid in government) was a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography, first published in 1084 in the form of a chronicle. In 1065 Emperor Yingzong (reigned 1064–67) of the Song ordered the great historian Sima Guang (1019–86) to lead a group of scholars in compiling a universal history of China. The task took 19 years to complete and the finished work was presented in 1084 to the succeeding Emperor Shenzong (reigned 1068–85). Its subject is Chinese history from 403 BC ...
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    Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Illustrations
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Illustrations
    Sanguo yan yi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong (circa 1330–1400), a late-Yuan and early-Ming author, is a historical novel set in the third century, in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. The part-historical, part-legendary, and part-mythical story chronicles the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, who vied with each other to restore or replace the declining Han Dynasty. The novel follows literally hundreds of characters, with plots, personal and army battles, intrigues ...
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    Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Li Zhuowu’s Critical Comments
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Li Zhuowu’s Critical Comments
    Sanguo yan yi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong (circa 1330–1400), a late-Yuan and early-Ming author, is a historical novel set in the third century, in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. The part-historical, part-legendary, and part-mythical story chronicles the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, who vied with each other to restore or replace the declining Han Dynasty. The novel follows literally hundreds of characters, with plots, personal and army battles, intrigues ...
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    A Hundred Verses on Manifestations of Cold Damage Disorders
    A Hundred Verses on Manifestations of Cold Damage Disorders
    In one of the prefaces to his works, the author Xu Shuwei (1079–1154) describes a certain Hua Tuo, a scholar born around 140 AD during the Han dynasty, who, after seeing many people die in epidemics, famines, and wars, chose to abandon scholarship to pursue a medical career. Referring to himself, Xu Shuwei writes, “every time I think of the lack of good physicians and of patients who are resigned to die, how could someone with capability sit by and not help? Therefore I have buried my fame as ...
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    Classified Divinations on Military Affairs
    Classified Divinations on Military Affairs
    This work in 21 juan was compiled by Li Kejia of the Ming dynasty. Presented here is a Wanli edition of 1597, in six volumes. It is the earliest extant copy. The frame of the pages is 19.5 centimeters high and 13.5 centimeters wide. The borders are double-lined. Each single page has 11 columns, each with 22 characters. There is a red square seal impression of the National Central Library. Preceding the text are two prefaces, by Zhu Yuyi and Zhang Shoupeng, dated 1597. It also has an ...
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    New Edition with Supplemental Annotations of The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor. Su wen 
    New Edition with Supplemental Annotations of The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor. Su wen
    The ancient medical text Huangdi nei jing (The inner canon of the Yellow Emperor) was already listed in Yi wen zhi (Treatise on literature) of Han shu (Book of Han), the classical Chinese history completed in 111 AD. It had two texts: Su wen (Basic questions) and Ling shu (Spiritual pivot), each in nine juan. Su wen deals with the theoretical foundation of Chinese medicine and its diagnostic methods, while Ling shu discusses acupuncture therapy in great detail. The title Huangdi nei jing often refers only to the more ...
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    Eleven Commentaries to The Art of War by Sunzi
    Eleven Commentaries to The Art of War by Sunzi
    Sunzi bing fa (The art of war by Sunzi) is the most important and popular military classic of ancient China. Its influence also spread to neighboring countries and beyond. Sun Wu, also known as Sunzi or Sun Tzu, lived in the State of Qi during the late Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC). He served the State of Wu, in the southeast coastal area, from around 512 BC and presented his military strategy in a work of 13 chapters to the king of Wu. Together with Wu Zixu (died 484 ...
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    Armillary Sphere
    Armillary Sphere
    Zhang Heng (78–139 AD), a native of Xi’e, Nanyang (in present-day Henan Province), was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, and an accomplished scholar. He began his career as an official during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220). Controversy about his views and political rivalry with other officials led him to retire and return to Nanyang, but in 138 he was recalled to serve in the capital. He died a year later. He received posthumous honors for his scholarship and creativity. Two of his representative works are Hun yi (Armillary ...
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    RINAP: The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period

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    The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period
    Esarhaddon Text 98

    Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 609 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Eight hundred and fifty to nine hundred such inscriptions are known today. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, under the direction of Professor Grant Frame of the University of Pennsylvania, will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), Ashurbanipal (668-ca. 631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (ca. 631-627/626 BC), Sîn-šumu-līšir (627/626 BC), Sîn-šarra-iškun (627/626-612 BC), and Aššur-uballiṭ II (611-609 BC), rulers whose deeds were also recorded in the Bible and in some classical sources. The individual texts range from short one-line labels to lengthy, detailed inscriptions with over 1200 lines (4000 words) of text.
    These Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (744-609 BC) represent only a small, but important part of the vast Neo-Assyrian text corpus. They are written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and provide valuable insight into royal exploits, both on the battlefield and at home, royal ideology, and Assyrian religion. Most of our understanding of the political history of Assyria, and to some extent of Babylonia, comes from these sources. Because this large corpus of texts has not previously been published in one place, the RINAP Project will provide up-to-date editions (with English translations) of Assyrian royal inscriptions from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) to the reign of Aššur-uballiṭ II (611-609 BC) in seven print volumes and online, in a fully lemmatized and indexed format. The aim of the project is to make this vast text corpus easily accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. RINAP Online will allow those interested in Assyrian culture, history, language, religion, and texts to efficiently search Akkadian and Sumerian words appearing in the inscriptions and English words used in the translations. Project data will be fully integrated into the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) and the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc).
    The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the RINAP Project research grants in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2015 to help carry out its work. The publications of the RINAP Project are modeled on those of the now-defunct Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) Project and carry on where its Assyrian Periods sub-series (RIMA) ended.

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        Open Access Journal: Onoba. Revista de arqueología y antigüedad

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        Onoba. Revista de arqueología y antigüedad
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              Onoba, Revista de Arqueología y Antigüedad, con ISSN 2340-3047, es una publicación del Área de Arqueología de la Universidad de Huelva, de periodicidad anual y editada desde el año 2013. Esta revista utiliza el sistema de revisión externa por expertos (peer-review) en el conocimiento de los objetos investigados y en las metodologías utilizadas en las investigaciones. Adopta y se adhiere a las normas de publicación establecidas por la APA.
        Onoba, Revista de Arqueología y Antigüedad, tiene como objeto la difusión de los resultados de la investigación teórica y técnica sobre arqueología y mundo antiguo. Los trabajos deben ser originales, no publicados, ni estar siendo considerados en otra revisa para su publicación. Serán considerados para publicación los siguientes tipos de trabajos: investigaciones originales, novedades recientes,  y reseñas críticas sobre textos recién publicados.






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