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The Meters of Roman Comedy

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The Meters of Roman Comedy
The Music of Roman Comedy

Timothy J. Moore, The Meters of Roman Comedy

This database is dedicated to the memory of Cesare Questa (1934-2016), the incomparable master of Roman Comedy’s numeri innumeri, without whom it would not have been possible.

Introduction

This is a database of all metrical units (passages in an individual meter) in the extant plays of Plautus and Terence except for the fragmentary Vidularia.
Each record represents a metrical unit, or a passage in a single meter (these range from one verse to over 200 verses), and includes the following fields:

Fields immediately visible in each record:


  • Playwright
  • Play
  • Starting Line: the number of the first verse of this metrical unit
  • Ending Line: number of the last verse of this metrical unit
  • Line Count: total number of verses in this metrical unit
  • Starting Text: a quotation of the first verse in the passage
  • Ending Text: a quotation of the last verse in the passage
  • Meter: the meter of the passage (in the case of verses that include more than one meter, all are recorded as one: e.g.: ba2bacol counts as one meter, as does a versus reizianus and cr2tr4cat)
  • Meter Before: the meter of the passage immediately preceding this one
  • Meter After: the meter of the passage immediately following this one
  • Character, Character Verses, Character Type: The name of each character who speaks or sings in the passage, the number of verses in which that character speaks or sings in the passage (in verses where one or more characters speak, one verse is attributed to each character, regardless of how much or how little of the verse that character delivers); and the character's type.
  • Meter Type: the type of meter to which the meter of the passage belongs (if two or more meter types occur in the same verse, both are counted: e.g.: cr2tr4cat counts as both cretic and trochaic)...

The Database of Religious History

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The Database of Religious History

Qualitative knowledge meets quantitative data

  • Accessible, centralized clearing house for historical data

    The DRH is designed to serve as a centralized clearinghouse for scholarly knowledge of the historical record, bringing together a core of quantified, standardized data with qualitative comments, references to crucial resources, and links to on-line text and image databases.
    The pace of scholarly production concerning the religious historical record has increased rapidly over the past decades, making it difficult for scholars maintain a comprehensive overview of new monographs, journals and on-line resources. The DRH aims to respond to the problem of information overload by creating a core of standardized, searchable, visualizable knowledge surrounded by rich qualitative comments, references and links to otherwise scattered and hard to find on-line repositories of texts and images.
  • Quality scholarly opinion on historical traditions

    For scholars, researchers, teachers and the general public, the DRH will function as a gateway to reliable, comprehensive knowledge concerning the history of religions around the world, and cultural history more generally.
    Unlike Wikipedia, entries in the DRH will be authored only by academic scholars, ensuring that the task of converting thick, qualitative knowledge into quantitative knowledge, and the directing of users to qualitative resources, is performed by those best qualified to do so. Powerful, built-in analytic and data visualization tools will allow this knowledge to be accessed in entirely new and intuitive ways, with a host of research and pedagogical applications. For those interested in analyzing quantitatively the relationship between religion and other historical variables, the DRH will provide the gold-standard of expert-sourced data. Although we are currently focusing on religious groups, future polls will expand the scope of the DRH to include political, economic, technological and ecological variables.
    • Assess the validity of scholarly generalizations

      Scholars can quickly and efficiently check their intuitions concerning the temporal or spatial distribution of particular beliefs or practices against the historical record.
      Among other things, the DRH will allow scholars to quickly and efficiently check their intuitions concerning the temporal or spatial distribution of particular beliefs or practices against the historical record, objectively assess the validity of scholarly constructs such as “shamanism” or “Confucianism,” and produce thought-provoking visualizations of the spread or interactions of religious variables for both teaching and research purposes. These are only some of the potential uses to which the DRH can be put; as its number of users grows, we hope that the DRH will come to be used in all sorts of novel, completely unanticipated ways.
  • Connect with other scholarly experts

    For the broader historical community, the DRH will function as a venue for documenting differences in scholarly opinion, as well as providing a discussion forum for exploring the sources of expert disagreement.
    We encourage contributors to note in their comments points where scholarly disagreement exists. The DRH is also unique in not forcing a single consensus document on any given entry: it is designed so that alternative answers to the same questions coexist side-by-side in the database, providing an instant snapshot of the state of scholarly agreement on particular topics. Our new “challenge” feature allows experts to disagree with any given answer discovered while browsing by providing an alternative answer. The flexible architecture of the DRH will also allow scholars to organize and share their own archives of texts or images, making them easily accessible to the larger scholarly community.

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    FLAME: Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy

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    FLAME: Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy
    FLAME


    The FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy) project involves an international group of scholars investigating the process of change in the economy of the Mediterranean and surrounding regions during the transitional period from antiquity to the early Middle Ages in the Byzantine, Islamic and European spheres and while using coinage as a proxy. It is a project of the Princeton University Numismatic Collection. This site allows project participants to post their research results and exchange observations among themselves. At present it is also open on a read-only basis with the understanding that the material posted here represents the unedited and unpublished work of the participants and is not to be cited or otherwise used without their permission.
    The FLAME project will hold its first conference to conclude its first stage (minting) at Princeton, 29-30 April, bringing together our participants and several experts to discuss our results in a broad context. At the same opportunity we will also provide a preview of our work on the second stage (circulation).
    The Phases of Research
    • I – Minting, 325-c.725 CE – basically a review of the all coins produced at Roman and Sassanian mints, with note of issues of denominations and (less completely) types produced.
    • II – Circulation, 325-725 CE – based on literary sources for the relationship between coin issues and moneys of account, and hoards and site finds for evidence of the geography and chronology of circulation.
    Objectives
    To produce comprehensive date on coinage in the period of the transition from the ancient to the medieval world comparable and complementary to that which Chris Wickham assembled for Framing the Early Middle Ages primarily based on documentary and archaeological evidence. Our intention is to work through the technical numismatic issues and be able to present our results in a form that will be of value to historians and others not trained in numismatics.
    The minting video is currently on YouTube and can be freely used.

    Open Access (Mostly) Monograph Series: Bibliotheca Mesopotamica

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    ISSN: 0732-6440
    A series devoted to primary sources and interpretive analyses for the study of Mesopotamian civilization and its influence, from late prehistoric times to the end of the cuneiform tradition.

    BM 1. Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia, Chiefly from Nippur. Part I: Literary and Lexical Texts, and the Earliest Administrative Documents from Nippur.
    Aage Westenholz.
    1975. Pp. xii + 199 + 3pls.
    Cloth ISBN 008-1 $35.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 2/1. Babylonian Planetary Omens. Part I: The Venus Tablet.
    Erica Reiner and David Pingree.
    1975. Pp. iv + 65.
    Paper ISBN 010-3 $20.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 1.8MB

    BM 2/2. Babylonian Planetary Omens. Part II: Enuma Anu Enlil, Tablet 50-51.
    Erica Reiner and David Pingree.
    1981. Pp. 100.
    Paper ISBN 049-9 $20.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 3.6MB

    BM 3. Inscriptions from Al-Hiba-Lagash, the First and Second Seasons (reprinted with addenda).
    Robert D. Biggs.
    1976. Pp 45 + 2 pls.
    Paper ISBN 017-0 $11.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 4. The Legacy of Sumer.
    Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Ed.
    1976. Pp. ii + 136 + 68 pls.
    Out of print

    BM 5. The Economic Role of the Crown in the Old Babylonian Period.
    Norman Yoffee.
    1977. Pp. vii + 160.
    Out of print

    BM 6. Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East.
    McGuire Gibson and Robert D. Biggs, Eds.
    1977. Pp 160 + microfiche.
    Paper ISBN 022-7 $31.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 4MB

    BM 7. Mountains and Lowlands: Essays in the Archaeology of Greater Mesopotamia.
    Louis D. Levine and T. Cuyler Young, Jr, Eds.
    1977. Pp. x + 405 + 26 pls.
    Out of print

    BM 8. The Court of the Palms: A Functional Interpretation of the Mari Palace.
    Yasin M. Al-Khalesi.
    1978. Pp. viii + 85 + 5 pls.
    Cloth ISBN 029-4 $35.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 3.8MB

    BM 9. Gli eponimi medio-assiri.
    Claudio Saporetti.
    1979. Pp. viii + 184.
    Cloth ISBN 037-5 $44.00
    Paper ISBN 037-5 $31.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 6.1MB

    BM 10. Terqa Preliminary Reports No. 10: The Fourth Season.
    Giorgio Buccellati.
    1979. Pp. iv + 90 + 28 pls. + 23 figs.
    Paper ISBN 042-1 $32.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 33.2MB

    BM 11. Les sattukku dans l'Esumesa durant la période d'Isin et Larsa.
    René Marcel Sigrist.
    1984. Pp. ix + 208.
    Paper ISBN 048-0 $43.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 8MB

    12. The Rituals of the Diviner.
    Ivan Starr.
    1983. Pp. x + 145.
    Paper ISBN 064-2 $29.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 13. An Early Village Site at Zawi Chemi Shanidar.
    Rose L. Solecki.
    1981. Pp. vi + 85 + 13 pl.
    Paper ISBN 068-5 $21.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 24.7MB

    BM 14. Salinity and Irrigation Agriculture in Antiquity: Diayala Basin Archaeological Projects, 1957-58.
    Thorkild Jacobsen.
    1982. Pp. xiv + 116 + 20 pls.
    Paper ISBN 092-8 $26.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 15. Catalogue of Artifacts in the Babylonian Collection of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology.
    Yoko Tomabechi.
    1984. Pp. xii + 68 + 15 pls.
    Paper ISBN 106-1 $35.00
    Table of Contents

    16. Terqa Final Reports No. 1: L'Archive de Puzurum.
    Olivier Rouault.
    1984. Pp. xxii + 92 + 20 pls.
    Paper ISBN 102-9 $26.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 9.6MB

    BM 17. Old Babylonian Texts from Kish Conserved in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
    Veysel Donbaz and Norman Yoffee.
    1986. Pp. viii + 94 + 6 pls.
    Cloth ISBN 087-1 $36.00
    Paper ISBN 086-3 $23.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 18. Frauen in Altsumerischer Zeit.
    Julia M. Asher-Greve.
    1985. Pp. xxii + 223 + 32 pls.
    Paper ISBN 162-2 $50.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 27.4MB

    BM 19. Studies in Ishchali Documents.
    Samuel Greengus.
    1986. Pp. ix + 252.
    Cloth ISBN 166-5 $49.00
    Paper ISBN 167-3 $39.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 20. Mozan 1: The Soundings of the First Two Seasons.
    Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati.
    1988. Pp. vi + 158 + 24 pls.
    Cloth ISBN 195-9 $31.00
    Paper ISBN 194-0 $22.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 5MB

    BM 21. Insight through Images: Studies in Honor of Edith Porada.
    Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Paolo Matthiae, and Maurits van Loon, Eds.
    Contributors: P. Amiet, R. Amiran, F. Baffi Guardata, R. D. Barnett, P. Beck, J. Boardman & R. Moorey, R. M. Boehmer, M. A. Brandes, D. Collon, R. Dolce, R. H. Dyson, Jr. & M. V. Harris, D. Homès-Fredericq, B. Hrouda, V. Karageorghis, M. Kelly-Buccellati, E. Klengel-Brandt, B. Mallowan, J.-C. Margueron, R. Mayer-Opificius, S. Mazzoni, U. Moortgat-Correns, H. J. Nissen, Nimet Ozgüç, S. M. Paley, F. Pinnock, U. Seidl, S. Shaath, M. van Loon, I. J. Winter.
    1986. Pp. x + 268 + 64 pls.
    Paper ISBN 189-4 $45.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 22. The Oriental Institute Excavations at Selenkahiye, Syria: Terra-Cotta Figurines and Model Vehicles.
    Harold Liebowitz and Maurits van Loon, Eds.
    1988. Pp. xiv + 60 + 34 pls.
    Cloth ISBN 105-3 $23.00
    Paper ISBN 104-5 $16.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 12.1MB

    BM 23. Studies in the Chronology and Regional Style of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals.
    Lamia Al-Gailani Werr.
    1988. Pp. x + 110 + 44 pls. + photos.
    Paper ISBN 172-X $21.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 37.3MB

    BM 24. The Late Babylonian Texts of the Oriental Institute Collection.
    David Weisberg.
    1991. Pp. viii + 87 + 131 pls.
    Cloth ISBN 301-3 $31.00
    Paper ISBN 300-5 $21.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 25. New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria.
    Mark Chavalas and John Hayes, Eds.
    Contributors: M. W. Chavalas, M. C. Astour, G. M. Beckman, D. E. Fleming, C. H. Gordon, W. W. Hallo, H. A. Hoffner, Jr., D. I. Owen.
    1992. Pp. viii + 232.
    Cloth ISBN 324-2 $41.00
    Paper ISBN 323-4 $31.00
    Table of Contents

    BM 26. Urkesh/Mozan Studies 3. Urkesh and the Hurrians: Studies in Honor of Lloyd Cotsen.
    Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Eds.
    Contributors: G. Buccellati, E. Elster, M. Kelly-Buccellati, F. Buccellati, R. Hauser, P. Steinkeller, M. Salvini, G. Wilhelm, V. Vs. Ivanov, H. A. Hoffner, Jr.
    1998. Pp. 200 + 15 pls.
    Cloth ISBN 501-4 $35.00
    Paper ISBN 502-2 $25.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 18.9MB

    BM 27. Urkesh/Mozan Studies 4. Gli Opifici di Urkesh: Conservazione e restauro a Tell Mozan. Atti della Tavola Rotonda tenuta presso L'Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Firenze, 23 Novembre 1999.
    A cura di Sophie Bonetti.
    Contributors: C. Acidini, G. Bonsanti, M. Michelucci, S. Bonetti, G. Buccellati, M. Kelly-Buccellati, B. Angeli, P. Pfälzner, F. Buccellati, P. E. Pecorella, L. Castelletti, G. Chiari.
    2001. Pp. 106 + 17 figs. + 28 ill.
    Paper ISBN 511-1 $30.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 30.7MB

    BM 28. Urkesh/Mozan Studies 5. Reading Figurines: Animal Representations in Terra Cotta from Royal Building AK.
    Rick Hauser. Renderings by Claudia Wettstein.
    2007. Pp. xxviii + 625.
    Paper ISBN 978-0-9798937-0-4 $60.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 39.4MB

    BM 29. Terqa Final Reports No. 2: Les textes des saisons 5 à 9.
    Olivier Rouault.
    2011. Pp. 158.
    Paper ISBN 978-0-9798937-1-1 $35.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 39MB

    BM 30. Urkesh/Mozan Studies 6. Three-dimensional Volumetric Analysis in an Archaeological Context.
    Federico Buccellati.
    2016. Pp. xiv + 387.
    An International Academy of Archaeology dual edition: the paper copy is available at a nominal price, and a concurrent electronic edition can be downloaded here for free.
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-9798937-2-8 $15.00
    Front Matter
    Online version 8.2MB
    Online version (High Resolution) 110.1MB

    Open Access (Mostly) Monograph Series: Syro-Mesopotamian Studies

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    Syro-Mesopotamian Studies
    ISSN: 0732-6483
    A series devoted to the study of the civilizations of ancient Iraq and Syria from late prehistory to the First Millennium B.C., providing an outlet for the publication of primary sources and a forum for the archaeological, historical, and linguistic analysis of pertinent phenomena.

    1/1. Syro-Mesopotanian Studies: A Preface.
    G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati
    Thoughts about Ibla.
    I. J. Gelb.
    $8.00

    D. Schmandt-Besserat.
    $12.00

    G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    Out of print

    G. Buccellati.
    $5.00

    M. Kelly-Buccellati and L. Mount Williams.
    $9.00

    M. Kelly-Buccellati and W. R. Shelby.
    $12.00

    2/1. The Rabbeans.
    M. C. Astour.
    $6.00

    P. Matthiae.
    $9.00

    2/3. The Neo-Sumerian Silver Ring Texts.
    P. Michalowski.
    $6.00

    2/4. The Syrian Archaeological Expedition to Tell Al’Abd Zrejehey: Clay Figurines of the Third Millennium B.C.
    K. Toueir.
    Out of print

    A. Mahmoud.
    $6.00

    G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    $13.00

    O. Rouault.
    $6.00

    3/1. Catalogue des sceaux-cylinders d'Adana.
    O. Tunca.
    Review Article of BM 6.
    P. Amiet.
    $13.00

    L. Mount-Williams.
    $17.00

    3/3. Les niveaux superieurs du Tell Abou Danne, Chantier A-1977/78
    R. Tefnin.
    $16.00

    N. M. Magalousis et al.
    $8.00

    J. Reade.
    Out of print

    4/2. Alalakah Levels VI and V: A Chronological Reassessment.
    M. Carre Gates.
    $9.00

    G. Buccellati.
    A Catalogue of Near Eastern Venus Deities.
    W. Heimpel.
    $6.00

    4/4. Qraya Modular Reports, 1: Early Soundings.
    K. Simpson.
    $12.00

    L. Milano.
    $9.00
    Online version
    5/2. Five Tablets from the Southern Wing of Palace G at Ebla.
    Alfonso Archi.
    $13.00

    Undena Publications Online Titles

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    Undena Publications Online Titles
    Undena has pioneered the electronic approach to publishing.
         The first issue was the Terqa Data Base, which appeared in 1987 as a floppy disk. Several other CDs have appeared in the meantime for other titles, paralleling the paper edition. 
         The first titles to appear online, in 2000, were BiMes 20 and SMS 5/1, through the Urkesh website.
         We are now in the process of updating our online catalog to include first all titles that are out of print, then going back progressively to in clude all titles in our catalog.

         Through a special project of the International Academy of Archaeology, we are publishing titles in a dual edition, online and on paper.
         The paper edition is is sold at the nominal price of $15 to cover only distribution costs.
         The online edition is available immediately free of charge on this website.
         These titles are marked on this page in red as belonging to the IAA dual edition series.

         The current policy for other titles is to publish the online edition within a year of the original paper publication. 
         The following four titles are also available in the Archive of Mesopotamian Site Reports of SUNY Stony Brook (AMAR), under the direction of Prof. Elizabeth Stone: BiMes 10; BiMes 13; BiMes 20; BiMes 22.
         The following Undena titles are currently available online in PDF format:


    1978ARTANES 2Field Encoding Manual (10.8 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    1975BiMes 2/1The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa (1.8 MB)
    By E. Reiner and D. Pingree.
    1981BiMes 2/2Enuma Anu Enlil (3.5 MB)
    By E. Reiner and D. Pingree.
    1977BiMes 6Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East (3.9 MB)
    Plates (6.1 MB)
    By McG. Gibson and R. D. Biggs.
    1978BiMes 8The Court of the Palms (3.8 MB)
    By Y. M. Al-Khalesi.
    1979BiMes 9Gli eponimi medio-assiri (6 MB)
    By C. Saporetti.
    1979BiMes 10Terqa Preliminary Reports 10: The Fourth Season: Introduction and Stratigraphic Record (32.5 MB)
    By G. Buccellati.
    2002BiMes 11Les Tablettes Sattukku: Leur Decouverte Et Leur Date (7.9 MB)
    By M. Sigrist.
    1981BiMes 13An Early Village Site (24.1 MB)
    By R. L. Solecki.
    1984BiMes 16Terqa Final Reports 1: L'Archive de Puzurum (2.7 MB)
    By G. Buccellati.
    1985BiMes 18Frauen in altsumerischer Zeit (19.7 MB)
    By J. M. Asher-Greve.
    1988BiMes 20Mozan 1: The Soundings of the First Two Seasons (3.8 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    1988BiMes 22Terra-cotta Figurines and Model Vehicles (11.8 MB)
    By H. Liebowitz.
    1988BiMes 23Studies in The Chronology And Regional Style Of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals (40.5 MB)
    By L. Werr.
    1998BiMes 26Mozan 3: Urkesh and the Hurrians Studies in Honor of Lloyd Cotsen (18.5 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    2001BiMes 27Mozan 4: Gli Opifici di Urkesh (30 MB)
    By S. Bonetti.
    2007BiMes 28Mozan 5: Reading Figurines (38.5 MB)
    By R. Hauser.
    2011BiMes 29Terqa Final Reports 2: Les textes des saisons 5 à 9 (39 MB)
    By O. Rouault.
    2016BiMes 30Mozan 6: Three-dimensional Volumetric Analysis in an Archaeological Context (7.96 MB)
    By F. Buccellati.
    An IAA dual edition volume.
    1983CARNES 1/1Terqa Preliminary Reports 12: Digital Plotting of Archaeological Floor Plans (1.6 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and O. Rouault.
    1984GC 2The Middle Assyrian Laws (19.1 MB)
    By C. Saporetti.
    1974MANE 1/2Three Essays On The Sumerians (1.7 MB)
    By B. Landsberger.
    1979MANE 1/7Old Canaanite Cuneiform Texts of the Third Millennium (1.1 MB)
    By G. Pettinato.
    1998MANE 3/1Monumental Art of the Assyrian Empire (1.2 MB)
    By P. Albenda.
    1974SANE 1/1Namburbu (13 MB)
    By R. I. Caplice.
    1983SANE 2/1Lagash-Umma Border Conflict (11.1 MB)
    By J. S. Cooper.
    1984SANE 2/2The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music (7 MB)
    By M. Duchesne-Guillemin.
    1977SMS 1/2An Archaic Recording System and The Origin Of Writing (7.9 MB)
    By D. Schmandt-Besserat.
    1977SMS 1/3Terqa Preliminary Reports 1: Stratigraphic Record of First Two Seasons (2.2 MB)
    Pictures (5.8 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    1977SMS 1/4Terqa Preliminary Reports 2: A Cuneiform Tablet of the Early Second Millennium B.C. (3.9 MB)
    By G. Buccellati.
    1978SMS 1/5Terqa Preliminary Reports 3: Object Typology of the Second Season (3.7 MB)
    By M. Kelly-Buccellati and L. Mount-Williams.
    1977SMS 1/6Terqa Preliminary Reports 4: A Typology of Ceramic Vessels (5.1 MB)
    By M. Kelly-Buccellati and W. R. Shelby.
    1978SMS 2/2Preliminary Remarks on The Royal Palace Of Ebla (4.7 MB)
    By P. Matthiae.
    1978SMS 2/5Terqa Preliminary Reports 5: Die Industrie Der Islamischen Keramik Aus Der Zweiten Season (4.5 MB)
    By A. Mahmoud.
    1978SMS 2/6Terqa Preliminary Reports 6: The Third Season Introduction and the Stratigraphic Record (9.6 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati.
    1979SMS 2/7Terqa Final Reports 7: Les Documents Epigraphiques de la Troisieme Saison (4.2 MB)
    By O. Rouault.
    1980SMS 3/2Terqa Preliminary Reports 8: Object Typology of the Third Season (3.5 MB)
    Pictures (3.4 MB)
    By L. Mount-Williams.
    1980SMS 3/4Terqa Preliminary Reports 11: Sourcing Techniques for Ceramics and Soils At Terqa And Related Sites (1.7 MB)
    By N. M. Magalousis.
    1981SMS 4/1Mesopotamian Guidelines for Biblical Chronology (1.1 MB)
    By J. Reade.
    1982SMS 4/3The Descent Of Inanna As A Ritual Journey To Kutha? (6.2 MB)
    By G. Buccellati and W. Heimpel.
    1991SMS 5/1Mozan 2: The Epigraphic Finds of the Sixth Season (2.6 MB)
    By L. Milano.
     

    New trom Trismegistos: Trismegistos Words

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    Trismegistos Words
    http://www.trismegistos.org/img/tm_logo_web2.png

    Short Introduction

    Trismegistos Words is a new addition to the Trismegistos universe. It allows searching for lemmata and their declined or conjugated forms in Greek papyrological texts. It is a spin-off of doctoral research of Alek Keersmaekers on the Greek complementation system. It is currently beta at best, but we plan to improve and expand it, perhaps also with syntactic annotations. Please contact us to point out errors or cooperate in other ways. Note that we are in close contact with the people of the Papyrological Navigator and hope to maximize interoperability with this tool, whose text remains canonical.

    Coverage & Accuracy

    The starting point of Trismegistos Words was the XML of the texts as it was available in the Papyrological Navigator (PN; papyri.info) in September 2016. The 4,513,494 words in these ca. 60,000 texts were tokenized and part-of-speech/morphology and lemma information was added. On the basis of this XML two MySQL databases were created, one with the attestations of the words, and one based on that with 18,783 reconstructed lemmata (names excepted). Of these, 14,013 that occur more than once or have a translation have been selected for the online version. The reason for this is that the part-of-speech/morphology tagging performed by a trained algorythm is only about 95%, which may seem high, but still implies that there are several thousands of mistakes in the current version - especially for damaged words and sections.

    How to cite

    In contrast with almost all other databases in Trismegistos, we currently do not have any numeric stable identifiers for the lemmata, the attestations of the words, or the morphological analysis. Part of the reason for this is that we are still reflecting about the best way to deal with changes in the underlying text - which is connected to the synergy with the Papyrological Navigator.

    Gods of the Biblical World: Polytheism, Magic, and Israelite Religion

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    Gods of the Biblical World: Polytheism, Magic, and Israelite Religion
    Welcome! This website was constructed to supply resources for an undergraduate class at Wofford College, called “Gods of the Biblical World: Polytheism, Magic, and Israelite Religion.” But you’re invited to look around even if you’re just interested in the topic!
    The idea is to bring together materials, site names, and sources relating to the religion and archaeology of ancient Israel and Judah’s neighbors in the first millennium BCE: the Arameans, Phoenicians, Philistines, Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites. Use the menu at the top of the page to start exploring.

    Videos on Homeric Dialect and Scansion

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    Videos on Homeric Dialect and Scansion 
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    A few years ago I made some videos using the Showme app about the Homeric dialect and Homeric metrics. They have become a hard to find on the Showme site, probably my fault for not tagging them well. Anyway, here are the two series, first on dialect, second on metrics:

    Homeric Dialect 1 augments and endings: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=JJqlpjc
    Homeric Dialect 2 the article: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=C1XKW92
    Homeric Dialect 3 verbs: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=E9vmvB2

    Reading Homer 1 Long and Short: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=y2Su4LQ
    Reading Homer 2 Quantity Exceptions: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=0ArMTPU
    Reading Homer 3 Dactylic Hexameter: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=7trqGTg 

    I think I made a fourth installment for the grammar series about particles, but I cannot find that on the Showme site. Hope you find these useful!
    And see also AWOL's  list of

    Open Access Journal: Quaderni [Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le province di Cagliari e Oristano]

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    [First posted in AWOL 19 August 2016, updated 9 January 2018]

    Quaderni Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le province di Cagliari e Oristano
    ISSN: 1124-7827
    Online ISSN: 2284-0834
    La rivista accoglie contributi scientifici inediti dedicati all'attività di ricerca storico-archeologica della Sardegna e il Notiziario delle attività della Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le province di Cagliari e Oristano.

    2017

    Copertina

    N° 28 (2017): QUADERNI Rivista di Archeologia


    2016

    Copertina

    N° 27 (2016): QUADERNI Rivista di Archeologia





     
































































    Online Class: Organising an Empire: The Assyrian Way

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    Organising an Empire: The Assyrian Way
    Taught by:  Karen Radner, Prof. Dr.
    Coursera 
    About this course: Discover the mighty kingdom of Assyria, which came to be the world’s first great empire three thousand years ago. From the 9th to the 7th centuries BC, during the imperial phase of Assyria’s long history, modern day northern Iraq was the central region of a state reaching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, and incorporating what is now Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as half of Israel, and wide parts of south-eastern Turkey, and Western Iran. In its geographical extent, this state was unprecedentedly large, and the distinct geography of the Middle East, with deserts and high mountain ranges, posed challenges to communication and cohesion. What were the mechanisms that kept the Empire running? This course explores the methods the Assyrian government employed to ensure unity and maintain loyalty across vast distances, using traditional as well as innovative strategies. Some of these imperial techniques have marked parallels in the ways modern multi-national corporations are operating, others will strike you as profoundly alien. This course focusses on how the Assyrians organised their empire by analysing key aspects, namely: · The CEO – the king, a religious, political and military leader, who is charged to govern by his master, the god Assur; · Home Office – the royal palace in the central region and the royal court that form the administrative centre of the state; · The Regional Managers – the governors and client-rulers to whom local power is delegated; · Human Resources – the Empire’s people are its most precious assets, its consumers and its key product, as the goal of the imperial project was to create “Assyrians”; an approach with lasting repercussions that still reverberate in the Middle East today; and finally · The Fruits of Empire – it takes a lot of effort, so what are the rewards? When we explore these topics we will contextualise them with information about the lives led by ordinary Assyrian families. Taking this course will provide you with an overview of the political, social, religious, and military history of the world’s first superpower. It will give you insight into the geography and climatic conditions of the Middle East and contribute to your understanding of the opportunities and challenges of that region. It will present you with a vision of the Middle East at a time when its political and religious structures were very different from today.

    HEIR: The Historic Environment Image Resource

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    HEIR: The Historic Environment Image Resource
    HEIR, the Historic Environment Image Resource, contains digitised historic photographic images from all over the world dating from the late nineteenth century onwards. HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide and glass plate negatives held in college, library, museum and departmental collections within the University of Oxford. New resources are being added all the time, including collections from outside the University.
    HEIR’s mission is to keyword the images and rephotograph them in their modern settings so they can be used by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to track changes to sites, monuments, landscapes and societies over time. You can find out more about HEIR here.
    You can help to keyword and discuss the images through HEIRtagger. Rephotograph images with HEIRrephoto and contribute to this valuable resource. Search this database by keyword to find images.
    For Terms and Conditions visit here.

    HEIR is funded by The Reva and David Logan Foundation and the John Fell Fund at the University of Oxford.
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    The Mirror of Antiquity: Where we see ourselves in the study of the ancient world

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    The Mirror of Antiquity: Where we see ourselves in the study of the ancient world
    The Mirror of Antiquity features portraits of classical scholars that blend storytelling and academic research. Guests explore how their work on ancient Greece and Rome helps them understand the contemporary world and their own lives. Produced with the support of the Vassar College Department of Greek and Roman Studies. Logo design by Emma Schulte. Listen to the promo here .


    Open Access Journal: Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto: Sezione: Archeologia, Storia, Scienze Naturali

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    [First posted in AWOL 31 October 2009. Updated 10 January 2018]

    Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto: Sezione: Archeologia, Storia, Scienze Naturali
    ISSN: 1720-9161
    Gli Annali, redatti con il contributo di numerosi ricercatori, consentono di divulgare l'attività museale e didattica nelle varie sezioni e di presentare le novità scientifiche di maggior interesse. 
    Ad alcuni numeri degli Annali ha fatto seguito la pubblicazione di Supplementi, che riportano Atti di Convegni.
    Per ogni volume edito sono disponibili on line la riproduzione della copertina e l'indice.
    Per quanto riguarda gli Annali, inoltre, è possibile scaricare gratuitamente l'intera rivista in formato *.pdf. 

    I Supplementi invece possono essere acquistati - fino ad esaurimento scorte - nell'e-shop del Museo.

    Open Access Monograph Series: Gaziantep Regional Project Occasional Publications (GRPOP) Online

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    Gaziantep Regional Project Occasional Publications (GRPOP)
    ISSN: 2284-2780 
    "Gaziantep Regional Project Occasional Publications," edited by Nicolò Marchetti, are non-periodical scientific studies and reports about the socio-cultural heritage and natural environment of the region of Gaziantep by the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition to Karkemish. GRPOP is open also to scientists from all fields and from any affiliation, contributions are peer-reviewed, enquiries may be sent to the Editorial Assistant.


    Printed versions of GRPOP may soon be purchased at Ante Quem.
    2013: 1 G.M. Bargossi, G. Gasparotto, M. Marocchi Tilmen Höyük: Petrographic and Geochemical Investigation on Lithic Remains from the Palace Area. 30/11/2013
    2013: 2 V. Minguzzi, E. Esquilini, E. Zantedeschi Tilmen Höyük: A Mineralogical-geochemical Characterization of Some MBA and LBA Pottery Samples. 30/11/2013
    2013: 3 P. Rossi Pisa, M. Speranza, M. Bittelli, H. Çakan Tilmen Höyük: Climate, Soil, Hydrology and Vegetation. 30/11/2013
    2013: 4 N. Macchioni, S. Lazzeri Tilmen Höyük: Identification of Wood Species from Areas E and G. 30/11/2013
    2013: 5 Y.S. Erdal Tilmen Höyük: Human Skeletal Remains from Area Q. 30/11/2013
    2013: 6 M. Carra Tilmen Höyük: Archaeobotanical Remains from Area E. 30/11/2013
    2013: 7 G. Marchesi Tilmen Höyük: An Inscribed Bulla from the 1962 Campaign. 30/11/2013
    2014: 1 A. Adamo, C. Cappuccino Karkemish. L’Area C: contesti e materiali degli scavi del 2011. 30/12/2014
    2016: 1 A. Bonomo, F. Zaina Karkemish. Report on the 2011 and 2012 Excavations in Area F. 01/09/2016
    2017: 1 V. Gallerani, A. Vacca, F. Zaina Catalogue of the Pottery Materials from Karkemish in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum, Ankara 01/11/2017

    Newly available in the Achemenet Digital Library

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    Newly available in the Achemenet Digital Library

    Jean Chardin
    Voyages de Monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autre lieux de l’Orient
    Edited by Philip Stewart (with an introduction)
     Voyages de Monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autre lieux de l’Orient











    In the course of two long sojourns in Persia, Jean Chardin (1643-1713), a jeweler by trade, Parisian and Protestant by civil status, and imbued with classic letters, took it on himself to perfect his knowledge of every aspect of the Persian world. Unlike other well- known Frenchmen who travelled in the Orient in the same time frame, he took the time to master the Persian language. His writings were long the canonical source for anyone seeking information on Persia and other Muslim countries.

    There has not been a serious edition of his Voyages de Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient for two centuries. The present enterprise is best understood in the context of the fragmentary and troubled history of the earlier editions... 

    Persika 2, 2001
    Irrigation et drainage dans l’Antiquité


    al-Ṯurayyā Project

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    al-Ṯurayyā Project
    This is a new working version of the al-Ṯurayyā project which currently includes the gazetteer (al-Ṯurayyā Gazetteer, or al-Thurayyā Gazetteer), and the geospatial model of the early Islamic world. Both parts of the project are still under development.
    Gazetteer: The gazetteer currently includes over 2,000 toponyms and almost as many route sections georeferenced from Georgette Cornu’s Atlas du monde arabo-islamique à l'époque classique: IXe-Xe siècles (Leiden: Brill, 1983). Tabs relevant to the gazetteer are as follows:
    is the current tab with the general information about the project;
    is the ‘Technical information’ of a selected toponym (URI, coord_certainty, language, names, region_URI, source, top_type), which is used for placing it on the map;
    is the description(s) of a selected toponym from Arabic sources (at the moment, only al-Ḥimyarī’s Rawḍ al-miʿṭār). Records from primary sources are matched automatically, with the % of the match shown in parenthesis.
    Search panel. Since the gazetteer currently does not include English versions of placenames, one must search for Arabic names: for example, Dimashq instead of Damascus. One can use Arabic or simplified transliteration (LOC transliteration scheme).
    The previous version of the gazetteer can be found here. You can browse this version by clicking on any toponym marker. The popup will show the toponym both in Arabic script and transliterated (On transliteration scheme, see below). The popup also offers a selection of possible sources on a toponym in question. You can check Arabic Sources: currently, al-Samʿānī’s Kitāb al-ansāb and Yāqūt’s Muʿjam al-buldān. The Gazetteer shows only exact matches, which means that in some cases there will not be any entry at all, while in other cases there may be more than one and they may refer to other places with the same name. You can also check if there is information on a toponym in question in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam, Pleiades, and Wikipedia.
    Geospatial model currently consists of a two main modules (work in progress) which plot 1) routes and itineraries of various complexity; and 2) networks of reachable places from selected centers. Tabs relevant to the geospatial model are as follows:
    The maps of provinces. The extent of each province is modeled by coloring places and route sections associated with the same province in Cornu’s data. Route sections that begin in one region and end in another are colored in grey, thus denoting space between provinces. This way of representing provinces allows showing the extent of a province in question without imposing “borderlines”.
    Technical information on route sections. This tab is mostly for development purposes, although one can find there useful information, including ID, start and end points, and the length in meters (Complete list includes: sToponym, eToponym, id, Meter, eTitle, eTitleAr, eUri, sTitle, sTitleAr, sUri).
    Pathfinding allows one to model paths between two and more locations (naval travel is not implemented). The modeled path will be presented as the shortest and the optimal options. One can introduce additional route points between the source and the destination to model a more complex itinerary. NB: The shortest option generates the shortest path in the network, using Dijkstra algorithm; the optimal path tries to find the shortest path with the highest number of stations and settlements along the way (under the assumption that such paths are safer).
    Modeling of the network of settlements reachable from a selected point within a certain number of days. One can also model a multicenter network for comparative purposes.
    Path analysis tab (for internal research purposes).
    Note on the transliteration scheme: The website uses a somewhat unconventional transliteration system, which was developed to facilitate computational analysis. Unlike more traditional transliteration schemes the current one uses one-to-one letter representation, with every Arabic letter transcribed distinctively, which allows for an automatic conversion between transliteration and the Arabic script. The overall scheme should be easily recognizable to Arabists (new letters are as follows: ŧ for tāʾ marbuṭaŧ; ã for dagger alif; and á for alif maqṣūraŧ).

    Newly open access in the Bibliothèque archéologique et historique: La vallée engloutie

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    Newly open access in the Bibliothèque archéologique et historique


    Open Access Book: Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World

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    Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World

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    This book treads new paths through the labyrinths of our human thought. It meanders through the darkness to encounter the monsters at the heart of the maze: Minotaurs, Centaurs, Automata, Makers, Humans. One part of our human thought emerges from classical Ionia and Greek civilisation more generally. We obsessively return to that thought, tread again its pathways, re-enact its stories, repeat its motifs and gestures. We return time and time again to construct and re-construct the beings which were part of its cosmology and mythology – stories enacted from a classical world which is itself at once imaginary and material.The “Never Never Lands” of the ancient world contain fabulous beasts and humans and landscapes of desire and violence. We encounter the rioting Centaurs there and never again cease to conjure them up time and time again through our history. The Centaur mythologies display a fascination with animals and what binds and divides human beings from them. The Centaur hints ultimately at the idea of the genesis of civilisation itself.The Labyrinth, constructed by Daedalus, is itself a prison and a way of thinking about making, designing, and human aspiration. Designed by humans it offers mysteries that would be repeated time and time again – a motif which is replicated through human history. Daedalus himself is an archetype for creation and mastery, the designer of artefacts and machines which would be the beginning of forays into the total domination of nature.Centaurs, Labyrinths, Automata offer clues to the origins and ultimately the futures of humanity and what might come after it.ABOUT THE AUTHORMartyn Hudson is the coordinator of the Co-Curate North East digital archives and machines project at Newcastle University in the School of Arts and Cultures, as well as a Lecturer in Art and Design History. He has published widely in landscape, history, music, and archives. His book The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity was published by Routledge in 2016, and he has two other books forthcoming from Routledge: Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory and Species and Machines: The Human Subjugation of Nature
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