September 19, 2014, 7:23 am
Digital Humanities and the Ancient WorldBiblical Archaeology Society Staff • 08/13/2014
What would happen if the Pope’s library were accidentally burnt? How can we reconstruct and visualize ancient and medieval pilgrimage routes? Technology is changing the way we study and preserve texts and artifacts. In a series of web-exclusive articles written by scholars engaged in the Digital Humanities, learn how this growing field of study is helping to analyze textual and archaeological data—and how you can help.
Digital Humanities: An Introduction
What if the Dead Sea Scrolls were damaged? What if the Pope’s library burned down? In “Digital Humanities: How Everyone Can Get a Library Card to the World’s Most Exclusive Collections Online,” George Washington University associate professor of history Diane H. Cline explores the research opportunities and potential impact of Digital Humanities projects. This new field not only preserves publications, it extends access to the humanities to anyone with Internet access.
Read “Digital Humanities: How Everyone Can Get a Library Card to the World’s Most Exclusive Collections Online” by Diane H. Cline >>
Mapping Technologies
Want to follow a fourth-century pilgrim itinerary from Bordeaux via Constantinople to the Holy Land? Experiment with ancient travel times and their costs over land, sea and sand in the Roman Empire? University of Iowa assistant professor of classics Sarah E. Bond explains in “Map Quests: Geography, Digital Humanities and the Ancient World” how the Digital Humanities offers opportunities to explore, interact with and contribute to maps of the ancient world.
Read “Map Quests: Geography, Digital Humanities and the Ancient World” by Sarah E. Bond >>
Open Access to Digital Data
Interested in exploring the results of archaeology projects directly from the researchers? Cutting-edge technology is helping archaeologists generate a tremendous amount of digital data each year. At the same time, the scientific community increasingly expects direct access to the data. In “Open Context: Making the Most of Archaeological Data,” Alexandria Archive Institute cofounders Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric Kansa describe Open Context, an open access, peer-reviewed data publishing service that has published over one million digital resources, from archaeological survey data to excavation documentation and artifact analyses.
Read “Open Context: Making the Most of Archaeological Data” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric Kansa >>
Making University Collections Accessible to All
Many university departments across the world have shelves and storerooms full of books, artifacts and research collected over several decades. What do you do when the “skeletons in your closet” are a box of 2,000-year-old artifacts? That was the question facing the University of British Columbia’s Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies. In “From Stone to Screen: Bringing 21st-Century Access to Ancient Artifacts,” members of the From Stone to Screen graduate student project at UBC discuss their ongoing efforts to create digital archives of their department’s artifact collection—making these fascinating objects accessible to a global audience online.
Read “From Stone to Screen: Bringing 21st-Century Access to Ancient Artifacts” >>
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September 20, 2014, 5:37 am
Announcing the Arethusa Annotation FrameworkDevelopers Gernot Höflechner, Robert Lichtensteiner and Christof Sirk, in collaboration with the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts (via the Libraries and the Transformation of the Humanities and Perseids projects) and the University of Leipzig’s Open Philology Project, have released Arethusa, a framework for linguistic annotation and curation. Arethusa was inspired by and extends the goals of the Alpheios Project, to provide a highly configurable, language-independent, extensible infrastructure for close-reading, annotation, curation and exploration of open-access digitized texts. While the initial release highlights support for morpho-syntactic annotation, Arethusa is designed to allow users to switch seamlessly between a variety of annotation and close-reading activities, facilitating the creation of sharable, reusable linguistic data in collaborative research and pedagogical environments.
Arethusa is built on the angular.js javascript web application framework and provides a back-end independent infrastructure for accessing texts, annotations and linguistic services from a variety of sources. Extensibility is a guiding design goal — Arethusa includes tools for automatic generation of skeleton code for new features as plugins; detailed development guides are also currently in progress. We hope others will be able to reuse and build upon the platform to add support for other annotation types, languages and back-end repositories and workflow engines.
Arethusa is already deployed as a component of the Perseids platform, where it provides an annotation interface for morpho-syntactic analyses and will soon also act as a broker between the Perseids back-end (the Son of SUDA Online application) and various other front-end annotating and editing activities, including translation alignments, entity identification and text editing.
Screencasts are available that show how the Arethusa application can be used for syntactic diagram (treebank) and morphological analysis annotations on Perseids. Additional demos and slides will be made available soon which highlight additional features along with the architecture and design.
This project has been made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Award LG0611032611), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the European Social Fund. We also are indebted to Robert Gorman and Vanessa Gorman of the University of Nebrask and Giuseppe G. A. Celano of the University of Leipzig for their invaluable contributions to the design and testing of the platform.
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September 20, 2014, 3:00 pm
[First posted in AWOL 13 February 2010. Updated 20 September 2014]Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a multidisciplinary refereed postgraduate journal devoted to the literatures, cultures, and ideas of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their work.
Hortulus has an open submission policy, so submissions are accepted throughout the year. Graduate students are welcome to submit previously unpublished articles that challenge our readers to look at the Middle Ages from a variety of perspectives by engaging in new theories and interdisciplinary research. All articles should be submitted via email; submission guidelines can be found here.
We publish a themed issue each spring, and a general issue each autumn. Calls for papers for each issue can be found on the main page of the website. There are also various position openings in Hortulus throughout the year so watch our social media outlets for information.
- Volume 1, Number 1, 2005
- Volume 2, Number 1, 2006
- Volume 3, Number 1, 2007
- Volume 4, Number 1, 2008
- Volume 5, Number 1, 2009
- Volume 6, Number 1, 2010
- Volume 7, Number 1, 2011
- Volume 8, Number 1, 2012
- Volume 9, Number 1, 2013
- Volume 10, Number 1, 2013
- Volume 10, Number 2, 2014
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September 22, 2014, 2:54 am
Clara Rhodos. Studi e materiali pubblicati a cura dell' Istituto Storico-Archeologico di RodiΣτη σειρά Clara Rhodos, που αποτελείται από δέκα τόμους και εκδόθηκε από το 1928 έως το 1941, παρουσιάζονται οι έρευνες και οι ανασκαφές στα Δωδεκάνησα, κυρίως στη Ρόδο, την Κω, τη Χάλκη και τη Νίσυρο, κατά τη διάρκεια της Ιταλοκρατίας. Η σειρά αποτελεί έκδοση του ινστιτούτου FERT, που συστήθηκε από τους Ιταλούς αρχαιολόγους το 1927. Μετά την ενσωμάτωση της Δωδεκανήσου στην Ελλάδα το 1948, οι δικαιοδοσίες του FERT μεταβιβάστηκαν στην Ελληνική Αρχαιολογική Υπηρεσία, και συγκεκριμένα στο Αρχαιολογικό και Ιστορικό Ίδρυμα Ρόδου, το οποίο το 2003 μετονομάστηκε σε Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Αιγαιακών Σπουδών.
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Clara Rhodos I: A. Maiuri – G. Jacopich, Rapporto generale sul servizio archeologico a Rodi e nelle isole dipendenti dall’anno 1912 all’anno 1927, Bergamo 1928 |
Clara Rhodos II: A. Maiuri, Monumenti di scultura del Museo archeologico di Rodi I, Bergamo 1932 |
Clara Rhodos III: G. Jacopi, Scavi nella necropoli di Jalisso, 1924-1928, Bergamo 1929 |
Clara Rhodos IV: G. Jacopi, Esplorazione archeologica di Camiro I, Bergamo 1931 |
Clara Rhodos IX: 1. L. Laurenzi, Monumenti di scultura del Museo Archeologico di Rodi – IV; e dell’ Antiquarium di Coo - II. 2. E. Paribeni, Due vasi del Museo Archeologico di Rodi. 3. G. Levi Della Vida, Una bilingue Greco-Nabatea a Coo. 4. M Segre, La legge ateniese sull’ unificazione della Moneta. 5. M Segre, Iscrizioni di Licia. 6. S. Accame, Un nuovo decreto di Lindo del V Sec. A.C., Bergamo 1938. |
Clara Rhodos V. 1: G. Jacopi, Monumenti di scultura del Museo archeologico di Rodi II, Bergamo 1931 |
Clara Rhodos V. 2: G. Jacopi, Monumenti di scultura del Museo archeologico di Rodi III, Bergamo 1932 |
Clara Rhodos VIII: 1. L. Laurenzi, Necropoli ialisie (Scavi dell’ anno 1934). 2. P. E. Arias, “Pelike” con amazzonomachia dell’ “Antiquarium” di Coo. 3. M Segre, Dedica votiva dell’ equipaggio di una nave rodia. 4. P. Lojacono, La chiesa conventuale di S. Giovanni dei Cavalieri in Rodi. 5. P. Lojacono, Il Palazzo del Gran Maestro in Rodi , Bergamo 1936. |
Clara Rhodos VI-VII: G. Jacopi, Esplorazione archeologica di Camiro II, Necropoli, Acropoli, Bergamo 1932-3 |
Clara Rhodos X: 1. L. Laurenzi, Ritratto di un principe ellenistico. 2. L. Laurenzi, Statuetta acefala di Cleobulo Lindio. 3. L. Laurenzi, Iscrizioni dell’ Asclepieo di Coo. 4. G Monaco, Scavi nella zona micenea di Jaliso (1935-1936). 5. M. C. De Azevedo, Una oinochoe della necropoli di Jaliso. 6. A. Degrassi, Iscrizioni latine inedite di Coo, Bergamo 1941. |
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September 22, 2014, 7:13 am
[Originally posted 16 February 2011. Updated 22 September 2014]Acacdemia Fiorentina di Papirologia e Studi sul Mondo Antico Biblioteca On LineIn questa pagina sono pubblicati testi di particolare interesse scientifico.
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E' consigliabile scaricare i testi con il procedimento: click destro sul link e scegliere "Salva destinazione con nome..." o "Salva oggetto con nome...".
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| Description de l'Égypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. (Formato: Pdf)
Antiquités, memoires. Tome premier. Pag 1-86 (30 Mb) | Pag 87-172 (30 Mb) | Pag 173-274 (37 Mb) | Pag 275-368 (35 Mb) | Pag 369-438 (26 Mb) | Pag 439-512 (26 Mb) | Pag 513-606 (31Mb) | Pag 607-716 (42 Mb) | Pag 717-824 (48 Mb) | Pag 825-870 (18 Mb) |
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| La corrispondenza di Heronino nei papiri fiorentini (Osservazioni e note critiche ai testi) Tesi di Laurea di Menotti Stanghellini Relatore: Chiar.mo Prof. V. Bartoletti Anno Accademico 1957-58 | | (35 Mb) |
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| Ernst Khün Antinoopolis Göttingen 1913 | | (52 Mb) |
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| Alessandro Pini viaggiatore in Egitto (1681 - 1683) a cura di Rosario Pintaudi Istituto Italiano di Cultura del Cairo 2004 | | (13 Mb) |
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| H. Zotenberg Chronique de Jean, évêque de Nikiou. Texte éthiopien. Paris Imprimerie National 1883 | | (20 Mb) |
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September 22, 2014, 8:16 am
The Ancient Saar Project: London-Bahrain Archaeological ExpeditionRobert C Killick, 2007
The excavations at Saar, Bahrain, took place between 1990 and 1999. The work was undertaken by the London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition which was formed specifically for the purpose. The UK academic supporter of the project was the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London. In Bahrain, the Expedition received the patronage of the Amir, the late Shaikh Isa bin Sulman Al-Khalifa. The project was funded mainly by the business community in Bahrain, as well as by the British Academy and other academic funding bodies (for a full list, see Appendix 1 in Saar Volume 3). The directors were Robert Killick, Jane Moon, and Harriet Crawford (for the period 1990-5).
The site of Saar had been previously excavated by a Jordanian expedition (results unpublished) and it was clear from that work that the settlement was inhabited for part of the Early Dilmun period (late third and early second millennia BC) and then abandoned. This corresponds to the period of Bahrain's involvement in Arabian Gulf trade when commodities were shipped through Bahrain, from Oman and the Indus, on their way to the cities of southern Babylonia, and vice versa. A procedure documented, if patchily, in the cuneiform records of the time.
Nearly all previous archaeological work on this period prior to the excavation of Saar has focused on the extensive burial mounds and on isolated temples. The importance of Saar, therefore, resides in the fact that it is the first (and currently only) Early Dilmun settlement to have been investigated in any detail. This importance has been recognised by the Government of Bahrain which has placed the 'Saar Heritage Park' on the Tentative World Heritage List.
The Saar Settlement
The settlement itself is located on a small but prominent eastern outcrop of a limestone ridge which provides about the only natural elevation in the northern part of Bahrain. Immediately west of the settlement, and on the highest part of the ridge, is the Saar burial field, while to the south there are two cemetery complexes of interconnected graves. The settlement is spread over an estimated area of between 15,000 and 23,000 sq m, of which 7,500 sq m was excavated by the end of the project. Saar is a well laid out settlement with a main street running up from the southeastern outskirts; a temple in the centre at the crossroads of the settlement; and two- and three-roomed buildings, constructed in rows (e.g. Block A) with standard room plans and suites of domestic installations. Over 80 buildings, mainly houses, were investigated by the Expedition, as well as a well and a gypsum kiln. All these are described in detail in Saar Report 3. On the basis of pottery comparisons, the duration of the settlement is currently estimated to be about 250 years, from 2100 to 1850 BC approximately.
Reports:
| Saar Excavation Report 2 Early Dilmun Seals from Saar, fragments of art and administration by Harriet Crawford |
Full Report | PDF | 6 Mb |
| Saar Excavation Report 3 The Early Dilmun Settlement at Saar by Robert Killick and Jane Moon |
Full Report | PDF | 45 Mb |
Database Documentation:
Database Documentation | PDF | 54 Kb |
Entity Relationship Diagram | JPG | 48 Kb |
Database Tables:
SECTIONS | CSV | 20 Kb |
Installation codes | CSV | 1 Kb |
Bldg codes | CSV | 1 Kb |
FINDS | CSV | 2.08 Mb |
Pottery periods | CSV | 2 Kb |
GRAVES | CSV | 4 Kb |
ARCHITECTS PLANS | CSV | 12 Kb |
CONTEXTS | CSV | 730 Kb |
SAMPLING | CSV | 53 Kb |
DRAWINGS | CSV | 27 Kb |
Room types | CSV | 1 Kb |
Block levels | CSV | 6 Kb |
PHOTOGRAPHS | CSV | 520 Kb |
Bldg measurements | CSV | 4 Kb |
SITE SUPERVISORS PLANS | CSV | 45 Kb |
Site period | CSV | 1 Kb |
FILE LIST | CSV | 5 Kb |
Pot versus strat | CSV | 5 Kb |
JPG Images:
| Bahrain map Early Dilmun sites in Bahrain | JPG | 53 Kb |
| Cemeteries The Northern Burial Complex | JPG | 266 Kb |
| Double chamber burials Two-tier Early Dilmun burials along the southwestern edge of the Saar mound-field | JPG | 267 Kb |
| Honeycomb cemetery Part of the Southern Burial Complex | JPG | 313 Kb |
| Middle East map Southwestern Asia | JPG | 153 Kb |
| Saar area map Archaeological remains in the Saar area | JPG | 155 Kb |
| Settlement limits Location and extent of the Saar settlement | JPG | 118 Kb |
| Site aerial The Early Dilmun settlement at Saar from the air, taken in 1993 (S) | JPG | 272 Kb |
| Site and eastwards The plain to the east of the settlement (E) | JPG | 350 Kb |
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September 22, 2014, 8:22 am
Open Scriptures: Platform for the development of open scriptural linked data and its applicationsOpen Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web repository for integrated scriptural data and a general application framework for building internationalized social applications of scripture. An abundance of scriptural resources are now available online—manuscripts, translations, and annotations are all being made available by students and scholars alike at an ever-increasing rate. These diverse scriptural resources, however, are isolated from each other and fragmented across the Internet. Thus mashing up the available data into new scriptural applications is not currently possible for the community at large because the resources’ interrelationships are not systematically documented. Open Scriptures aims to establish a scriptural database for interlinked textual resources such as merged manuscripts, the differences among them, and the links between their semantic units and the semantic units of their translations. With such a foundation in place, derived scriptural data like cross-references may be stored in a translation-neutral and internationalized manner so as to be accessible to the community no matter what language they speak or version they prefer.
Open Scriptures is all about Linked Data for scripture. Please watch Tim Berners-Lee‘s TED talk on “The next Web of open, linked data.” As Zack Hubertsaid at the BibleTech:2008, “It’s a community effort. Any time anything good happens, is because a real cool team of people have come together around an idea.” Open Scriptures seeks to be such a community effort.
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September 22, 2014, 1:19 pm
[First posted in AWOL 2 January 2011. Updated 22 September 2014 (new URLS]Classics Convivium NewsletterInternationally renowned for its scholarly excellence and its graduate programs, the Department {of Classics, University of Michigan] is also deeply committed to the education of undergraduates at the University. Faculty and students work closely with the Kelsey Museum and its collection of antiquities and the Papyrus Collection in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.
Fall 2013
In this issue:
- Gabii Update
- Stamboulidis Fund for Exploring Classical Arts and Culture
- 2013 Jerome Lecture Series
- Kate Bosher will be Missed
- Roman Error Conference
- Bruce Frier "Retires"
- Rebecca Sears, ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Carrie Arbour Study Abroad 2013 Scholarships
Spring 2012
In this issue:
- Teaching Medical Terminology
- Latin for Everybody
- Platsis Review
- Francis W. Kelsey
- First Year Writing Seminar
- Inter Versiculos
- CFC Translation
- Honors Thesis Writers
- 2012 Else Lecture
Spring 2011
In this issue:
- Chair’s Letter
- 2010 Platsis Review
- Elizabeth Kovach Fund
- Research
- Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity
- P. Asso, E. Heiden & S. Hutchings Senior Honors theses
Spring 2010
In this issue:
- Constantine Cavafy
- Letter from the Chair
- Archaeology Conference
- Fiat/Chrysler Scholars
- Gabii Project
- Greeks and Barbarians
- Lecture Series
Winter 2009
- Anatomy Lesson
- Chair's Letter
- Platsis Symposium
- Jerome Lecture
- The Argument
- Gabii Project
- Roma Viva
- Grad Student Conference
Fall 2008
- Chicks wi th Bricks–Warrior Women
- Colchis
- Latin Teaching
- Phi lomel
- Facult y & Graduate Student News
Winter 2008
- From the Chair
- Indo European Language and Culture
- Platsis Symposium
- Tapinocyba cameroni
- Students at Large
- Fall, 2008, Voume XIV (Adobe PDF)
- Winter, 2008, Volume XVIII (Adobe PDF
- Fall 2007, Volume XVII (Adobe PDF)
- Winter 2007, Volume XVI (Adobe PDF)
- Fall 2006, Volume XV (Adobe PDF)
- Winter 2006, Volume XIV (Adobe PDF)
- Summer 2005, Volume XIII (Adobe PDF)
- Winter 2005, Volume XII (Adobe PDF)
- Summer 2004, Volume XI (Adobe PDF)
- Winter 2004, Volume X
- Summer 2003, Volume IX
- Winter 2003, Volume VIII
- Summer 2002, Volume VII
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September 22, 2014, 3:25 pm
Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia to Mesopotamia: Ur Excavations
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960.Ur Excavations II: The Royal Cemetery, Text.ETANA.1927.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960.Ur Excavations II: The Royal Cemetery, Plates..ETANA.1927.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960.Ur excavations IV: The Early Periods.ETANA.1927.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960.Ur Excavations V: The ziggurat and its surroundings.1939.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960.Ur Excavations VI: The Ur III Period.ETANA.1927.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960; Mallowan, Max.Ur Excavations VII: The Old Babylonian Period.ETANA.1927.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960.Ur Excavations VIII: The Kassite Period.ETANA.1927.
- Woolley, Leonard, Sir 1880-1960 Ur Excavations IX: The Neo-Basbylonian and Persian Periods. AMAR, 1962
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September 23, 2014, 4:45 am
Noua Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios ClásicosISSN: 0185-3058
Noua Tellus publica artículos y notas de investigación de carácter filológico referentes a las lenguas y literaturas griega, latina y sánscrita clásicas, además de a su tradición, así como documentos, reseñas y noticias relativas a dichos campos de estudio.
El Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos Noua Tellus ofrece a sus lectoresuna útil guía de consulta, da crédito y reconocimiento a sus colaboradores, quienes la han distinguido con la generosidad de sus conocimientos, desde 1993 hasta el primer semestre de 2013.
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The vast scope and many aspect and layers of research on the Iranian/ Persian architectural history requires accessing basic information in this regard. The existing Iranian architectural and urban development works are so numerous and diverse that demand special methods rather than ordinary ones to search and collect the related data in a satisfactory manner.
Thus, a national, all-encompassing, and comprehensive approach is required to do essential researches on the Iranian architectural history in such a systematic method that consider certain parameters like the great number of works; the variety of Iranian nature, climate, and culture as well as the impact of this variety on the country’s architecture; and the historical continuity of this architecture. Inevitably, performing this task calls for the use of information technology facilities. Based on the said approach, a vast knowledge-base covering the Iranian architectural history since the seventh millennium B.C. up to the present has been established that in addition to arranging the existing data and knowledge, will organize the production of related information. It will also affect both national and international researches regarding the Iranian architecture and cause the contemporary architectural data to preserve and record.
To achieve the above-mentioned goals, a comprehensive knowledge-base on the history of architecture and urban development in the Iranian world entitled Iranshahr: Encyclopaedia of the Iranian Architectural History has been developed which will serve its addressees as a website.
Obviously, encyclopaedias are the results of various human knowledge accumulated due to research activities. In this way, a conventional encyclopaedia is a tool to provide its readers, including the public and scholars, with a set of previous research compiled under a specific category called “entry” that could be handed over to expert scholars to write articles on them. In comparison with conventional encyclopaedia Iranshahr is compiled based on a new concept of an encyclopaedia, that is to say all its addresses are considered as potential authors of future articles on every entry of it that may make their contribution to the very encyclopaedia or to any other medium. In other words, Iranshahr is not a place for presenting articles, but a database to provide the users with the existing knowledge on its available entries and guide them to get access to the archives of books, articles, and documents.
Iranshahr is also differed from conventional encyclopaedia in such a manner that the quality and quantity of its entries are not fixed; rather they are constantly increased according to the search and request of its addresses, namely any related term that is appeared in the database could be a potential entry by itself. Therefore, Iranshahr is essentially developed to provide precise search facilities on all kinds of documents pertaining to the history of architecture and urban development in the Iranian world...
The whole data gathered in this database is organized around two general categories: entries and documents. An entry is an item that any information is accumulated or produced about it. It is also a means of user's access to that information. Documents include any source of information, either printed or not, such as books, articles, booklets, theses, periodicals, films, official documents, manuscripts, etc. It is noteworthy that Iranshahr's database is in the course of establishment and the present website is merely a pilot version to portray its future...
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September 24, 2014, 8:46 am
Historische Aussprache des Lateinischen und AltgriechischenDie rhetorische und literarische Hinterlassenschaft der griechisch-römischen Welt läßt sich ohne ein Verständnis ihrer oralen und auditiven Realisierung nicht kulturhistorisch adäquat würdigen. Rhetorische wie literarische Produktionen waren die gesamte Antike hindurch in erster Linie für eine orale (Re-)Aktualisierung bestimmt, von Stegreifvortrag, eingeübtem Vortrag und Rezitation bis hin zum Vorlesen und zur lauten Eigenlektüre. Auf der Mündlichkeit von Kommunikation fußt nicht nur die gesamte Rhetorik von der Klassik bis in die Kaiserzeit, nicht nur griechisches und römisches Drama, nicht nur der kaiserzeitliche Bildungsbetrieb, sondern selbst eine so genuin schriftliche Gattung wie die Epigrammatik und etwa noch – last but not least – die Platonische Erkenntnistheorie und Dialektik. Diese Tatsache im Zugriff auf antike Texte zu vernachlässigen heißt, fundamentale Prinzipien antiker Kommunikation ebenso zu ignorieren wie ein besseres und tieferes Verständnis antiker Ästhetik.
Es genügt nach Meinung der Verfasser des vorliegenden Themenportals ‘Historische Aussprache des Lateinischen und Altgriechischen’ allerdings nicht, ein solches Verständnis auf die Theorie zu beschränken. Wenn die Wissenschaft auch den Auftrag hat, ihre Ergebnisse einer Öffentlichkeit zu vermitteln – und das gilt gerade für geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer, die Gegenstand schulischen Lernens sind –, bedarf es eines Bemühens darum, Lernenden und Interessierten eine zumindest im Ansatz authentische Erfahrung im Kontakt mit den alten Sprachen und damit der antiken Kultur zu ermöglichen. Im öffentlihen Vortrag, im schulischen und universitären Unterricht und beim eigenen Lernen sollte lautes Aussprechen und Hören – wie in den modernen Fremdsprachen – die Regel sein. Dabei geht es natürlich nicht um die Erzeugung kommunikativer Kompetenz. Vielmehr soll zum einen auf diese Weise Erlernen und Behalten verbessert und gestärkt werden. Zum anderen gilt es dem Eindruck entgegenzuwirken, Latein und Griechisch seien tote Sprache: Höhere Authentizität des Lernstoffes ist anzustreben, zugleich soll die ästhetische Erfahrung der alten Sprachen nicht zu kurz kommen.
Wenn man sich zu diesen Zielen versteht, führt kein Weg am Erlernen einer historischen oder zumindest historisierenden Aussprache vorbei. Authentizität ist nicht gegeben, wenn lateinische Texte der Antike so ausgesprochen werden, als seien sie im 19. Jahrhundert entstanden. Ein authentischer ästhetischer Eindruck wird verfehlt, wenn beim Lesen von antiker Dichtung der Wortakzent zu Gunsten eines Iktus ignoriert wird, wenn Laute ganz anders artikuliert werden, als man es in der Entstehungszeit der Texte tat.
Das Themenportal verfolgt vor diesem Hintergrund insbesondere zwei Anliegen:
• Es liefert Informationen zum aktuellen Stand der Erforschung der oralen und auditiven Dimension der alten Sprachen, sowohl in linguistischer als auch in kulturhistorischer Hinsicht, vor allem durch Bibliographien und Links auf entsprechende Webseiten und Datenbanken
• Es stellt didaktische Materialien bereit, die das Erlernen, Üben und unterrichtliche Praktizieren einer historisierenden Aussprache an Schule und Universität ermöglichen
In beiden Bereichen ist die inhaltliche Füllung des Themenportals als vorläufig zu erachten; für Anregungen und weitere Hinweise und Materialien sind die Verfasser dankbar.
Prof. Dr. Peter von Möllendorff
(Lehrstuhl für Klassische Philologie / Griechische Philologie, Universität Gießen)
Links:
• Loculi Loquentes - E-Learning-Plattform zum auditiven Lernen lateinischer Vokabeln im Schulkontext
• Homeric Singing - eine Annäherung an gesungene Epen:
b) Danek, Georg (Universität Wien) / Hagel, Stefan (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften): Homer-Singen, Wiener Humanistische Blätter (1995), 5-20. (PDF)
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Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Geser and Regional Survey of the Ram Hormuz Area
Abbas Alizadeh, with contributions by Loghman Ahmadzadeh and Mehdi Omidfar, and appendices by John R. Alden, Leah Minc, Jacques Connan, John Zumberge, and Kendra Imbus
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After a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. In that year, the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of archaeological research by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of southwestern Iran to conduct a series of surface surveys to find a multi-period site for excavation. For his survey, McCown chose the Ram Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region south and east of the provincial town of Ahvaz down to the Persian Gulf. McCown recorded 118 sites in the Ram Hormuz and Ahvaz areas and eventually chose for excavation the large prehistoric mound complex Tall-e Geser. Three months of excavation in 1948 and 1949 yielded materials that were kept in Chicago for many years. Apart from short articles, the site was never fully published.
In Part 1 of this two-part volume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues have undertaken a final publication of the site. This task was undertaken because of a number of important considerations. First, the excavations at Geser have been cited as justifying the division of the Uruk period in southwestern Iran into Early, Middle, and Late phases. Second, Geser remains the only systematically excavated site in the Ram Hormuz region — a strategic location between the Susiana and Mesopotamian alluvium and the Zagros highlands of southwestern Iran. Third, Geser has produced a very extensive body of archaeological materials dating to the comparatively less understood proto-Elamite period, roughly the first few centuries of the third millennium bc. And finally, with the exception of a 700-800-year gap following the proto-Elamite phase, Geser remains one of the only sites in the Near East to have a very long and generally uninterrupted depositional sequence, in this case spanning from the fifth millennium BC to the Safavid period. The site’s crucial location, its importance in the archaeological literature, and its long stratigraphic sequence made it imperative that the original excavation results from Geser be published in anticipation of a time when the site can be re-excavated.
Part 2 of this volume presents the results of regional surveys conducted in the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005 to 2008, which were undertaken by Alizadeh and colleagues with the goal of understanding the semi-nomadic, mobile component of lowland Susiana and its hinterlands through time.
Contents
Part 1. Excavations at Tall-e Geser
Chapter 1. Geology, Geography, and Climate of the Ram Hormuz Region
Chapter 2. Overview of the Excavations at the Tall-e Geser Complex
Chapter 3. Stratigraphy
Chapter 4. Pottery
Chapter 5. Administrative Technology
Chapter 6. Small Objects
Part 2. Archaeological Survey in the Ram Hormuz Plain, 2005-2008
Chapter 7. Archaeological Survey in the Ram Hormuz Plain
Chapter 8. Settlement History and Organization
Chapter 9. Summary, Discussion, and Conclusions
Appendix A. INAA Analysis of Ceramics from Tall-e Geser and Abu Fanduweh: Compositional Signatures and Evidence for Ceramic Exchange
Appendix B. Bituminous Mixtures of Tall-e Geser: A Diversified Origin of Bitumen
Appendix C. Gazetteer of the Ram Hormuz Surveyed Sites and Settlement Size Tables
Index of Acquisition Numbers
Figures for Appendix A
Plates
- Oriental Institute Publications 140
- Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2014
- ISBN 978-1-885923-97-4
- Pp. xl + 324; 117 figures, 199 plates (most in color), 28 tables
- $105.00
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Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Vol. 1
Dossiers 1–10: 401 Commodity Chits
by Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni
Eisenbrauns, 2014
Online Supplements:
After the volume was sent to press, a number of updates were made to the electronic files available on the enclosed CD. Those three updated files may be downloaded*
Ada Yardeni
Concordance of the Corpus of the Aramaic Documents from Idumea
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[First posted in AWOL 5 February 2013, updated 25 September 2014]Classica et Mediaevalia: Danish Journal of Philology and HistoryISSN 0106-5815
ISSN 1604-9411 (Online)
Classica et Mediaevalia encourages scholarly contributions within the fields of Greek and Latin languages and literature up to, and including, the late Middle Ages as well as Graeco-Roman history and the classical influence in general history, legal history, the history of philosophy and ecclesiastical history.Classica et Mediaevalia, which is ranked as a category A journal by the European Research Index for the Humanities (ERIH) and top-ranked in the Danish and Norwegian bibliometric systems, encourages scholarly contributions within its fields.
Vol. 60 (2009)
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Vol. 62 (2013)
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Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
The Archives Directory for the History of Collecting is a pioneering resource created to help researchers locate primary source material about American art collectors, dealers, agents and advisors, and the repositories that hold these records. The database is a work in progress that is regularly updated with information contributed by both institutions and individuals. For more information about the directory, contact Samantha Deutch, Research and Program Manager for the Center for the History of Collecting. For other news and related activities visit the Center for the History of Collecting.
The Center for the History of Collecting gratefully acknowledges Melvin R Seiden, the Billy Rose Foundation, Townsend I. Burden, Peter Blanchard, DeCourcy E. McIntosh, Juan Sabater, and an anonymous donor for their generous support of this project.
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