Inscriptiones Graecae Between Present and Future

, Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context. Proceedings of the Second EAGLE International Conference, 2017, 13-36

2020

Epigraphy.info has become an international open community pursuing a collaborative environment for digital epigraphy, which facilitates scholarly communication and interaction. It intends not to replace existing digital resources, but rather to serve as "a landing point for digital tools, practices and methodologies for managing collections of inscriptions". 1 During the first workshop (March 21-23, 2018) 2 , an international group of scholars gathered in Heidelberg to discuss the concept of Epigraphy.info. Participants focused on four major topic areas: participating people/institutions, structure, finances, and tasks. A steering committee and organizing committee were formed to coordinate next steps. A second workshop followed in Zadar (December 14th-16th, 2018) 3 where the main outcome was the draft of a mission statement, and (based on the results of the breakout sessions) a series of goals and tasks to be discussed during the next workshop. The third workshop, which is the subject of this report, took place in Vienna (May 30-June 1, 2019). Its main outcome has been the approval of the mission statement and the forming of working groups with responsible persons identified to coordinate the tasks outlined after the breakout sessions and formalized during the final plenary session. Participants 4 Thirty-seven scholars from thirteen countries personally attended the 3rd Epigraphy.info workshop in Vienna, while eighteen more indicated that they were not able to come, but 1 Mission statement on the homepage of the website: http://epigraphy.info 2 F. Feraudi-Gruénais / F.

This course will introduce students to the challenges of reading Latin texts preserved as inscriptions upon stone and will introduce Roman inscriptions as a critical source for aspects of Roman history and society that do not otherwise survive. It is an advanced Latin course whose goal is to practice and develop skills to read significant examples of Latin epigraphs, and to use modern techniques for encoding inscriptions and building digital corpora:

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Redazione informatica e impaginazione a cura di ARUN MALTESE ([email protected]) È vietata la riproduzione, anche parziale, non autorizzata, con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata, compresa la fotocopia, anche a uso interno e didattico. L'illecito sarà penalmente perseguibile a norma dell'art. 171 della Legge n. 633 del 22.04.41

Sciences and the Landesmuseum Kärnten, under the patronage of the Association Internationale de l'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine, to discuss Latin ordinary epigraphy and the role of new technologies, such as electronic databases. The meeting put together a host of scholars from several countries, with different approaches and encouraged theoretical and methodological discussion.

in Rebecca Benefiel and Catherine Keesling, eds., Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit (Brill: Leiden and Boston), 2023

Over the past half century the field of epigraphic studies has shifted away from a quasi-exclusive focus on the editing and interpretation of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions to broader consideration of the place of inscribed writing in classical culture. Discussions of an “epigraphic habit” and of the relevance of inscriptions for evaluating ancient levels and types of literacy have developed independently and have followed different courses, to the extent that the very definition of “inscription” has once again been opened. This paper proposes a new way of assessing the “epigraphic” quality of any type of ancient writing along a scale of modality measured by the degree to which it takes advantage visually of its location, material support, language, writing technique, layout, or register of expression to enhance its meaning for its targeted audience. Various types of the form are illustrated, exempli gratia, with inscriptions drawn predominantly from Pompeii.

Historika, 2020

The study and publication of inscriptions involves the analysis of many different pieces of information related to “places”: from data on the archaeological discovery, the original location, the place of preservation, up to all the geographical or topographical references contained in the epigraphic text or related to its historical context. The representation of spatial data in Digital Epigraphy projects, and in particular in online corpora, is nowadays of undeniable importance and has led to an increasing attention in research to the aspects of archaeological context, urban topography or historical geography present in the inscriptions. This can be interpreted in the more general framework of the “spatial turn”that has affected classical studies as well as all the human and social sciences, in parallel with the development of information technologies applied to Geography, Cartography, and Ancient Topography, from GIS to the opportunities offered by the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data.This article aims to offer the reader a reasoned overview of the major issues and practices related to the encounter between Epigraphy and Geography / Topography in the digital environment, through the examination of a series of digital projects considered particularly illustrative in this purpose.