Monday, October 31, 2011

Amarna Roundup

It is good to see the Madrid database of Berlin Amarna tablet photographs, Las tablillas de El Amarna en el Vorderasiatisches Museum de Berlín, online since the 1990s, getting well deserved attention in ancient oriented news blogs.  It is always worthwhile supporting projects providing open access to scholarly resources.

Scholarly editions of the Amarna texts are published in transliteration in the Amarna Corpus, a component of Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus.  Shlomo Izre'el's transliteration of the Amarna corpus is at The Amarna Tablets.  All of this is also open access.

Readers interested more generally in Amarna may also wish to examine Barry Kemp's Virtual Amarna Project, openly published in October by the Archaeology Data Service, and some archival video footage of 1930s excavations at Amarna published online by the Egypt Exploration Society.



Amarna in Pleiades 

Results of the Poll: Do You Have Access to JSTOR?

Two weeks ago I requested the assistance of readers of AWOL in answering the question Do You Have Access to JSTOR? Now that Open Access Week is over, the poll is closed and the results are in. 
Total votes: 567
Yes I have access to JSTOR 53.3% 302
No I do not have access to JSTOR 46.7% 265
 A couple of comments:

I'm pleased at the turnout. Reliable metrics for readership of blogs are hard to come by.  Bloggers' own statistics tell me that the page where the question is posed (Do You Have Access to JSTOR?) has been viewed 499 times.  But the form for the poll appeared only in the sidebar of the blog home page, so the mediation of the question page to answer is not required.  Feedburner tells me that there are something more than three thousand subscribers to the news feed.  My impression is that most of those receiving the feed via a feed reader or email don't click thru to the blog home page, even if they do click through to the resources discussed in an entry, so they don't see the form in the sidebar without taking action.  In any case, 567 is a pretty good sample of readership.

Slightly more than half of the respondents have access to JSTOR.  Slightly less than half do not.  It seems possible to me that those without access are more likely to respond that those with access, but I see no way to test this issue.  Nevertheless, it is clear that those without access represent an important component of the readership of AWOL.  I imagine this group spans a range of types of person, including unaffiliated academics, academics associated with institutions that do not or can not subscribe to JSTOR, to lay persons interested in the study of antiquity, and other categories.  It also seems evident that these persons are serious enough about the study of antiquity to read/subscribe to AWOL.

What can be done to serve you better?  One thing seems obvious.  JSTOR is piloting a program under which institutions can offer ongoing access to JSTOR to their alumni. At present this program is available to graduates of the following institutions:
If you are an alum of one of these institutions and do not have access to JSTOR at the moment, contact your alumni association.  If you do not see the name of you institution on the list, please contact your alumni association, send them the link to this page, and ask them to participate.

If you are a Massachusetts State Resident, you can sign up for a Boston Public Library eCard via the web. Just follow the prompts on the registration form and your eCard number will be emailed to you.

Do you know of other states offering this service?  Please let me know.

I would appreciate any comments you may have.

Early Explorers in Egypt & Nubia at Gallica

, in his excellent Early Explorers in Egypt & Nubia blog, has assembled a collection of pertinent titles available from Gallica – Bibliothèque Numérique. (And see AWOL's entries on Early Explorers in Egypt & Nubia and Open access travel literature):

W.G. Browne, Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798, T. Cadell, London 1799
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61487f/f1.image.r=egypt.langEN


F.L. Norden, Travels in Egypt and Nubia. Translated from the original and enlarged with observations from ancient and modern authors that have written on the antiquities of Egypt by Dr Peter Templeman, L. Davis and C. Reymers, London 1757

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104928s.r=egypt.langEN


F.L. Norden, Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt, with an account of the fame in a letter to the Royal Society, 1741

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104883n.r=egypt.langEN


F.L. Norden, Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie, impr de la Maison Royale des Orphelins, Copenhague 1755

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104534c.r=Norden.langEN


E. Veryard, An account of divers choice remarks, as well geographical as historical, political, mathematical, physical and moral, taken in a journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy and part of Spain; with the isles of Sicily and Malta. As also a Voyage to the Levant: a description of Candia, Egypt, S. Smith and B. Walford, London 1701

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k350134.r=egypt.langEN


C.S. Sonnini de Manoncourt, Voyage dans la haute et basse Egypte: fait par ordre de l'ancien gouvernement et contenant des observations de tous genres, F. Buisson, Paris 1798

Tome I
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k85339p.r=Sonnini.langEN

Tome II
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k85340w.r=Sonnini.langEN

Tome III
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k85342k.r=egypt.langEN


M. d'Anville, Mémoires sur l'Egypte ancienne et moderne, suivis d'une description du Golfe Arabique et de la Mer Rouge, de l'Impr. Royale, Paris 1766

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55524225.r=egypt.langEN


Route de l'Inde, ou Description géographique de l'Égypte, la Syrie, l'Arabie, la Perse et l'Inde. Traduit en partie de l'anglais et rédigé par P.-F. Henry, Carteret, Paris 1798

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56271401.r=egypt.langEN


James Bruce, Voyage aux sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssinie : pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 et 1772. Trad. de l'anglais par J. H. Castera, Hôtel de Thoud, Paris 1790

Tome I
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103344t.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome II
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1033456.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN
Tome III
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103346k.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN
Tome IV
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103347z.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome V
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103348b.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome VI
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103349q.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome VII
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103350n.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome VIII
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1033511.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome IX
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103352d.r=Bruce+Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN

Tome X
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103353s.r=Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN


Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant: dans laquelle il est curieusement traité des estats sujets au Grand Seigneur... et des singularitez particulières de l'Archipel, Constantinople, Terre-Sainte, Égypte, pyramides, mumies ["sic"], déserts d'Arabie, la Meque, et de plusieurs autres lieux de l'Asie et de l'Affrique... outre les choses mémorables arrivées au dernier siège de Bagdat, les cérémonies faites aux réceptions des ambassadeurs du Mogol et l'entretien de l'autheur avec celuy du Pretejan, où il est parlé des sources du Nil par Monsieur Thevenot, L. Bilaine, Paris 1664

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106525z.r=Voyage+aux+sources+du+Nil.langEN


C. Doyle, A non-military journal, or Observations made in Egypt: describing the country, its inhabitants, their manners and customs by an officer upon the staff of the British army, T. Cadell and W. Davies, London 1803

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1053506.r=egypt.langEN


G. Belzoni, Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations in Egypt and Nubia, and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon, J. Murray, London 1820

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1053464.r=egypt.langEN


Champollion le Jeune, Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques, F. Didot père et fils, Paris 1822-1833

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k396352.r=egypt.langEN


H. Murray, Historical account of discoveries and travels in Africa. Volume 2 / by the late John Leyden; enlarged and completed to the present time, with ill. of its geography and natural history, A. Constable, Edinburgh 1817

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1049952.r=egypt.langEN


V. Denon, Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte, pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte, impr. de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris 1802

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5787505v.r=egypt.langEN


Travels in Nubia by the late John Lewis Burckhardt; publ. by the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa, J. Murray, London 1819

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103416v.r=egypt.langEN


Copie figurée d'un rouleau de papyrus trouvé à Thèbes, dans un tombeau des rois, publiée par M. Cadet (avec une notice et le rapport fait à l'Institut national par M. Camus), Levrault, Schoell et Cie, Paris 1805

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58063566.r=egypt.langEN


F. Cailliaud, Voyage à Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc au-delà de Fazoql, dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, à Syouah, et dans cinq autres oasis: fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822, Impr. Royale, Paris 1826-1827

Tome I
No link!
Tome II
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104932v.r=cailliaud.langEN

Tome III
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1049337.r=cailliaud.langEN

Tome IV
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104934m.r=cailliaud.langEN

Plates
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2300124b.r=cailliaud.langEN


F. Cailliaud, Voyage à l'Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés à l'Orient et à l'Occident de la Thébaïde fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818, Impr. Royale, Paris 1821-1862

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106154c.r=cailliaud.langEN


F. Lenormant, Notes sur un voyage en Égypte, Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1870

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58041527.r=egypt.langEN


É. Dulaurier, Examen de quelques points des doctrines de J.-F. Champollion relatives à l'écriture hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens, Didot, Paris 1847

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61028440.r=egypt.langEN


F. Bonola Bey, L'Égypte et la géographie. Sommaire historique des travaux géographiques exécutés en Égypte sous la dynastie de Mohammed Aly, Impr. Nationale, Le Caire 1889

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5804317g.r=egypt.langEN


G. Seyffarth, Réplique aux objections de M. J.-F. Champollion le jeune contre le systême hiéroglyphique de MM. F.-A.-G. Spohn et G. Seyffarth , J. A. Barth, Leipzig 1827

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5456423k.r=egypt.langEN


D.-M.-J. Henry, Lettre à M. Champollion le jeune sur l'incertitude de l'âge des monumens égyptiens et sur l'histoire physique, politique et religieuse de l'Egypte, avant l'invasion de Cambyse, Bossange père, Paris 1828

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57745010.r=egypt.langEN


M. Fialin de Persigny, De la Destination et de l'utilité permanente des pyramides d'Égypte et de Nubie contre les irruptions sablonneuses du désert, Paulin, Paris 1845

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5803790p.r=egypt.langEN


C. Duteil, Dictionnaire des hiéroglyphes, Ch. Lawalle, Bordeaux 1839

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k117642b.r=egypt.langEN


Prisse d'Avennes, Histoire de l'art egyptien d'après les monuments, A. Bertrand, Paris 1879

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1257477.r=egypt.langEN


De l'Égypte après la bataille d'Héliopolis, et considérations générales sur l'organisation physique et politique de ce pays . Par le général de division Reynier, C. Pougens. Paris 1802

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5679644d.r=egypt.langEN


P. Lacour, Essai sur les hiéroglyphes égyptiens: fragmens [sic], A. Brossier, Bordeaux 1821

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k361458.r=egypt.langEN


J. Planat, Histoire de la régénération de l'Égypte: lettres écrites du Kaire à M. le C.te Alexandre de Laborde, J. Barbezat, Paris 1830

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5774594n.r=sennar.langEN


Voyage en Égypte et en Nubie / par J.-J. Ampère,... -M. Lévy frères (Paris)-1868

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k103415g.r=Voyage+en+Egypte.langEN


É. de Montulé, Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Sicile et en Égypte, pendant les années 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819, Delaunay, Paris 1821

Tome I
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56863988.r=Voyage+en+Am%C3%A9rique%2C+en+Italie%2C+en+Sicile+et+en+%C3%89gypte.langEN

Tome II
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5686527w.r=Voyage+en+Egypte.langEN


J. Potocki, Voyage en Turquie et en Égypte, fait en l'année 1784, Royez, Paris 1788

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111656j.r=Voyage+en+Egypte.langEN


E. de Salle, Pérégrinations en Orient, ou Voyage pittoresque, historique et politique en Égypte, Nubie, Syrie, Turquie, Grèce pendant les années 1837-38-39, Pagnerre, Paris 1840

Tome I
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106284q.r=P%C3%A9r%C3%A9grinations+en+Orient%2C+ou+Voyage+pittoresque%2C.langEN

Tome II
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1062853.r=Voyage+en+Egypte.langEN


Lettres de Champollion le jeune. Lettres et journaux, écrits pendant le voyage d'Égypte recueillies et annotées par H. Hartleben, E. Leroux, Paris 1909

Tome I
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k116409.r=Lettres+de+Champollion+le+jeune.langEN

Tome II
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55516z.r=Lettres+de+Champollion+le+jeune.langEN


Le voyage d'Outremer (Egypte, mont Sinay, Palestine) de Jean Thenaud ; Relation de l'ambassade de Domenico Trevisan auprès du soudan d'Égypte, 1512 par Zaccaria Pagani; publ. et annot. par Ch. Schefer, E. Leroux, Paris 1884

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104376w.r=Voyage+en+Egypte.langEN

Reconstructions of Cimmerian Bosporus Painted Crypts

Spartokos a lu brings us information on 3D crypts from the Cimmerian Bosporus:

 and a paper in English

3D Reconstructions of Cimmerian Bosporus Painted Crypts
By Elena Logdacheva, Yuri Vinogradov, Sergei Shvemberger, Nikolay Borisov
The authors present 3d reconstructions of the painted tombs of Cimmerian Bosporus, state, which
existed in the North Black Sea area in VI century B.C. - V century A.D. Crypts, was found and
investigated by Russian historians in second half of XIX - beginning of XX centuries.
Reconstructions are executed on the basis the archive materials, which are stored in the Institute
of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences in St.-Petersburg. Crypts were lost because of
political events at the beginning of XX century. Of special interest among available material, on
basis of which was conducted computer reconstruction, are the aquarelles and gouaches of
Russian artists XIX - XX of centuries The computer reconstructions of crypts are executed with the
aid of the application 3Ds Max.
With the visual materials of Cimmerian Bosporus Painted Crypts project it is possible to become
acquainted on project’s site http://www.bosporuscrypt.ru/ (in Russian) and on the site
http://www.3DMultimediaLab.com

Friday, October 28, 2011

Web Conference: Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation

Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation 

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Dear Colleagues!


The Scientific & Educational Centre for Classical Studies at Yaroslavl State University (Russia) resumes acceptance of papers for the web-conference «Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation» which is currently conducted on the Centre’s website. The format of the event is a forum-like discussion of presented papers. All professors, PhD students and qualified scholars in Classical Studies are invited to participate.

Taking into consideration results of the conference “first phase”, we would like to emphasize, that a participant, whose paper has been accepted, must sign up on the website. We strongly recommend that all presenters check from time to time the page with their work and answer the comments. It is also supposed that those, whose papers are posted, will participate in discussion of other papers. (All comments, written in Russian, we will translate into English.)
  • Papers (in English) are to be submitted by the 31st of March 2012 and will be posted right after their acceptance.
  • Length of a paper: up to 20,000 characters.
  • Abstract of approximately 1,500 characters is required (it will be further translated into Russian).
  • State your first name, family name, current position, affiliation, mailing (postal) address, e-mail address.
It is planned to publish the conference proceedings.
Please, email your papers to yar.antik.center@gmail.com. You are welcome to specify any information by using this e-mail address.


SUMMARIES OF THE PAPERS WRITTEN IN RUSSIAN*:

  1. Voloshin D. Gladiatorial Combats as Political Mass Spectacle and Instrument of “Social Training”.
  2. Gouschin V. Ephialtes versus Areopagus.
  3. Danilov E. Tranquility of the Soul in Interpretation of the Roman Citizens.
  4. Dementyeva V. Die Legaten-Proquästoren in der Römischen Republik am Ende 3. Jh. -1 Jh. V. Chr.
  5. Nefedkin A. Recruitment and Organization of Cavalry in Aetolian League.
  6. Surikov I. What was the Name of the Supreme Government Body in the Democratic Athenian Polis?
  7. Frolov R. The Designations of the Roman Non-Voting Public Meetings in Livy’s Work: the contio and Its Derivatives

*While reading a summary, select «РУССКИЙ» in the top right corner of the page to see the full version of the paper in Russian

Open Access Journal: anthropologies

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Open Access at ISAW

Open Access at ISAW

In recognition and support of Open Access Week, this post lists digital resources currently available from ISAW and its collaborators under the terms of open licenses:
Ancient World Image Bank
View and download over 2,000 free digital images of sites and objects from the ancient world, contributed by ISAW faculty, staff and friends.
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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.
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Papyri.info
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Pleiades
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New at ARTStor

Collections relating to antiquity recently announced on the ARTstor blog 
Now available: More art and architecture from the American Institute of Indian Studies

Dasavatara temple; South jangha, rathikabimba, detail, ca 500-525 CE | Deogarh, Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | Image and original data provided by American Institute of Indian Studies
ARTstor has launched 28,142 images of art and architecture in India from The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in the Digital Library. More than 50,000 images are now available documenting a range of visual traditions from South Asian art, including stone, metal, and terracotta sculpture, numismatics, painting, manuscripts and miniature paintings, as well as Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, and Islamic architecture from all over India. These images have been selected from the AIIS Photo Archive, which is housed in the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
Founded in 1961, the American Institute of Indian Studies is a consortium of universities and colleges in the United States through which scholars actively engage in teaching and research about India. More than 6,000 scholars and creative artists have received fellowship and research support from AIIS, resulting in thousands of books and articles in disciplines ranging from anthropology to zoology.


View this collection: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/indianstudies; or enter the Keyword Search: indiastudies


For more detailed information about this collection, visit the American Institute of Indian Studies collection page


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Ancient World Open Bibliographies One-Year Report

[AWOB was announced here on AWOL 18 October 2010]
After I wrote my Open Access Week post at my original blog the other day, I realized I should really spend a little more time recognizing the progress of the Ancient World Open Bibliographies project over the past year.

The first post on this blog was just over a year ago, on October 1, 2010, describing the conceptualization of the project.  There was some discussion of software and scope early on, but within a few months the blog settled down to the routine collection of existing open-access bibliographic resources for the ancient world available online.  These are now collected both at a public Zotero group and a wiki.  At Zotero they can be found by subject tags; at the wiki they have a more hierarchical classification structure that is essentially sui generis.

Right now there are over 450 bibliographies included in the project.  Topic range from Celtic Europe to Tibet, but the vast majority of the bibliographies cover the area around the Mediterranean during the later Bronze and Iron Ages, with special emphasis on Greek and Roman.  Probably the most comprehensive coverage is for Greek Authors and Latin Authors, although even in these areas there are gaps – if you plan to teach a graduate seminar in Sophocles this spring, for example, please do consider asking your students to assemble an annotated scholarly bibliography as a class project!  The University of Cincinnati has some examples of how to use Zotero for this sort of thing.

My goals for the immediate future and the ongoing future are multiple, and some are small (clean up the Zotero files, which have a bunch of minor errors and infelicities) and some are big (do targeted collection of existing bibliographies, and solicitation of new bibliographies, so that more topics have full coverage and AWOB as a whole is a well-rounded resource.) Today I’m adding a page for volunteers at this blog, suggesting specific things – some quite small and manageable – that you can do if you’d like to help AWOB continue to grow.  Have a look!
I urge you to participate in this wonderful project!

Open Access Journals: Royal Society Journals

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Philosophical Transactions B

Philosophical Transactions B Current Cover Each issue of Philosophical Transactions B is devoted to a specific, topical area of the biological sciences.

Proceedings B

Proceedings B Current Cover Proceedings B is the Royal Society's flagship biological research journal, dedicated to the fast publication and worldwide dissemination of high-quality research.

Biology Letters

Biology Letters Current Cover Biology Letters offers rapid publication of short, innovative and cutting-edge research articles and opinion pieces, accessible to scientists across the life sciences.

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Interface Current Cover Journal of the Royal Society Interface publishes cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Dikili Tash -- Ντικιλί Τας Online

Dikili Tash -- Ντικιλί Τας
Le site archéologique de Dikili Tash est principalement un site d’habitat préhistorique, occupé à l’époque néolithique (6400-4000 av. J.-C.) et à l’âge du Bronze (3000-1100 av. J.-C.). Il a également livré des vestiges de l’époque hellénistique et romaine. Son sommet est couronné par une tour byzantine.

Le nom de "Dikili Tash", qui date de la période ottomane et signifie "Pierre dressée" en turc, a été donné à un monument funéraire romain installé en bordure de la Via Egnatia (la voie romaine qui reliait la côte adriatique à Byzance), tout près de l'entrée orientale de la ville antique de Philippes, à proximité immédiate du site préhistorique. 

Présentation Recherches Chronologie Annexes Actualités


Παρουσιαση Οι ερευνες Χρονολογιο Παραρτηματα επικαιροτητα
Including links to many digitized archaeological reports relating to the site.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Groningen Papyri Online

Papyri Groninganae

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A collection of 127 fragments of texts written on papyrus arrived in the library in 1926. Financial support for this acquisition was received from Dr J. Enschedé, The Hague, a lawyer and alumnus of the University of Groningen, and of the ‘Groninger Universiteitsfonds’. The papyri were purchased through Prof. Wilhelm Schubart of Berlin University, who bought them with a dealer in Egypt, and they were mounted by Dr h.c. Hugo Ibscher, the famous papyrus conservator in Berlin. The initiative to enrich the library with such a collection was taken by Antoon G. Roos (1877-1953), professor of ancient history and Roman antiquities at Groningen (1916-1947), former curator (1904-1906) and librarian (1906-1917) of the university.

It is not known where exactly these fragments were found. In a few cases, the texts inform us on their provenance: no. 5 is from Oxyrhynchos, two others (nos. 2 and 9) are from the Arsinoites district, text 2 from the ZPE 55 article (HendriksWorp 2) is from Hermopolites. All date from the Roman or Byzantine era: the oldest one is from the second century, the youngest from the sixth or seventh century...

The papyri presented in our digital collection are those described in the original 1933 catalogue by A.G.Roos, by  Hendriks, Parsons and Worp in ZPE 41 (1981) and by Hendriks and Worp in ZPE 55 (1984). Each number is displayed with photographs and pdf’s of the original publication and a short document description. Detailed information is furthermore found on the Trismegistos website, the interdisciplinary portal  for papyrological and epigraphical resources. Papyri are provided with a TM (Trismegistos) number, a DDbDP (Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri) number, or a LDAB (Leuven Database of Ancient Books) number. Documentation of most of the Groningen papyri is also found in the HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Aegyptens). In the notes one finds later references to the papyri displayed, as mentioned in the ''Berichtigingsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Aegypten: Konkordanz und Supplement zu Band I-VII', and 'Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Aegypten Band II Konkordanz und Supplement zu Band VIII-XI'.


Open Accesss Journal: The Orissa Historical Research Journal

 [First posted in AWOL 30 November 2009. Updated 2 July 2015]

The Orissa Historical Research Journal

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

AIA's new Archaeology of America and Canada on Google Earth

Google Earth's New Layer: Archaeological Sites in the United States and Canada October 22, 2011 
 
Google Earth's New Layer: Archaeological Sites in the United States and Canada 
Explore the AIA's new Archaeology of America and Canada on Google Earth. (If you do not have it installed, please download Google Earth.)

"Having this Google Earth map debut on National Archaeology Day emphasizes the fact that archaeological discoveries often times exist right in our backyards," says Ben Thomas, AIA's Director of Programs. "We welcome everyone of all ages to take a look at the map and then explore a site that's close to them."

Thanks to our partners at Google Earth for making this possible!

Archaeology of America and Canada

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Internet Archaeology is going totally ‘Open Access’ for duration of Open Access Week 2011

Internet Archaeology is going totally ‘Open Access’ for duration of Open Access Week, 24-30 October 2011.
The e-journal Internet Archaeology has been a hybrid Open Access journal for over a year, and it is our wish to move fully towards a sustainable Open Access (OA) model. I hope therefore that this event will both demonstrate our serious efforts in this direction as well as give potential authors (in whose hands the journal’s future really lies) the opportunity to view the range of material IA can publish. I’d like to encourage all authors to include OA fees in future research funding applications wherever possible.

What we’ve done/are doing
·         Following negotiations, JISC Collections has purchased the full suite of Internet Archaeology content on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions, which means that their members have permanent access to 15 years of rich multimedia scholarly content.
·         All reviews and editorials in Internet Archaeology have always been Open Access.
·         We have also had success more recently in attracting articles with OA funding either via authors’ departmental research committees, government agencies or University library OA funds.
·         But at current levels, this is still not enough to replace our existing subscription income (which still provides the main means of covering our costs i.e. one full-time member of staff and production overheads) which would allow us to make the full transition to Open Access. However the proportion of uptake of the OA option will be continually monitored and subscriptions to the journal will be reviewed annually in light of this uptake while we make the transition.

What can you do?
o   Are you applying for research funding? Where possible, include OA costs in your application. Just approach me at the earliest possible stage with your publication idea so that costs can be calculated.
o   Have you already finished your research/project and looking for a publication outlet? Increasingly university departments and research libraries have publication and/or OA funds. Investigate these options and again let me know of your plans at the earliest opportunity.


Open Access Journal: Asiatische Studien


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About the journal:

The quarterly journal Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques is published with the aim of informing the scientific community as well as the general public about academic research on Asian regions and cultures.

About the company:

The Swiss Asia Society is committed to the promotion of scientific studies at Swiss universities focusing on the various regions of Asia. It is an established forum for the discussion of issues concerning the languages, the thought, the religions and myths, the historical, social and geographic developments, as well as the literatures and arts of historical and contemporary Asian cultures.

See also Previous Journal

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Available Volume 1
1947
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 2
1948
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1949
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1950
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1951
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1952
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1953
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1954
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1955
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1956
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1957-1958
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 12
1959
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1960
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1961
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1962
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1963
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1964
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1965
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1966
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1967
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1968
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1969
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1970
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1971
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1972
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1973
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1974
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1975
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1976
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1977
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1978
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1979
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 34
1980
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1981
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 36
1982
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 37
1983
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 38
1984
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 39
1985
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 40
1986
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 41
1987
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 42
1988
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 43
1989
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1990
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1991
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1992
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1993
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1994
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1995
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1996
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1997
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1998
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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1999
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 54
2000
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Available Volume 55
2001
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2002
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2003
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2004
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2005
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2006
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2007
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2008
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
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2009
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Must be obtained from the publisher Volume 64
2010
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Etudes asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
Must be obtained from the publisher Volume 65
2011
Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Études asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asi