Ancient Numbers
Welcome to the Ancient Numbers Page. It is a work in progress, and many features will be added in the coming weeks and months.
Aim: To help my students and the general public better understand ancient Greek and Roman numbers, and how they were represented. Different subpages will provide explanations, calculators, and graded quizzes. Some in each category are already done, and can be reached through the links in the User Menu...
User Menu
- Learn:
- About This Site
- History - What’s Next
- About Roman Numerals
- About Greek Numerals
- Calculate:
- Arabic → Roman
- Roman → Arabic
- Roman → Latin
- Latin → Roman
- Arabic → Latin
- Latin → Arabic
- Arabic → Greek
- Greek → Arabic
- Test Yourself:
- Arabic → Roman
- Roman → Arabic
- Latin → Arabic
- Greek → Arabic
Friday, June 29, 2012
Nvmeri Innvmeri
Nvmeri Innvmeri: Dr. Hendry’s Ancient Numbers Page
Day of Archaeology 2012
Day of Archaeology 2012: A Day in the Life of Archaeologists
About the Project
Have you ever wondered what archaeologists really get up to? Is it all just digging or is there a lot more to it? The Day of Archaeology project aims to give you a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world.
Day of Archaeology 2011
The first ever Day of Archaeology in 2011 had over 400 contributing archaeologists, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers, and their posts chronicled what they did on one day, July 29th 2011. This date was chosen to coincide with the Festival of British Archaeology, which runs annually in July.
View the past entries, or explore using the categories at the top of each page.
How it all began
Day of Archaeology was born after a Twitter conversation between PhD students and project organisers, Lorna Richardson and Matt Law, during the third annual Day of Digital Humanities in March 2011. They thought it would be interesting and fun to organise something similar to the Day of DH for those working or volunteering in (or studying) archaeology around the world. Thanks to some very generous offers of time, support, web design know how, and server space from digitally-minded colleagues (the server space from Daniel Pett of the British Museum), an organising ‘committee’ of sorts was formed, and the idea quickly became reality.
Read more background information about the Day of Archaeology 2011.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
PADIS: Palestine Archaeological Databank and Information System
[First posted in AWOL 10 August 2011. Updated 28 June 2012]
PADIS: Palestine Archaeological Databank and Information System
PADIS: Palestine Archaeological Databank and Information System
A tool for protection, study and valorization of the Archaeological Heritage of Palestine
- A coherent organization of archaeological and topographical data from Palestine.
- An interactive databank created to prompt the safeguard of archaeological and historical sites and as scientific and practical tool for the protection, study and cultural valorization.
- A database including satellite images, aerial photos, excavation photos, topographic maps, and updated bibliographic references, expandable with the cooperation of Palestinian scholars and institutions.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Inscriptiones Graecae in Croatia Repertae
Digitalizacija antičkih grčkih natpisa s područja Hrvatske - Inscriptiones Graecae in Croatia Repertae (IGCR)
Nino Zubović
Nino Zubović
Nino Zubovic's pilot project, which received startup assistance from the Department of Classical Philology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, aims to create a digital, EpiDoc corpus of the Greek inscriptions attested and preserved on the territory of present-day Croatia. Methodologically, it shares goals with the U.S. Epigraphy Project, but excludes Latin inscriptions as these are being researched for CIL by the Department of Archaeology.
Inscriptiones Graecae in Croatia repertae (IGCR)
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Open Access Journal: Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
ISSN:1556-4673
EISSN:1556-4711
ISSN:1556-4673
EISSN:1556-4711
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the innovative use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of Cultural Heritage. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that demonstrate innovative use of technology for the discovery, analysis, interpretation and presentation of findings as well as manuscripts that illustrate applications in the Cultural Heritage sector that challenge the computational technologies and suggest new research opportunities in computer science.
Authors should consult the Topical Scope and Submission Instructions for additional guidance.
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
Volume 5 Issue 1, April 2012Table of Contents
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Introduction to the special issue on corpus and computational linguistics, philology, and the linguistic heritage of humanity Gregory Crane, Anke Lüdeling Article No.: 1 Full text:
The articles in this issue make two complementary assertions: first, language and linguistic sources are a key element of human cultural heritage and, second, we need to integrate the ancient goals of philology with rapidly emerging methods from fields ...Extracting two thousand years of latin from a million book library David Bamman, David Smith Article No.: 2 Full text:
With the rise of large open digitization projects such as the Internet Archive and Google Books, we are witnessing an explosive growth in the number of source texts becoming available to researchers in historical languages. The Internet Archive alone ...Computational historiography: Data mining in a century of classics journals David Mimno Article No.: 3 Full text:
More than a century of modern Classical scholarship has created a vast archive of journal publications that is now becoming available online. Most of this work currently receives little, if any, attention. The collection is too large to be read by any ...Measuring and coding language change: An evolving study in a multilayer corpus architecture Hagen Hirschmann, Anke Lüdeling, Amir Zeldes Article No.: 4 Full text:
Our article explores the possibilities of using deeply annotated, incrementally evolving comparable corpora for the study of language change, in this case for different stages from Old High German to New High German. Using the example of the evolution ...
Open Access (limited time) Issue of BASOR
The latest issues of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (No. 366, May 2012) is now available to subscribers at JSTOR
This is the first issue of BASOR to appear in color.
Even if you are not (yet) a subscriber, you can get access to this issue until July 31 free of charge. Just follow this link and set up a MyJSTOR account
the instructions are also available at ASOR's facebook page
A linked Table of Contents follows below.
Front Matter
The Long Life of a Dead King: A Bronze Statue from Hazor in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context Tallay Ornan
The Sanctuary at Mizpe Yammim: Phoenician Cult and Territory in the Upper Galilee during the Persian Period
Andrea M. Berlin and Rafael Frankel
Review: Evolution of Lithic Economies in the Levantine Neolithic: Development and Demise of Naviform Core Technology as Seen from ʿAin Ghazal, ʿAin Ghazal Excavation Reports, Volume 2. Berlin: ex oriente, 2010. xiv + 184 pp., 7 figures, 51 plates, 10 tables. Cloth. €72.00. by Leslie A. Quintero
Review by: Donald O. Henry
Review: Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence, Writings from the Ancient World, Number 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010. xxvi + 296 pp. Paper. $34.95. by Maynard Paul Maidman
Review by: Eva von Dassow
Review: Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey Szuchman. Oriental Institute Seminars, Number 5. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2009. xvi + 288 pp., 70 figures, 7 tables. Paper. $24.95. [Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company]
Review by: Alison Betts
[n.b. The full text of the reviewed volume is online at the Oriental Institute]
Review: Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii + 397 pp., 100 figures, 4 tables. Cloth. $90.00. by Joanna S. Smith
Review by: Kevin D. Fisher
Review: Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum: Essays in Honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, edited by Thomas Kiely. British Museum Research Publication Number 180. London: The British Museum, 2009. viii + 100 pp., 42 figures, 50 plates, 1 table. Paper. $50.00. [Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company]
Review by: Derek B. Counts
Review: Wadi Araba in Classical and Late Antiquity: An Historical Geography, BAR International Series 2173. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. x + 141 pp., 102 figures. Paper. £34.00. [Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company] by Andrew M. Smith II
Review by: Burton MacDonald
Back Matter
This is the first issue of BASOR to appear in color.
Even if you are not (yet) a subscriber, you can get access to this issue until July 31 free of charge. Just follow this link and set up a MyJSTOR account
the instructions are also available at ASOR's facebook page
A linked Table of Contents follows below.
Front Matter
The Long Life of a Dead King: A Bronze Statue from Hazor in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context Tallay Ornan
The Sanctuary at Mizpe Yammim: Phoenician Cult and Territory in the Upper Galilee during the Persian Period
Andrea M. Berlin and Rafael Frankel
Review: Evolution of Lithic Economies in the Levantine Neolithic: Development and Demise of Naviform Core Technology as Seen from ʿAin Ghazal, ʿAin Ghazal Excavation Reports, Volume 2. Berlin: ex oriente, 2010. xiv + 184 pp., 7 figures, 51 plates, 10 tables. Cloth. €72.00. by Leslie A. Quintero
Review by: Donald O. Henry
Review: Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence, Writings from the Ancient World, Number 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010. xxvi + 296 pp. Paper. $34.95. by Maynard Paul Maidman
Review by: Eva von Dassow
Review: Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey Szuchman. Oriental Institute Seminars, Number 5. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2009. xvi + 288 pp., 70 figures, 7 tables. Paper. $24.95. [Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company]
Review by: Alison Betts
[n.b. The full text of the reviewed volume is online at the Oriental Institute]
Review: Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii + 397 pp., 100 figures, 4 tables. Cloth. $90.00. by Joanna S. Smith
Review by: Kevin D. Fisher
Review: Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum: Essays in Honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, edited by Thomas Kiely. British Museum Research Publication Number 180. London: The British Museum, 2009. viii + 100 pp., 42 figures, 50 plates, 1 table. Paper. $50.00. [Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company]
Review by: Derek B. Counts
Review: Wadi Araba in Classical and Late Antiquity: An Historical Geography, BAR International Series 2173. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. x + 141 pp., 102 figures. Paper. £34.00. [Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company] by Andrew M. Smith II
Review by: Burton MacDonald
Back Matter
Monday, June 25, 2012
Online Genealogy of the Seleucids
Alex McAuley
Department of History & Classical Studies
McGill UniversityIn the haphazard patchwork that is our understanding of Hellenistic genealogy, the Seleucid dynasty stands out as particularly threadbare.
Despite the wealth of recent scholarship on countless facets of the Seleucid World, the genealogy and descent of the Seleucids themselves has received only sporadic and fragmentary attention.
This site has been created in the hope of producing and presenting as near a comprehensive stemma of the Dynasty as possible. Ancient literary evidence, numismatics, epigraphic remains, and contemporary scholarship have been combined with my own judgement and reasoning in (numerous) cases of controversy.
In the interest of objectivity I have erred on the side of conservatism; all hypotheses and conjectures are indicated as such. For the sake of convenience and accessibility, I have presented all Greek names in their latinized forms.
Gregory Nagy "Short Writings" (2 volumes) Online
Newly online at the Center for Hellenic Studies
Nagy, Gregory,
Short Writings, Volume 1.
Volume one (2012) in a series of online anthologies containing articles written by Gregory Nagy.
This volume contains the following articles:
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Nagy, Gregory,
Short Writings, Volume 2.
Volume two (2012) in a series of online anthologies containing articles written by Gregory Nagy.
This volume contains the following articles:
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And see also the full list of Open Access Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Open Access Journal: Glyph Dwellers : Mayan historical linguistics
Glyph Dwellers: Mayan historical linguistics
ISSN:1097-3737
ISSN:1097-3737
Glyph Dwellers is an occasional publication of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, at the University of California, Davis, California. Its purpose is to make available recent discoveries about ancient Maya culture, history, iconography, and Mayan historical linguistics deriving from the project.
Funding for the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, grants #RT21365-92, RT21608-94, PA22844-96, the National Science Foundation, #SBR9710961, and the Department of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis.
(c) 1997–2009 Martha J. Macri & Matthew G. Looper. All rights reserved. Written material and artwork appearing in these reports may not be republished or duplicated for profit. Citation of more than one paragraph requires written permission of the publisher. No copies of this work may be distributed electronically, in whole or in part, without express written permission from the publisher.
Links to Glyph Dwellers from other sites are welcome.
Report 1: A Venus god as patron of Quiriguá Matthew G. Looper, December 1997
Report 2: A new Cholan complement clause at Palenque Martha J. Macri, July 1998
Report 3: T683a and T683b: Two words for "twenty" Martha J. Macri, January 1998
Report 4: A Note on the carved bone from Copán Temple 11 Matthew G. Looper, August 1998
Report 5: T540 as WINIK Matthew G. Looper, August 1998
Report 6: A New Interpretation of the Ball Compound Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper, September 2000
Report 7: The Quatrefoil T510cd as 'Cave' Matthew G. Looper, September 2000
Report 8: T855: A Numeral Classifier Martha J. Macri, December 1998
Report 9: Phonological Variation in the Maya Codices Gabrielle Vail, November 1999
Report 10: The Jog Sign as the Day Muluk Martha J. Macri, October 2000
Report 11: T536 Xo, from Nahuatl Xochitli 'Flower' Martha J. Macri, October 2000
Report 12: Mutal, a Possible Mixe-Zoque Toponym Martha J. Macri, December 2000
Report 13: Another Example of T757 as the Day Muluk Martha J. Macri, April 2001
Report 14: The Inscription on Dumbarton Oaks Jade B-157.MAJ Matthew G. Looper, May 2001
Report 15: The 3-11-pih Title in Classic Maya Inscriptions Matthew G. Looper, December 2002
Report 16: The 'Manikin' Glyph Compound (T86:700) as a Reference to Headdresses Matthew G. Looper, December 2003
Report 17: The Meaning of the Maya Flapstaff Dance Matthew G. Looper, December 2003
Report 18: A "Macaw Face Headband" Dance on Site R Lintel 5 Matthew G. Looper, April 2004
Report 19: A Possible Alternative Way of Expressing Month Names in Maya Writing David F. Mora-Marín, June 2005
Report 20: A Tale of a Tail: The GII Prefix Michael J. Grofe, February 2006
Report 21: Glyph Y and GII: The Mirror and the Child Michael J. Grofe, February 2006
Report 22: Cascajal Block: Sign Ordering Martha J. Macri, October 2006
Report 23: A Possible Western Ch'olan Innovation Attested on Itzan Stela 17. David F. Mora-MarÃn, July 2007
Report 24: The History of Xkuy, an Unidentified Southeastern Center Matthew G. Looper, August 2007
Report 25: Stylistic Analysis of Dancing Maize Gods on Polychrome Ceramics Matthew G. Looper, April 2008
Report 26: Dated Monuments in the Hieroglyphic Database Martha J. Macri, December 2008
Report 27: Statements of Sociopolitical Network Interactions in Classic Maya Texts Martha J. Macri, Matthew G. Looper, Jessica L. Munson, June 2009
Open Access Journal: Open Journal of Philosophy
Open Journal of Philosophy
ISSN Online: 2163-9442
ISSN Online: 2163-9442
Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of philosophy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of philosophy.
All manuscripts must be prepared in English, and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will immediately appear online followed by printed hard copy. The journal publishes original papers including but not limited to the following fields:
Aesthetics Analytic Philosophy Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Art Aesthetics Bioethics Cognitive Science Comparative Philosophy West and Chinese Dialectics of Nature Eastern Philosophy Ecological Ethics Environmental Ethics Epistemology Ethical Principles Ethics Ethics Education Formal Logic Hermeneutics History of Chinese Philosophy History of Logic History of Western Philosophy Indian Philosophy Language Logic Logic Marxist Philosophy Medical Ethics Medieval Philosophy Metaphysics Modern Foreign Philosophy Ontology Other Subjects of Ethics Phenomenology Philosophy of Education Philosophy of Law Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Natural Science Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Psychology Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Social Science Philosophy of Technology Political Philosophy Professional Ethics Semiotics Social Philosophy Philosophy and Other Subjects We are also interested in: 1) Short Reports – 2-5 page papers where an author can either present an idea with theoretical background but has not yet completed the research needed for a complete paper or preliminary data; 2) Book Reviews – Comments and critiques.
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