Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Virtual Library on Ancient and Modern Egypt

[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2010. Updated 31 December 2014]

Virtual Library on ancient and modern Egypt
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Les fonds documentaires sur l’Égypte, de l’Antiquité à l’époque contemporaine, sont d’une très grande richesse. Des centaines de milliers de pièces sont conservées dans les collections publiques et privées : objets archéologiques, manuscrits, photographies, récits de voyages, cartes géographiques,  dessins, estampes, tissus, journaux intimes ou de campagnes, mémoires et correspondances, archives diplomatiques et commerciales, etc.

Plusieurs établissements de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur possèdent de remarquables ensembles de documents sur l’Égypte, E-CORPUS en présente déjà quelques uns, d’autres viendront compléter virtuellement cette vaste  source d’informations, en une bibliothèque « sans murs », qu’alimentent également les fonds égyptiens de plusieurs établissements en France et à l’étranger.

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E-CORPUS
E-CORPUS e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.


Call for Papers: Open Library of the Humanities (OLH) Journal

Open Library of the Humanities (OLH) Journal
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We are very pleased to announce that the OLH is now open for submissions to its new megajournal, which covers the humanities disciplines. The submission platform, developed by Ubiquity Press, is based upon PKP's excellent Open Journal Systems, but has been extensively modified to accommodate the editorial flow that is needed in a highly-distributed, large-scale system. We intend to release the source code for these modifications under an open license in the near future.
 
The OLH Editorial Team is made up of a network of leading academics from the international scholarly community, with Section Editors covering all of the humanities disciplines, including:
  • History
  • Theology & Religious Studies
  • Literature & Languages
  • Modern & Ancient Languages
  • Philosophy
  • Cultural Studies & Critical Theory
  • Film, TV & Media Studies
  • Musicology, Drama & Performance
  • Classics
  • Art, Design & Art History
  • Legal Theory
  • Digital Humanities
  • Politics & Political Theory
We are also pleased to say that negotiations on the set of initial journals that will share an economy of scale and our economic model are well underway. More announcements on this front will be forthcoming in the near future. In the meantime, we would ask those who pledged articles to now begin to submit your work! We are aiming for a launch next year between May and Summer 2015. Thank you for your ongoing support in the creation of an open research and dissemination ecosystem for the humanities!
 

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Goodell/ A School Grammar of Attic Greek

Goodell/ A School Grammar of Attic Greek
Thomas Dwight Goodell, A School Grammar of Attic Greek (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902). The work was scanned by the Internet Archive. This version was created in 2013­–2014 with support from the Roberts Fund for Classical Studies and the Mellon Fund for Digital Humanities at Dickinson College. Bruce Robertson of Mont Allison University performed the OCR using Rigaudon, the output of which is available on Lace. At Dickinson the OCR output was edited and the XML and HTML pages created by Christina Errico. Ryan Burke created the web interface, and Meagan Ayer edited and corrected the HTML pages. The content is freely available for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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Monday, December 29, 2014

Now Available Online – Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus


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The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner.
 
The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?
You can order a printed copy of the book through Harvard University Press
Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, eds. Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus
Foreword. Leonard Muellner
Introduction. Ioanna Papadopoulou, Testing Our Tools: Open Questions on the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 1. Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, Some Desiderata in the Study of the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 2. Alberto Bernabé, On the Rites Described and Commented Upon in the Derveni Papyrus, Columns I–VI
Chapter 3. Franco Ferrari, Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 4. Fritz Graf, Derveni and Ritual
Chapter 5. Sarah Iles Johnston, Divination in the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 6. Walter Burkert, How to Learn about Souls: The Derveni Papyrus and Democritus
Chapter 7. Jeffrey Rusten, Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Presocratics and Alexandrians
Chapter 8. Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos, The Derveni Papyrus and the Bacchic-Orphic Epistomia
Chapter 9. Claude Calame, The Derveni Papyrus between the Power of Spoken Language and Written Practice: Pragmatics of Initiation in an Orpheus Poem and Its Commentary
Chapter 10. Anton Bierl, “Riddles over Riddles”: “Mysterious” and “Symbolic” (Inter)textual Strategies: The Problem of Language in the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 11. Evina Sistakou, Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 12. David Sider, The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus
Chapter 13. Richard Hunter, The Garland of Hippolytus




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Open Access Journal: Kalakorikos: Revista para el estudio, defensa, protección y divulgación del patrimonio histórico, artístico y cultural de Calahorra y su entorno

Kalakorikos: Revista para el estudio, defensa, protección y divulgación del patrimonio histórico, artístico y cultural de Calahorra y su entorno
ISSN: 1137-0572
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KALAKORIKOS es el fruto de una larga carrera de concienciación y de lucha en favor del patrimonio histórico-artístico calagurritano por parte de la Asociación Amigos de la Historia de Calahorra. Sus objetivos principales son difundir la historia de Calahorra y su comarca, promover estudios e investigaciones, actuar en defensa del patrimonio arqueológico, histórico, artístico y cultural de esta ciudad. La revista admite colaboraciones de investigadores que centren su ámbito de trabajo en cualquier aspecto vinculado con Calahorra y su comarca. 
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

BODO : Bibel+Orient Datenbank Online

BODO : Bibel+Orient Datenbank Online
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The BIBLE+ORIENT Museum Database is a web based database created for the electronic management of ancient Near Eastern image and object data. The numerous data fields enable not only a precise cataloging of the museum inventory but also systematic searches for purposes of scientific research. Furthermore, the database admits the consultation of digitalized catalogs of the collections, the management of image series (e.g. slide shows), the making available of dynamic e-Learning content and the fast creation of PowerPoint presentations as well as publications.

The user has at his disposal images in an unlimited amount of views for each object, each in the following four formats: thumbnail, normal size, PowerPoint format and print resolution.

The idea of an internet database allows not only world wide access but also stimulates the cooperation between partners who want to share the data with one another. The database was designed so that image and object data from an unlimited number of institutions and private persons can be managed. Currently, we are working on national, European and global levels to include into our database objects from other iconographically relevant collections as well.

System zur Erfassung von Ritualszenen in Altägyptischen Tempeln (SERaT)

System zur Erfassung von Ritualszenen in Altägyptischen Tempeln (SERaT)
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

P.Hawara: The Hawara Papyri

P.Hawara
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The Hawara Papyri

William Flinders Petrie excavated at Hawara in 1888. After working in Medinet el-Fayum (Arsinoe) and Biahmu, he moved on to the site south of Arsinoe and took the 60 workers he had already employed at the former sites with him. The results of his excavations at Hawara were published in 1889 in his "Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe". The papyrological material said to have been found at Hawara was studied by Prof. Sayce and published on pages 24 to 37 of that volume. Sayce gave a general description of the great papyrus roll which contains parts of books 1 and 2 of the Iliad (the "Hawara Homer"), emphasizing the importance of the variants, and edited the texts of the most complete documents, some of them in a very preliminary way.

J. G. Milne undertook a new edition of 37 of these papyri in the Archiv für Papyrusforschung 5, 1913, 378-397. He did not work on the Hawara Homer but concentrated on the smaller literary texts and gave a proper publication of some more documents. The texts which were not reconsidered in Milne's publication were reprinted in Sammelbuch I (nos. 5220, 5223, 5224).

When Flinders Petrie brought his finds back to England, the material was divided between several institutions. The Hawara Homer was given to the Bodleian Library in Oxford (where it still is today), while all the other papyrological material stayed in London and was given to the Department of Egyptology at University College London. In 1948, the young professor of Papyrology, Eric Turner received permission from the then Professor of Egyptology, J. Czerny, to take the Hawara papyri to the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL and to keep them there in his custody. A letter from 16 June 1949 confirms the transfer of the papyri. They were kept in a secret place in the department for more than 50 years.

As usual, Flinders Petrie did not give precise indications, as to where the papyri were found on the site. He just mentions that the region north of the pyramid "was the usual place for burials in the early Roman period , when gilt cartonnage busts were used. Papyri from the Ist and IInd cent. AD are also usual in the soil here, and for some way north" (p. 8, no. 11; cf. the map on plate XXV in the book).
When the papyri arrived in London they were "ironed" by Petrie's friend, Mr. Spurrell who also helped in "unpacking, arranging, and managing the collections" (p. 4). It must have happened then that all the pieces were glued onto greyish cardboard. When writing was distiguishable on the back of the papyri, windows were cut out to make the letters (at least in part) visible. In some instances, Petrie added small notes in pencil about find-spots. In later years, Walter Cockle removed some of the papyri from their cardboards and put them under glass. The cardboard frames of these pieces were nevertheless kept.

It is a desideratum to make digital images of at least the published papyri accessible on the internet. None of the Hawara papyri (except for single columns of the Hawara Homer, Hawara epigrams, and the Periegesis of Attica), have ever been shown in photographs.


Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Archaeological Sites in Israel

An index of archeological sites in Israel
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Cumulative Table of Contents
Akko  - The Maritime Capital of the Crusader Kingdom
Apollonia-Arsuf
 - A Crusader City and Fortress on the Mediterreanean Coast
Arad
 - Canaanite city and Israelite citadel in the Negev
Avdat
 - A Nabatean City in the Negev
Banyas
 - Cult Center of the God Pan
Beer Shema
 - The Church of St. Stephen
Be'er Sheva
 - Prehistoric Dwelling Sites
Be'er Sheva
 - Border of the Kingdom of Judah
Beit Alpha
 - An Ancient Synagogue with a splendid Mosaic Floor
Beit She'an
 - A Biblical City and Scythopolis- A Roman-Byzantine City
Beit She'arim
 - The Jewish necropolis of the Roman Period
Beit Shemesh
 - Biblical city on the border between Judah and Philistia
Belvoir
 - A Crusader Fortress Overlooking the Jordan Valley
Bethsaida
 - Ancient Fishing Village on shore of the Sea of Galilee
Byzantine Churches in the Negev

Caesarea
 - from Roman City to Crusader Fortress
Capernaum
 - City of Jesus and its Jewish Synagogue
The Carmel Caves
 - Dwellings of Prehistoric Man
Cave of the Ereasure
 - A Hoard of Metal Objects from the Chalcolithic Period
The Church of the Seat of Mary (Kathisma)
 
Dan
 - Biblical City
The Eilat Region
 - Southern Gateway
Ein Gedi
 - An Ancient Oasis Settlement
Ein Hatzeva
 - Fortress on the Border with Edom
Ekron
 - a Philistine City
Gamala
 - Jewish City on the Golan
Gezer
 - A Canaanite City and Royal Solomonic City
Golan
 - A Unique Chalcolithic culture
Hamat Gader
 - Baths of Medicinal Hot Springs
Hatzor
 - "The Head of all those Kingdoms"
Herodium
 - King Herod's Palace-Fortress
Interesting Archeological Finds
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Jericho
 - The Winter Palace of King Herod
Jerusalem
 - Binyane Ha'uma: A Ceramics Workshop of the Tenth Roman Legion
Jerusalem
 - Burial Sites
Jerusalem
 - The Citadel
Jerusalem
 - City of David
Jerusalem
 - Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Jerusalem
 - Herodian Street
Jerusalem
 - Elaborate buildings of the Mamluk Period
Jerusalem
 - Nea Church and Cardo
Jerusalem
 - Northern Gate of Aelia Capitolina
Jerusalem
 - Silver Plaques
Jerusalem
 - Pomegranate from Solomonic Temple
Jerusalem
 - Umayyad Center and Palaces
Jerusalem
 - The Upper City during the Second Temple Period
Jerusalem
 - Water Systems of Biblical Times
Jerusalem
 - Western Wall and its Tunnels
Katzrin
 - A Village in the Golan
Kiryat Sefer
 - A Synagogue in a Jewish Village of the Second Temple Period
Kursi
 - Christian Monastery
Lachish  - Royal City of the Kingdom of Judah
Masada  - Desert Fortress Overlooking the Dead Sea
Megiddo  - The Solomonic "Chariot City"
The Monastery of Martyrius
Nahal Refa'im  - Canaanite Bronze Age villages near Jerusalem
Nebi Samwil  - Site of a Biblical Town and a Crusader Fortress
The Nimrod Fortress  - Muslim Stronghold on Golan
Qumran  - Center of a Jewish Sect of the Second Temple period and the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Caves nearby
Ramat Rahel  - A Royal Citadel and a Palace of the Last Kings of Judah
Ramla  - Arab Capital of the Province of Palestine
Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 2 (1998)

Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 3 (1998)

Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 4 (1999)

Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 5 (1999)

Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 6 (2000)

Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 7 (2001)

Recent archeological discoveries
   - Archeological Sites in Israel - No. 8 (2003)

Rogem Hiri
The Roman Boat from the Sea of Galilee
Sha'ar Hagolan  - Neolithic Village
Tabgha  - Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes
Tel Qasile  - A Philistine Settlement with a Temple
Tiberias  - Anchor Church
Timna  - Valley of the Ancient Copper Mines
Underwater exploration
Yodefat  - A Town in Galilee
Zippori  - Galilee