ANCH6900 Documentary Evidence for Ancient History: Epigraphy, Numismatics and Papyrology: List of Online and Print Corpora, and Course Summary, Second Semester 2018, The University of Queensland (Australia). (original) (raw)

Studia epigraphica et historica in honorem Ioannis Pisonis

2024

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title\_7515.ahtml This book is dedicated to Professor Ioan Piso, one of the greatest epigraphists and historians of antiquity, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Professor Piso has been active for almost 60 years, publishing major inscriptional corpora from Roman Dacia as well as important studies on the elite, society, culture, economy and religion of Dacia and the Imperium Romanum. He gained international recognition not only through publications, but also through his participation in international conferences and projects, as well as through prestigious fellowships. He directed the scientific activities of many young scholars who later received international recognition. Professor Piso was actively involved in the civic life and was one of most important fighters for the preservation of cultural heritage in Romania. His moral principles, diligence and human qualities were unanimously appreciated. The volume comprises almost 40 studies written by scholars from Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. The main topics are epigraphy, archaeology, historiography, taking into account new epigraphic and historical documents as well as recent archaeological data. The book includes historiographic debates and new restitutions of medieval and modern documents on antiquity. In other articles, the authors provide new interpretations and original points of view on already known documents.

with F. Kemmers, 'Coin finds and the study of classical antiquity. Current practice and future directions of research', in: G. Pardini, N. Parise and F. Maraini (eds) Numismatica e Archeologia. Monete, stratigrafie e contesti. Dati a confronto (Rome: Quasar 2018), 675-679.

2018

EDIZIONI QUASAR e s t r a t t o Giacomo Pardini, Nicola Parise, Flavia Marani (a cura di), Numismatica e archeologia. Monete, stratigrafie e contesti. Dati a confronto. Workshop Internazionale di Numismatica (WIN) ISBN 978-88-7140-809-5 (seconda edizione) © Roma 2018, Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon srl via Ajaccio, 43 -00198 Roma -tel. 0685358444 fax 0685833591 e-mail: qn@edizioniquasar.it -www.edizioniquasar.it Volume stampato con il contributo di Progetto grafico della copertina Mirella Serlorenzi, Federica Lamonaca, Cecilia Parolini, Giacomo Pardini, Massimo Cibelli Progetto grafico e impaginazione Marco Tortelli Ottimizzazione Massimo Cibelli

How to document ancient artifacts as historical sources? The forgotten Accademia de lo studio de l’architettura, its realized program, and the early beginnings of academic archaeology (Rome c. 1535–1555)

While the beginnings of academic archeology usually are dated to the 18th century (cf. Schnapp et.al.) and earlier attemps are (dis)regarded as sporadic, non-systematic and methodologically non-academic «antiquarianism», the opposite seems to be true: In 1542, the Siennese humanist Claudio Tolomei drafted an astonishingly advanced program to edit, emendate and translate Vitruvius’s De architectura libri decem and to document all an- cient artifacts related to architecture (urban traces, buildings, ornaments, reliefs, sculptures, paintings, decorations, vases, coins, inscriptions, tools, machines, and aquaeducts). Recent research shows that Tolomei’s program was realized almost completely by the forgotten Accademia de lo Studio de l’architettura, active in Rome between ca. 1535 and 1555 under the leadership of Marcello Cervini and comprising some 170 persons. Their still by far understudied documentation covers tens of thousands of objects and inscriptions. These material sources are—presumably for the first time—recorded as they are, strictly separating between original remains and interpretation, correction or complement. By doing so and following the example of Alciato, and through consequent interdisciplinary workload-sharing in an international network, the academy executed research on a methodological level that was regained not before the late 19th century when many of the documented ancient objects had been damaged, destroyed or disappeared. Therefore, these documentations deserve the attention of modern scholars as most important sources on ancient material culture. The paper will present selected examples of this methodologically advanced kind of systematic documentation of material sources, their common characteristics, the persons behind the project and some of the most important publications that can now be traced back to this long overlooked common origin.

The Papyrology of the Roman Near East: A Survey

Journal of Roman Studies, 1995

Not all students of the Roman world may have realized that, following extensive discoveries in the last few years, Egypt has ceased to be the only part of the Empire from which there are now substantial numbers of documentary texts written on perishable materials. This article is intended as a survey and hand-list of the rapidly-growing ‘papyrological’ material from the Roman Near East. As is normal, ‘papyrology’ is taken to include also any writing in ink on portable, and normally perishable, materials: parchment, wood, and leather, as well as on fragments of pottery (ostraka). The area concerned is that covered by the Roman provinces of Syria (divided in the 190s into ‘Syria Coele’ and ‘Syria Phoenice’); Mesopotamia (also created, by conquest, in the 190s); Arabia; and Judaea, which in the 130s became ‘Syria Palaestina’. These administrative divisions are valid for the majority of the material, which belongs to the first, second and third centuries. For the earlier part of the per...