February 10, 2014 - 1:01 PM - Νομισματικές συναντήσεις (École française d’Athènes σε συνεργασία με το Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών και τη Βελγική Αρχαιολογική Σχολή) Γιάννης ΣΤΟΓΙΑΣ (ΚΙΚΠΕ)
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Διαβαίνοντας τον Ελλήσποντο: κοπές αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων της Αβύδου
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Décret inédit d’Akraiphia en l’honneur de métèques
February 11, 2014 - 1:05 PM - Rencontres épigraphiques Yannis KALLIONTZIS (EFA)
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MESO 2015. The Ninth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe
The MESO2015 Committee invites speakers to submit abstracts for 10 minute papers and poster presentations on any subject related to Mesolithic archaeology.
The post MESO 2015. The Ninth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe appeared first on Αρχαιολογία Online.
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Augusto, il bimillenario della morte. Le mostre di Roma e Parigi
February 13, 2014 - 2:05 PM - Roman Seminar Dr. Annalisa Lo Monaco (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
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OMG!!! Loeb Classical Library Going Digital
This one is making the rounds of various lists and social media … the good news is that you’ll soon be able to walk around with a searchable, shareable version of the Loeb Classical Library on your iPad (and possibly other devices). Here’s the promo video:
More info here: Forthcoming in Fall 2014: The Digital Loeb Classical Library®
The bad news: I don’t see a price anywhere …
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Η βασιλεία στην αρχαία Ελλάδα: Από τον Αγαμέμνονα έως την Κλεοπάτρα
February 06, 2014 - 2:20 PM - Συνέδριο (6-8 Φεβρουαρίου)
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Η “Βόρεια Αυλή” στο ναό των λεόντων στην Πέτρα
February 13, 2014 - 2:26 PM - LECTURE Χρ. Κανελλόπουλος , Λέκτορας ΕΚΠΑ
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Practice and Method in Creating 3D Models in Archaeology
Never doubt my commitment to digital field practices in archaeology! Through driving slow and sleet and slow moving snow plows and flight delays and an Australian driving a rental car on a steep driveway, I made it to the University of Massachusetts and am safely ensconced in the nicely appointed on campus hotel.
This is my view:
Here’s a link to the Digital Archaeological Practice: A Workshop on the Use of Technology in the Field. The hashtag is #DAPW so you can follow us along on the social medias. There is a rumor that we might be live streaming the event as well. I’ll send the link if and when it becomes available.
This is my paper:
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Connecting the Dots
In the past couple of days, I came across two sets of images which seem to me to be, shall we say, connected. The first was via George Takei’s page on Facebook:
And the second was via Pinterest and Reddit, and explained visually what a theory is in the natural sciences and other academic disciplines:
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US Museums' About-face on Dodgy Acquisitions
Julia Halperin and Javier Pes, 'US museums' about-face on restitution' The Art Newspaper, Issue 254, February 2014
In January 2013, the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) revised its rules, requiring its 217 member museums to post details of any new acquisition of antiquities that lacks ironclad provenance stretching back to 1970, along with an image. In the past year, museum purchases of ancient art “have slowed to a trickle”, says Maxwell Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the chair of the AAMD task force on archaeological material and ancient art. Feldman admits that some potential donors are frustrated and dealers “very frustrated”. [...] Some critics feel US museums are now too willing to relinquish ownership.And most of those criticisms are coming of course precisely from the dealers who have all those objects they insist are licitly obtained from "old collections", but - by some small oversight- they do not seem to be able to find the documentation which convinced them of that when they bought them. The dealers' problems are increasing as more enlightened and responsible institutions are setting the bar even higher.
The MIA, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others, employ full-time provenance researchers to vet potential acquisitions and fill gaps in museum records. [...] “I’m not eager to sit back and wait for the mail, if I’m suspicious about something,” Maxwell Anderson says [...] “In the past museums would not have acted without concrete evidence that would stand up in a court of law,” Anderson says. “Today museums are amenable to looking at persuasive circumstantial evidence.” [...] Catalogue information can be minimal. David Gill, the British archaeologist and author of the blog Looting Matters, says: “We need to be more rigorous with documentation.”How long can the Saint Louis Museum of Art hold out over the Ka Nefer Nefer mask. A spokesman for the museum says its “position on its legal ownership of the mask has not changed”. But what about the moral position? Does that count for nothing in St Louis?
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I Unwittingly Manipulate A Citation Index
The list of misdemeanours that identifies an Open Access science journal as predatory and not bona fide is long. One of them is attempts on the part of the publisher and editors to manipulate the journal’s citation index, for instance by demanding that authors cite earlier work published in the same journal. If many scholars cite papers in a given journal, then that journal’s index improves — even if the citing only goes on inside the covers of the journal itself.
When I first read about this criterion I was a little embarrassed, because I do that all the time when editing Fornvännen. I don’t demand that authors cite earlier papers in our journal, but I often suggest that they should, because it’s part of my job as editor to make sure that authors acknowledge the latest relevant work in their fields. Still, ours is not a predatory operation.
To start with, few scholars in the Scandinavian humanities pay any attention to citation indices. Ours aren’t global fields of inquiry such as those covered by Nature and Science. I have no idea what Fornvännen’s citation index is and I don’t know how to find out. Our authors wouldn’t even notice if our citation index improved due to shenanigans.
Secondly, the number of journals in our fields is tiny. We’re not one of a hundred journals competing for the same papers. Thirdly, we practice green Open Access, so we don’t make any money off of authors, or at all actually. And fourthly and most importantly, Fornvännen is on its 109th year of uninterrupted publication and has no need to reinforce its brand. Within the parameters of a regionally delimited field in the humanites, for us to try to manipulate our citation index would be like Science or Nature doing it.
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Picture of the Week: Phoenix
(Post by Seth M. Rodriquez)
Continuing our series on "obscure sites" in the PLBL, today we come to a site so obscure that no biblical character ever visited this place, although it is mentioned in the book of Acts.
In an earlier post, we discussed the city of Myra where Paul briefly stopped as he was being transported to Rome. It was there that Paul and his escort of Roman soldiers boarded a grain ship that was traveling to Rome (Acts 27:5-6), but this ship was destined to never arrive. It made it as far as Fair Havens on the southern coast of Crete (Acts 27:8). By this time, the season was changing and winter was coming, but Fair Havens was not a good place to spend the winter because the wind blew right into the harbor. (See here for more information on that topic.) Although Paul warned them not to go any farther, the pilot, the boat owner, and the centurion decided to try to reach another city on the southern coast of Crete: the city of Phoenix (Acts. 27:9-12).
They never made it.
So Phoenix ends up on our list of obscure sites, instead of being trumpeted as the winter quarters of the Apostle Paul. Meanwhile, Paul and his companions were lost at sea and were eventually shipwrecked on a reef off the coast of Malta. Here is the site of Phoenix as it appears today (click on the photo for a higher resolution):
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There is one fascinating detail of the description of Phoenix in Acts 27. Luke tells us it is "a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest" (Acts 27:12). As you can see, the ancient city of Phoenix was built on a promontory, which in modern times is called Cape Mauros. The modern village of Loutro uses a beautiful harbor on the east side of Cape Mauros, located just over the hill in the left side of the picture above. However, in ancient times, the inhabitants of Phoenix used the harbor on the west, and there is still evidence today that the ancient western harbor had two inlets. The one that faces southwest still survives today. The one the faces northwest is harder to see because the waterline is much lower that it was in antiquity and because a rocky reef that extends west from the tip of the cape would have extended farther in the first century than it does now. This reef would have helped to form one side of the northwest inlet.
In the picture above (taken from the PowerPoint presentation included in Volume 13 of the PLBL) the site of Phoenix, the reef, and the southwest and northwest inlets of the harbor are marked. For more information on this topic, you can consult the annotations in that PowerPoint presentation, the information posted here on the BiblePlaces website, or an article by R. M. Ogilvie in the Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 9 (1958), pp. 308-314. The geographical details of Luke's accounts in the book of Acts have long been praised as extremely accurate. This is just one example among many that Luke knew what he was talking about.
This photo and map are available in Volume 13 of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands and is available here for $24 (with free shipping). Additional photos and information about Phoenix are available here on the BiblePlaces website, as well as photos and information about these other locations on the island of Crete: Fair Havens, Gortyn, and Knossos. For other posts in our series on "obscure sites in the PLBL," see here.![]()
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Continuing our series on "obscure sites" in the PLBL, today we come to a site so obscure that no biblical character ever visited this place, although it is mentioned in the book of Acts.
In an earlier post, we discussed the city of Myra where Paul briefly stopped as he was being transported to Rome. It was there that Paul and his escort of Roman soldiers boarded a grain ship that was traveling to Rome (Acts 27:5-6), but this ship was destined to never arrive. It made it as far as Fair Havens on the southern coast of Crete (Acts 27:8). By this time, the season was changing and winter was coming, but Fair Havens was not a good place to spend the winter because the wind blew right into the harbor. (See here for more information on that topic.) Although Paul warned them not to go any farther, the pilot, the boat owner, and the centurion decided to try to reach another city on the southern coast of Crete: the city of Phoenix (Acts. 27:9-12).
They never made it.
So Phoenix ends up on our list of obscure sites, instead of being trumpeted as the winter quarters of the Apostle Paul. Meanwhile, Paul and his companions were lost at sea and were eventually shipwrecked on a reef off the coast of Malta. Here is the site of Phoenix as it appears today (click on the photo for a higher resolution):
There is one fascinating detail of the description of Phoenix in Acts 27. Luke tells us it is "a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest" (Acts 27:12). As you can see, the ancient city of Phoenix was built on a promontory, which in modern times is called Cape Mauros. The modern village of Loutro uses a beautiful harbor on the east side of Cape Mauros, located just over the hill in the left side of the picture above. However, in ancient times, the inhabitants of Phoenix used the harbor on the west, and there is still evidence today that the ancient western harbor had two inlets. The one that faces southwest still survives today. The one the faces northwest is harder to see because the waterline is much lower that it was in antiquity and because a rocky reef that extends west from the tip of the cape would have extended farther in the first century than it does now. This reef would have helped to form one side of the northwest inlet.
In the picture above (taken from the PowerPoint presentation included in Volume 13 of the PLBL) the site of Phoenix, the reef, and the southwest and northwest inlets of the harbor are marked. For more information on this topic, you can consult the annotations in that PowerPoint presentation, the information posted here on the BiblePlaces website, or an article by R. M. Ogilvie in the Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 9 (1958), pp. 308-314. The geographical details of Luke's accounts in the book of Acts have long been praised as extremely accurate. This is just one example among many that Luke knew what he was talking about.
This photo and map are available in Volume 13 of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands and is available here for $24 (with free shipping). Additional photos and information about Phoenix are available here on the BiblePlaces website, as well as photos and information about these other locations on the island of Crete: Fair Havens, Gortyn, and Knossos. For other posts in our series on "obscure sites in the PLBL," see here.
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The Scientific Study of Religion: Building Bridges in Indianapolis
I was struck to see this call for papers for an academic conference on religion here in Indianapolis:
2014 Annual Meeting Call for Papers
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
October 31-November 2, 2014
JW Marriott, Indianapolis, IndianaBuilding Bridges
SSSR’s current web site notes:
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion was founded in 1949 by scholars in religion and social science. Its purpose is to stimulate and communicate significant scientific research on religious institutions and religious experience. Scholars from all fields of study who are interested in the scientific exploration of religion are invited to join the Society. Membership in the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion gives scholars the opportunity to share their research and ideas with other scholars.
Our theme for the 2014 conference is “Building Bridges” between all those interested in the study of religion. This includes any disciplines that focus upon the study of religion as well as scholars from the widest possible geographical and cultural areas. Our intent is to build bridges between disciplines and cultures that have become isolated and communicate only among themselves and not to others with similar interests but from different perspectives. Suggestions for contributions include:
• the study of religion in diverse cultures and regions (Eastern, Central Europe, Asia, South America, etc.)
• the study of religion within diverse faith traditions (Islam, Christianity, Paganism, NRMs, etc.)
• inter-disciplinary studies of religion (religious studies & the social and behavioral sciences, etc.)
• new disciplines that study religion (cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, etc.)
• methodology interaction in the study of religion (quantitative, qualitative, creative, etc.)
• the study of non-belief and atheism
All session and paper proposals must be submitted via the on-line submission system that will be available on the SSSR’s web site,http://www.sssrweb.org. In addition to the session proposer’s full contact information, a session proposal requires a session title and an abstract of not more than 150 words describing the goal of the session and how the proposer expects the session to contribute to scientific knowledge about religion. Individual paper proposals require the name(s) of the author(s), first author’s full contact information, an abstract of not more than 150 words that succinctly describes the question(s) motivating the research, the data and methods used, and what the paper contributes or expects to contribute to the knowledge or understanding of religion.
PLEASE NOTE NEW POLICY ON PREREGISTRATION OUTLINED BELOW.
Submissions Open: February 03, 2014 (see http://www.sssrweb.org)
Submissions Close: March 31, 2014
Decision Notification: April 30, 2014***In 2014, the SSSR/RRA Annual Meeting will require all program participants to preregister for the meeting, and to pay the non-refundable fees, by May 31, 2014. For submitted papers, the presenting author must pre-register, although co-authors not attending the meeting are not required to do so. For submitted sessions, the organizer and all presenters must pre-register and pre-pay. Online registration will open immediately after decision notifications are emailed. Those presenters and organizers who do not preregister will be dropped from the program.
Please direct questions to: Ralph Hood (UTC), Program Chair (Ralph-Hood@utc.edu)
Co-chair for Asia-Pacific region: Alphia Possamai-Inesedy (Alphia.Possamai@uws.edu.au)
Co-Chair for Western, Central, and Eastern Europe: Elisabeth Arweck (Elisabeth.arweck@warwick.ac.uk)
Special assistant for developing sessions on Islam: Besheer Mohamed (BMohamed@PewResearch.org)
Graduate Student Representative: Christopher F. Silver (Christopher-Silver@utc.edu)
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Promakhos – a movie about the Parthenon Marbles, Justice & Greece
John Vorhees is an US based lawyer who I have known for a number of years now as a campaigner for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens.
Last year, he introduced me to his sons John & Coerte, explaining that they intended to make a film about the reunification of the sculptures and were looking for actors to fill the lead roles.
Filming on the project started last month in Athens, for what promises to be a very interesting film, highlighting one approach that could be taken to handle the restitution of the sculptures.
Promotional image for the Promakhos movie
You can view the website for the film here. For the most up to date information, follow the facebook page that they have created for the film.
More information about the cast is available on IMDB.
The post Promakhos – a movie about the Parthenon Marbles, Justice & Greece appeared first on Elginism.
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The Doctor or The Pope?
From Dinosaur Comics. HT Judy Stack-Nelson on Facebook.
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Workshop Program: Intertextualité et humanités numériques
The workshop program is available here.
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Near East crossroad of the Palaeolithic now questioned
Dating of human remains from a site in the Near East throws into question widely-held ideas about how the first modern people spread across the world during the Palaeolithic era
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Copper Alloy head of either Nero or Claudius 1st Century...
Copper Alloy head of either Nero or Claudius
1st Century AD
Romano British
(Source: The British Museum)
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Ken Ham’s Dog Slide
Oops. This is the disadvantage for charlatans in the technological era. Someone can stop the video and zoom in, and track down the source of the image you used. And in this case, Ken Ham’s slide about dogs evolving after coming off the ark actually shows dogs diverging from 400,000 years ago.
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Samson and the Archangel Michael in the Ethiopian synaxarion
In the Gǝʕǝz reading in the synaxarion for Yäkkatit 12 is a commemoration of the Archangel Michael, specifically with how he is said to have been involved in the life of Samson, who is here called a giant. For the benefit of those studying Gǝʕǝz, here is the short passage, the text taken from PO 45: 528, 530 (ed. Colin), with some vocabulary and glosses.
በዛቲ፡ ዕለት፡ ተዝካሩ፡ ለመልአክ፡ ክቡር፡ ሊቀ፡ መላእክት፡ ሚካኤል። እስመ፡ በዛቲ፡ ዕለት፡ ፈነዎ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ሎቱ፡ ስብሐት፡ ለመልአክ፡ ክቡር፡ ሊቀ፡ መላእክት፡ ሚካኤል፡ ኀበ፡ ሶምሶን፡ ረዓይታዊ፡ ወረድኦ፡ እስከ፡ ሞኦሙ፡ ለሰብአ፡ ፍልስጥኤም፡ ሶበ፡ ፈቀዱ፡ ቀቲሎቶ፡ ወወሀቦ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ኃይለ፡ ላዕሌሆሙ፡ ወአጥፍኦሙ። ወቀተለ፡ እምኔሆሙ፡ በአሐቲ፡ ዕለት፡ ፲፻በመንከሰ፡ ዓድግ። ወሶበ፡ ጸምዓ፡ ወቀርበ፡ ለመዊት፡ እስተርአዮ፡ ሎቱ፡ ሚካኤል፡ ሊቀ፡ ምላእክት፡ ወአጽንዖ፡ ወአውሐዘ፡ ሎቱ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ማየ፡ እምዓፅመ፡ መንከሰ፡ ዓድግ፡ ወሰትየ፡ ወድኅነ። ወሶበ፡ ተጋብኡ፡ ሕዝበ፡ ፍልስጥኤም፡ ወተመክነዩ፡ ላዕሌሁ፡ ምስለ፡ ብእሲቱ፡ ወአዖርዎ፡ አዕይንቲሁ፡ ወሰድዎ፡ ውስተ፡ ቤተ፡ ጣዖቶሙ፡ ወአስተርአዮ፡ ሚካኤል፡ ወወሀቦ፡ ኃይለ፡ ወቀተሎሙ፡ ለኵሎሙ። ትንብልናሁ፡ የሀሉ፡ ምስሌነ፡ አሜን።
ፈነዎ፡ D to send (+ 3ms)
ሎቱ፡ስብሐት፡ “to whom be glory!”
ረዓይታዊ፡ giant
ረድኦ፡ to help (+ 3ms)
ሞኦሙ፡ to conquer (+ 3mp)
ፈቀዱ፡ to want
ወሀቦ፡ to give (+ 3ms)
አጥፍኦሙ፡ caus. to destroy (+ 3cp)
ቀተለ፡ to kill (we saw the converb above)
መንከሰ፡ዓድግ፡ jawbone of an ass (the second word also spelled with ʔ)
ጸምዓ፡ to thirst (√ṣmʔ, though the last here written as ʕ)
ቀርበ፡ለመዊት፡ “he was near to death”
እስተርአዮ፡ caus.-pass. to appear to (+ 3ms)
አጽንዖ፡ caus. to strengthen (+ 3ms)
አውሐዘ፡ caus. to make s.t. flow
ዓፅመ፡ bone
ሰትየ፡ to drink
ድኅነ፡ to be saved
ተጋብኡ፡ L pass.-refl. to gather together
ተመክነዩ፡ Q pass.-refl. to scheme
አዖርዎ፡ caus. √ʕwr to put out (someone’s eyes) (NB the pronominal suffix matches the suffix of the following word — 3ms, ref. to Samson — and not the following word itself.)
አዕይንቲሁ፡ pl. of ዐይን፡ eye (+ 3ms)
ወሰድዎ፡ to lead, take (+ 3mp)
ቤተ፡ጣዖቶሙ፡ “the temple of their idol”
ትንብልናሁ፡ intercession (+ 3ms)
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