“Romanization”? or, why flog a dead horse?

By Andrew Merryweather and Jonathan Prag

Digressus, Vol 2 (2002)

Introduction: ‘I admit that I have come to detest the word “Romanization”…’. Nonetheless the bibliography continues to grow. The word itself encompasses a host of well-rehearsed historiographical problems. In an attempt to avoid these, scholars define the term ever more broadly (and weakly). As a result, the word comes to describe a debate which embraces a continually growing range of subjects. And this despite claims that part of the word’s value lies in the convenient way in which it signposts the debate. The horse still breathes.

Rather than trying to define the term itself, it seems more important to define the area of the debate with which one is concerned. As so often, in the post-modern era, the grand narratives are being re-evaluated. At the heart of this process is an emphasis on the local, on context, on patterns of heterogeneity (an oxymoron which seems to encapsulate the problem of Romanization). But this focus also generates uncertainty as to how new syntheses might be achieved. We offer ‘yet another’ conference on the R-word, firstly in the belief that there are areas which remain understudied; and secondly because we are struck by the curious degree of repetition, even stagnation, within the debate.

Click here to read this article from Digressus

Professor Terry Brown, working in partnership with Professor Charlotte Roberts from Durham University, used a next generation sequencing approach, including hybridization capture technology, to identify tuberculosis genes in a 19^th century female skeleton found in a crypt in Leeds.

Their study is part of wider research into the identification of strains of TB in skeletons dating from 100 AD to the late 19th century. It’s hoped that understanding how the disease has evolved over time will help improve treatments and vaccines. TB rates have been increasing around the world, and it’s estimated that one third of the world’s population has latent TB. After HIV it kills more people than any other infectious disease.

Certain strains of TB affect the sufferer’s bones, especially in the spine. The marks made by the disease remain evident on the bones long after the person’s death. It’s this evidence that Professor Roberts used to find suitable skeletons to screen for tuberculosis genes.

500 skeletons from across Europe

She sourced 500 skeletons from across Europe that showed evidence of TB dating from the Roman period to the 19^th century. Bone samples from these skeletons were screened for TB DNA, and of those 100 were chosen for this particular study.

Professor Roberts explains: “So many skeletons were needed as it’s very hard to tell if any DNA will have survived in the bones. You don’t really know if there will be any present until you start screening and in the past that has been a lengthy process.”

Professor Terry Brown then took on the search for TB DNA in the skeletons. Each small section of bone was ground up and placed in a solution. That was then put in a special machine which captured every gene sequence in the DNA. Millions of sequences were captured and sent to a computer.

Professor Brown and his team then searched for the gene sequences for tuberculosis. Because it is a bacterial disease the bacteria’s DNA can remain in the bones after death.

Talking about the process Professor Brown said: “Previously we could only scan the bone sample for specific genes. We wouldn’t see everything that was there which meant we could easily miss other genetic information that could be relevant. Using the hybridization screening meant we could search for different strains of TB, not just one.”

About 280 bits of sequence in the DNA were found to match known tuberculosis genes. The data placed the historic strain of TB in a group that is uncommon today, but was known to have been present in North America in the 19^th century. In fact it was found to be very similar to a strain recorded in a tuberculosis patient in New York in 1905.

Discussing the results Professor Brown says: “The fact that this particular strain of TB was found in both North America and in the skeleton from 19^th century Yorkshire is not necessarily unusual. There were many migrants from Britain to America during the 19^th century so it makes sense that TB strains were spread.”

Downsides of hybridization

One of the downsides of hybridization capture identified by the researchers in this study was that it is possible to mistakenly identify DNA. Because it looks at all the sequences across the sample it may identify DNA that isn’t from the bone, but actually from the surrounding soil or environment where the skeleton was buried.

In this study the results were checked using the more traditional method of polymerase chain reactions and were found to be accurate. The researchers concluded that using hybridization capture and next generation gene sequencing is an accurate and effective way to obtain detailed genotypes of ancient varieties of tuberculosis. It could potentially be used to study other diseases. Their findings have been published in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Roberts says: “We’re really pleased with the results of this study and that the technology works. It will save a lot of time in the future. We now hope to publish more of the huge amounts of data we have acquired from the sequencing”

The scientists hope to compare their results with similar studies being done in America to assess what tuberculosis strains have been identified there. They’re interested in studying which strains were brought to the country by migrants and what impact those had on the native strains of the disease.

Source: University of  Manchester

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“She is a mass of riddles”: Julia Augusta Agrippina and the sources

By Peter Keegan

Ancient history: resources for teachers, Vol. 37, No. 2, (2007)

Introduction: Agrippina the Younger fascinated ancient writers, and modern scholars continue to tell her story with relish. From the time of Tacitus to the present, her forceful personality and extensive influence captured the imagination of historians.

The literary tradition depicts her as a woman of authority, in all but name head of Rome’s body politic. As a consequence, Agrippina’s portrait is universally hostile. Because women in Roman society were excluded from gaining or exercising such power, acquiring it must have come through sharp practice, chicanery, deception, sexual artifice, and even murder. As Gruen observes:

[Agrippina] is represented as the consummate schemer, lusting after power, manipulating men and women to her ends, and when thwarted, retaliating with calculated ruthlessness. Modern treatments, on the whole follow that lead.

Taking the recent work of the late Judith Ginsberg as a guide, this article will refrain from historical reconstructions, focusing instead on the sources themselves, both literary and material, to examine the depictions of Agrippina. It will briefly explore the rhetorical conventions, the historiographical framework, and the visual representations comprising Agrippina’s image. The objective is to outline the patterns of literary and material representation and fabrication, reflecting in turn the ideas and purposes of writers and artists who supported or opposed Julio-Claudian rule.

Click here to read this article from Macquarie University

Israel’s left-wing newspaper, Haaretz, reports on an agreement between Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority for a new excavation in the City of David.

A right-wing organization active in settling Jews in controversial parts of East Jerusalem, is providing the funds for excavations by Tel Aviv University archaeologists on a contentious site near the City of David. 

The excavations funded by the Elad organization have drawn the ire of Palestinian residents, as well as international and Israeli left-wing organizations. Some archaeologists say that the methodology – tunneling under village houses, and the speed at which the excavations are to be performed – violates accepted professional norms.

This is the first time a university has decided to formally take part project in such an excavation. The dig will be conducted by Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology in coordination with the Israel Antiquities Authority, which will transfer funds from Elad to the university.

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The excavation plans envisions work in what is known as area E, in the lowest part of the park, adjacent to the El-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, where the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to establish a park called "King's Garden."

Critics question the role of Elad in the dig. “It's hard to believe that the Antiques [sic] Authority, with its meager budget, has suddenly found sources to fund someone else's projects,” says archaeologist Yoni Mizrachi of Emek Shaveh. 

TAU archaeologist Prof. Rafael Greenberg, another Emek Shaveh activist, is more outspoken: “This is a clear politicization of research. Whoever is familiar with the area is aware that all the diggings are annexed to Elad, supervised by Elad, and separate from the site of the City of David. In practice, the project is to become part of Elad's settlement drive.”

You can decide who is guilty of the “politicization of research.” Greenberg is wrong to imply that the archaeologists working in the City of David are forced to produce results compatible with a right-wing agenda. But you can understand why it’s driving the left-wingers nuts that one of their own would join the “enemy.”

The full article provides responses by Tel Aviv University and Elad.

Area E in the City of David. View to the north.
Photo from the Jerusalem volume.

Archaeologists in Bali report the discovery of the remains of the largest Hindu temple, dating to the 13-15th centuries.

Bali’s ‘largest’ ancient Hindu temple discovered
AFP via The Star, 25 October 2012

Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the Indonesian island, archaeologists said.

The workers were digging a drain in the island’s capital Denpasar at a Hindu study centre when they came across the remains of the stone temple.

They reported the discovery to the Bali archaeology office, which then unearthed substantial foundations of a structure that the excavation team believes dates from around the 13th to 15th centuries.

Full story here.

Uti Tabes Invaserat
Decay, Disintegration, and Aftermath in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Graduate Conference
Sponsored by the departments of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, History, the Archaeology Program, and the Program on Freedom and Free Societies

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Keynote Speaker:Michael Fronda, McGill University

Call for Papers

From Hesiod’s grim assessment of the “Ages of Man” to Tacitus’ harsh appraisal of Roman morality, the concept of decay loomed large in the minds of ancient authors. To these observers, the present usually failed to measure up to the past—and the future seemed likely to be even worse. The archaeological record sometimes illustrates the exaggeration in these narratives; at other times, however, it shows the palpable effect that the material and social aftermath of political disintegration had on daily life. The realms of science and knowledge were likewise affected by decay either directly—such as the obsolescence of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing—or by preoccupation with its prevention—as in mummification and embalming practices.

This conference will examine the role of decay—both real and perceived—in the literature, history, and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean from the Bronze Age through the Late Antique period.  We welcome papers critically addressing topics such as (but not limited to):

• the rhetoric of decadence
• the erosion of moral and ethical traditions
• the disintegration of political institutions or social relations
• the effect of the aftermath of empire on social groups
• scientific or material aspects of decay
• the obsolescence of crafting or artistic techniques
• the degradation of knowledge, forms of writing, language, or literary styles

Instructions for Submission

Please send anonymous abstracts as an attachment to decayconference.cornell@gmail.comby December 15, 2012.  In the body of the e-mail, please provide your name, institution, and paper title.  Abstracts should be approximately 250 words in length.  Please submit abstracts as attachments in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.  Each paper will be allotted approximately 20 minutes for presentation and should be written for an audience of graduate students and faculty in fields related to the ancient Mediterranean world.  Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-January.

Accepted papers will receive an award of $100 to be used toward travel costs agreed in advance, furnished by the Department of Classics.

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• International: A top journal with an international readership and reputation.
• National: An excellent journal of national scope.
• Regional: A journal with a regional focus. These are far more important in archaeology than in other fields, since our research has a strong place-orientation and since we have to publish a lot of data reports.
• Semi-journal: A publication whose status as peer-reviewed is uncertain.
• Newsletter: A non-peer-reviewed serial publication.

Non-English language journals

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Edited volumes

• Why are so many edited volumes worthless?
• Buried in an edited volume, or
• Sloppy editing of edited volumes.

I’ve got a friend of a friend looking for a room to share with a couple of other people for SBL to help keep costs down.  If you are looking for someone to add or would be willing to have someone else, give me a shout out in the comments and I’ll pass along your information.  Thanks!

New Open Access Article- Creating a Successful Archaeology Month Poster

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© Sack of Rome in 410 by Alaric the King of the Goths. Miniature from 15th Century.
Courtesy of Wikipedia

Relateds:

• Why Did Rome Fall?
• The Fall of Rome: Causes of the Fall of Rome, by Adrian Dorrington
• The Rise of Kingdoms in the Roman Empire
• What Is Meant by the Term 'Roman Empire'?

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Do You Think You Know All the Reasons for Rome's Fall? originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Friday, October 26th, 2012 at 15:46:03.

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Yesterday I described how I was going to do an unconference in my Historian’s Craft class. I’ve storified the results here:

http://storify.com/electricarchaeo/the-classroom-unconference-in-hist2809

Click here to view the embedded video.

I was telling a colleague about the fact that there are Mandaean baptisms on YouTube, and she did a search and found this really nice video I had not seen before, which includes Mandaeans talking about the meaning of baptism for them.

PVCRS is very much a companion publication to our ejournal New Voices in Classical Reception Studies and our Eseminar Archive. All add to the range of resources that are made freely available on the Open University Reception of Classical Texts Research Project website. New Voices provides a refereed platform for newer researchers to publish their work. The Eseminar Archive makes available the records of the annual seminar that discusses all aspects of classical reception. Practitioners' Voices is a response to the growing awareness that Classical Reception research has to recognise the full range of processes that shape the impact of classical material in new contexts. Its aim is to provide a Forum in which theatre directors, designers, dramaturgs, actors, poets, translators, and all involved in the creative practices that are so crucial to classical receptions can discuss the relationship between their work and the classical texts, themes and contexts on which they draw.

We hope that the Forum will also lead to further dialogue between creative practitioners and critics and academics (who are after all also practitioners).

Issue 3 (2012)

Editor's Introduction

The 2012 issue of Practitioners’ Voices in Classical Reception Studies focuses on practitioners working with visual and material culture. The classical past continues to be a rich source of inspiration for artists working all over the world, and it is within the field of the visual arts that we find some of the most impassioned debates about the role of antiquity in contemporary culture. University academics are also becoming increasingly interested in how modern artists have re-worked classical ideas, texts and images, and the last year has seen the publication of a number of books and articles on the topic. All of this suggests that the relationship between contemporary art and classical culture deserves a moment of special scrutiny, and that an exploration of this theme might be of interest not just to students of classical reception, but to all those academics, critics and creative artists engaged in debates about contemporary art’s entanglement with the past.
The five interviews included in this issue were recorded between February 2011 and April 2012.  As even the brief summaries below intimate, each of the practitioners who have contributed to the issue engages with different aspects of Greek and/or Roman antiquity, using different materials and techniques, while drawing on different literary and visual sources. Taken together, their work demonstrates the enormous range and depth of classical references in contemporary visual and material culture - references which enable even the most progressive and innovative of artworks to ‘thunder back through the ages’ (to borrow Craig Hamilton’s evocative phrase).
Thanks are due to all the practitioners who contributed interviews and generously allowed us to reproduce images of their work, and to Trish Cashen for technical and creative help.
Jessica Hughes, October 2012 

Christie Brown

Christie Brown is an artist and Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster, London. In this interview, recorded in her studio in March 2011, we talk about the influence of classical antiquity on her work, focussing on number of key pieces including the Cast of Characters (1995), Fragments of Narrative (2000) and Between the Dog and the Wolf (2003).

 

Richard Shirley Smith

The artist Richard Shirley Smith was born in Hampstead in 1935 and was educated at Harrow School, before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art and in Rome. In this interview, which took place at the artist’s home and studio in Marlborough, we talk about the role that classical antiquity has played in his work, particularly his many book illustrations and paintings. 

Norman McBeath and Robert Crawford

Norman McBeath is an independent photographer, based in Edinburgh, whose work can be seen in the National Portrait Galleries of England and Scotland. Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews and one of the country’s leading poets. In this interview they talk about their 2011 book Simonides, which features twenty-five black and white, duotone, photographs paired with texts translated from ancient Greek into Scots (and English). The book was published to coincide with an exhibition entitled Body Bags/Simonides which was shown at the Edinburgh College of Art as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.

Marian Maguire

Marian Maguire was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1962, and studied at the Ilam School of Art, University of Canterbury and the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, USA. Alongside making her own work she has pursued a career as a collaborative master printer, in which capacity she has printed the work of some of New Zealand’s leading artists. In 1996 established PaperGraphica, a print studio and gallery which she and fellow artist Nigel Buxton jointly direct. Currently Maguire works almost full-time on her own work.  

Craig Hamilton

Craig Hamilton is one of Britain’s leading classical architects. He was born in 1961 in South Africa, and studied architecture at the University of Natal. He has lived in Britain since 1986. In 1991 he formed the practice Craig Hamilton Architects, which he directs together with his wife, the artist Diana Hulton. The practice specialises in progressive classical design and the repair and sensitive extension of historic buildings; their work encompasses country houses, public buildings, sacred buildings and monuments. This interview took place at Coed Mawr farm, Craig and Diana’s home in the Welsh hills.  

Issue 2 (2010)

featuring Josephine Balmer, Maureen Almond, Oliver Taplin, Martin Wylde, Helen Eastman, Michael Ewans and Ian Ruffell.

Issue 1 (2007)

featuring Dorinda Hulton, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, David Stuttard and David Fitzpatrick

Information signalée par Morgane Cariou

Savoirs, pratiques et transmissions du Moyen Âge à nos jours

Journée d'études des doctorants de l'équipe SAPRAT

9H : Ouverture de la journée par Danielle JACQUART, doyen de la IVe section, et Brigitte MONDRAIN, directrice de l'équipe SAPRAT.
Session sous la présidence de Danielle JACQUART.
9H15 : Laetitia LOVICONI LAMARQUE : « Constitution et transmission des savoirs médicaux relatifs aux affections respiratoires : apport des commentaires médiévaux au Canon d'Avicenne.»
9H45 : Morgane CARIOU : « La transmission des Halieutiques d'Oppien de Cilicie aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles à Constantinople.»
10H15 : Christelle CHAILLOU : « Des sources musicales manuscrites à leur interprétation : le cas des chansonniers de troubadours. »

Pause

Session sous la présidence de Fabio ZINELLI.
11H15 : Anna Maria di FABRIZIO : « L'étude du français d'Outremer et la linguistique de contact ».
11H45 : Karell MARCHAND : «La transmission et le travail du linguiste dans une langue non-écrite. »

Déjeuner

Session sous la présidence de Brigitte MONDRAIN.
14H : Ilario MOSCA : «La bibliothèque du marchand florentin dans le seconde moitié du XVIe siècle : considérations sur un ‘catalogue' inédit ».
14H30 : Pauline LAFILLE : « La représentation de la bataille dans la peinture italienne du XVIe siècle : entre culture militaire et pratiques artistiques. »
15H : Antonin DURAND : « Du savoir mathématique à la pratique politique : les mathématiciens italiens dans la vie politique (1848-1915).»

Pause

Session sous la présidence de Fabio ZINELLI.
15H45 : Marie BOSSAERT : « Etudier le turc ottoman en Italie : le cas de l'Orientale de Naples (1890-1928).»
16H15 : Thomas COCANO : « La question de la production monétaire en Angleterre au cours du Long Eighteenth-Century (1660-1760).»

Lieu de la manifestation : Salle Fabri de Peiresc 2, rue Vivienne. 75002 PARIS
Organisation : Morgane Cariou (Equipe SAPRAT, EPHE)
Contact : morgane.cariou@ephe.sorbonne.fr

Information signalée par Yannick Durbec

Homère épigrammatique

Présences des épopées archaïques dans les traditions épigrammatiques grecques et latines

Colloque international
« Traditions épiques et poésie épigrammatique.
Présence des épopées archaïques dans les épigrammes grecques et latines »
(Y. Durbec, D. Pralon, F. Trajber)

Salle George Duby, MMSH, Aix-Marseille Université
Mercredi 7, jeudi 8 et vendredi 9 novembre 2012




Mercredi 7 novembre 2012

9h-9h30 accueil
Première séance — Présidence : Annette Harder
9h30-10h F. Trajber (Aix-Marseille Université, CPAF) :
« Les épigrammes des scholiastes et des commentateurs d'Homère »
10h-10h30 E. Cingano (Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia) :
« Le corpus des épigrammes épigraphiques corinthiens de l'époque archaïque face à la tradition épique »
10h30-11h pause
11h-11h30 D. Sider (New-York University) :
« Simonides and the Language of Heroes »
11h30-12h E. Magnelli (Università degli studi di Firenze) :
« Gli ‘epigrammi omerici' : una riconsiderazione »

Deuxième séance — Présidence : Peter Bing
14h-14h30 A. Petrovic (Durham University) :
« Ideology of the Homeric society and public monuments of Classical period »
14h30-15h R. Höschele (University of Toronto) :
« En tête-à-tête avec Homère : deux cycles épigrammatiques de la villa d'Élien »
15h-15h30 V. Gigante Lanzara (Naples) :
« L'incidenza dei realia nel racconto epico e nella cornice epigrammatica »
15h30-16h pause
16h-16h30 Y. Durbec (CPAF) :
« Les dédicaces d'armes dans la poésie épigrammatique »
16h30-17h A. Harder (University of Groningen) :
« Big heroes in a small format »
17h-17h30 discussions


Jeudi 8 novembre 2012

Troisième séance — Présidence : Kathryn Gutzwiller
9h-9h30 P. Bing (Emory University) :
« Homer in the Soros : An Epigrammatic Collection and Its Sources »
9h30-10h I. Petrovic (Durham University) :
« Cult of Homer in Alexandria and the epigram SH 979 »
10h-10h30 D. Meyer (CNRS, UMR 7044, Strasbourg) :
« Homère dans les épigrammes inscrites d'Asie mineure »
10h30-11h pause
11h-11h30 V. Garulli (Università di Bologna) :
« Le nom d'Homère et ses dérivés dans la tradition épigrammatique »
11h30-12h L.-A. Guichard (Universidad de Salamanca) :
« Palladas and Homer »

Quatrième séance — Présidence : Ettore Cingano
14h-14h30 É. Prioux (CNRS, Parix X) :
« Sonorités et images héritées d'Homère dans l'œuvre de Posidippe »
14h30-15h K. Gutzwiller (University of Cincinnati) :
« Homeric Allusions in Meleager » 15h-15h30 pause
15h30-16h F. Klein (Université de Lille III) :
« La présence d'Homère dans les épigrammes de Catulle et leurs reprises par les poètes augustéens : enjeux génériques »
16h-16h30 G. Agosti (Sapienza Università di Roma) :
« Présence d'Homère dans les épigrammes épigraphiques tardives »
16h30-17h00 discussions



Vendredi 9 novembre 2012

AM Cinquième séance — Présidence : David Sider
9h30-10h Ch. Boudignon (Aix-Marseille Université, CPAF) :
« Homère à Jérusalem ? ou la survivance du genre épigrammatique chez Sophrone de Jérusalem au VIIe siècle »
10h-10h30 E. van Opstall (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) :
« Echoes of a distant poet: Homer in Byzantine epigrams »
10h30-11h pause
11h-11h30 D. Pralon (Aix-Marseille Université, CPAF) :
« Les allusions à l'Iliade et à l'Odyssée dans les épigrammes de l'Anthologie »
11h30-12h00 conclusions

Lieu de la manifestation : Aix-en-Provence, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme
Organisation : Yannick Durbec, Didier Pralon, Frédéric Trajber
Contact : yannick.durbec@gmail.com

La collection "Etudes massaliètes" compte 9 volumes parus entre 1986 et 2007. Les 5 premiers sont numérotés dans les « Travaux du CCJ ».
A partir du vol. 10 (2011), la série devient une sous-collection de la « Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine » (BiAMA)

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1, 1986 - Le territoire de Marseille grecque

actes de la table ronde d’Aix-en-Provence (16 mars 1985) / sous la direction de M. Bats et H. Tréziny

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2, 1990 - Les amphores de Marseille grecque

actes de la table ronde de Lattes (11 mars 1989) / sous la direction de M. Bats

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3, 1992 - Marseille grecque et la Gaule

actes du Colloque international d’Histoire et d’Archéologie et du ve Congrès archéologique de Gaule méridionale (Marseille, 18-23 novembre 1990) / sous la direction de M. Bats, G. Bertucchi, G. Congès, H. Tréziny

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4, 1995 - Sur les pas des Grecs en Occident

Hommages à André Nickels / éd. par P. Arcelin, M. Bats, D. Garcia, G. Marchand et M. Schwaller

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5, 1998 - Fouilles à Marseille. Les mobiliers (Ier-VIIe s. ap. J.-C.)

sous la dir. de M. Bonifay, M.-B. Carre et Y. Rigoir

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6, 2000 - Les cultes des cités phocéennes

actes du colloque (Aix-en-Provence - Marseille, 4-5 juin 1999) / éd. par A. Hermay et H. Tréziny

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7, 2001 - Marseille. Trames et paysages urbains de Gyptis au Roi René

actes du colloque international d’archéologie (Marseille, 3-5 novembre 1999) / éd. par M. Bouiron et al.

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8, 2003 - La nécropole de Sainte-Barbe à Marseille

(IVe s. av. J.-C. – IIe s. ap. J.-C.) / dir. M. Moliner

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9, 2007 - Olbia de Provence à l’époque romaine

dir. M. Bats

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Le Journal des Savants est le plus ancien journal littéraire d'Europe. Fondé en 1665 par Denis de Sallo, conseiller au Parlement de Paris, sous le regard bienveillant de Colbert, il bénéficia du patronage royal en 1701. Supprimé en 1792, il fut rétabli et réorganisé en 1816 : jusqu’en 1900, il fut édité aux frais de l’État par un bureau présidé par le Garde des Sceaux, puis le ministre de l’Instruction publique et réserva ses colonnes aux membres de l’Institut. Voué de nouveau à disparaître pour des raisons de restrictions budgétaires, c’est tout naturellement que l'Institut de France, qui avait pris à sa charge les frais d’impression pour les années 1901 et 1902, se substitua à l’État. Néanmoins, ne pouvant consacrer de manière continue des fonds nécessaires à la publication du Journal des Savants, l’Institut de France proposa à l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres d’en accepter la charge, qu’elle assura à partir de 1909 grâce à des crédits prélevés sur la Fondation Dourlans. A la charge exclusive de l’Académie depuis cette période, le Journal des Savants accueille des articles originaux marquant des avancées significatives dans les disciplines relevant de sa compétence, tant en raison de leurs résultats que pour l’aspect nouveau de leur méthode.

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