Epigraphy

Author : Richard Salomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195356663

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Indian Epigraphy by Richard Salomon Pdf

This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary texts carved on stone, metal, and other materials. This material comprises many thousands of documents dating from a range of more than two millennia, found in India and the neighboring nations of South Asia, as well as in many parts of Southeast, central, and East Asia. The inscriptions are written, for the most part, in the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts and their many varieties and derivatives. Inscriptional materials are of particular importance for the study of the Indian world, constituting the most detailed and accurate historical and chronological data for nearly all aspects of traditional Indian culture in ancient and medieval times. Richard Salomon surveys the entire corpus of Indo-Aryan inscriptions in terms of their contents, languages, scripts, and historical and cultural significance. He presents this material in such a way as to make it useful not only to Indologists but also non-specialists, including persons working in other aspects of Indian or South Asian studies, as well as scholars of epigraphy and ancient history and culture in other regions of the world.

Author : Phillip Harding
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802090690

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Epigraphy and the Greek Historian by Phillip Harding Pdf

Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a collection of essays that explore various ways in which inscriptions can help students reconstruct and understand Greek History. In order to engage with the study of epigraphy, this collection is divided into two parts, Athens and Athens from the outside. The contributors maintain the importance of epigraphy, arguing that, in some cases, inscriptions are the only tools we have to recover the local history of places that stand outside the main focus of ancient literary sources, which are often frustratingly Athenocentric. Ideally, the historian uses both inscriptions and literary sources to make plausible inferences and thereby weave together the disconnected threads of the past into a connected and persuasive narrative. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a comprehensive examination of epigraphy and a timely resource for students and scholars involved in the study of ancient history.

Author : Ernest Stewart Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Inscriptions, Greek
ISBN : PRNC:32101054822281

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An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy ...: The archaic inscriptions and the Greek alphabet, ed. by E.S. Roberts. 1887 by Ernest Stewart Roberts Pdf

Author : D. C. Sircar
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : India
ISBN : 8120811666

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Indian Epigraphy by D. C. Sircar Pdf

In the present work, Professor D.C. Sircar deals with various problems relating to Indian epigraphy, and it is expected to be useful to people interested in ancient Indian history in general and Indian inscriptions in particular. Some of the topics discussed herein are: inscriptions and their evidence, languages in which the inscriptions are written, writing materials, the preparation and preservation of documents, copperplate grants, stanzas on bhumi-dana, Indian epigraphy abroad, systems of dating and the different eras, technical expressions including royal titles and official designations, taxes, land measures, nomenclature, etc.There are thirty-six plates illustrating various types of epigraphical records.

Author : Isabel Velázquez Soriano,David Espinosa Espinosa
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789699883

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Epigraphy in the Digital Age by Isabel Velázquez Soriano,David Espinosa Espinosa Pdf

This volume presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, comparing the outcomes of both well-established and newer projects to consider the most innovative investigative trends. Papers consider open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, Linked Open Data, and more.

Author : Eleri H. Cousins
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257908

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Dynamic Epigraphy by Eleri H. Cousins Pdf

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epigraphy, the unique capacities of epigraphic language as a genre, the visuality of inscriptions and the interplay of inscriptions with literary texts. Although each chapter focuses on specific objects and epigraphic landscapes, ranging from Republican Rome to early modern Scotland, the emphasis here is on using these case studies not as an end in themselves, but as a means of exploring broader methodological and theoretical issues to do with how we use inscriptions as evidence, both for the Greco-Roman world and for other time periods. Drawing on conversations from fields such as archaeology and anthropology, philology, art history, linguistics and history, contributors also seek to push the boundaries of epigraphy as a discipline and to demonstrate the analytical fruits of interdisciplinary approaches to inscribed material. Methodologies such as phenomenology, translingualism, intertextuality and critical fabulation are deployed to offer new perspectives on the social functions of inscriptions as texts and objects and to open up new horizons for the use of inscriptions as evidence for past societies.

Author : Christer Bruun,J. C. Edmondson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195336467

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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy by Christer Bruun,J. C. Edmondson Pdf

"Inscriptions are for anyone interested in the Roman world and Roman culture, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on the Roman world from c. 500 BCE to 500 CE and beyond. The goal of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is to show why inscriptions matter and to demonstrate to classicists and ancient historians, their graduate students, and advanced undergraduates, how to work with epigraphic sources"--

Author : Oliver, Graham John Oliver,Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture Graham Oliver,Graham John Oliver
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853239150

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The Epigraphy of Death by Oliver, Graham John Oliver,Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture Graham Oliver,Graham John Oliver Pdf

Tombstones provide the largest single category of epigraphical evidence from the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, and their inscriptions have been widely studied with reference to art and cultural history, ancient social history, prosopography and onomastics. But even though students of history and archaeology devote extensive attention to death and burial in antiquity, epigraphy - the study of inscriptions - remains, for many, an abstruse subject.

Author : Vanessa Davies,Dimitri Laboury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190604660

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The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography by Vanessa Davies,Dimitri Laboury Pdf

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records' work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object's defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.

Author : Jacques van der Vliet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351133456

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The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia by Jacques van der Vliet Pdf

Collected Studies CS1070 The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia. These inscriptions are dated between the third/fourth and the fourteenth centuries, and are often written in Coptic and/or Greek, once in Latin, and sometimes (partly) in Arabic, Syriac or Old Nubian. They include inscriptions on tomb stones, walls of religious buildings, tools, vessels, furniture, amulets and even texts on luxury garments. Whereas earlier scholars in the field of Coptic Studies often focused on either Coptic or Greek, Van der Vliet argues that inscriptions in different languages that appear in the same space or on the same kind of objects should be examined together. In addition, he aims to combine the information from documentary texts, archaeological remains and inscriptions, in order to reconstruct the economic, social and religious life of monastic or civil communities. He practiced this methodology in his studies on the Fayum, Wadi al-Natrun, Sohag, Western Thebes and the region of Aswan and Northern Nubia, which are all included in this book.

Author : Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004273856

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The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia by Nikolaos Papazarkadas Pdf

Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon. Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.

Author : Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317587453

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Epigraphy and Islamic Culture by Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq Pdf

Architectural inscriptions are a fascinating aspect of Islamic cultural heritage because of their rich and diverse historical contents and artistic merits. These inscriptions help us understand the advent of Islam and its gradual diffusion in Bengal, which eventually resulted in a Muslim majority region, making the Bengali Muslims the second largest linguistic group in the Islamic world. This book is an interpretive study of the Arabic and Persian epigraphic texts of Bengal in the wider context of a rich epigraphic tradition in the Islamic world. While focusing on previously untapped sources, it takes a fresh look into the Islamic inscriptions of Bengal and examines the inner dynamics of the social, intellectual and religious transformations of this eastern region of South Asia. It explores many new inscriptions including Persian epigraphs that appeared immediately after the Muslim conquest of Bengal indicating an early introduction of Persian language in the region through a cultural interaction with Khurasan and Central Asia. In addition to deciphering and editing the epigraphic texts, the information derived from them has been analyzed to construct the political, administrative, social, religious and cultural scenario of the period. The first survey of the Muslim inscriptions in India ever to be attempted on this scale, the book reveals the significance of epigraphy as a source for Islamic history and culture. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Asian History and Islamic Studies.

Author : Antonio E. Felle,Anita Rocco
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913236

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Off the Beaten Track. Epigraphy at the Borders by Antonio E. Felle,Anita Rocco Pdf

This volume contains the papers presented during 'Off the Beaten Track - Epigraphy at the Borders' (24-25 September 2015, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy), the sixth in a series of international events planned by the EAGLE, Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy international consortium.

Author : Javier Velaza
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443892605

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Insularity, Identity and Epigraphy in the Roman World by Javier Velaza Pdf

This book explores the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It investigates Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their practical consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire. The contributions examine whether being related to an island was an externally or internally distinctive feature, and whether a tension between insularity and globalisation can be detected in this period. The book also looks at whether there is an insular material culture, an island-based approach to sacredness, or an island-based category of epigraphy.

Author : Ernest Stewart Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Inscriptions, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015018630247

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An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy by Ernest Stewart Roberts Pdf