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Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Bodard, G, Mahony, S
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Greek Epigraphy in Sicily

Kokalos
This paper offers a survey of newly published and significantly revised Greek inscriptions, and other relevant publications, from the island of Sicily over the five years 2017-2021. The survey focuses on epigraphy on stone and metal. Particular attention is drawn to the development of the digital corpus, I.Sicily, to the expansion of materials in the ...
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Greek Epigraphy and the Greek Language

2012
Part I of this chapter reviews its subject historically, showing how inscriptions allow us to see the development of the Greek dialects, the effects on Greek of contact with other languages, especially Latin, and the ways in which styles of utterance and uses of language changed through time.
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Dotted Letters in Greek Epigraphy

American Journal of Archaeology, 1955
IN THE INTERPRETATION of epigraphical texts, the partially preserved or indistinct letter may hold the key to the meaning of entire passages. Such letters are usually indicated nowadays by the use of a dot beneath. Since most of the stones on which inscriptions were cut are now broken or damaged, many letters are of necessity uncertain; and accordingly
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Epigraphy and Greek Religion1

2012
The main part of this chapter reviews the role of texts and writing within the practice of ancient Greek religion, and seeks to modify the common view that oral tradition provided most Greek ritual knowledge. True, most information from inscribed ‘sacred laws’ is administrative and financial: written information — which exists in quantity, especially ...
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The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Epigraphy Project and the Revolution in Greek Epigraphy

Abgadiyat, 2007
In this paper, the history, purpose and importance of the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Epigraphy Project are discussed.
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The Epigraphy of the ‘Greek Cities’

2020
AbstractThe inscriptions of the Ptolemaic period from the three ‘Greek cities’ of Naukratis and Alexandria in the Delta and Ptolemais in Upper Egypt illustrate the distinctive character of these foundations which contrasts with the indigenous towns of the Delta and the Nile Valley.
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Method and Manners in Greek Epigraphy

Phoenix, 1966
THE GREEKS from an early period recognised two natural and cyclic intervals of time: a lunar month of about 29 1/2 days and a solar (seasonal) year of about 365 1/4. Their calendars represented attempts to combine the two; but neither twelve lunar months, amounting to 354 days, nor thirteen lunar months, amounting to 384 days, would disguise the ...
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Epigraphy and the Greek Historian

2008
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.
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Greek Epigraphy and Ancient Economics

2012
After initial comments on the role of Greek inscriptions as ‘archives’, this chapter reviews the drastic changes that have occurred since Finley's book of 1973 in the picture of the ancient economy, both by acknowledging development and growth, and by adopting new concepts, not least New Institutional Economics with its emphasis on transaction costs ...
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