A New Publication: Tebtynis VI

From the IFAO website 13/11/2018: http://www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/catalogue/9782724706949/

Claudio Gallazzi

Tebtynis VI

Scripta Varia

IF1139, ISBN 9782724706949 
2018 IFAO
Collection: FIFAO 78 
1 vol., 264 p., 45 € (818 EGP)

The abundant material discovered at Tebtynis includes few hieroglyphic or Aramaic texts, hieratic ostraca, graffiti, inscriptions, texts on stamps, seals, bones or glass. Nonetheless, these inscriptions are of interest and the present volume aims at gathering and classifying them, according to their language, the type of inscription and the material used. Indexes complete the classification. Thanks to this presentation, the reader interested in a particular type of text will easily find them grouped together here and anyone studying Tebtynis will have easy access to all the information these pieces offer about the village.

In order to facilitate studies on Tebtynis and to avoid the scattering of works on the village, an appendix devoted to the papyri of Soknebtynis, one of the major legacies of the site to modern science, has been included in this volume.

من منشورات المعهد الفرنسى للآثار الشرقية فى المنيرة.

A video in Arabic: A short story of an Egyptian papyrus document

in Arabic: A short video answering the questions about tranlastions in papyri.info

Cultural Heritage Cluster Conference in Cairo from May 7-9, 2018.

DAAD Heritage

I have just received a kind invitation from the Cairo office of DAAD to participate in its kick-off event for its cultural heritage cluster. It is a three-day conference that will take place in different venues: May 7 at the Cairo Marriott Hotel, 16 Gezira St., Zamalek.

May 8 at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Ad Deyorah, Misr Al Qadimah / Fustat

May 9 at the DAAD Cairo Office, 11 El-Saleh Ayoub St., Zamalek.

The most updated programme is to be found here: www.daad.eg/heritage-programme

Two five year positions at Würzburg University

[Posted on the 9th of April in papylist https://lists.ku.dk/hyperkitty/list/papy@lists.hum.ku.dk/]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce two forthcoming positions at Würzburg University. Please find details below, and feel free to share, and to contact myself or Prof. Dr. Martin Stadler for fuller details.

Two Five-year Positions: Study of Coptic Magic (doctoral and post-doctoral)

As part of the new Excellent Ideas programme, the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is pleased to announce two vacancies within the Department of Egyptology:

- 1 postdoctoral researcher (TV-L E13 100%; initial monthly salary min. 3,672.02 EUR before tax)

- 1 doctoral assistant (TV-L E13 50%; initial monthly salary min. 1,836.01 EUR before tax)

These positions will be part of a new in-depth project studying “magical” texts from Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt written in Coptic, and will involve the creation of a database of published and unpublished texts, the edition and re-edition of original manuscripts, and the production of research situating them within their historical, social and intellectual context. The appointed applicants will work with the team co-ordinator (Dr. Korshi Dosoo).

Both positions will begin 1 September 2018, running for five years until 31 August 2023.

The postdoctoral candidate will require a doctoral degree in a relevant discipline (Coptic Studies, Papyrology, Egyptology, Early Christian Studies, Islamic Studies etc.), and a strong knowledge of the Coptic and Greek languages, as well as fluent English and at least a reading knowledge of German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Language skills in Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and earlier phases of Egyptian are also highly desirable. As a position intended for a junior researcher, applicants are normally expected to have completed their doctorate within the last three years.

The candidate for the position of a doctoral assistant will require a master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (Ancient History, Coptic Studies, Papyrology, Egyptology, Early Christian Studies, Islamic Studies etc.), and a strong knowledge of the Coptic and Greek languages, as well as fluent English. A reading knowledge of German, French, Italian, and Spanish is highly desirable, as are language skills in Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Spanish, Latin, and earlier phases of Egyptian. She or he will receive supervision to allow her or him to complete her or his doctoral degree. The candidate will be free to decide on a thesis topic, although it will preferably overlap to some degree with the project theme.

In order to increase the proportion of female researchers at the University of Würzburg, applications from women are particularly welcome.

Persons with disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.

To apply, please send a current curriculum vitae with the contact details for 2 referees, a letter of motivation (no more than 2 pages), and

- a writing sample (article or conference presentation; postdoctoral researcher)

or

- a proposal for a doctoral dissertation topic (ca. 2 pages, doctoral assistant)

as a single PDF.

For further details, and to apply, please contact Prof. Dr. Martin Andreas Stadler: martin.stadler@uni-wuerzburg.de.

The deadline for applications for both positions is 31 May, 2018.

Romeyka or the Grecophonic Muslims of Turkey

Romeyka 

It is very interesting to see that there is a variety of Greek that is spoken in a region outside Greece. Romeyka is such a variety, but it is more interesting as it is spoken in modern Turkey. Wikipedia offers a general introduction to this topic here. Ioanna Sitaridou is working on documenting this variety. Here you could read about the linguistic profile of Romeyka: http://www.romeyka.org/the-linguistic-profile-of-romeyka. You could also see the introduction to her interest and work on this project from the Youtube video below. I have also added more videos where you can listen to this variety along with Modern Greek subtitles. If you want more information about this important project you could check its website here: http://www.romeyka.org/the-romeyka-project. 

Orientalism, the Classics, and Egypt II workshop: Cairo 10 April 9:30-18:30

For more information please visit  https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/ 

Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria

Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria

A translation of all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus.

Work in progress by Peter van Minnen

[Retrieved from original website on 17-3-2018]

Original documents from Ancient Alexandria! Wish it were true? It is true.

On this web site we at UC present a work in progress: a translation with introduction and notes of all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus. There are hundreds such documents – even thousands. Just imagine a stack of such texts from ancient Rome or Athens – the whole world would be all over it! A similar project was undertaken for the documents found on the island of Elephantine in southernmost Egypt (B. Porten ed., The Elephantine Papyri in English, 1996), so why not for Alexandria on the other, Mediterranean, end?

Recent archaeological work in Alexandria and its harbor have created a lot of interest among those who cannot be expected to know about, let alone read, original Greek documents. They will want to bookmark this page.


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The DCC Greek List is now available in Arabic

The Dickinson College Commentaries (DCC)

According to Wikipedia, the DCC is  a digital project of Dickinson College, which is located in Carlisle, near Harrisburg, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The project assembles digital commentaries on texts in Latin and ancient Greek and publishes core vocabularies of the most common words in those languages. It is hosted by the department of Classical Studies, see also here for the entry in the Digital Classics Wiki.

The DCC  Greek vocabualry list of this porject is now available in Arabic translation where one can both search and browse it, see it here: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/ar/greek-core-list-arabic. According to the project director, Christopher Francese , "This list contains about 500 of the most common words in ancient Greek. These are the lemmas or dictionary headwords that generate approximately 65% of the word forms in a typical Greek text." To know more details about this valuable learning resource see the project's website here:http://dcc.dickinson.edu/. They have also a Facebook page and a Twitter account.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)

[Retrieved from the website of IEP on 2018, January 1]

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, volunteers, and technical advisers. At present, the IEP has over a million visitors per month, and about 20 million page views per year. The Encyclopedia is free of charge and available to all users of the Internet world-wide. The staff of 30 editors and approximately 300 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at universities around the world, most notably from English-speaking countries.

Dr. Noha A. Salem; the new director of Ain Shams Center of Papyrological Studies

A New Director of Ain Shams Centre of Papyrological Studies

It is my pleasure to announce that my colleague in the department of Ancient European Civilisation Assistant Prof. Dr. Noha A. Salem has been appointed (effective from 1.1.2018) as the new director of Ain Shams University's Centre of Papyrological Studies. The centre, as you all know, publishes annually since 1985 the only Egyptian periodical specialised in papyrology i.e. BullCPS = Bulletin of the Centre of Papyrological Studies. The Bulletin has now a new editor-in-chief.

As I am looking forward to seeing the BullCPS in its new shape under the new direction, I would like to congratulate Prof. Noha Salem for this appointment and wish her all the success in her endeavours to promote the centre, the bulletin and the whole field of papyrology in Egypt. In this regard, I am also quite sure that Prof. Noha Salem will continue her cooperation with me, the department, Ain Shams institute for papyrology, all the papyrologists worldwide and all the papyrological institutions around the globe.

To know more about "us", visit our blog here:https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/about/.

If you do not know what "the 28th ICP" is, please, go here: http://papyrologia.upf.edu/

DAAD Virtual Information Session: Monday, 8th January 2018, 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

DAAD Virtual Information Session

Join us for the Online Information Session about the GERLS Programme.

The webinar is organized by the DAAD Office in Cairo on Monday, 8th January 2018, 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

Target group of this information session are PhD candidates.

Should you be interested to participate in this session, please follow this link on the above-mentioned date and time.

https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/r437jxxg5yd9/

The access will be limited to 40 participants online.

Please note the following technical requirements needed to participate in the webinar:
· 1.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8; 2GHz Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Windows Vista®
· Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
· 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) for Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8; 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended) for Windows Vista
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome
· Adobe® Flash® Player 10

Programme:

10:00 am – 10:45 am
Presentation on GERLS Programme
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Questions & Answers



Presenter of the Virtual Information Session for that Day is:
Mrs. Heba Ahmed
Programme Coordinator
DAAD Cairo Office

SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY

SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, 18-22 JUNE 2018

The Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo and the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo Library invite applications for participation in the summer course in Papyrology to take place in Oslo 18-22 June 2018. The course gives 5 ECTS credit points. Coursework includes lectures, supervised work with papyri from the collection, and a written assignment (see details below). The focus will be on Greek and Coptic papyrology in keeping with the holdings of the Oslo collection.

The course is designed for advanced bachelor, master, and early PhD students of Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology and related subjects. Participants will hear lectures on the contents and classification of papyri, editorial method, and the socio-historical and linguistic context of papyri from Egypt from Hellenistic times to late Antiquity. They will also work with an unpublished papyrus (Greek or Coptic depending on their linguistic competence), the edition of which constitutes the written assignment (work with the edition will begin in Oslo under supervision and will be continued after the course; if the academic quality of the submitted work is satisfactory, a revised version of the edition may be included in forthcoming volumes of Oslo papyri). A session will be dedicated to the basics of papyrus conservation and will be followed by practical exercises in papyrus conservation.

Lecturers:

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)
Joanne Vera Stolk (University of Oslo/Ghent University)
Ágnes Tothné Mihálykó (University of Oslo)
Jens Mangerud (University of Oslo)
Jörg Graf (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig)
Jenny Cromwell (University of Copenhagen)



Formal requirements: a minimum of 30 ECTS credits in ancient Greek or an introductory course in the Coptic language. Full participation in the lectures and the supervised work is required to be eligible to submit the written assignment and receive the creditation.


Please submit your application by March 1st, 2018 to anastasia.maravela@ifikk.uio.no

The application should include:

- A letter of motivation (including the preference for working with a Greek or a Coptic papyrus)
- CV including relevant exam results
- A letter of recommendation by an academic teacher/tutor, which describes the candidate's academic record, knowledge of the relevant language (Greek and/or Coptic) and previous acquaintance with papyrology.

Expenses

- There is no course fee.
- Course materials will be sent to successful applicants in electronic form.
- Accommodation in Oslo will be covered for successful applicants.
- Participants must pay their travel expenses.

The organisers
Anastasia Maravela Joanne Stolk Ágnes T. Mihálykó

Professor of Ancient Greek/ Co-editor of Symbolae Osloenses
Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
University of Oslo
Pb. 1020 Blindern
0315 Oslo

Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/classics/tenured/anastasm/