Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
CSAD, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre, Oxford
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS FACULTY OF CLASSICS, IOANNOU CENTRE, 66 ST GILES’
CORPUS OF GREEK AND BILINGUAL INSCRIPTIONS OF PTOLEMAIC EGPYT (CPI)
1-2 APRIL 2016
We are pleased to announce that a conference will be held in connection with this AHRC Research Project (see http://cpi.csad.ox.ac.uk) at the Ioannou Classics Centre in Oxford on 1-2 April 2016.
Speakers will include members of the CPI team (Alan Bowman, Simon Hornblower, Charles Crowther, Kyriakos Savvopoulos and Rachel Mairs) and guest speakers Dorothy Thompson, Willy Clarysse, Jane Masseglia, Mario Paganini and Christelle Fischer-Bovet.
There is no conference fee.
All are welcome but advance registration is requested by email to Maggy Sasanow (margaret.sasanow@classics.ox.ac.uk)
Provisional Programme:
Friday 1 April:
9.30 – 10.30: Alan Bowman, Introduction, the CPI project;
Dorothy Thompson, Peter Fraser and the Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt
10.30.-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.45: Kyriakos Savvopoulos, The Content of the Corpus (overview with examples)
11.45-12.30: Rachel Mairs, The Bilingual Inscriptions: Egyptian Language Texts
12.30-1.15: Simon Hornblower, The Metrical Inscriptions
1.15-2.15: Lunch
2.15-3.00: Alan Bowman: Inscriptions of the Greek Cities
3..00-3.45: Charles Crowther: Palaeography of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
3.45-4.15: Tea
4.15-5.00: Imaging inscriptions – the Kingston Lacy obelisk [speaker tbc]
5.00-5.45: Charles Crowther and Supratik Baralay – Dedications [title tbc]
6.00: Reception
Evening: Dinner at Queens College
Saturday 2 April
9.30-10.15: Mario Paganini, Epigraphic Habits of Private Associations
10.30-11.15: Christelle Fischer Bovet [title tbc]
11.15-12.00: Willy Clarysse, Inscriptions and Papyri, two worlds with some overlaps
12.00-12.45: Closing discussion