Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2016

Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2016
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21–23 June

The Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2016 will take place next summer from 21 to 23 June at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.  With the help of expert guidance participants will gain direct experience of the practical elements of how to record and study inscriptions in museums or in the field.  The programme (see attached) will include: the making of squeezes; imaging and measuring inscribed stones; and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries. Instructors will include Roger Tomlin (Oxford), Charles Crowther (Oxford), Abigail Graham (Warwick) and Alison Cooley (Warwick); course directors Peter Haarer (Oxford) and Abigail Graham (Warwick).

The workshop is aimed primarily at graduates in any year and undergraduates who will be entering their third and / or final year of study next September, though we will consider applications from others who wish to develop hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material.  The workshop is open to those with or without previous epigraphic training and participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts.  We anticipate that the course fee will be £100 for this three-day event including accommodation and food.  

To apply for a place please request an Application Form from Maggy Sasanow: margaret.sasanow@classics.ox.ac.uk. 

Please direct enquiries about the workshop to the Director, Peter Haarer: peter.haarer@classics.ox.ac.uk, cc Maggy Sasanow.  

Closing date for applications and receipt of references: 15 March 2016.

Sponsors

  • The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford
  • Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Oxford
  • The British Epigraphy Society
  • The Ashmolean Museum

Provisional Timetable

Tuesday 21

  • 14.00: Registration at the Ashmolean Museum
  • 14.05-14.30: introductions and briefings
  • 14.30-15.30: Practical sessions in small groups: squeeze-making; drawing; imaging
  • 15.30-16.00: Break
  • 16.00-17.00: Practical sessions in small groups: squeeze-making; drawing; imaging
  • 19.30: Course dinner

Wednesday 22 June

  • 09.30-10.30: Practical sessions in small groups: squeeze-making; drawing; imaging
  • 10.30-11.00: Hands-on practical session on texts for study
  • 11.00-11.30: Break
  • 11.30-13.00: Hands-on practical session on texts for study.
  • 13.00-14.00: Sandwich lunch
  • 14.00-15.00: Epigraphy in other media / Hands-on session
  • 15.00-15.30: Break
  • 15.30-17.00: Hands-on practical session on texts for study.
  • 19.30: Dinner

Thursday 25 June

  • 09.30-12.45: Participants' presentations, followed by close

 

Maggy Sasanow
Research Support Officer
The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
The Ioannou Centre
66 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
Tel: 01865 288255;   Fax: 01865 288262

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