Second North American Congress of
Greek and Latin Epigraphy
UC Berkeley, January 4, 5, and 6, 2016
MONDAY, JANUARY 4
8.00–9.00: Registration (Dwinelle 370)
9.00–9.15: Welcome and Introduction (Dwinelle 370)
GREEK EPIGRAPHY I: Attic Epigraphy (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: Nikolaos Papazarkadas (UC Berkeley)
● 9.25–9.50 Kazuhiro Takeuchi (University of Athens): “Zeus Herkeios and the Eleusinian Cults in Paiania (IG I3 250)”
● 9.50–10.15 Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ball State University): “The Decree of Theozotides on Orphans of War and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens”
● 10.15–10.40 Angelos P. Matthaiou (Greek Epigraphic Society): “New Attic Inscriptions”
Coffee Break (10.40–11.10: Dwinelle 370)
● 11.10–11.35 Cristina Carusi (University of Texas, Austin): “Stone on Stone. The Organization of the Building-Stone Industry in Classical Athens through the Epigraphic Evidence”
● 11.35–12.00 Yannis Kalliontzis (Ecole française d’Athènes): “An Inventory List from the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia found in Oropos”
ROMAN EPIGRAPHY I: Graffiti (Dwinelle 142)
Session chair: J. Theodore Peña (UC Berkeley)
● 9.25–9.50 Rebecca Benefiel (Washington & Lee University), Holly Sypniewski (Millsaps College), and Erika Zimmermann Damer (University of Richmond): “Wall Inscriptions in the Ancient City: The Herculaneum Graffiti Project”
● 9.50–10.15 Virginia L. Campbell (University of Oxford): “Casting a Wide Net: Searching for Networks of Gladiators and Game-givers in Campania”
● 10.15–10.40 Jacqueline DiBiasie (The University of the South: Sewanee): “Public in Private: The Distribution and Content of Graffiti in Pompeian domus and hospitia”
Coffee Break (10.40–11.10: Dwinelle 370)
● 11.10–11.35 Stephanie Frampton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “In guria rocamus: Identifying the Herculanean Curia”
● 11.35–12.00 Fanny Opdenhoff (University of Heidelberg): “Inside out: Private Graffiti in Public Contexts”
Buffet Lunch (12.00–1.15: Dwinelle 370)
EPIGRAPHY AND CALENDARS (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: John Morgan (University of Delaware)
● 1.15–1.40 Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University): “An Ancient Astronomical Device Explains Itself: The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism”
● 1.40–2.05 J. Bert Lott (Vassar College): “The Additions to the Calendar of Praeneste”
● 2.05–2.30 Ilaria Bultrighini (University College London): “Astrology, Astral Beliefs, and the Planetary Week in the Inscriptions of the Western Roman Empire”
DIGITAL EPIGRAPHY (Dwinelle 142)
Session chair: Duncan MacRae (University of Cincinnati/UC Berkeley)
● 1.15–1.40 Gwynaeth McIntyre (University of British Columbia) and Chelsea Gardner (University of British Columbia): “From Stone to Screen to Database”
● 1.40–2.05 Michèle Brunet (Université Lyon 2, HiSoMA) & Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University and Perseus Digital Library): “Visible Words: Research and Training in Digital Contextual Epigraphy”
● 2.05–2.30 Jonathan Prag (University of Oxford), “I.Sicily: A Digital Corpus of the Stone Inscriptions of Ancient Sicily”
Coffee Break and Presentation of Posters I (2.30–3.00: Dwinelle 370)
● Cristina de la Escosura Balbás (Complutense University of Madrid): “Immigration Epigraphy: The Hispani in Roman Europe”
● Claire Holleran (University of Exeter): “Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia”
● Celia Sánchez Natalias (Basque Country University/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): “Contextualizing Greek defixiones in the Latin West”
PLENARY SESSION I – GREEK EPIGRAPHY: NEW TEXTS (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: Ronald Stroud (UC Berkeley)
● 3.00–3.25 Athanasios A. Themos (Epigraphical Museum, Athens): “New Inscriptions from Phigaleia (Arcadia)”
● 3.25–3.50 Peter Liddel and Polly Low (University of Manchester): “Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Epigrapher) from the World Museum, Liverpool”
● 3.50–4.15 Andronike Makres (Greek Epigraphic Society): “New Inscriptions from Messene Honoring Victorious Athletes”
Intermission (4.15–4.25)
● 4.25–4.50 Georgia E. Malouchou (Archaeological Society at Athens): “Inscriptiones Graecae XII 6, pars 3; Work in Progress: New Inscriptions from Chios”
● 4.50–5.15 Thomas Corsten (Universität Wien): “A New Hellenistic Decree from Olbasa”
LATIN EPIGRAPHY KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND DINNER RECEPTION
(David Brower Center)
● 6.00–7.00 Alison Cooley (University of Warwick): “Fresh Insight into Latin Inscriptions in the Ashmolean Museum”
● 7.00–9.00 Dinner will be served immediately after the lecture at the David Brower Center
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5th
GREEK EPIGRAPHY II: Hellenistic Epigraphy (Dwinelle 142)
Session chair: Erich Gruen (UC Berkeley)
● 9.25–9.50 Adele Scafuro (Brown University): “IG XII 4,1 no. 132: The Settlement of Koan Foreign Judges for the Telians”
● 9.50–10.15 Randall Souza (SUNY Binghamton): “Anomalous Grants of Isopoliteia and Diplomatic Discourse in Hellenistic Greek Inscriptions”
● 10.15–10.40 Tristan K. Husby ( The Graduate Center, CUNY): “Larisaeans on Roman Manumission and Greek Citizenship: IG IX 2, 517”
Coffee Break (10.40–11.10: Dwinelle 370)
● 11.10–11.35 Noah Kaye (Indiana University): “Writing on the Wall: The Epigraphy of Fortification and Social History”
● 11.35–12.00 Francesca Rocca (Università degli Studi di Torino): “The horologion of Dexippos: Fresh Insight into Hellenistic Lemnos”
ROMAN EPIGRAPHY II: The Epigraphy of the Roman West (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: Carlos Noreña (UC Berkeley)
● 9.25–9.50 Franco Luciani (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia): “Servi and liberti publici in the Public Archives in the Roman Cities of the Western Provinces”
● 9.50–10.15 Chris Dawson (York University): “Civic Relations: Honorific Statues and Patterns of Dedication in Africa Proconsularis, 100-300 CE”
● 10.15–10.40 Joe Sheppard (Columbia University): "Ludi, Lumina, and Monumenta and Italian Euergetism"
Coffee Break (10.40–11.10: Dwinelle 370)
● 11.10–11.35 Anthony Alvarez Melero (Universidad de Sevilla): “Roman Weddings: A New Look on Remarriage, an Underestimated Phenomenon through Epigraphy”
● 11.35–12.00 Gil Renberg (Harvard University): “Puppy Magic in Roman Aquitania and the Question of Magic-Religion”
Buffet lunch (12.00–1.30: Dwinelle 370)
PLENARY SESSION II: EPIGRAPHIC ENIGMAS (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: James Sickinger (Florida State University)
● 1.30–1.55 Irene Polinskaya (King’s College London): “An Illegible Classical Decree from Aigina in the Light of RTI”
● 1.55–2.20 Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University): “Greek Sculptors’ Signatures, Homonyms, and Ockham’s Razor”
Intermission (2.20-2.30)
● 2.30–2.55 Mali Skotheim (Princeton University): “On the Meaning of τὸν νεμητὸν ἀγῶνα in the Victory Lists for the Homoloia at Orchomenos (IG VII 3196 and 3197)”
● 2.55–3.20 Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin–Madison): “Encrypted Inscriptions: A Paradoxical Praxis”
Coffee Break and Presentation of Posters II (3.20–4.00: Dwinelle 370)
● Cristina de la Escosura Balbás (Complutense University of Madrid): “Immigration Epigraphy: The Hispani in Roman Europe”
● Claire Holleran (University of Exeter): “Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia”
● Celia Sánchez Natalias (Basque Country University/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): “Contextualizing Greek defixiones in the Latin West”
PLENARY SESSION III: ROMAN EPIGRAPHY: NEW TEXTS (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: John Bodel (Brown University)
● 4.00–4.25 Jonathan Edmondson (York University) and Helena Gimeno Pascual (University of Alcalá de Henares): “Local Elites and Civic Euergetism in Julio-Claudian Valeria (Hispania Citerior): A New Opisthographic Inscription”
● 4.25–4.50 Riccardo Bertolazzi (University of Calgary): “From the CIL Archives: a New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis”
● 4.50–5.15 Dimitris Sourlas (Greek Archaeological Service): “New Inscribed Statue Bases from Roman Athens”
GREEK EPIGRAPHY KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND DINNER RECEPTION
(Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
● 6.00–7.00 Angelos Chaniotis (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): “The Epigraphy of the Night”
● 7.00-9.00 Dinner will be served immediately after the lecture outside Banatao Auditorium
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6th
GREEK EPIGRAPHY AND RELIGION: A PLENARY SESSION IN MEMORY OF SARA B. ALESHIRE (Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: Nikolaos Papazarkadas (UC Berkeley)
● 9.00–9.25. Laura Gawlinski (Loyola University, Chicago): “Epigraphic Corpora and Greek Religion: What’s Sacrae about Leges Sacrae?”
● 9.25–9.50 Donald E. Lavigne (Texas Tech University), Evan Levine (Texas Tech University), and Andrej Petrovic (Durham University): “Toward a Deep Map of Archaic and Classical Burial Grounds and Sanctuaries: The Case Study of Thasos”
● 9.50–10.15 Mat Carbon (Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen): “The Epigraphy of Greek Sacrificial Butchery”
Coffee Break (10.15–10.45: Dwinelle 310 – Aleshire Center)
Session chair: Emily Mackil (UC Berkeley)
● 10.45–11.10 Jon Mikalson (Virginia): “An Esthetic of Greek Religious Practices”
● 11.10–11.35 Maria Mili (British School at Athens) and Jenny Wallensten (Swedish Institute at Athens): “Dedications from the Dead? The Strange Case of Hermes Chthonios”
● 11.35–12.00 Elena Martin Gonzalez (National Hellenic Research Center, Athens): “Divine Utterances. Answers in the Oracular Tablets from Dodona”
Buffet lunch (12.00–1.00: Dwinelle 370)
Session chair: Paul Iversen (Case Western Reserve University)
● 1.00–1.25 Fred Naiden (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “The Self-Definition of Alexander the Great”
● 1.25–1.50 Francesco Camia (Sapienza – University of Rome): “A Prosopography of Athenian Priests and Priestesses during the Roman Imperial Period”
● 1.50–2.15 Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Berkeley): “Inscribed Incantations for Bleeding: A Hematite Gem and its Tradition”
Closing Remarks