Corpus Inscriptionum Research Articles

Clermont-Ganneau's Visit to Cyrenaica in 1895

The official visit to Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Crete and Tunisia made in 1895 by the French orientalist Charles Clermont-Ganneau (1845–1923) seems to have been quite forgotten, apart from a brief note by F. Chamoux (Cyrène sous la monarchie des Battiades, 1953, 19, n.5) describing the acquisition of certain antiquities by the Museum of the Louvre. Clermont-Ganneau himself produced no report. His references to his journey were brief and scattered (thus CRAI 1901, 42–3; Rec. Arch. Orient. VI, 1905, 53) and his publication was limited to illustrations without comment in his Album d'antiquités orientales, recueil de monuments inédits ou peu connus (Paris, Leroux, 1897), an uncompleted piece of work of which only plates I–II (Neirab), III–VI (Cyrenaica, miscellaneous objects), VII (Crete), and XLIII–L (Syria, Cyprus, Nendjirli, Malta etc.) ever appeared.Thanks to the help of Mr. Bernard Delavault, an unpublished file has now come to light in the office of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, which fortunately supplements the record. It includes sixteen pages of an unfinished manuscript report of the 1895 journey by Clermont-Ganneau, together with a number of transcriptions and letters which contain interesting information.Clermont-Ganneau left Paris on 17th January and returned on 7th April, having made stops of some duration at Tunis, Malta, Tripoli in Libya (where he collected antiquities, including coins), Benghazi (where he spent a fortnight), Crete (his travels in the island, which lasted for twenty-five days, will be described elsewhere), Alexandria; then Malta and Tripoli both for the second time, Homs (for a visit to Lepcis Magna), Gabès, Sfax, Sousse and Tunis again. Conditions in Cyrenaica made it impossible for him to get to the Cyrene area as he had hoped, and this accounts for the length of his stay at Benghazi where he collected the documents which are the subject of this paper; for while there he bought or was given antiquities which went to the Louvre and acquired from various sources copies of inscriptions.

Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol II: Parthian economic documents from Nisa. By I. M. Diakonoff and V. A. Livshits. Edited By D. N. MacKenzie. Texts. I; Plates. II. pp. 80; [vi], 3, 207 pl. London, Lund Humphries, 1977. £72.

Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol II: Parthian economic documents from Nisa. By I. M. Diakonoff and V. A. Livshits. Edited By D. N. MacKenzie. Texts. I; Plates. II. pp. 80; [vi], 3, 207 pl. London, Lund Humphries, 1977. £72.

Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian period and of eastern Iran and Central asia. Vol. II: parthian economic documents from Nisa. Plates I. By I. M. Diakonoff and V. A. Livshits. Edited by D. N. Mackenzie, pp. 8, 123 pl. London, Lund Humphries, 1976. £32.

Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian period and of eastern Iran and Central asia. Vol. II: parthian economic documents from Nisa. Plates I. By I. M. Diakonoff and V. A. Livshits. Edited by D. N. Mackenzie, pp. 8, 123 pl. London, Lund Humphries, 1976. £32.

Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part ii. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. ii. Parthian. Parthian economic documents from Nisa. Plates, i. By I. M. Diakonoff and V. A. Livshits. Edited by D. N. MacKenzie. [viii], 8 pp., 123 plates. London: Lund Humphries, 1976. £32.

Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part ii. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. ii. Parthian. Parthian economic documents from Nisa. Plates, i. By I. M. Diakonoff and V. A. Livshits. Edited by D. N. MacKenzie. [viii], 8 pp., 123 plates. London: Lund Humphries, 1976. £32.

Roman Inscriptions in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

The nineteen stones described below form a small collection of Latin inscriptions now housed in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. They have been acquired since the Second World War from older collections assembled at various places in the United Kingdom. With the exception of two, all are recorded as found in Rome and sixteen have been published in volume VI of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). The findspot of one (no. 6) is not recorded, while that of another (no. 13), although not attested, was almost certainly Rome. The publications in CIL were based in most cases on manuscript copies made between the fifteenth and ninetenth centuries; in the case of eight stones this republication (nos. 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 18) provides corrections or amendments to the relevant entries in CIL. All measurements are metric.

Excavations at Shahr-I Qūmis, 1971

The second season of excavations at Shahr-i Qūmis began in August, and continued until early October, 1971. Work was resumed at mounds IV and VII, cleared in part in 1967, and new excavations were begun at two further sites, V and XIII. The directors are again most grateful for the close co-operation extended to the project by H.E. Mr. Mehrdad Pahlbod, Minister of Culture; by Mr. A. Pourmand, Director General of the Iranian Archaeological Service; and by Dr. T. Naimi, Director of the Service. Mr. B. Babek represented the Service on the excavations. In addition to the directors, those who participated in the excavations were Dr. A. D. H. Bivar, Miss E. Alexander, Mr. R. Biscione, Miss C. Marten, Mr. G. Payne, Mr. M. Roaf, Mrs. M. Sturz, and Mr. and Mrs. S. Swiny. Major support for the project was given by the National Geographic Society and the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum.

A Preliminary Handlist of the Arabic Inscriptions of the Eastern African Coast

A major gap in present research into the past of eastern Africa has been the lack of a corpus—or at least the beginning of a collection—of the Islamic epigraphy of the coast. What has been set out here is intended only as a beginning: all of us hope that readers of this article will publish themselves, or forward to any of us, information which they may have for future publication. In this way we may some day hope to possess a corpus of inscriptions for this region as complete as the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum begun by Max van Berchem, or the Repertoire chronologique d'epigraphie arabe of Combe, Sauvaget, and Wiet.

Chapter 8: Examination of the Model Life Table Series

The model life tables should be compared to various data to illustrate their applicability. The comparative data should be independent of the populations used in the construction of the tables so that they can serve as controls for the models.Russell (1958) carried out a comprehensive study of human mortality in late ancient and medieval times. The life table material in his work derives from ungraduated and unsmoothed raw data in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum which lists tombstone inscriptions from ancient Roman areas. These data, together with some medieval British life expectancies also from Russell, are summarized in Tables 13 through 15. The mortality and life expectancy values closely approximate in range and pattern the values in our model life table series.

Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part II. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian period and of eastern Iran and central Asia. I. A. Orbeli. 11 pp., 64 plates. Moscow: Publishing House for Oriental Literature for the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1963. 50s. - Vol. III Plates. Documents from Mt. Mugh, edited by

Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part II. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian period and of eastern Iran and central Asia. I. A. Orbeli. 11 pp., 64 plates. Moscow: Publishing House for Oriental Literature for the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1963. 50s. - Vol. III Plates. Documents from Mt. Mugh, edited by I. A. Orbeli. 11 pp., 64 plates. Moscow: Publishing House for Oriental Literature for the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1963. 50s. - Vol. v. Saka documents, edited by H.W. Bailey. Plates. Portfolio iv: plates lssiii-xcvi. \viii] PP., 24 Plates. London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co.Ltd., 1967. 25s. - Volume 31 Issue 1

The Çifte Minare Medrese at Erzurum and the Gök Medrese at Sivas

The Architecture of the Seljuk Turks, as well as proving to be their most lasting contribution to history, is also a contribution to the great architecture of world, both from the point of view of technical accomplishment and in its marvellously imaginative use of decoration. Thanks to the pioneering work of Halil Edhem and Max Van Berchem in Part III of their Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum (Cairo, 1910–17) [CIA.] and of their many successors our knowledge of the extant, and destroyed, monuments has been increased to the extent that a series of secondary studies, on relations between various groups of monuments in default of more precise details of the relationships between craftsmen and their patrons or employers, or, more ambitiously, general attempts to explain the high place which architecture so obviously held in the Seljuks' estimation, becomes necessary. Moreover, although the individuality of their contribution is comparatively well-known by this time, even in Western Europe, it is still obscure how the manifold influences which the Seljuks in their progress westwards through Persia and the Caucasus underwent were transmuted in Turkey into a style of such originality, strength and charm.

Magyarországi Zsidó Feliratok a III. Századtól 1686-ig. Corpus Inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum a Temporibus Saeculi III., quae exstant, usque ad annum 1686ScheiberSándor Magyarországi Zsidó Feliratok a III. Századtól 1686-ig. Corpus Inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum a Temporibus Saeculi III., quae exstant, usque ad annum 1686 Budapest, 1960, 365

Magyarországi Zsidó Feliratok a III. Századtól 1686-ig. Corpus Inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum a Temporibus Saeculi III., quae exstant, usque ad annum 1686ScheiberSándor <i>Magyarországi Zsidó Feliratok a III. Századtól 1686-ig. Corpus Inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum a Temporibus Saeculi III., quae exstant, usque ad annum 1686</i> Budapest, 1960, 365

Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part II. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian period and of eastern Iran and central Asia. Vol. v. Saka documents, edited by H. W. Bailey. Plates. Portfolios I-III. [VIII] pp., 24 plates; [VIII] pp., 24 plates; [VIII] pp., 24 plates. London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. Ltd., 1960–1964. 22s. 6d. each. - Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part III.

Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part II. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian period and of eastern Iran and central Asia. Vol. v. Saka documents, edited by H. W. Bailey. Plates. Portfolios I-III. [VIII] pp., 24 plates; [VIII] pp., 24 plates; [VIII] pp., 24 plates. London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. Ltd., 1960–1964. 22s. 6d. each. - Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part III. Pahlavi inscriptions. Vol. II. Private inscriptions of the classical period. Plates. Portfolio in. Edited by W. B. Henning. [VIII] pp., 40plates. London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. Ltd., 1963. 22s. 6d. - Volume 28 Issue 2

VI. The Municipium Augustum Veiens

The principal source of our knowledge of Veii during the Imperial age is that contained in the inscriptions found on the site itself and in the immediate neighbourhood, supplemented to some extent by the surviving remains. Veii lay off the main road and, while enjoying a modest prosperity under the early Empire, it never achieved sufficient importance to leave any mark upon the larger historical scene. It is hardly mentioned in the contemporary literature; nor, so far as we know, did any son of Veii ever achieve prominence in the outer world. Almost its only claim to contemporary distinction seems to have lain in the evil reputation of its wine.Such as it is, the literary and epigraphic evidence is well summarised in the introduction to the section on Veii in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (vol. XI, 1, p. 557) and need not here be repeated in full. It will be sufficient to call attention to a few points that have a particular bearing on the historical topography of the city and on the character and scope of the surviving remains.

The Jewish Community of Ancient Porto

Among the 734 inscriptions included in the first volume of Frey's Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum there are twenty-one (CII 535–551e) which are listed as from the Jewish community of Porto, the ancient Portus Traiani. There have been so many misstatements and differences of opinion among scholars with reference to the Jews of Porto that a fresh study of the data is appropriate.

A Sabaean Boundary Formula

In the of the Fuad I University, vol. 9, part 1, May, 1947, pp. 25–27, Dr. K. Y. Nami has published an interesting boundary inscription now in the possession of that University. In his treatment of the inscription, however, he has overlooked the fact that a parallel text is to be found in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, iv, 949. This is unfortunate, since a correlation of the two texts is most helpful in understanding the formula contained in them.The following are the two texts, with the renderings proposed by Nami for his inscription and by Rhodokanakis for the Corpus text.

Indices to the Roman Brick-Stamps Published in Volumes XV 1 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and LVI-LVII of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Indices to the Roman Brick-Stamps Published in Volumes XV 1 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and LVI-LVII of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

The Roman Brick-Stamps not Published in Volume XV 1 of the "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum"

The Roman Brick-Stamps not Published in Volume XV 1 of the "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum"

A Jewish Gold Medallion

The object in Fig. 1 is a circular medallion of sheet gold embossed with Jewish symbols recently presented to the Jewish Museum, Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place. In the centre is the seven-branched candlestick familiar on Jewish monuments of antiquity. With it are associated, as usual, the Shofár or Trumpet of horn, and the luláb or ritual sheaf of palm leaves, etc., used on the Festival of Tabernacles. The representation of the luláb here is somewhat angular, so that it is not easy to recognise. For such medallions cf. Reifenberg, Denkmäler der Jüdischen Antike pl. 56 and for the symbols, Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum.Above the symbols is inscribed in Greek letters of late date: |ΠΙΝΝωΝΑ. ‘ Ex voto of Jacob the Leader (?) the setter of pearls.’ The word ἀρχηγὁς may perhaps be used in the sense of , the president of the community, but such a use is unfamiliar; indeed the word does not seem to occur in Byzantine Greek. Mr. Tod has kindly suggested that it might be the dedicant's alternative name, like Dorcas—Tabitha, since such a name as “ΑρΧων is possible, πιννωνᾶ will be the genitive of a word πιννωνᾶς, also an unexampled word, but one which appears correctly formed. The strange genitive in -ᾶ follows correctly a usage in Byzantine Greek in names of trades ending in -ᾶς.

Some Latin Inscriptions. IV

One of the greatest historical achievements of the last century was the gathering together of the Latin inscriptions scattered over the various countries of Europe and the Mediterranean. The scheme was originated by Kellermann of Copenhagen (1805–37), who spent the last nine years of his life collecting inscriptions in Italy. It was taken up by members of the French Academy and finally carried through by the Berlin Academy. Many scholars, French, German, and Italian, had prepared the way by publishing collections of inscriptions; and the plan of the two scholars Zumpt, uncle and nephew, who were entrusted with the early preparations did not embrace much more than the rearranging of the published inscriptions. In 1847 a comprehensive scheme—the compilation of a corpus of inscriptions whether already published or not—was submitted to the Berlin Academy by Theodor Mommsen. In 1853 final approval was given and in 1863 appeared the first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae litterarum regiae Borussicae editum .

Some Latin Inscriptions. I

One of the greatest historical achievements of the last century was the gathering together of the Latin inscriptions scattered over the various countries of Europe and the Mediterranean. The scheme was originated by Kellermann of Copenhagen (1805–37), who spent the last nine years of his life collecting inscriptions in Italy. It was taken up by members of the French Academy and finally carried through by the Berlin Academy. Many scholars, French, German, and Italian, had prepared the way by publishing collections of inscriptions; and the plan of the two scholars Zumpt, uncle and nephew, who were entrusted with the early preparations did not embrace much more than the rearranging of the published inscriptions. In 1847 a comprehensive scheme—the compilation of a corpus of inscriptions whether already published or not—was submitted to the Berlin Academy by Theodor Mommsen. In 1853 final approval was given and in 1863 appeared the first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae litterarum regiae Borussicae editum.