Term Card for the Faculty of Classics Ancient History Seminar, Trinity Term 2026: The Epigraphic Culture of Ancient Sicily
ISic000618, Latin funerary inscription, Syracuse, 1st cent. BCE (Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , inv. 43118).
Week 1, 28 April: Jonathan Prag* (Oxford) Crossreads and the Epigraphic Culture of Ancient Sicily
Week 2, 5 May: Robert Crellin* (Oxford) Charting the Rise and Fall of Greek Abbreviations in the Roman Empire
Week 3,12 May: Pascal Warnking (Universität Trier) Bean Counting: Quantifying the Sicilian Economy using I.Sicily
Week 4,19 May: Simona Stoyanova* (Oxofrd) & Charles Crowther (Oxford) Hellenistic palaeography: comparing approaches and exploring stylistic trends
Week 5, 26 May: Alessia Coccato* (Oxford) & Devi Taelman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Marble in Roman Sicilian Epigraphy: Material Provenance from a Mediterranean Perspective.
Week 6, 2 June: Silvia Evangelisti (Università degli studi di Foggia) & Silvia Orlandi (Sapienza Università di Roma) EDR & ISicily: Comparing Italian and Sicilian epigraphy
Week 7, 9 June : Valentina Mignosa* (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) The Materiality of Writing in a Multilingual Landscape: Epigraphic Habits in Archaic–Classical Sicily
Week 8, 16 June: Ilenia Gradante* (Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Roma) & Lucia Orlandi (École Française de Rome) Recent Research on Signacula: Challenges and Prospects for Data Modeling and Analysis
* Member of the CROSSREADS project
CROSSREADS: text, materiality and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement no. 885040).
