Term Card for the Oxford Epigraphy Workshop Trinity Term 2026

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We are delighted to share with you the programme for this term’s Epigraphy Workshop. The

workshop will be held on Mondays 1–2pm in the ground-floor Outreach Room of the

Ioannou Centre.

 

As always, all are extremely welcome, and you are free to bring along lunch if you would like to. 

 

 

Week 1 (April 27th): Thomas Stranex (Oxford): ‘Re-editing CPI 259: tree-crime in Ptolemaic Egypt’, James Durden (Oxford): ‘Kasen Dedications and Roman Sparta’s Political Renaissance in the 1st century AD’ (two 15-minute talks)

 

Week 2 (May 4th): Shoni Lavie-Driver (Oxford): ‘Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima’

 

Week 3 (May 11th): Pawel Nowakowski (University of Warsaw): ‘Strokes and bars, serifs and cornices: the cultural transfer in the epigraphy of the sanctuary of Hecate at Lagina, western Anatolia’

 

Week 4 (May 18th): Tom Britton (University of Groningen): ‘IG II3 1.1323: Communicating Civic Honours to Distant Monarchs’

 

Week 5 (May 25th): Olivia Macfarlane (Oxford): ‘The date of the Dophitis inscription from Chios’, Madeleine Riskin-Kutz (Oxford): ‘Bilingualism as Protection and Resistance on an Egyptian Jewish Proseuche’ (two 15-minute talks)

 

Week 6 (June 1st): Romeo Gassega (Oxford): ‘Translating Latin epigraphic formulae in Roman Anatolia: reflections and case studies’

 

Week 7 (June 8th): No meeting

 

Week 8 (June 15th): Leah Lazar (University of Manchester): ‘Epigraphic perspectives on Rhodian power and coinage in Hellenistic Asia Minor’

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

With all best wishes,

Marcus Chin, Charles Crowther and Ariadne Pagoni