PROJECTS OF THE IUA

A. Corpora

The Corpora comprises two series : the Inscriptions romaines de Catalogne (Roman inscriptions of Catalonia) in Spain and the Supplementa Italica, in Italy.

B. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
The Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum project has as its aim the annual listing of Greek inscriptions published in a scattered fashion in journals, excavation reports and monographs, but not including indexed collections of epigraphic texts. (Apparatus criticus and occasional corrections of the editio princeps are provided). The project is further concerned with the collection of corrections to texts already published, as well as new interpretations proposed for such texts.
There are also brief reports on new studies in Greek epigraphy and on related topics in religion, politics, economics, onomastics, chronology, topography and the study of ancient institutions and their specialized vocabulary at large. Each volume is provided with an index and a concordance.
After an interruption in 1971 at volume XXV, the SEG was reconstituted on new principles on the initiative of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen and the Koninklijke Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België ; it was adopted by the UAI as a Category A project in 1974. With the help of an international committee, the publications are edited at the rate of one volume per year. The project now encompasses the whole geographical area in which are found incised Greek inscriptions dating from the archaic age until the beginning of the Byzantine period. The new SEG started with vol. XXVI, which covered the year 1976 and appeared in 1979. Vol. XLI, covering the year 1991, was published in 1994.
Category A. Directed by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences). Director : H.W. Pleket 1974-2004, A. Chaniotis 2004-

C. Corpus of amphora stamps
Amphoras were, in Antiquity, the principal packaging for wine, oil and some other substances. At certain periods and in various places, small stamps with lettering or other devices in wide variety were applied before firing. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the study of these stamps has been stimulated in more recent years by the discovery of a good number of workshops in which amphoras were made. The stamps can now provide very precise chronological evidence, together with information about the direction and intensity of commercial traffic and the social and political organization of the ceramic industry.

The idea for the present international project for a Corpus of Amphora stamps, both Greek and Latin, came from Yvon Garlan of the University of Rennes-II. There are hundreds of thousands of stamps ; but they can only yield historical data if the matrices which produced them are classified in ways which require long and highly detailed study. The more material we have, the clearer it becomes that the only fruitful way ahead for research is to have a corpus, or more than one, which can generate works of reference for the field archaeologist and works of scholarship for the specialist.

Different kinds of corpus can be imagined. The most instructive, which are also the hardest to produce, put together the stamps from one centre of production, or a single workshop : examples are Thasos, for which a new corpus was produced by Y. Garlan ; or Sinope, for which a corpus has been put together in collaboration by N.F. Fedoseev (Russia), Y. Garlan (France), and N. Conovici (Roumania). None the less, for practical reasons, one will have to be content, in the first instance, with volumes dealing with the holdings of an individual museum or with deposits of sherds in places were the imported goods were consumed, for example, Istria : the amphora stamps from Thasos and Sinope found there were published in 1996 and 1998 by A. Avram and N. Conovici.

The project was adopted by the UAI in Category C in 1993, on the initiative of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Director : Y. Garlan, 1993-2003, Y. Galan (timbres grecs) et J. Remesal Rodríguez (timbres latins) 2003-

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