Michèle Brunet, Professor of Greek and Greek Epigraphy, University Lyon 2, France - Introduction to Greek Epigraphy. Conference at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Archaeology, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 25, 2016 Visible Words Workshop in Cambodia, 2016

1.
បឋកថ
Talk
េសចក្តី េផ្តីមៃនករសិក ែបបឌីជីថលេលីសិ ចរ ឹក្រកិ ចនិងរ ៉ូមុ ំង
Introduction to digital studies in epigraphy of the Greek and Roman worlds
ជភ អង់េគ្លសេ យ / in English by Michèle Brunet and John Bodel
ៃថងពុធ ទី២៥ ែខឧសភ ឆន ំ២០១៦ េម៉ ង៩:៣០្រពឹក
ស្រមប់និស ិតថន ក់ឆន ំទី៣ (េនបនទប់ឆន ំទី៣) ៃនម វ ិទយល័យបុ ណវ ិទយ
On Wednesday 25th
May 2016 at 9:30am, Faculty of Archaeology (RUFA)

2. THE VISIBLE WORDS
PROGRAM

3. Visible Words: Digital Contextual Epigraphy

4. 3-year Program funded by the
Partner University Fund (French American FACE Foundation) &
The Andrew Mellon Foundation
§ Association of Research and Training in Digital Epigraphy
aggregating specialists of different languages and civilizations
§ Every year : mobility between France and the USA for Faculty
members and Students
§ Two field workshops in Greece (2015) and Cambodia (2016)
thanks to the help and support of the Network of the French
Archaeological Institutes Abroad : EFA in Greece and EFEO in
Cambodia
Ø https://plus.google.com/b/109152673545362973140/109152673545362973140
Ø https://plus.google.com/109152673545362973140/videos
What is original in this program ?

5. Practical Trainings by groups in Thasos
SQUEEZES
• How to make a squeeze
• How to transform a paper-squeeze in a digital image
(Digital Epigraphy Process)
PHOTOGRAPHS
• How to take a good photo of an inscription (2D)
• How to make a 3D reconstruction of an inscription by
photogrammetry (Photoscan and Meshlab software)
DRAWINGS
• How to draw a graphic record of an inscription (hand
drawing)
• How to turn a hand drawing into a digital drawing
• How to build a 3D view of a construction with
inscriptions (SketchUp)

7. COMPARATIVE
EPIGRAPHY

11. ■ Inscriptions as not only texts
■ they are communication devices interweaving visual
and verbal codes and meanings
■ They are always displayed in a special context of
visualization and reception

12. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE
GREEK CITY-STATE – ΠΟΛΙΣ
WHAT ? WHERE ?
http://initiationepigraphie.postach.io

15. Agora
Acropole
Théâtre de Dionysos
WHERE ?

16. 1
6
The Acropolis

17. • Désignation de la prêtresse par tirage au sort
• Construction d’une porte du sanctuaire
• Salaire annuel 50 drachmes + pattes et peau des animaux sacrifiés
• Construction d’un temple par Kallikratès et autel de marbre

18. The Athenian Agora

19. Boundary stone of the Athenian Agora

20. Law-code in the
Royal Stoa on the Agora

21. Apollo’s international Sanctuary at Delphi

22. Restored View of Apollo’s Sanctuary by the architect
Tournaire, 1894
Plan of Apollo’s Sanctuary

24. Herodotus, The Histories, 9, 81
Pausanias, 10, 13, 9
The Serpentine Column, now in
Istanbul with inscriptions
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Column

25. Apollo’s sanctuary at Delos

26. Inscription : 3 vertical lines on the left side of the statue
ID 2

27. EDITING AND
PUBLISHING GREEK
INSCRIPTIONS
IN A DIGITAL AGE

28. E-STAMPAGES
A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF SQUEEZES
OF GREEK INSCRIPTIONS

29. Scientific Goals
■ Digitization for long-term preservation
■ Remote consultation of data
■ Standardization for interoperability with other resources
related to cultural heritage and digital epigraphy
■ Creating a new ressource for new research: a corpus to be
queried by advanced systems

30. Estampage selon la méthode chinoise – Rubbing made according to the Chinese method

31. Photos Claire Tuan, http://lespierresquiparlent.free.fr/conseilsauxdebutants.html
Estampage of a greek inscription in the
Epigraphical Museum at Athens

32. UNIVERSITY of
FLORIDAUF
A web-based application that facilitates the preservation, study, and dissemination
of ancient inscriptions and other archaeological artifacts.
Funded by: NEH
Eleni Bozia, Angelos Barmpoutis, Robert Wagman

33. http://www.digitalepigraphy.org/

35. ! Dendrogram of ‘epsilon’! Dendrogram of ‘epsilon’
Notice line extensions in
the average image.
Notice a small group in
the dendrogram with two
‘epsilons’ whose middle
line is not touching theline is not touching the
vertical one.
No other significant sub-
groups were formed.

37. PUBLISHING ON THE
INTERNET

38. A page of an edition of greek Inscriptions : Fredrich IG XII, 8 - 1909

39. XML
EpiDoc
metadata
+ transcription
Object
metadata
http://www.
Print edition Web edition
Images
XSL transformation + JavascriptXSL transformation + InDesign
link
http://www.
http://www.
XSL
RDF triples
link

40. http://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/inscriptions/campa/

41. John Bodel, Brown University, ed., 2003-
http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/projects/usep/collections/