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Help Update the Peutinger Map Viewer

September 21, 2020 in E-resource, Interest, News

The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest from freelance and contract web developers interested in a small project to update components of an online viewer for the so-called “Peutinger Map” of the Roman World. This HTML+JavaScript web application has been in production on the Web since 2011, providing a seamless “pan and zoom” interface to a raster image of the map, with switchable SVG layers highlighting thematic features. Raster tile services were implemented in the application using the free and open-source Djatoka server application, which is now defunct. We seek a developer or small team to replace the raster tile functionality with a modern, maintainable open-source solution, and to repackage the entire application for easier server-side deployment, but with minimal modification to the rest of the software stack.

Interested parties should email ISAW’s Tom Elliott (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) — not later than 6pm US Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, October 1st, 2020 — in order to indicate their interest in learning more about the scope of the project and its technical aspects. Elliott will organize a prospective vendor teleconference or other forum for questions during the month of October, after which AWMC will solicit proposals for completion of the work. Meantime, the code has been posted to GitHub for review by interested parties.

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Tabula Imperii Byzantini Update

June 16, 2020 in E-resource, Interest, Publication

Bithynien und Hellespont

In the TIB series, #13 Bithynien und Hellespont by Klaus Belke was published in April. Its two substantial volumes are accompanied not only by a map at the regular scale for the series (1:800,000), but also by several others, including the Bosporos at 1:100,000. See link here for free online access.

For the latest report about digitizing TIB and progress on extending its coverage, visit here.

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Two Books: New Edition and New Format

February 13, 2020 in Interest, Publication

A second edition of Graham Shipley’s Pseudo-Skylax is now available in hardback and paperback from Liverpool University Press.

Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World: Text, Translation and Commentary

Richard Talbert’s Roman Portable Sundials is now issued in paperback by Oxford University Press.

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New Book of Interest

January 7, 2020 in Interest, Publication

Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context, 1st Edition (Hardback) book cover

This study by Thomas Sinclair, accompanied by many maps, has recently appeared from Routledge. While it relates to the medieval period in the first instance, it also draws upon the Antonine Itinerary and Peutinger Map among other ancient evidence.

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Upcoming Seminars in Paris Led by Richard Talbert

October 14, 2019 in Conference, Interest

Transferts de paysages dans l’espace et le temps :

de la géographie gréco-romaine aux Altertumswissenschaften,

base de la cartographie moderne

Richard J.A. Talbert, professeur invité de l’EUR Translitterae

Vendredi 22 novembre 2019, 11h-13h | ENS, 45 rue d’Ulm | salle F (escalier D, 1er étage)

Séminaire « Géographie historique et géoarchéologie »:

Mesurer le temps dans la vie quotidienne des Romains

Jeudi 28 novembre 2019, 11h-14h | EPHE, 17 rue de la Sorbonne | salle D052 Histoire

Séminaire « Représentation de l’espace : Moyen Âge – Époque moderne »:

La Karte von Kleinasien de Kiepert (1901–1916) : sa place dans l’histoire de la cartographie du XIXe siècle

Vendredi 6 décembre 2019, 9h30-12h30 | ENS, 29 rue d’Ulm | salle U209

Séminaire « Transfers culturels »:

La Karte von Kleinasien de Kiepert (1901–1916) : base de la cartographie ottomane, britannique et grecque de la Turquie pendant la Grande Guerre

Vendredi 13 décembre 2019, 11h-13h | ENS, 45 rue d’Ulm | salle F (escalier D, 1er étage)

Séminaire « Géographie historique et géoarchéologie »:

Nouvelles approches du grand plan en marbre de Rome (Forma Vrbis)

For more information see http://www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?article2074&lang=fr

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Upcoming Course (free, online) on Discovering Greek and Roman Cities

August 22, 2019 in E-resource, Interest

This MOOC due to start in September uses maps made by the Center, among many other materials, and may be of interest. Visit https://www.ancientcities.eu/mooc for information.

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Two New Books

August 7, 2019 in Interest, Publication

Image result for riggsby mosaics of knowledge

Just published by Oxford University Press. Riggsby examines five technologies including mapping (the others are lists, tables, weights and measures, artistic perspective).

See further: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mosaics-of-knowledge-9780190632502?cc=us&lang=en&

Image result for roman roads anne kolb

Just published by De Gruyter, the outcome of a 2017 conference in Zurich organized by Anne Kolb.

See further: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/509939

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Digital Cartography: New Maps, Ancient History, November 2-3, Conference Program

October 5, 2018 in Conference, Interest

Digital Cartography: New Maps, Ancient History

Nov. 2-3, 2018

A conference co-sponsored by the Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University’s Departments of Classical Studies and of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

All are welcome. There is no registration fee, but do please notify us by October 28^th that you plan to come on either or both days: just send a message with your name to awmc@unc.edu, with “Conference 2018” in the message subject line. You will then receive details about the UNC-Duke Robertson bus and Saturday parking at Duke.

PROGRAM

Friday, November 2^nd

2.15-3.45 pm AWMC Open House – drop in at your convenience – with demonstration of current work there, Ancient World Mapping Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, Davis Library 5010

5.15-6.45 pm (Rubenstein 249, in Duke University Rubenstein Library, West Campus) Welcome, and Keynote Address by Dr. George Bevan (Queen’s University, Ontario),

“Photogrammetry and Heritage Documentation in the 21^st Century: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future”

7.00-8.00 pm (Duke University Bryan Center) Reception

Saturday, November 3^rd

(Rubenstein 249, in Duke University Rubenstein Library, for the entire day)

9.00 am Coffee, tea, juices, pastries

Session 1 (chair: Mary T. Boatwright)

9.15-9.50 am Christopher S. Saladin (University of Minnesota), “City in Transition: Mapping the Transformation of Ancient Carthage”

9.50-10.25 am Loren T. Cowdery (University of Minnesota), “In Search of a Blueprint: Using GIS to Map the Republican Empire in the Western Mediterranean”

10.25-11.00 am Gabriel Moss (UNC, Chapel Hill), “Mapping the Jewish Revolt (66-73 CE): A GIS Analysis of Provincial Resistance”

11.00-11.20 am Break (coffee, tea, juices, pastries)

Session 2 (chair: Maurizio Forte)

11.20-11.55 am Chad Uhl (University of Kansas, Lawrence), “Quod versu dicere non est. Implications of the Unnamed Oppidulum in Horace’s Satires 1.5”

11.55am-12.30 pm Micah Myers and Joseph Murphy (Kenyon College), “Teaching Roman Mobility: Digital Visualization in the Classroom and in Undergraduate Research”

12.30-1.05 pm Lindsey A. Mazurek (University of Oregon) and Cavan W. Concannon (University of Southern California), “Mapping Social History: New Approaches to Epigraphy at Ostia”

1.05-2.15 pm Lunch (Duke campus eateries in the Brodhead Center – on your own)

Session 3 (chair: Richard Talbert)

2.15-2.50 pm Katherine McCusker (Duke University) and Antonio LoPiano (Duke University), “Secrets Beneath the Surface: GPR and Remote Sensing at Vulci”

2.50-3.25 pm Kristen Jones (Queen’s University, Ontario), “Mapping the Original Location of the Forma Urbis Romae: Digital Methods and Technical Constraints”

3.25-4.00 pm Adam Mertel, Peter Ondrejka, David Zbíral, Hana Hořínková (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), “Early Christian Baptisteries – From Geocoding to Space-time Exploration”

4.00 pm Closing remarks

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New Book of Interest

October 5, 2018 in Interest, Publication

AWMC Founder Richard Talbert’s new book, Challenges of Mapping the Classical World is now available from Routledge, in hardcover and as an e-book.

About the book: Challenges of Mapping the Classical World collects together in one volume fourteen varied items written by Richard Talbert over the past thirty years. They cohere around the theme of mapping the classical world since the nineteenth century. All were originally prompted by Talbert’s commission in the late 1980s to produce a definitive classical atlas after more than a century of failed attempts by the Kieperts and others. These he evaluates, as well as probing the Smith/Grove atlas, a successful twenty-year initiative launched in the mid-1850s, with a cartographic approach that departs radically from established practice. Talbert’s initial vision for the international collaborative project that resulted in the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000) is presented, and the successive twice-yearly reports on its progress from 1991 through to completion are published here for the first time. A further item reflects retrospectively on the project’s cartographic challenges and on how developments in digital map production were decisive in overcoming them. This volume will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in the development and growing impact of mapping the classical world.

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