A busy summer (and autumn) for Team MAPPOLA!

By Published Events, MAPPOLA behind the scenes

We have not been as active on our blog recently as we used to be – not a sign of general inactivity, but quite the opposite! The last months have been intensely busy for all of us. Here are some (but definitely not all) of the things we did:

1. Expedition to Serbia: Belgrade and Viminacium

Chiara Cenati and Victoria González Berdús of Team MAPPOLA visited Serbia this summer for an epigraphic expedition to document the verse inscriptions of Viminacium and other settlements in the area. We are especially grateful to Ivana Kosanović and Nadja Gavrilović of the Serbian Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, for their hospitality, expert guidance, support, and friendship.

And, because is life random and beautiful, our work was caught on tape by the Retirement Travelers in their Vlog on Belgrade:

2. XVI. Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae

Peter Kruschwitz co-organised, with our dear friend Concha Fernández Martínez, a panel on Carmina Epigraphica at the sixteenth international congress of Greek and Latin epigraphy in Bordeaux. On occasion of that, several team members got to present their current work to an international audience – as well as to catch up with friends old and new!

Here you see most of Team MAPPOLA with our friends Concha Fernández Martínez, Yolanda López Sánchez, Ivana Kosanović, George Cupcea, Juan Martos Fernández, Davide Massimo, and Florian Matei-Popescu, sporting our brand new MAPPOLA apparel.

3. Epigraphic ‘Autumn Academy’ in Bucharest and Constanța-Tomis

Our doctoral researcher Denisa Murzea was one of the lucky participants at the Epigraphische Herbstakademie, organised by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of Heidelberg University, and the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), led by Klaus Hallof and Dragoș Hălmagi.

4. Launch Event of the ERC-funded project ‘Masters of the Stone’

Peter Kruschwitz presented a paper ‘Special Order: Verse Inscriptions and the Stonecutter’s Workshop’ on occasion of the launch event of the ERC-funded project ‘Masters of the Stone’, led by Paweł Nowakowski of the University of Warsaw.

5. III Seminario Hispalense de Filologia Latina

Denisa Murzea and Yolanda López Sánchez (University of Sevilla), previously (and hopefully again very soon) visitor of Team MAPPOLA in Vienna, presented a paper ‘Between family and Roman law: The enigmatic life-story of Suavola’ on occasion of the III Seminario Hispalense de Filologia Latina at the University of Sevilla.

6. Papyrologisch-epigraphische Werkstatt, Vienna

Chiara Cenati and Victoria González Berdús presented a paper ‘Octiens sic decies and other mysteries of a Latin verse inscription from Tomis’ at the 103rd papyrological and epigraphical workshop at the University of Vienna.

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