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Facilitating Access to Latin inscriptions in Britain's Oldest Public Museum through Scholarship and Technology

通过学术和技术促进英国最古老的公共博物馆的拉丁铭文的获取

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K001876/1
负责人：
Alison Cooley
金额：
$ 73.36万
依托单位：
University of Warwick
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK001876%2F1
关键词：
Facilitating Access Latin inscriptions Britain

项目摘要

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford owns around 300 Latin inscriptions, which it has accumulated over the centuries since 1683. The core of the collection consists of the Arundel marbles, but the museum has made further acquisitions since the seventeenth century, most recently of inscriptions from the estate of the late Sir Howard Colvin. The main publication of the collection is that of Chandler (1763), who included the 134 inscriptions then owned by the museum. No modern edition of the collection exists. No photographic record of the inscriptions has ever been published. The inscriptions originate from Britain and other parts of the Roman world and date from the late Republic down to mediaeval times. The collection includes a wide range of types of inscriptions: many are monumental inscriptions such as epitaphs, religious dedications, and commemorative building-inscriptions, but many more are inscribed upon everyday objects, including pewterware, pottery, and even a set of panpipes. None of the inscriptions on its own is of any especial historical consequence, but together they offer insights into the Roman world, its commemorative habits, social hierarchy, economic networks, and uses of literacy. Specifically too, the place of the frontier province of Britain within the cultural, social, religious, and economic networks of the wider Roman empire can be illustrated by the inscriptions found there.Despite the fact that they offer a direct line of communication with the ancient world, Latin inscriptions seem inaccessible and incomprehensible to the general public. This project aims to create an online corpus and critical edition of the museum's collection of inscriptions for a scholarly readership, and then to use this as a springboard for further online resources and interactive activities, and to incorporate more Latin inscriptions into the museum's displays in order to open up this type of first-hand source material to as wide an audience as possible. It will show how Latin inscriptions can illuminate the society, economy, and religion of the past, and will explore the ways in which Latin continued to be used in Britain even after the end of 'Roman Britain'.As well as containing a research core relating to Roman history and to the history of collections and museums, this project will make a valuable contribution to understanding better how digital resources can be embedded into different contexts peopled by professional scholars, students, teachers, schoolchildren, & museum-visitors. The AHRC has been at the forefront of funding innovative digital epigraphic projects, such as Inscriptions of Aphrodisias & MAMA XI, and of supporting new imaging techniques via the project e-Science and Ancient Documents. These projects have clearly demonstrated the advantages of publication in EpiDoc XML, but we wish to explore this potential further in several ways: by exploring the integration of an EpiDoc corpus into a Museum's cataloguing system; by discovering how it can be used to enhance current displays within the Museum; by seeing how the XML can be used to produce teaching resources for use by institutions elsewhere. In particular, it will seek to put into practice the potential in EpiDoc to produce resources suitable for the visually impaired.Several audiences will be the potential beneficiaries of this project. Visitors to the museum will be able to engage more easily with the Latin inscriptions on display; interactive activities will target schoolchildren. Schools will be able to use new online resources in the Education Centre during their visits to the museum and to engage in follow-up activities afterwards. Students and scholars will be able to access the electronic EpiDoc corpus of the inscriptions. By publishing an electronic corpus, the museum's collection will be made accessible to a worldwide audience, and it will be possible to integrate its data into the existing major online databases of Latin inscriptions.

牛津的阿什莫尔博物馆拥有大约300个拉丁文铭文，这些铭文是自1683年以来几个世纪积累起来的。藏品的核心是阿伦德尔大理石，但自17世纪以来，博物馆又进行了进一步的收藏，最近的一次是来自已故霍华德·科尔文爵士庄园的铭文。这些藏品的主要出版物是钱德勒(1763年)的作品，他包括了当时博物馆拥有的134个铭文。这套藏品没有现代版本。这些铭文的摄影记录从未出版过。这些铭文起源于英国和罗马世界的其他地区，可以追溯到共和国晚期到中世纪。这些收藏品包括各种各样的铭文：许多是不朽的铭文，如墓志铭、宗教祭祀和纪念性建筑铭文，但更多的是刻在日常物品上，包括锡器、陶器，甚至一套排笛。这些铭文本身没有任何特殊的历史影响，但它们一起提供了对罗马世界、其纪念习惯、社会等级、经济网络和识字用途的见解。具体地说，边境省不列颠在更广泛的罗马帝国的文化、社会、宗教和经济网络中的地位可以从那里的铭文中得到说明。尽管它们提供了与古代世界的直接联系，但普通公众似乎无法接触和理解拉丁文铭文。该项目旨在建立一个面向学术读者的博物馆铭文收藏的在线语料库和评论版，然后将其作为进一步在线资源和互动活动的跳板，并将更多的拉丁文铭文纳入博物馆的展示中，以便向尽可能广泛的观众开放这类第一手资料。它将展示拉丁文铭文如何照亮过去的社会、经济和宗教，并将探索拉丁文在英国即使在罗马不列颠时代结束后继续使用的方式。除了包含与罗马历史以及收藏品和博物馆历史有关的研究核心外，这个项目将为更好地理解如何将数字资源嵌入专业学者、学生、教师、学童和博物馆参观者的不同背景中做出宝贵的贡献。AHRC一直处于资助创新数字碑文项目的前沿，例如Aphrodisias和Mama XI的铭文，并通过e-Science和古代文献项目支持新的成像技术。这些项目已经清楚地展示了以EpiDoc XML发布的优势，但我们希望通过几种方式进一步探索这一潜力：探索将EpiDoc语料库整合到博物馆的编目系统中；通过发现如何使用它来增强博物馆内的现有展示；通过了解如何使用XML来制作教学资源，供其他机构使用。特别是，它将寻求在EpiDoc中发挥潜力，制作适合视障人士的资源。几个受众将是这项计划的潜在受益者。博物馆的参观者将能够更容易地参与展出的拉丁文铭文；互动活动将针对学童。学校将能够在参观博物馆期间使用教育中心的新在线资源，并在参观后进行后续活动。学生和学者将能够访问铭文的电子EpiDoc语料库。通过发布电子语料库，博物馆的藏品将向世界各地的观众开放，并将有可能将其数据纳入现有的主要拉丁铭文在线数据库。