Attic inscriptions in UK collections (AIUK)

石刻是雅典古城居民创造的最重要、数量最多的一类书面文件，一直保存到今天。从7分钱开始的2万多个这样的铭文。公元前三分钱。在现存的英国藏品中，约有1%(约220件)是英国藏品，主要(约163件)在大英博物馆(BM)，但也包括其他藏品，如牛津的阿什莫林博物馆、剑桥的菲茨威廉博物馆、私人藏品和雅典的英国学校。大多数铭文记录了公民大会和其他机构的决定、财务账目、租约、对神灵的奉献和葬礼纪念碑。它们中的许多都装饰着浮雕，对于学者和学生来说，它们是第一重要的资源，对于它们所在的博物馆和收藏品的参观者来说，它们也可能是吸引人的纪念碑。然而，总的来说，这些铭文受到了忽视。BM中最后一个系统的阁楼铭文版本可以追溯到1874年，而且在很大程度上，这个版本是博物馆目前在线目录的基础。自1874年以来，不仅由于博物馆收藏的新铭文的加入，而且由于学术的进步，风景已经完全改变了。例如，自那以后，数以千计的阁楼碑文被发现，对我们理解已知的碑文具有深远的影响；这在许多情况下包括在BM中新的碑文片段。1874年甚至早于权威的阁楼铭文语料库(IG I和II)的第一版，出版于19世纪70年代至19世纪90年代，这奠定了他们的研究系统的基础上，这些版本本身早已被第二版和第三版取代。我们建议对这些材料采取双管齐下的方法，旨在使学者、学生和普通公众能够以最新的方式获取这些材料。这一方法的核心是阁楼碑文在线(AIO)，这是一个于2012年推出的网站，发布阁楼碑文的带注释的英文翻译以及辅助学术论文(AIO论文)。首先，我们建议出版17篇AIO系列论文的新版铭文，每篇论文将涵盖一个单独的收藏，或者就BM而言，将出版一类铭文(例如法令、献礼、葬礼纪念碑)。基于最新的学术参考文献，辅以对石头的最新尸检，并辅之以照片，AIO的文件将包含铭文的新版，以及文字注释、翻译和注释。主要的出版方式将是在AIO上在线发布，在那里可以免费查看和下载论文，但也将出版硬拷贝。这将改变这些材料的实用性和对学者的可及性。其次，包括翻译和照片在内的条目将在AIO主网站上发布，并针对不懂拉丁语和希腊语的用户提供注释，包括学校学生和博物馆参观者。同时，我们将与藏品馆长接触，通过在线目录和直接实时向博物馆参观者提供关于AIO铭文的翻译和信息。这将包括提供咨询和协助准备，例如，通过大英博物馆的移动网络平台，或通过二维码，在其上将有自动链接到AIO材料的展板，从而能够在移动电话上直接访问AIO。将开发材料，旨在加强和促进基于英国阁楼铭文的教学，无论是通过虚拟方式还是通过访问收藏品的方式，在与该项目合作的教师进行测试后，存储在专门为此目的而设计的网站的一部分。

Inscriptions on stone are the most important and numerous category of written document created by the inhabitants of the ancient city of Athens that has survived through to the present day. Of the over 20,000 such inscriptions dating from the 7th cent. BC to the 3rd cent. AD that are extant, around 1% (ca. 220) are in British collections, mostly (ca. 163) in the British Museum (BM), but including also other collections, such as the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, and the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, private collections, and the British School at Athens. Most of the inscriptions are records of decisions of the citizen Assembly and other bodies, financial accounts, leases, dedications to the gods and funerary monuments. Many of them are decorated with relief sculpture, and they are a resource of the first importance for scholars and students as well as potentially engaging monuments for visitors to the museums and collections where they are located. Generally speaking, however, these inscriptions have suffered from neglect. The last systematic edition of the Attic inscriptions in the BM dates from 1874, and it is for the most part this edition that is the basis for the museum's current online catalogue. Since 1874 the landscape has been completely transformed, not only by the accession of new inscriptions to the museum's collection, but by the progress of scholarship. For example, thousands of Attic inscriptions have since been discovered, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of inscriptions already known; this includes in many cases new fragments of inscriptions in the BM. 1874 predates even the first editions of the authoritative corpora of Attic inscriptions (IG I and II), published in the 1870s-1890s, which set their study on a systematic footing, and which have themselves long been overtaken by second and third editions. We propose a two-pronged approach to this material designed to make it accessible in an up-to-date fashion to scholars, students and the general public. Central to this approach is Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO), a website launched in 2012 which publishes annotated English translations of Attic inscriptions, together with supporting academic papers (AIO Papers). First we propose to publish new editions of the inscriptions in a series of 17 AIO Papers each of which will cover an individual collection, or in the case of the BM a category of inscriptions (e.g. decrees, dedications, funerary monuments). Based on the most up-to-date scholarly bibliography, supplemented by fresh autopsy of the stones, and supported by photographs, the AIO Papers will contain new editions of the inscriptions, together with textual notes, translations and commentaries. The main mode of publication will be online on AIO, where the Papers will be available to view and download without charge, but hard copies will also be published. This will transform the utility and accessibility of this material to scholars. Second, entries including translations and photographs will be published on the main AIO site, with notes aimed at the user without good knowledge of Latin and Greek, including school students and museum visitors. At the same time we will engage with the curators of collections to make the translations and information about the inscriptions on AIO available to the public, both via online catalogues and directly to museum visitors in real time. This will include advising and assisting with preparation of e.g. display boards on which there will be automatic links to AIO material, via the British Museum's mobile web-platform, or via QR codes which will enable direct access to AIO on mobile phones. Materials will be developed, designed to enhance and facilitate teaching and learning based on the Attic inscriptions in the UK by school students, both virtually and via visits to the collections, stored in a section of the site specially designed for the purpose, following testing by teachers collaborating on the project.