On 28 and 29 March, our project hosted dr Piotr Głogowski, a researcher in quantitative epigraphy based in Wrocław. Piotr gave a talk titled “The epigraphic culture of southern Levant in antiquity” at the papyrological and epigraphical seminar, and then participated in our project meeting, offering useful hints on completing our lists of editions of Aramaic inscriptions.

Piotr is currently employed at the University of Wrocław where he holds a postdoc position within the NAWA Chair project entitled “From the Achaemenids to the Romans: Contextualizing empire and its longue-durée developments” directed by Prof. Robert Rollinger. In his research, Piotr focuses on the cultural development of Phoenicia in the Greco-Roman period as well as on the impact of the Hellenistic and Roman empires on the local culture.

Piotr is also the PI of an NCN-funded project “The Development of the Epigraphic Culture of the Near-Eastern Peoples in the Greco-Roman Period: The Case-Study of the Southern Levant (Phoenicia, Judaea-Palestine and Transjordan)” (Preludium grant, 2020/37/N/HS3/02749), and was one of the contributors to the volume “Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity” edited by Krzysztof Nawotka.

Image: Frank Kidner, Basilica Complex, Qanawat (قنوات), Syria – East part: detail of fragment with Aramaic inscription. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. From: Wikimedia Commons.