Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

*Friday June 5 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Jen Hicks (UCL) ‘From lost archives to digital databases’ * Of the leather documents used by the administration and individuals of the Seleukid empire (ca 312- 63 BC), all that remains are the small pieces of clay that were used to seal them; these however survive in their tens of thousands in Mesopotamia and the Levant. In this paper I will consider the potential and limitations of using these lumps of mud, through the construction of digital databases and statistical analysis, to reconstruct these lost archives, and to understand the imperial structures of the Seleukid power.

Full abstract is available at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-01jh.html http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-01jh.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

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The full 2014 programme is at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html