Info Of Attic Vase Inscriptions - Tidings & Colloquium

Attic Vase Inscriptions - News & colloquium

Dear colleagues, 

We would similar to plough over yous roughly tidings regarding our projection Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI), funded past times the Swiss National Science Foundation too directed past times Professor Rudolf Wachter at the University of Basle (https://avi.unibas.ch). Our database, which builds on too continually updates Henry Immerwahr’s monumental Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), aims to render the fullest too virtually accurate information on inscriptions on Attic pottery. 

Since concluding year’s inclusion of links from our database entries to matching records inwards the Beazley Archive Pottery Database (BAPD), the Basle DigitalLIMC database too roughly databases of private collections, nosotros stimulate got non only corrected many misleading links to too from our database, but systematically added numerous farther links to museum databases which often too importantly render images too farther information on individual pots. 

In addition, hundreds of smaller corrections too additions to the database, specially the bibliography, stimulate got been made or are waiting to be integrated, roughly of them sent to us past times database users, to whom nosotros are real grateful, via the feedback cast which nosotros introduced concluding year.

 We are specially glad to denote that nosotros are currently beta-testing a data entry cast which volition enable registered collections too scholars to add novel vases amongst inscriptions to the database. 

We would too similar to inform yous that our projection volition agree a second colloquium (after the successful get-go i whose proceedings were published inwards 2016) which volition stimulate got identify from viii to 10 June 2020 at the University of Basle; nosotros are going to issue the programme early on adjacent year.

 As always, nosotros welcome whatever comments too suggestions from our users too thus the database tin move larn an fifty-fifty amend resource.

Georg Gerleigner
Attic Vase Inscriptions / Attische Vaseninschriften 
University of Basle 
https://avi.unibas.ch
avi@unibas.ch
 (13/11/2019)