“Quinto fu impressionato dalla cultura di quella persona che, da quanto diceva lui stesso, nel corso della sua vita era stato uno schiavo, quindi estraneo a qualsiasi istruzione giovanile. Il suo interlocutore non aveva mai sentito nominare i nomi di Nefertiti o Nefertari, non sapeva a chi o a cosa si riferisse, eppure quel racconto lo affascinava e...
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The Italian Institute for Ancient History announces a call for applications for two five-month scholarships within the framework of the agreement with the International Federation EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), in order to promote training and specialisation of graduates interested in the field of computer applications to...
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– Quanti anni hai, piccolina? – Oh, nemmeno quattro. – Apperò. Come parli bene. – Credo perché sono morta, rispose tristemente la bimba. – Prima era diverso. La nuova storia pubblicata da Giulio Iovine sulle Paresie menzionate da due epitaffi provenienti da Cirene e datati al II secolo d.C. è ora disponibile nella...
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the paper titled “Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks” on the cover of this week’s issue of the scientific journal Nature. This work is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Oxford and Athens AUEB, and Google’s DeepMind. The...
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The Italian Institute for Ancient History announces a call for four scholarships lasting five months as part of the agreement with EAGLE (the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), in order to promote training of graduates who work in the field of computer applications to Epigraphy. Candidates must have obtained a master’s degree in...
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In 2020, IDEA continued to fund small projects in Digital Epigraphy coherent with the aims of the Association. In Spring 2020 a first grant was awarded to Giovanni Almagno. His project concerned the update and increase of content in EAGLE related to the epigraphical documentation of one of the most important town of Regio IV, Corfinium. 106 records were...
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