The EAGLE Project is Launched, Brings Ancient Inscriptions to the World
On April 2, 2013, the Accademia dei Lincei hosted the inauguration of the EAGLE project in Rome. The symposium was presided over by the project’s Coordinator, Dr. Silvia Orlandi of Sapienza, University of Rome. It was a highly successful event that brought together more than 20 cultural institutions, archives, universities, research centres and innovative enterprises from all over Europe. Among many distinguished speakers, we were honored by the presence of Europeana Foundation director Jill Cousins and representatives from Wikimedia...
read more »The EAGLE Logo
After much anticipation and applied creative energies, the EAGLE project released its definitive logo. A synthetic representation of the plethora of inscribed material to be found among the digital content provided by the project partners, the logo strives to conjugate aesthetic beauty with a precise conceptual line. The logo’s ‘big bubble’ contains the Pompeian fresco of the So-called Sappho, which depicts a young woman with a stylus for the wax tablet she is holding. Such tablets represent one of the most usual ways of writing in the...
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