The Writing On The Wall: Inscriptions And Memory In The Temples Of Late Antique Greece And Asia Minor

This dissertation documents late antique (fourth to seventh century CE) Christian responses to earlier, pagan inscriptions at sanctuaries, as seen in the archaeological record. I argue that Christians in Greece and Asia Minor neither ignored nor unthinkingly destroyed older inscriptions, but rather were generally tolerant toward these legible reminders of the pagan past, selectively editing them only occasionally. In order to clarify the types of inscriptions that Christians encountered on temple walls and architraves, I have assembled the first catalog of inscriptions on temples, which reveals that the majority of texts inscribed on sacred structures between the seventh century BCE and the third century CE were, counterintuitively, not about religion, but rather civic matters: political privileges, economic/territorial rights, and elite social structures. This data further reveals regional variations and chronological trends in the ancient practice of inscribing temples, including a proclivity for the practice in Caria and a break in the Roman imperial period from the Hellenistic habit of inscribing important documents on temples. Christian reception of these inscribed texts is explored in depth at six sites: Ankara, Sagalassos, Labraunda, the Corycian Cave (Cilicia) Clifftop Temple, Aizanoi, and Aphrodisias. Inscriptions on temples at these sites have been overlooked in late antique scholarship because of disciplinary biases. Art historical/archaeological studies have traditionally fixated on the original appearance of monuments rather than their full lifespan, while epigraphic publications often treat texts as historical data rather than elements of larger, trans-temporal architectural settings. Each of these sites shows a different approach toward the older inscriptions, including preservation in place, reuse, modification, and erasure. I argue that the civic-focused nature of the majority of inscribed texts on temple walls inflected late antique conceptualization of temples and provided a counterbalance to the negative, polemical depiction of temples presented in hagiographical texts. This study therefore adds a new facet to our understanding of Christianization between the ancient Roman and early Byzantine periods

Labraunda 2017

La mission 2017 de Labraunda a été double. Parallèlement à la mission de fouille/documentation/conservation qui s’est déroulée sur le site de Labraunda du 18 juin au 18 août 2017, nous avons inauguré cette année une mission de prospection, pour l’instant modeste, mais qui s’avère très prometteuse. Cette dernière, dont la première édition s’est déroulée pendant les deux semaines qui ont précédé la fouille, a pour objectif d’établir une carte archéologique de la région de Labraunda et de permet..

The Writing on the Wall: Inscriptions and Memory in the Temples of Late Antique Greece and Asia Minor

This dissertation documents late antique (fourth to seventh century CE) Christian responses to earlier, pagan inscriptions at sanctuaries, as seen in the archaeological record. I argue that Christians in Greece and Asia Minor neither ignored nor unthinkingly destroyed older inscriptions, but rather were generally tolerant toward these legible reminders of the pagan past, selectively editing them only occasionally. In order to clarify the types of inscriptions that Christians encountered on temple walls and architraves, I have assembled the first catalog of inscriptions on temples, which reveals that the majority of texts inscribed on sacred structures between the seventh century BCE and the third century CE were, counterintuitively, not about religion, but rather civic matters: political privileges, economic/territorial rights, and elite social structures. This data further reveals regional variations and chronological trends in the ancient practice of inscribing temples, including a proclivity for the practice in Caria and a break in the Roman imperial period from the Hellenistic habit of inscribing important documents on temples. Christian reception of these inscribed texts is explored in depth at six sites: Ankara, Sagalassos, Labraunda, the Corycian Cave (Cilicia) Clifftop Temple, Aizanoi, and Aphrodisias. Inscriptions on temples at these sites have been overlooked in late antique scholarship because of disciplinary biases. Art historical/archaeological studies have traditionally fixated on the original appearance of monuments rather than their full lifespan, while epigraphic publications often treat texts as historical data rather than elements of larger, trans-temporal architectural settings. Each of these sites shows a different approach toward the older inscriptions, including preservation in place, reuse, modification, and erasure. I argue that the civic-focused nature of the majority of inscribed texts on temple walls inflected late antique conceptualization of temples and provided a counterbalance to the negative, polemical depiction of temples presented in hagiographical texts. This study therefore adds a new facet to our understanding of Christianization between the ancient Roman and early Byzantine periods

The Writing On The Wall: Inscriptions And Memory In The Temples Of Late Antique Greece And Asia Minor

This dissertation documents late antique (fourth to seventh century CE) Christian responses to earlier, pagan inscriptions at sanctuaries, as seen in the archaeological record. I argue that Christians in Greece and Asia Minor neither ignored nor unthinkingly destroyed older inscriptions, but rather were generally tolerant toward these legible reminders of the pagan past, selectively editing them only occasionally. In order to clarify the types of inscriptions that Christians encountered on temple walls and architraves, I have assembled the first catalog of inscriptions on temples, which reveals that the majority of texts inscribed on sacred structures between the seventh century BCE and the third century CE were, counterintuitively, not about religion, but rather civic matters: political privileges, economic/territorial rights, and elite social structures. This data further reveals regional variations and chronological trends in the ancient practice of inscribing temples, including a proclivity for the practice in Caria and a break in the Roman imperial period from the Hellenistic habit of inscribing important documents on temples. Christian reception of these inscribed texts is explored in depth at six sites: Ankara, Sagalassos, Labraunda, the Corycian Cave (Cilicia) Clifftop Temple, Aizanoi, and Aphrodisias. Inscriptions on temples at these sites have been overlooked in late antique scholarship because of disciplinary biases. Art historical/archaeological studies have traditionally fixated on the original appearance of monuments rather than their full lifespan, while epigraphic publications often treat texts as historical data rather than elements of larger, trans-temporal architectural settings. Each of these sites shows a different approach toward the older inscriptions, including preservation in place, reuse, modification, and erasure. I argue that the civic-focused nature of the majority of inscribed texts on temple walls inflected late antique conceptualization of temples and provided a counterbalance to the negative, polemical depiction of temples presented in hagiographical texts. This study therefore adds a new facet to our understanding of Christianization between the ancient Roman and early Byzantine periods

The Writing on the Wall: Inscriptions and Memory in the Temples of Late Antique Greece and Asia Minor

This dissertation documents late antique (fourth to seventh century CE) Christian responses to earlier, pagan inscriptions at sanctuaries, as seen in the archaeological record. I argue that Christians in Greece and Asia Minor neither ignored nor unthinkingly destroyed older inscriptions, but rather were generally tolerant toward these legible reminders of the pagan past, selectively editing them only occasionally. In order to clarify the types of inscriptions that Christians encountered on temple walls and architraves, I have assembled the first catalog of inscriptions on temples, which reveals that the majority of texts inscribed on sacred structures between the seventh century BCE and the third century CE were, counterintuitively, not about religion, but rather civic matters: political privileges, economic/territorial rights, and elite social structures. This data further reveals regional variations and chronological trends in the ancient practice of inscribing temples, including a proclivity for the practice in Caria and a break in the Roman imperial period from the Hellenistic habit of inscribing important documents on temples. Christian reception of these inscribed texts is explored in depth at six sites: Ankara, Sagalassos, Labraunda, the Corycian Cave (Cilicia) Clifftop Temple, Aizanoi, and Aphrodisias. Inscriptions on temples at these sites have been overlooked in late antique scholarship because of disciplinary biases. Art historical/archaeological studies have traditionally fixated on the original appearance of monuments rather than their full lifespan, while epigraphic publications often treat texts as historical data rather than elements of larger, trans-temporal architectural settings. Each of these sites shows a different approach toward the older inscriptions, including preservation in place, reuse, modification, and erasure. I argue that the civic-focused nature of the majority of inscribed texts on temple walls inflected late antique conceptualization of temples and provided a counterbalance to the negative, polemical depiction of temples presented in hagiographical texts. This study therefore adds a new facet to our understanding of Christianization between the ancient Roman and early Byzantine periods

Implementation of the IPCC FAIR Guidelines into the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6): benefit, challenges and recommendations for AR7

<p>A new paradigm for data result traceability has been implemented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I (WGI) in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). IPCC Data Distribution Centre (DDC) Partners at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) have worked with the WGI Technical Support Unit (TSU) to document the figure creation process and publish analysis scripts, input, intermediate, and final data. The work was guided by the IPCC Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data) recommendations regarding Open Science, FAIR data principles, and TRUST principles for repositories. The joint effort of the integration of these principles into the established IPCC procedures aimed at enhancing the transparency and accessibility of AR6 outcomes. We highlight the achievements of AR6, discuss the lessons learned and the derived recommendations for the upcoming Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) cycle.</p><p>The concept development for the IPCC FAIR Guidelines started early in the AR6 cycle based on experiences from the previous cycles. The concept was presented at the International Data Week 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana (Stockhause et al., 2019). The implementation at the different partners was carried out during AR6 (Pirani et al., 2022a). The challenges faced included the overall increased workload for all partners, the novelty of the approach, particularly since it was implemented once the assessment had started. This came with an unprecedented need for coordination across chapters, TSU and DDC Partners, where difficulties included assembling and quality checking (correcting) the information received from the chapters. The benefits include the long-term preservation of the new data types, intermediate and final data, created during the assessment, made accessible and curated for reuse on the long-term, and authors receiving credit for their datasets. Referencing between the report and the data at the different DDC Partners enables data users and report readers to navigate between the different AR6 outcomes. Supplementary material for each WGI report chapter documents the report figures development with all  sources of data and software used for figure generation.</p><p>These challenges and benefits are guiding the formulation of TG-Data's recommendations for AR7 aiming at streamlining the IPCC FAIR Guidelines' implementation, their improved integration into the overall IPCC process and enhanced tool support streamlining the process outlined in the FAIR Guidelines and lowering the burden for authors, TSU and DDC Partners (Pirani et al., 2022b).  The existing IPCC Figure Manager and provenance records documenting the final data creation in a standardized format will play a key role for the AR7 implementation. However, the continuation and enhancement of this joint effort in AR7 is subject to finding a new funding model for the DDC Partners required to ensure the sustainability required to support these efforts.</p&gt

Characterization of Foliar Fungal Endophyte Communities from White Pine Blister Rust Resistant and Susceptible Pinus flexilis in Natural Stands in the Southern Rocky Mountains

Fungal endophytic communities in needles of field-grown Pinus flexilis previously inferred to carry major gene resistance (R) to white pine blister rust (WPBR) or to lack it (S) were surveyed to identify unique microbes that may be recruited by WPBR-resistant genotypes. Resistant and susceptible trees were sampled in each of 11 P. flexilis populations for a total of 50 trees sampled. Through next-generation sequencing, this study showed a diverse needle mycobiota in P. flexilis, of which many remain unknown, regardless of the presence or absence of the WPBR resistance gene, Cr4. Ascomycota dominated the mycobiota (88.9%) followed by Basidiomycota (4.4%) and Chytridiomycota (0.03%), and the remaining 6.7% were unclassified. Shared (n = 105) and unique (n = 48 in R and n = 49 in S) fungal taxa, including differentially abundant operational taxonomic units, were identified that could provide insights into core mycobiota and host genotype-specific fungal groups. Marginal variation of the fungal diversity and structure was observed between host genotypes, which indicates that neither Cr4 nor the physiological differences associated with the presence or absence of the gene affects mycobiota recruitment. Instead, other parameters, including host size (diameter at breast height) and site elevation, significantly influenced the variability of the composition and structure of the fungal endophytic community. Further investigations are needed to understand the relationship of unique or differentially abundant taxa with one genotype or the other, and to determine the role of the needle mycobiota in WPBR disease development in natural stands of P. flexilis

Preliminary Report on the 2021 Fieldwork at Phoenix

Situé dans la partie sud-ouest de la péninsule de Bozburun (Marmaris), le site an- tique de Phoenix a fait l'objet d'une première campagne de prospection archéologique multidisciplinaire durant le mois de septembre 2021. Les travaux sur le terrain avaient pour objectif de mieux connaître l'espace urbain du site en général, ainsi que certaines structures en particulier, comme le temple d'Apollon transformé en église, l'acropole et les nécropoles parsemées de nombreuses terrasses. Parallèlement à nos recherches purement archéologiques, nous avons pu mettre en œuvre un programme d'éducation sur le patrimoine culturel et écologique pour les enfants vivant dans la région. Nous avons également lancé un programme pour documenter l'architecture rurale de la région et nous avons mené des entretiens d'histoire orale avec les personnes âgées du village de Taşlıca.Located in the southwestern part of the Bozburun Peninsula (Marmaris), the ancient site of Phoenix was the subject of a first multidisciplinary archaeological survey campaign in September 2021. The fieldwork aimed to better understand the town planning of the site in general, as well as certain structures in particular such as the temple of Apollo converted into a church, the acropolis, and the necropoleis dotted with numerous terraces. In addition to purely archaeological research, we also carried out a cultural and ecological heritage edu- cation program for children who live in the region. We also started a program to document the area’s rural architecture and conducted oral history interviews with the elderly people of Taşlıca village

Labraunda 2018

1. Introduction La campagne 2018 des recherches à Labraunda (Fig. 1.1) s’est déroulée du 11 au 29 juin, pour la prospection, et du 15 juillet au 13 septembre pour la fouille. Nous tenons à remercier très chaleureusement les deux représentants du ministère de la Culture et du Tourisme turc, Murat Kaleağasıoğlu pour la prospection et Musa Ötenen pour la fouille. Leur efficacité et leur professionnalisme furent exceptionnels. Fig. 1.1 : Plan général du site de Labraunda O. Henry 2. Administrat..