Selezione, analisi paleografica e cronologica di papiri greci
Research
Selezione, analisi paleografica e cronologica di papiri greci
per lo sviluppo di strumenti digitali a supporto dell'identificazione e datazione di scritture corsive
Responsabile scientifico: Giuseppina Azzarello
The research focuses on several documentary papyrus archives, significant for the number of documents they contain, their securely established chronological placement, and the substantial uniformity of scribal hand, in order to analyse them from a dual perspective: textual and palaeographic. The contexts initially selected are: the archive of Zenon (24 autographs, 253–229 BCE), the archive of Menches (31 autographs, 119–110 BCE), the archive of Apollonius (6 autographs, 99–121 CE), the archive of Eroninos (16 autographs, 249–268 CE), and the archive of Dioscorus (56 documentary autographs + 54 literary autographs, 520–573 CE). The current focus is on the Ptolemaic period, particularly the archives of Zenon and Menches, within which several key issues for the project have been identified: changes of hand depending on the type of document or chronological development, and the influence of the papyrus materiality on defining criteria for automatic identification and dating.
Objectives
The project aims at the selection and subsequent palaeographic and content analysis of Greek papyri from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, significant in terms of both dating and scribal attribution.
Results in the field of DH
The review of the artefacts will result in a corpus of precisely dated texts, securely assigned to a specific hand. This will provide the basis for the development of digital tools that will enable the identification of known scripts and the dating, with a higher degree of certainty, of papyri lacking chronological references.
Publications
- The Artificial Papyrologist at Work, in Fernando Moral-Andrés, Elena Merino-Gómez, Pedro Reviriego (Eds.), Decoding Cultural Heritage. A Critical Dissection and Taxonomy of Human Creativity through Digital Tools, Springer 2024, 123–136.
- Automatic Identification of Scribes and Dating of Handwritings. Theoretical Outlines and Case Studies from an Ongoing Project at the University of Udine, forthcoming in the proceedings of the conference “Perceptions of Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings”, University of Basel, 8.12.2023.
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