Material Text Cultures - Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Foundation at Heidelberg University

Dr. Julia Lougovaya-Ast

A09

Ancient History
Department of Ancient History and Epigraphy

Telephone: (0)6221 54 3379
E-Mail: julia.lougovaya@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de

Address

Department of Papyrology
Marstallstr. 6, 69117 Heidelberg
Zi. 219

Research Interests

Greek History
Greek Epigraphy (especially verse inscriptions) and Papyrology
Greek Writing Practices
Greco-Roman Far East
Ostraca
Literary Papyrology

Curriculum Vitae

July 2015–current: Wissenschaftliche Leiterin des Teilprojekts “Schreiben auf Ostraka im inneren und äußeren Mittelmeerraum” innerhalb des SFB 933 Materiale Textkulturen, University of Heidelberg.
October 2012–June 2015: Research Fellow, SFB 933 Materiale Textkulturen, University of Heidelberg.
SS 2011 – WS 2011/12: Professor, Replacement Position, Institut für Papyrologie, University of Heidelberg.
2010–2012: Humboldt Research Fellow. Topic: “Hellenistic Verse Inscriptions: Local Features and Common Trends,” Institut für Papyrologie and Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, University of Heidelberg.
2009: Participant in the Numismatics Seminar at the American Numismatic Society, NY.
2007–2009: Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
2006: Certification in Papyrus Conservation, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
2005–2007: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics and History, Columbia University, New York, USA.
18.11.2004: Awarded the degree of PhD. Dissertation title “An Historical Study of Athenian Verse Epitaphs from the Sixth through the Fourth Centuries BC.” Dissertation supervisor Prof. M. B. Wallace; advisor Prof. J. S. Traill.

Academic Projects

2018–present: Mitglied des Steering Commitee, epigraphy.info
2017–present: Mitglied des Advisory Boards, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
2016–present: Herausgeberin, Papyri.info
2015–present: Herausgeberin Digital Corpus of Literary Papyrology (DCLP).
2010–2016: Herausgeberin, Current Epigraphy
2013–present: Consultant in The Paleography of the Papyri (PapPal, www.pappal.info).

Recent Academic Engagements

Nov. 14, 2018: "EpichoricScripts and Polis Identity in Archaic Greece," Lecture at Forschungkolloquium, Universität Heidelberg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik.
Sept. 7, 2018: "Pleasure and Entertainment on the Roman Frontier", paper delivered at the 24th International Limes Congress.
July 2018: Teaching at "Scuola Estiva di Papirologia 2018", Lecce, Italy.
June 21, 2018: "Heidelberg Ostraca Projects," talk delivered at The Fourth Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting, 21-22 June, 2018, The British Library Conservation Center, London.
April 26, 2018: "Greek Literary Ostraca. What, where, when?" Lecture at Université de Liège Centre de Documentation de Papyrologie Litérarire, Liège, Belgium.
Dec. 1, 2017: "Administration and Finances of Greek Cities in Inscriptions," talk delivered at the Conference Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ancinet Economy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Sept. 15, 2017: Participation in Spectral Imaging Workshop at Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne.
Sept. 4-7, 2017: Participation in a review panel of Greek and Coptic papyri from the collection of the University of Oslo Library, Oslo, Norway.

External Professional Service

2012: Reader for the Transactions of the American Philological Association.
2007–present: Reader and consultant for epigraphical publications of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton (Hesperia, The Athenian Agora).

Publications

Books Edited

2019: With R. Ast / M. Choat / J. Cromwell / R.Yuen-Collindridge, Observing the Scribe at Work: Scribal Practice in the Ancient World (forthcoming).
2013: With R. Ast / H. Cuvigny / T. Hickey, Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall [ASP 53], Durham, N.C.

Articles

2019: "Medici docti in verse inscriptions," in: N. Reggiani (ed.), Greek Medical Papyri: Text, Context, Hypertext. Proceedings of the Final DIGMEDTEXT Conference (Parma, 2-4 November 2016) [APF Beheifte] Berlin/Boston (forthcoming).
2019: "Inscriptional Copies from the Archaic through the Hellenistic Period," in R. Ast / M. Choat / J. Cromwell / J. Lougovaya / R.Yuen-Collindridge (eds.), Observing the Scribe at Work: Scribal Practice in the Ancient World (forthcoming).
2019: "Literary Ostraca: Choice of Material and Interpretation of Text," in: A. Nodar / S. Torallas (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, Aug. 1-6, 2016 (forthcoming).
2018: "Counting with Isocrates," in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 208, 203-212.
2018: "Writing on Ostraca: Considerations of Material Aspects," in: F.A. Hoogendijk / S. van Gompel (eds.), The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt, Leiden, 52-61.
2017: "Das Reiterrelief des Dareios und Herodots Umgang mit Inschriften," in: H. Klinkott / N. Kramer (eds.), Zwischen Assur un Athen, Altorientalisches in den Historien Herodots (SpielRäume der Antike 4), Stuttgart, 105-121.
2017: “Some Observations on the Usage of Punctuation in Early Greek Inscriptions,” in: M.C. Scappaticcio / G.N. Macedo (eds.) Signes dans les textes, textes sur les signes. Proceedings of International Conferences, Liège, Sept. 6–7, 2013, Liège, 27–42.
2017: "A perfect pangram: a reconsideration of the evidence," in: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 57, 162–190.
2016: with R. Ast / A. Lifshitz, “Codex Tischendorfianus I, Rediscovered and Revisited,” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200, 141–160.
2016: “Greek Poetry in a Post-Greek Milieu: The Epigram for Sophytos from Kandahar Contextualized,” in: P. Sänger (ed.), Minderheiten und Migration in der griechisch-römischen Welt: Politische, rechtliche, religiöse und kulturelle Aspekte (SHM 31), Padeborn, 185–201.
2015: “Greek Inscriptions in Ptolemaic Narmouthis,” in: N. Quenouille (ed.), Von der Pharaonenzeit bis zur Spätantike Kulturelle — Vielfalt im Fayum (Akten der 5. Internationalen Fayum-Konferenz, 29. Mai – 1. Juni 2013, Leipzig), Wiesbaden, 103–121.
2015: with R. Ast, “Cybele on the Red Sea: New Verses from Berenike,” in: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55 (3), 654–678.
2015: with R. Ast, “The Art of the Isopsephism in the Greco-Roman World,” in: A. Jördens: (ed.), Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, Wiesbaden, 82–98.
2015: “A Homeric Collage in Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library,” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 196, 13–16.
2013: “Inscriptions on the Athenian Stage,” in: P. Low / P. Liddel (eds.), Inscriptions and Their Uses in Ancient Literature, Oxford, 255–270.
2013: “New Epigrams," in: R. Ast / H. Cuvigny / J. Lougovaya / T. Hickey (eds.), Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall [ASP 53] Durham, N.C., 187–190.
2012: “Indented Pentameters in Papyri and Inscriptions,” in: Proceedings of the 26th International Congress of Papyrology. Geneva 2010, Geneva, 437–441.
2011: “The History of a Motif in Funerary Epigrams from Karystos to the Phrygian Hinterland,” in: D.W. Rupp / J.E. Tomlinson (eds.), Euboea and Athens: Proceedings of a Colloquium in Memory of Malcolm B. Wallace [Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, No. 6], Athens, 297–316.
2011: “Isopsephisms in P.Jena II 15a–b,” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 176, 200–204.
2008: “Euphranor of Rhamnous, Aged 105, the Most Fortunate Athenian,” in: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 48, 27–37.
2008: “Isocrates ad Demonicum 13–15,” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 164, 29–31.
2008: “Age of the Trierarchs in the Decree of Themistokles,” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166, 113–114.
2008: with R. Ast, “An Early Isocrates Papyrus (Philippus 1–2),” in: Archiv für Papyrusforschung 54, 153–160.
2006: “Myrrhine, the First Priestess of Athena Nike,” in: Phoenix 60, 211–225.
2004: with R. Ast, “Menis and Pelex. Protagoras on Solecism,” in: Classical Quarterly 54, 274–277.
2003: “A Note on IG I3 1260,” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 144, 109–110.

Book Reviews

T. Christian, Gebildete Steine: Zur Rezeption literarischer Techniken in den Versinschriften seit dem Hellenismus. Hypomnemata 197 (Göttingen 2015), in Sehepunkte 15 (2015), Nr. 11, [15.11.2015] URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2015/11/26770.html.
A. Wypustek, Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco- Roman Periods (Leiden 2013), in: Sehepunkte 13 (2013), Nr. 11 [15.11.2013], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/11/22928.html.
Ch. Tsagalis, Inscribing sorrow: fourth-century Attic funerary epigrams (New York 2008), Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009) 144–145.
L. Bravi, Gli epigrammi di Simonide e le vie della tradizione (Roma 2006) and A. Petrovic, Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften (Brill 2007), Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009) 142–144.
A. Chaniotis et al. (eds.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Vol. 54(Amsterdam 2004), BMCR 09.11.24.
W. Stenhouse, Reading Inscriptions & Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (London 2005), BMCR 06.05.36.
R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber (eds.), Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten, Bd. 1: Die Westküste Kleinasiens von Knidos bis Ilion (Stuttgart/Leipzig 1998), BMCR 00.05.16.
R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber (eds.), Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten, Bd. 4: Die Südküste Kleinasiens, Syrien und Palaestina (München/Leipzig 2002), BMCR 05.07.31.

Editorial Work

Griechische Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten. Sammelbuch XXVIII, ed. A. Jördens, Wiesbaden 2013.

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Dr. Julia Lougovaya-Ast

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Research Interests

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Projects

Recent Academic Engagements

External Professional Service

Publications

Books Edited

Articles

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Book Reviews

Editorial Work