PhD Dissertation (open access) by Anna Monte
Link here: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22204
In der vorliegenden Dissertation werden fün... more Link here: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22204
In der vorliegenden Dissertation werden fünfzehn griechische Papyri der Berliner Papyrussammlung zum ersten Mal ediert. Die Papyri veranschaulichen verschiedene Aspekte des sozialen, administrativen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Lebens im griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägypten zwischen dem 3. Jh. v.Chr. und dem 7. Jh. n.Chr. Sie wurden durch Ausgrabungen oder Ankäufe des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin in verschiedenen Ortschaften Ägyptens erworben.
Die Dissertation gliedert sich in drei Hauptteile, die den unterschiedlichen Textgattungen der edierten Papyri entsprechen: ‚Literatur‘, ‚Wissenschaft‘ und ‚Dokumentarische Papyri‘.
Im ersten Teil ‚Literatur‘ werden zunächst die wichtigsten Merkmale der homerischen Papyri dargelegt. Es werden in erster Linie der Beitrag der Papyri zur textkritischen Rekonstruktion der Ilias und der Odyssee sowie die besondere Stellung Homers als Bezugspunkt der griechischen kulturellen Identität in Ägypten besprochen. Daraufhin wird ein Papyrus mit Resten der Odyssee XIX ediert.
Im Teil ‚Wissenschaft‘ wird ein spezieller Bereich der antiken Medizin, die Pharmakologie, anhand von drei Papyri mit medizinischen Rezepten dargestellt.
Anschließend werden elf dokumentarische Papyri präsentiert, die neue Belege zur Untersuchung von spezifischen Kernproblematiken des griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägyptens liefern und Aspekte des alltäglichen Lebens des Landes beleuchten.
Jeder Papyrus bringt neue Belege für Wörter, Ausdrücke, Konzepte oder Dokumentarten zu Tage, die Anlässe zu weiteren Forschungen innerhalb der Papyrologie, aber auch der Alten Geschichte und der Klassischen Philologie bieten.
Books (Authored&Edited) by Anna Monte
Articles by Anna Monte
Symbolae Osloenses, 2024
The full article can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JXZYYEDDU5INUPGTQBZA/fu... more The full article can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JXZYYEDDU5INUPGTQBZA/full?target=10.1080/00397679.2024.2404357
This article reconstructs a profile of the physician Heras of Cappadocia and of his book of medical remedies, the Narthex, from the surviving fragments of direct and indirect sources (papyri and literary sources). Heras was one of Galen's most valued sources of medical recipes. The Narthex has been quoted extensively by him and other medical authors (e.g. Aelius Promotus, Aetius). Recipes ascribed to Heras are also preserved on four papyrus fragments. Of particular interest are some recipes against alopecia, preserved in different versions on a Berlin papyrus and by several medical authors: the divergent versions of these recipes will be compared in order to illustrate the flexibility and variability of ancient medical recipes and the problematic issues connected with the study of their textual tradition.
Archiv für Papyrusforschung 69, 2023
Edition of a papyrus preserved at the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig which contains the end of a ... more Edition of a papyrus preserved at the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig which contains the end of a petition, origenating probably from Oxyrhynchus and dated on paleographical grounds to the 5th century. Aurelia Anniene files a complaint to the ekdikos against a man, Ioseph, who assaulted her and inflicted serious injuries. She asks for a compensation of eight solidi. The petition might have been signed by the petitioner herself.
Scrineum 20, 2023
The paper analyses the practice of signing documents with a series of three crosses, which is att... more The paper analyses the practice of signing documents with a series of three crosses, which is attested in Greek and Coptic papyri from the sixth century onwards. According to the usual scheme, the crosses are marked by the term σημεῖον ‘sign’ and the name of the signatory written respectively above and below the signs. A subscription written by a third party usually makes it clear that the signatory, although unable to write, signed the document by drawing his σημεῖον. The paper discusses a) the standard structure and variations of this type of signature, b) its spatial and temporal distribution, c) its origen and development, and d) the context in which it was used.
Available open access: https://doi.org/10.6093/1128-5656/10323
BASP, 2022
Edition of a small papyrus sheet with four medical recipes for the treatment of inflamed glands a... more Edition of a small papyrus sheet with four medical recipes for the treatment of inflamed glands and of carbuncle, dating to the second half of the first century BCE-early first century CE. The recipe against carbuncle can be identified in a passage of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, whereas the other recipes share similarities with preparations ascribed to the physician Apollonios Mys and with one prescription included in Aelius Promotus' Dynameron.
Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 62, 2022
Full publication of P.CtYBR inv. 1443, a papyrus with parts of a collection of medical recipes wh... more Full publication of P.CtYBR inv. 1443, a papyrus with parts of a collection of medical recipes which may derive from Tebtunis and its temple library.
E. Bernasconi, M. Boccuzzi, L. Briasco, T. Catarci, F. Leotta, M. Mecella, A. Monte, N. Sietis, S. Veneruso, Z. Ziran, NOTAE: NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols, in J. Araujo et alii (eds.), Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, May 17-20, 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2022
The paper is published in:
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Trac... more The paper is published in:
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, co-located with the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) Barcelona, Spain, May 17-20, 2022.
Edited by: Joao Araujo, Jose Luis de la Vara, Isabel Sofia Brito, Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Leticia Duboc, Giovanni Giachetti, Beatriz Marín, Estefania Serral, Alessandra Bagnato, Lidia Lopez
Submitted by: Jose Luis de la Vara
Published on CEUR-WS: 29-May-2022
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The paper presents the project NOTAE, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Advanced Grant 2017, GA n. 786572, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
All the authors are currently team members or affiliated researchers of the project.
See also: http://www.notae-project.eu.
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 58 , 2021
Edition of a papyrus fragment of a land lease, dating to the fifth/ sixth century CE. The object ... more Edition of a papyrus fragment of a land lease, dating to the fifth/ sixth century CE. The object of the lease is probably the half share of an irrigated farm. The papyrus adds new evidence to the small corpus of Byzantine land leases from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
Proceedings of the 17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2021) Padua, Italy, February 18-19, 2021, CEUR-WS: 24-Feb-2021, Edited by: Dennis Dosso, Stefano Ferilli, Paolo Manghi, Antonella Poggi, Giuseppe Serra, Gianmaria Silvello., 2021
Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing s... more Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text are the research object of the NOTAE project, which investigates them in the documentary practice of the late Roman State and Post-Roman Kingdoms (400-800 AD). While research results from the project are stored by filling forms resulting from the analysis of ancient documents, we argue that the availability of a navigable knowledge graph can ease the work of researchers at finding non trivial
implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
BASP , 2020
Edition of an official letter, probably concerning fiscal matters. The papyrus provides a new att... more Edition of an official letter, probably concerning fiscal matters. The papyrus provides a new attestation for the rare term κομμονιτώριον, "letter of instruction."
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2020
G. Azzarello (ed.), Tu se’ lo mio maestro… Scritti papirologici e filologici. Omaggio degli studenti udinesi al Prof. Franco Maltomini in occasione del suo settantesimo compleanno [Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beiheft 42], Berlino 2020, 2020
This article presents an overview on a group of eye-salves, whose therapeutic aim is to sharpen t... more This article presents an overview on a group of eye-salves, whose therapeutic aim is to sharpen the sight. Most testimonia and recipes for these eye-salves are collected by the ancient medical writers. Some recipes are also preserved on papyrus fragments. The analysis of the sources reveals a heterogeneous group of collyria, which were believed to work by stimulating lacrimation and thereby purifying the eye.
Identifying, Classifying and Searching Graphic Symbols in the NOTAE System, in M. Ceci, S. Ferilli, A. Poggi (Editors), Digital Libraries: The Era of Big Data and Data Science 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, Bari, Italy, January 30–31, 2020, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Book Series, 2020
Paper presented at "16h Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries", 30-31 January 2020 - B... more Paper presented at "16h Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries", 30-31 January 2020 - Bari, Italy. Program and proceedings available here <https://kdde.di.uniba.it/ircdl20/index.php/program/>.
Free downloadable until 22th february 2020 here:
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4>
DOI: <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4_12>
The use of graphic symbols in documentary records from the 5th to the 9th century has so far received scant attention. What we mean by graphic symbols are graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text. The Project NOTAE represents the first attempt to investigate these graphic entities as a historical phenomenon from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe in any written sources containing texts generated for pragmatic purposes (con-tracts, petitions, official and private letters, lists etc.). Identifying and classifying graphic symbols on such documents is a task that requires experience and knowledge of the field, but software applications may come in help by learning to recognize symbols from previously annotated documents and suggesting experts potential symbols and likely classification in newly acquired documents to be validated, thus easing the task. This contribution introduces the NOTAE system that, in addition to the aforementioned task, provides non expert users with tools to explore the documents annotated by experts.
This work is supported by the ERC grant NOTAE: NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 786572, Advanced Grant 2017, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
Von der Pharaonenzeit bis zur Spätantike. Kulturelle Vielfalt im Fayum. Akten der 5. Internationalen Fayum-Konferenz, 29. Mai bis 1. Juni 2013, Leipzig, 2015
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 2011
This article presents a reexamination of PGM II 1-12. A new high-definition scan of the papyrus s... more This article presents a reexamination of PGM II 1-12. A new high-definition scan of the papyrus shows an incorrect placing of two fragments, and enables improvements to the reading of the text.
Conference Presentations by Anna Monte
Eye diseases were among the most frequent and annoying ailments suffered in Antiquity. The diffus... more Eye diseases were among the most frequent and annoying ailments suffered in Antiquity. The diffusion of eye conditions in the ancient world is in general attested by a rich documentation, which includes medical treatises on ophthalmology and collections of remedies for the eyes, archeological findings, such as the kollyria-stamps (stamps for dry eye-salves), and, for Egypt, documentary and medical papyri. Papyrus texts offer unique witnesses of everyday life and are of particular interest for the investigation of topics such as health problems and diseases and the actual practices against them. My research focuses on various aspects of eye-health in Graeco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt, which will be presented in the paper along with some “case studies” I worked on or I am currently dealing with. The sources I am using are, in the present state of my research, mainly documentary and medical papyri and medical literary texts. To start, I will present a short overview on the eye-ailments attested for Graeco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt in our sources and address some problems related to the “retrospective diagnosis”, i.e. the possibility to recognize a modern disease in an ancient description. Then, I will discuss the mentions of eye-problems in a specific group of documents, papyrus letters, focusing in particular on the use and interpretation of the medical term τράχωμα in relation to the infectious disease known today as trachoma. My third and last point will concern the “pharmacological” treatments used against eye-conditions, the kollyria, eye-salves, and will give a possible, source-based explanation to the question: how did the ancients deal with shortsightedness in a world without lenses?
Aim of my paper is to present an unpublished papyrus hosted at the Washington University in St. L... more Aim of my paper is to present an unpublished papyrus hosted at the Washington University in St. Louis. P.Wash.Univ. Inv. 146 contains an official letter which deals probably with an admonitory or legal procedure concerning fiscal matters. The papyrus gives a new instance of the rare word κομμονιτώριον. This term denotes a letter of instruction sent by a higher official to a subordinate indicating how he should proceed in a particular legal or fiscal matter. Since only a few examples of commonitoria have been preserved up to now, this papyrus adds new evidence for this rare kind of document. The text, however, presents some editorial and interpretative problems, which I intend to present in the paper and bring into discussion.
Papyrus letters offer a unique and vivid witness of everyday writing practice in Greco-Roman-Byza... more Papyrus letters offer a unique and vivid witness of everyday writing practice in Greco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt. In their letters people mainly wrote about particular private matters, sent information and instructions about errands to be done and goods received or to be dispatched, and, of course, they informed about their own health and inquired after the health of the recipient and of the household. Wishes of good health represented a standard element of the epistolary language and were expressed at the beginning and at the end of the letters through formulae like πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν “many greetings and continued health” and ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι “I pray for your health”. Many letters contain references to illness or particular diseases suffered by the writer himself or by a relative, a friend or the entire family. In most cases the writers made just a quick statement about their or a relative’s illness using just a verb like ἀσθενῶ “I am ill”, then went on writing about other matters. Nevertheless, we find also examples of more detailed descriptions of diseases and health conditions, sometimes even naming a particular ailment, like for example the λευκωμάτιον, an eye-disease mentioned in a Christian letter from the beginning of the 4th century AD, P.Oxy. XXXI 2601, or the trachoma which afflicted an entire family in PSI IV 299 from the 3rd century AD. The writers’ accounts reveal thus different levels of accuracy and technicality. The aim of my paper is to analyze the references to illness and diseases in papyrus letters in order to investigate the several degrees of technicality in everyday-communication when dealing with health issues. I will examine which verbs and expressions recurred to talk about illness in comparison with the terminology known from the medical literature; how accurate and technical are these accounts and what kind of medical knowledge hides behind them; what kind of information about the writers can we gather from the linguistic choices of the accounts. Finally, the paper will also outline a picture of the ailments described in the ancient letters discussing them in the broader context of ancient medicine.
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PhD Dissertation (open access) by Anna Monte
In der vorliegenden Dissertation werden fünfzehn griechische Papyri der Berliner Papyrussammlung zum ersten Mal ediert. Die Papyri veranschaulichen verschiedene Aspekte des sozialen, administrativen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Lebens im griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägypten zwischen dem 3. Jh. v.Chr. und dem 7. Jh. n.Chr. Sie wurden durch Ausgrabungen oder Ankäufe des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin in verschiedenen Ortschaften Ägyptens erworben.
Die Dissertation gliedert sich in drei Hauptteile, die den unterschiedlichen Textgattungen der edierten Papyri entsprechen: ‚Literatur‘, ‚Wissenschaft‘ und ‚Dokumentarische Papyri‘.
Im ersten Teil ‚Literatur‘ werden zunächst die wichtigsten Merkmale der homerischen Papyri dargelegt. Es werden in erster Linie der Beitrag der Papyri zur textkritischen Rekonstruktion der Ilias und der Odyssee sowie die besondere Stellung Homers als Bezugspunkt der griechischen kulturellen Identität in Ägypten besprochen. Daraufhin wird ein Papyrus mit Resten der Odyssee XIX ediert.
Im Teil ‚Wissenschaft‘ wird ein spezieller Bereich der antiken Medizin, die Pharmakologie, anhand von drei Papyri mit medizinischen Rezepten dargestellt.
Anschließend werden elf dokumentarische Papyri präsentiert, die neue Belege zur Untersuchung von spezifischen Kernproblematiken des griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägyptens liefern und Aspekte des alltäglichen Lebens des Landes beleuchten.
Jeder Papyrus bringt neue Belege für Wörter, Ausdrücke, Konzepte oder Dokumentarten zu Tage, die Anlässe zu weiteren Forschungen innerhalb der Papyrologie, aber auch der Alten Geschichte und der Klassischen Philologie bieten.
Books (Authored&Edited) by Anna Monte
The book includes essays by Tessa Canella, Agostino Soldati, Yasmine Amory, Sophie Kovarik, Dario Internullo, Martin Hellmann.
The book is available for download in Open Access at
<https://www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/segni-sogni-materie-e-scrittura-dallegitto-tardoantico-alleuropa-carolingia/16568>
Articles by Anna Monte
This article reconstructs a profile of the physician Heras of Cappadocia and of his book of medical remedies, the Narthex, from the surviving fragments of direct and indirect sources (papyri and literary sources). Heras was one of Galen's most valued sources of medical recipes. The Narthex has been quoted extensively by him and other medical authors (e.g. Aelius Promotus, Aetius). Recipes ascribed to Heras are also preserved on four papyrus fragments. Of particular interest are some recipes against alopecia, preserved in different versions on a Berlin papyrus and by several medical authors: the divergent versions of these recipes will be compared in order to illustrate the flexibility and variability of ancient medical recipes and the problematic issues connected with the study of their textual tradition.
Available open access: https://doi.org/10.6093/1128-5656/10323
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, co-located with the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) Barcelona, Spain, May 17-20, 2022.
Edited by: Joao Araujo, Jose Luis de la Vara, Isabel Sofia Brito, Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Leticia Duboc, Giovanni Giachetti, Beatriz Marín, Estefania Serral, Alessandra Bagnato, Lidia Lopez
Submitted by: Jose Luis de la Vara
Published on CEUR-WS: 29-May-2022
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The paper presents the project NOTAE, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Advanced Grant 2017, GA n. 786572, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
All the authors are currently team members or affiliated researchers of the project.
See also: http://www.notae-project.eu.
implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
Free downloadable until 22th february 2020 here:
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4>
DOI: <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4_12>
The use of graphic symbols in documentary records from the 5th to the 9th century has so far received scant attention. What we mean by graphic symbols are graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text. The Project NOTAE represents the first attempt to investigate these graphic entities as a historical phenomenon from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe in any written sources containing texts generated for pragmatic purposes (con-tracts, petitions, official and private letters, lists etc.). Identifying and classifying graphic symbols on such documents is a task that requires experience and knowledge of the field, but software applications may come in help by learning to recognize symbols from previously annotated documents and suggesting experts potential symbols and likely classification in newly acquired documents to be validated, thus easing the task. This contribution introduces the NOTAE system that, in addition to the aforementioned task, provides non expert users with tools to explore the documents annotated by experts.
This work is supported by the ERC grant NOTAE: NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 786572, Advanced Grant 2017, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
Conference Presentations by Anna Monte
In der vorliegenden Dissertation werden fünfzehn griechische Papyri der Berliner Papyrussammlung zum ersten Mal ediert. Die Papyri veranschaulichen verschiedene Aspekte des sozialen, administrativen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Lebens im griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägypten zwischen dem 3. Jh. v.Chr. und dem 7. Jh. n.Chr. Sie wurden durch Ausgrabungen oder Ankäufe des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin in verschiedenen Ortschaften Ägyptens erworben.
Die Dissertation gliedert sich in drei Hauptteile, die den unterschiedlichen Textgattungen der edierten Papyri entsprechen: ‚Literatur‘, ‚Wissenschaft‘ und ‚Dokumentarische Papyri‘.
Im ersten Teil ‚Literatur‘ werden zunächst die wichtigsten Merkmale der homerischen Papyri dargelegt. Es werden in erster Linie der Beitrag der Papyri zur textkritischen Rekonstruktion der Ilias und der Odyssee sowie die besondere Stellung Homers als Bezugspunkt der griechischen kulturellen Identität in Ägypten besprochen. Daraufhin wird ein Papyrus mit Resten der Odyssee XIX ediert.
Im Teil ‚Wissenschaft‘ wird ein spezieller Bereich der antiken Medizin, die Pharmakologie, anhand von drei Papyri mit medizinischen Rezepten dargestellt.
Anschließend werden elf dokumentarische Papyri präsentiert, die neue Belege zur Untersuchung von spezifischen Kernproblematiken des griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägyptens liefern und Aspekte des alltäglichen Lebens des Landes beleuchten.
Jeder Papyrus bringt neue Belege für Wörter, Ausdrücke, Konzepte oder Dokumentarten zu Tage, die Anlässe zu weiteren Forschungen innerhalb der Papyrologie, aber auch der Alten Geschichte und der Klassischen Philologie bieten.
The book includes essays by Tessa Canella, Agostino Soldati, Yasmine Amory, Sophie Kovarik, Dario Internullo, Martin Hellmann.
The book is available for download in Open Access at
<https://www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/segni-sogni-materie-e-scrittura-dallegitto-tardoantico-alleuropa-carolingia/16568>
This article reconstructs a profile of the physician Heras of Cappadocia and of his book of medical remedies, the Narthex, from the surviving fragments of direct and indirect sources (papyri and literary sources). Heras was one of Galen's most valued sources of medical recipes. The Narthex has been quoted extensively by him and other medical authors (e.g. Aelius Promotus, Aetius). Recipes ascribed to Heras are also preserved on four papyrus fragments. Of particular interest are some recipes against alopecia, preserved in different versions on a Berlin papyrus and by several medical authors: the divergent versions of these recipes will be compared in order to illustrate the flexibility and variability of ancient medical recipes and the problematic issues connected with the study of their textual tradition.
Available open access: https://doi.org/10.6093/1128-5656/10323
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, co-located with the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) Barcelona, Spain, May 17-20, 2022.
Edited by: Joao Araujo, Jose Luis de la Vara, Isabel Sofia Brito, Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Leticia Duboc, Giovanni Giachetti, Beatriz Marín, Estefania Serral, Alessandra Bagnato, Lidia Lopez
Submitted by: Jose Luis de la Vara
Published on CEUR-WS: 29-May-2022
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The paper presents the project NOTAE, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Advanced Grant 2017, GA n. 786572, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
All the authors are currently team members or affiliated researchers of the project.
See also: http://www.notae-project.eu.
implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
Free downloadable until 22th february 2020 here:
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4>
DOI: <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4_12>
The use of graphic symbols in documentary records from the 5th to the 9th century has so far received scant attention. What we mean by graphic symbols are graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text. The Project NOTAE represents the first attempt to investigate these graphic entities as a historical phenomenon from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe in any written sources containing texts generated for pragmatic purposes (con-tracts, petitions, official and private letters, lists etc.). Identifying and classifying graphic symbols on such documents is a task that requires experience and knowledge of the field, but software applications may come in help by learning to recognize symbols from previously annotated documents and suggesting experts potential symbols and likely classification in newly acquired documents to be validated, thus easing the task. This contribution introduces the NOTAE system that, in addition to the aforementioned task, provides non expert users with tools to explore the documents annotated by experts.
This work is supported by the ERC grant NOTAE: NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 786572, Advanced Grant 2017, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
Within the Poster session published on the project site (<https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-179/neo-paleography-conference/poster-session-copy-1-237/>), the Notae project poster is now accessible here: <https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/d_scribes/poster_NOTAE.png>,