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==Directors==
==Directors==


* Alan Bowman, Director
* Andrew Meadows, Director
* Charles Crowther, Assistant Director
* Charles Crowther, Associate Director


==Description==
==Description==
From the home page (accessed 2016-02-12):
From the home page (accessed 2016-02-12):


:'''The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents''' was established in 1995 under the auspices of Oxford University's Faculty of Literae Humaniores to provide a focus for the study of ancient documents within Oxford. Over the last six years it has developed into a research centre of national and international importance. The Centre forms part of the Classics Centre, currently located in the Old Boys' School in George Street.
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<p>Based in the Faculty of Classics, the '''Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents''' ('''CSAD''') is one of the world’s foremost centres for the study of the documentary evidence for the ancient world. It hosts projects of national and international significance in the fields of Greek and Roman epigraphy. CSAD maintains close links with the related disciplines of papyrology, numismatics and prosopography.</p>
:The Centre provides a home for Oxford University's epigraphical archive, which includes one of the largest collections of squeezes (paper impressions) of Greek inscriptions in the world, together with the Haverfield archive of Roman inscriptions from Britain, and a substantial photographic collection. The strengths of the epigraphical archive lie in its broad coverage of early Greek inscriptions, Attic epigraphy and the Hellenistic world. Individual sites well represented in the archive include Chios, Samos, Priene, Rhodes, and Samothrace. The material in the archive is currently being reorganised and catalogued.
<p>At the core of the Centre’s holdings lies a rich archive of notebooks, drawings and photographs, and one of the world’s largest collections of squeezes—a unique resource for palaeographic enquiry—donated by some of the great figures in the field. It includes the squeeze collections of George Forrest, Peter Fraser and Susan Sherwin-White, as well as the archives of Sir Christopher Cox, Michael Ballance, Anne Jeffery and David Lewis.</p>
 
<p>Since its foundation in 1995, the Centre has been home to research projects devoted to such disparate areas as Hadrian’s Wall, Roman Phrygia and Ptolemaic Egypt. The detailed scrutiny of the material aspects of writing—essential for deciphering documents that are difficult to read—is currently being developed through 3D digital imaging.</p>
('''NB''', the above is out of date: CSAD and the Classics Centre have since 2007 been based at 67 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU.)
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Directors

  • Andrew Meadows, Director
  • Charles Crowther, Associate Director

Description

From the home page (accessed 2016-02-12):

Based in the Faculty of Classics, the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) is one of the world’s foremost centres for the study of the documentary evidence for the ancient world. It hosts projects of national and international significance in the fields of Greek and Roman epigraphy. CSAD maintains close links with the related disciplines of papyrology, numismatics and prosopography.

At the core of the Centre’s holdings lies a rich archive of notebooks, drawings and photographs, and one of the world’s largest collections of squeezes—a unique resource for palaeographic enquiry—donated by some of the great figures in the field. It includes the squeeze collections of George Forrest, Peter Fraser and Susan Sherwin-White, as well as the archives of Sir Christopher Cox, Michael Ballance, Anne Jeffery and David Lewis.

Since its foundation in 1995, the Centre has been home to research projects devoted to such disparate areas as Hadrian’s Wall, Roman Phrygia and Ptolemaic Egypt. The detailed scrutiny of the material aspects of writing—essential for deciphering documents that are difficult to read—is currently being developed through 3D digital imaging.

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