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Published on: 11/1/2003
Last Visited: 9/24/2008
The workshop was organised by Dr. Charles Crowther with a view to integrating this new material and bringing both the tablets and Prof. Ampolo's work to a wider audience.
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This was kick-started by Charles Crowther (Oxford), who neatly took participants through the text, asking all the difficult questions as he went.
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Charles Crowther (CSAD, Oxford), 'Inscriptions of the Second Athenian League': demonstrated the utility of re-examining with modern techniques (i) old squeezes of one inscription whose text has since suffered not only from repeated squeezing but also gunfire (IG II2 43) to confirm mention of the King's peace in its erased purpose clause and (ii) the broken (but now cleaner) surface of a second (SEG XXXI 67) so restoring its purpose clause and revealing it to be of quite a different nature than had been supposed.