Silvio Panciera

Silvio Panciera (born March 21, 1933 in Venice , † August 16, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian ancient historian and epigraphist .

Silvio Panciera completed his academic training at the University of Padua . In 1957 he submitted his first major study of the economic life of the northern Italian trading city of Aquileia . Panciera was an academic student of Attilio Degrassi . From 1963 to 2006 Panciera taught as a professor of epigraphy and antiquity at the La Sapienza University in Rome. He was dean of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia . From 1992 to 1997 he was President of the Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine , an international association for Greek and Latin epigraphy.

With Géza Alföldy , Panciera was one of the most important researchers in the field of Latin epigraphy . Panciera understood epigraphy as an independent discipline and not as an auxiliary science of ancient history. His criteria for the edition of inscription texts were accepted in the professional world. He made significant contributions to the new edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . For this he was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize. In close cooperation with the project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, led by Alföldy, of an electronic database for the Latin inscriptions of the Imperium Romanum (the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ), he advanced the database of urban Roman inscriptions. Panciera published numerous studies on ancient religion, professional life, senatorial and chivalric careers. Fundamental treatises on the falsification of inscriptions in humanism originate from him .

He was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . He was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , the German Archaeological Institute , the Finnish Academy of Sciences and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies . He was also a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (since 1991) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1997).

Fonts (selection)

• Vita economica di Aquileia in età romana. Associazione Nazionale per Aquileia, Quaderno N. 6, Venice 1957.
• Porti e commerci nell'Alto Adriatico. In: Aquileia e l'Alto Adriatico , vol. 2: Aquileia e l'Istria , Sergio Tavano (ed.): Atti della II Settimana di Studi Aquileiesi, April 25 - 5 maggio 1971 (= Antichità Altoadriatiche, 1972, p. 79 -112).
• Strade e commerci tra Aquileia e le regioni alpine. In: Aquileia e l'arco alpino orientale, Atti della VI Settimana di Studi Aquileiesi, April 25 - 1 maggio 1975 (= Antichità Altoadriatiche IX, 1976, pp. 153-172).
• Aquileiesi in Occidente e Occidentali in Aquileia. In: Mario Mirabella Roberti (ed.): Aquileia e l'Occidente, Atti dell'XI Settimana di Studi Aquileiesi, April 24-30, 1980 (= Antichità Altoadriatiche XIX, 1981, pp. 105-138).
• I numeri di Patavium. In: Erkos. Studi in onore di Franco Sartori. Sargon, Padua 2003, pp. 187-208.

literature

• Claudio Zaccaria: In memoriam Silvio Panciera (Venezia, 21 March 1933 - Roma, 16 agosto 2016). In: Aquileia nostra (2016). ( academia.edu )
• Gian Luca Gregori: In Memoriam Silvio Panciera (Venezia March 21, 1933 - Roma August 16, 2016). In: Palaeohispanica Vol. 16 (2016), pp. 21-26 ( online ).
• Frank Kolb : Obituary for Silvio Panciera (March 21, 1933 - August 16, 2016). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. 2016, ISSN  0341-2865 , pp. 316-317 ( online ).
• Eugenio Moscetti: In memoriam: Silvio Panciera. In: Associazione Nomentana di Storia e Archeologia onlus. Annali 2006, p. 119 ( online ).

Web links

• Panciera, Silvio .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Remarks

1. ^ Silvio Panciera: Vita economica di Aquileia in età romana , Associazione Nazionale per Aquileia, Quaderno N. 6, Venice 1957.
2. ↑ For example Un falsario del primo Ottocento: Girolamo Asquini e l'epigrafia antica delle Venezie , Rome 1970.
3. ↑ Member page of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences