The Epigraphy Society Occasional Papers Issue 28 is Now Available

          If you've happened to read the little bio about me in the right column, you'd have noticed that I work as an editor for an annual epigraphy journal in Massachusetts. It is a very fine, well-established journal that I'm very fortunate to be a part of, dedicated to articles on undeciphered scripts and related material. Issue 28 has just come out and the Editor-in-Chief, Donal Buchanan has sent me an announcement of it, so I've copied that announcement here for you to read, if you like. And I've added a photograph of the cover of Issue 28 in the right column. If you are interested in finding out more about The Epigraphic Society, you can click on that image of the front cover and it will take you to The Epigraphy Society webpage.

Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications

Donal Buchanan, ESOP editor, 97 Village Post Road Danvers, MA 01923  donalbb@comcast.net

                                                               
                                                                              26 March 2011

Dear Friend of Epigraphy,

          Volume 28 of ESOP is now available for sale at $35.00 plus $5 shipping & handling. An electronic version on CD is available for $20 (plus $5 s/h). Close to 2/3rds of our yearly output of ESOP is provided to the libraries of educational institutions all over the world and we are working to increase our subscriber base in order to fund future publications.

          ESOP seeks to be a publication in which both professionals and amateurs can feel comfortable appearing. This aim has been achieved to a greater degree with recent issues and 28 is an excellent example of this trend. Two professionally trained epigraphers, Kate Price and Steve Bonta, present excellent articles on the Indus Script and analytical and organizational problems involved in its decipherment (ye Ed steps in with some ideas of his own on the use of Corner Symbols in that script). Louis Buff Parry writes on the Sarmation Hypothesis. John Ruskamp discusses the appearance of a Chinese character among Amerindian rock writing and Richard Bishop returns with two short articles dealing with the Paraiba Inscription. Agostino Sferraza of Spain covers finds of ancient European coins in America. Robert Lebling writes on “The Susquehanna Stones— An Enduring Enigma”. James Guthrie, returning with “Barry Fell on Pacific Inscriptions”, shows how Fell’s early work presaged modern findings about ancient ties between the Old World and the New. M.G. Boutet discusses “Origins of American Proto-Ogam” and Buchanan presents “The Coin Inscriptions of ‘Eldorado’—A Lesson in Epigraphic Caution”. Norman Totten winds up the issue with his Last Word, speaking of “Vikings in America”.

          To order our publications, you can contact the editor at the addresses above, or check our website, www.epigraphy.org and search the menu under “ESOP” and choose “Order Issue”. Choices are available online so that payments can be made by credit card through Paypal. Please remember to include your postal address.

          We are also offering for sale a DVD of Volumes 1-27 in PDF format, with searchable abstracts of contents (covering only 1-25 at this time). It is available for $100 plus $5 s/h. In addition, we have produced 2 CD's covering Volumes 1-15 and Volumes 16-27 available at $50/each plus shipping (for those of you who need to fill some holes in your collections of ESOP). These are offered to raise funds for our very non-profit Society.  The editorial staff has already started work on volume 29. Individual volumes of ESOP are available for $15 each (+ $5 s/h). We also have for sale ($15 + $5 s/h) “The Numismatic Phoenix” by Norman Totten (an excellent PowerPoint presentation on the Phoenix and the worldwide spread of the use of its image by many different nations of the world).