Good day.

Two messages by Cathy Waldman had to be deleted by the Qalam archive
(http://www.egroups.com/messages/qalam) because of administrative
reasons.

I am re-posting the text of those messages, just to maintain the
archive complete.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Greetings.
Seshat (Qalam owner)


-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Waldman [mailto:cricket@...]
Sent: September 29, 2000
To: qalam@egroups.com
Subject: Requesting advice: In which dept does one study epigraphy?


Hello Qalam,

I'm applying for grad schools in the hopes of getting a PhD
in a program that will allow me to become an epigrapher.
However, I'm having trouble finding this specific field
listed on grad school sites.

Does anyone know in which department epigraphy is usually
studied? I have checked out linguistics, classics,
archaeology, anthropology, and language depts in various
schools, and found nothing definite. In what programs did
you all get your degrees?

Since this isn't exactly on-topic, please don't post replies
-- instead please email me at cricket@....

Thanks so much! :)
Cathy


-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Waldman [mailto:cricket@...]
Sent: September 29, 2000
To: qalam@egroups.com
Subject: Re: Requesting advice: In which dept does one study
epigraphy?


Peter, thanks for replying!
Another question: What if I'm not sure what language I'm interested
in? Right now I'm interested in all languages, really. Especialy the
ones that are not from Europe: Native Americam, Asian, Mesoamerican,
Middle East. Is there a way to study epigraphy w/o picking a
particular language, maybe by studying a whole language group or how
about studying comparative writing systems?

Cathy

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Why is it not on topic?
The epigraphy of a language is a (very small) part of the study of
(the
history of) that language. So if you have specialized in a language
or
language family, that is the department you belong in. (Archeologists
aren't epigraphers, unless they happen to have also studied that
subject; they invite them to the dig in order to deal with whatever
inscriptions might turn up.)

Cathy Waldman wrote:

>
> Hello Qalam,
>
> I'm applying for grad schools in the hopes of getting a PhD
> in a program that will allow me to become an epigrapher.
> However, I'm having trouble finding this specific field
> listed on grad school sites.
>
> Does anyone know in which department epigraphy is usually
> studied? I have checked out linguistics, classics,
> archaeology, anthropology, and language depts in various
> schools, and found nothing definite. In what programs did
> you all get your degrees?
>
> Since this isn't exactly on-topic, please don't post replies
> -- instead please email me at cricket@....

--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...