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SELVI_PhD Migas Laos_Summary and Table of Contents.pdfThe dissertation examines the dialect-speaking communities of Aspendos, Perge, and Sillyon in Classical and Hellenistic Pamphylia through a multidisciplinary approach combining history, archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and statistics.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marco Bettalli.
Director of PhD Program: Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Agosti
Peer-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Alfredo Rizza; Prof. Dr. Lorenzo D'Alfonso.
Examiners: Prof. Emeritus Giovanni Salmeri, Prof. Dr. Recai Tekoglu, Prof. Dr. Andrea Angius.
Epigraphic fieldwork
Pamphylian inscriptions in the Antalya Museum and the archeological sites of Aspendos, Perge, Sillyon and Termessos (Turkey), March 1st-March 30th 2023. Collaboration with archaeologist Dr. Fatma Nur Konukman.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Selvi, E. (2026, in press). Reti sociali e variazione sociolinguistica: le iscrizioni funerarie ellenistiche di Aspendos [Social networks and sociolinguistic variation: the Hellenistic funerary inscriptions from Aspendos]. In R. Meyer, V. Fendel, & A. Viredaz (Eds.), Language Identity in Antiquity. Graeco-Roman and Ancient Near-Eastern Perspectives. Schwabe.
Selvi, E. (2024). Migas laos. Aspendos, Perge e Sillyon: la Panfilia in età classica ed ellenistica. Peer-reviewed PhD Thesis, Università di Siena / Università di Pisa / Università di Firenze.
Selvi, E. (2024). Graeco-Anatolian Pamphylia. A Social Network Analysis of Funerary Epigraphy. In E. Pulvirenti (Ed.), Anatolian Interactions. Criss cross contacts and cultural dynamics in the first millennium BCE [Quaderni 18] (pp. 203–232). Trento University Press. DOI 10.15168/11572_440830.
Selvi, E. (2022). I graffiti dell'Acropoli di Perge. Una nuova testimonianza di scrittura alfabetica in Panfilia [The graffiti from the Acropolis of Perge. New evidence of alphabetic writing from Pamphylia]. In P. Liverani, M. Foschi Albert, & A. Casadei (Eds.), Espressioni e poetiche dell'identità [ILLA-Nuove ricerche umanistiche 6] (pp. 375–390). Pisa University Press. ISBN 9788833395906.
Selvi, E. (2023). Koineization and the Pamphylian Alphabet: instability and compromise. In D. Mora-Marín & L. Cahill (Eds.), On the systematic nature of writing systems [Written Language and Literacy 26:1] (pp. 77–97). John Benjamins Publishing. DOI 10.1075/wll.00074.sel.
Selvi, E., & Santamaria, A. (2023). Shaping The Pamphylian Alphabet: The Puzzle of the Two Digammas. Kadmos. Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik, 62(1), 94–115. ISSN 1613-0723. DOI 10.1515/kadmos-2023-0005.
Conference Papers
Selvi, E. (2025) Tracing linguistic and cultural contact with Social Network Analysis: an analysis of Hellenistic Pamphylia. 03/04/2025, Epigraphy.info Workshop, University of Aarhus.
Selvi, E. (2024) Language Choices and Identity Reflections in Hellenistic Pamphylia: A Social Network Analysis of Funerary Inscriptions. 19/07/2024, Language and Identity in Antiquity, Université de Lausanne.
Selvi, E. (2024) Pausanias’ Erythrai (7.3.7). Indigenous elements in foundation myths of Hellenistic and Imperial Age Asia Minor. 9-12/07/2024, Panel ‘Pausanias from Different Perspectives’ - 15th Celtic Conference in Classics, University of Cardiff.
Selvi, E. (2022) [invited] Graeco-Anatolian Pamphylia. Data from regional onomastics. 09-10/12/2022, Anatolian Interactions. Criss-cross contacts and cultural dynamics in the first millennium BCE, University of Trento.
Selvi, E. & A. Santamaria (2022) [invited] Shaping the Pamphylian Alphabet through interference and isolation: the representation of the glides. 24-25/03/2022, PaLAC Workshop – Languages and Cultures in Contact in the Ancient Mediterranean, University of Verona.
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