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  • (ASGLE) - links to corpora, reference tools, images and inscriptions, projects, colloquia

Searchable databases of inscriptions

 
Greek
  •  
    Extensive coverage, arranged geographically - includes IG; MAMA; IK; IRT; other regional and site corpora. NB also includes some Latin inscriptions from Greek East (eg Galatia) and other areas.
Latin
  • = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
    photographic database; indices to CIL I² 2, 4 (Republican inscriptions); CIL XVII 4, 1 (milestones from Raetia and Noricum). Volumes of via Arachne.
  • = Epigraphic Database Bari (3rd-8th c. Christian epigraphy)
  • = Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Salby (Frankfurt)
    Extensive coverage. All Latin inscriptions published in AE up until 2004; CIL; ICUR; IGRRP; ILN; a multitude of other regional corpora.
  • = Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (Latin)
    Revised & corrected versions of texts published in AE, with abbreviations expanded, fragmentary texts restored, and updated bibliographical references. New & revised texts published in the new fascicles of CIL II (Hispania) and CIL VI (Rome).
  • = Epigraphic Database, Rome (Latin)
  • (Latin inscriptions in USA collections)

Bibliographies

  • Bibliotheca Classica Selecta - Bibliographie d'orientation - :
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  • - Onno van Nijf - collection of resources for study of Greek (mainly) and Latin Epigraphy


Corpora

Greek
  • :
    = Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: the Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions, C. Roueché [2nd edition 2004, updating 1st edn 1989]
    = Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, J. Reynolds, C. Roueché, G. Bodard [online corpus of the inscriptions of Aphrodisias recorded up to 1994]
  • = Paul Roesch†, Les Inscriptions de Thespies
  • Corpus des Inscriptions de Delphes, Fouilles de Delphes, Exploration archéologique de Délos, Etudes épigraphiques: all publications by the French School at Athens and Rome are available for free online at .
  • : Monuments from Phrygia and Lykaonia.MAMA XI is a corpus of 387 inscriptions and other ancient monuments, 292 of which are unpublished, from Phrygia and Lykaonia, recorded by Sir William Calder (1881-1960) and Dr Michael Ballance (†27 July 2006) in the course of annual expeditions to Asia Minor in 1954-1957. The monuments have been edited with full commentaries, and marked-up in xml using EpiDoc electronic editorial conventions, by Peter Thonemann with the assistance of Édouard Chiricat and Charles Crowther.
  • (AIO): a website designed to make available the inscriptions of ancient Athens and Attica in English translation - translations of 281 inscribed laws and decrees of Athens, 352/1-322/1 BC, recently edited by Stephen Lambert as IG II(3) 1, 292-572.
  • Neue Inschriften von Olympia: open access
  • L. Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile. Contribution à l'étude du vocabulaire grec colonial. Rome, 1989 : open access
  • J.C. Decourt, Inscriptions grecques de la France (IGF). Lyon, 2004: open access
  • Database of curse tablets: TheDefix (Thesaurus Defixionum)
Latin
  • (University of Trento)
  • Aquileia Nostra - 1996, 1997, 1998
  • British History Online - Royal Commission on Historical Monuments - ; (Eburacum)
  • Dessau, ILS - at Google books
  • French, D. ().
    RRMAM 3.1 - contains the Republican milestones from the province of Asia
    RRMAM 3.2 - the 132 milestones from the province of Galatia.
    RRMAM 3.3 Imperial: Cappadocia Milestones
    RRMAM Imperial: Pontus and Bithynia Milestones
    RRMAM Imperial: Asia Minor Milestones
    The publications include not only the texts, concordances and other apparatus, but also schematic maps and abundant illustrations
  • Korhonen, K. : immagini (photos of inscriptions in Catania Museum, Sicily)
  • Ostia: (2023)
  • Pallarès, J.G., : Tipología de una tradición

  • - vol. 1 in summary
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  • Database of curse tablets: TheDefix (Thesaurus Defixionum)

Scholarship Online

  • Interactive (in French) from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland
  • (in French): with translations, pictures, etc.
  • (T. Elliott); see also the list of abbreviations prepared by the Universidad de Navarra
  • :
    Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - The contains a short outline of the history of epigraphy and of the CIL, as well as a presentation of epigraphic method and editorial practice. The summarises the work which the CIL has completed to date and takes a look back and forward at the work in progress in the years 1995-2009. [In German]. Various CIL volumes can be downloaded as PDFs.
    - Fourteen squeezes illustrate everyday life in the ancient world, arranged as an epigraphic tour from the city of Rome to the northern border of Roman Britain.
  • (T. Elliott)
  • : epigraphic sources for early Greek writing
  • and IG - IG
  • (website not always functioning), last updated in 2006
  • : name searches

Journals

  •  articles, 1988-2000 (free); 2001-2004 (for a fee); note that ZPE is now available on JSTOR as well (1967-2008)
  • : articles of volumes 35 (2002) to 42 (2009) in open access

Images

  • Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Navarra -
  • Squeezes of Greek and Latin inscriptions from the University of Columbus Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies -
  • Squeezes from the Oxford
  • Squeezes of the University of British Columbia:
  • - British Epigraphy Society
  • - Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford
  • = American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

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