Inscriptiones Graecae

Inscriptiones Graecae (IG), Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wssenschaften, http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/ig/index.html

Homepage of the Inscriptiones Graecae, one of the most important publication series of Greek inscriptions. Few resources on line, with the notable exception of systematic translations of Greek inscriptions.

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Images of Dated Attic Inscriptions

Images of Dated Attic Inscriptions, Ohio State University, Center for the Study of Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies, http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/epigraphy/inscriptions/, s.d.

This web-site contains a list of scanned images of dated Attic inscriptions from the squeeze collection of the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at the Ohio State University.  Each listing serves as a link to an image of the squeeze.  Each image is accompanied by publication information listing publication(s) where a copy of the text can be found along with the most recent publication from which a bibliography for that inscription can be obtained.

Currently (september 2002) ca. 10,000 images on line

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Inscriptiones Latinae Eystettenses (ILEyst)

MALITZ Jürgen, Latin Inscriptions - The internet release, Eichstätt, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/ILS.html, °1999.

You find here a link to a Folio-Infobase with the complete Dessau's "Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae", a growing number of Ann.Épigr. volumes, and a large and continually enhanced sample of inscriptions from the C.I.L. (135,000 texts). The texts are modified for computerization and thus don't replace printed editions in any way. A version of this infobase for PCs is available on demand. (on cdrom)

A more advanced version is now available (free of charge) on cdrom :

MALITZ Jürgen, ConcEyst. Eichstätter Konkordanz zur lateinischer Epigraphik, http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/LAG/conceyst/latin/, °1999.

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Inscriptions from the land of Israel

SATLOW Michael S., Inscriptions from the land of Israel, Charlottesville (VA), University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/mls4n/, °1996

This project seeks to collect and make available all the inscriptions from the Land of Israel that date from the Hellenistic period (c. 330 BCE) through the Persian conquest (614 C.E.). These inscriptions were written and carved in stone (and other durable materials) and inlaid in mosaics. They were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek by Jews, Christians, and pagans. They include epitaphs, commemorations, mile markers, and acknowledgements of gifts.
... At the moment, only the inscriptions from Beth She'arim are available.

It's not clear wether the project was ever continued beyond its initial phase.

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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

GREENHALGH Michael (cdrom and web), REYNOLDS J. M. & WARD-PERKINS J.B., The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Australian National University & Britisch School at Rome, http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/IRT/db/, 2001 (2 trial version) [1952]

On line version of the trial cdrom of Reynolds's and Ward-Perkins's edition of Roman Tripolitania. Full text and photographs, some commentary.

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Instrumentum domesticum Austriae Superioris

HAINZMAN Manfred & WEDENIG Reinhold & SCHUBERT Peter, Instrumentum domesticum Austriae Superioris, Graz, Universität Graz, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/agawww/Instrumenta/oberoesterreich/, °1993

Roman Inscriptions on small objects from Austria. The presentation is hard to understand and there is no search facility.

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Latin Inscriptions

THAYER Bill, Latin Inscriptions, University of Chicago, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Inscriptions/home.html, °2000

Several hundred inscriptions are available at Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius in transscript and mostly with photograph.

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Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiquae IX-X (MAMA IX-X)

Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiquae IX-X (MAMA IX-X): Digitised Images from the Cox Archive, Center for the Study of Ancient Documents , Oxford, Oxford University, Classics Centre, http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/MAMA/, °2000

The archive of notebooks, photographs and squeezes from Sir Christopher Cox's two Phrygian expeditions in 1925 and 1926 which formed the basis for Barbara Levick's and Stephen Mitchell's publication of volumes IX and X of Monumenta Asia Minoris Antiqua in 1988 and 1993 have been deposited in the Centre by Dr. Levick.
Both MAMA IX and X were published with extensive photographic documentation, but the constraints of publication costs and processes prevented the excellent negatives from Cox's expeditions from being printed at larger than contact print size. As a complement to the full editions of the texts of the inscriptions in MAMA IX and X, high resolution digitised images of the photographs and supporting material are being made available from the CSAD WWW server.
Digitisation of the negatives for MAMA volume X is almost complete. A preliminary group of images from MAMA vol. X can be viewed immediately. For digitisation, the negatives were scanned at 600 dpi on the Centre's UMAX Powerlook scanner. These images were then archived in TIFF format. Downsized versions of the scans are available on our WWW server in JPEG format at snapshot size (maximum dimension 400 pixels) and 300 dpi. The 600 dpi originals are available for consultation on request.

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Pompeian inscriptions

ADAMS John Paul, Pompeian inscriptions, Northridge (CA), California State University, John Paul Adams Homepage, http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/pompeii.html, s.d.

A small number of selected Pompeian inscription, no search facility.

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The Roman inscriptions from Britain

BEDOYERE Guy de la, The Roman inscriptions from Britain, http://www.bedoyere.freeserve.co.uk/RIB.htm, s.d.

Part of a privately owned comprehensive website on Roman Britain. Offers the complete text edition of the RIB I and a number of lead writing tablets.

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Römische Inschriften in Germanien

Römische Inschriften in Germanien, Osnabrück, Universität von Osnabrück, http://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/ausstell/ausstell.html

Homesite of the project 'CIL Ergänzungsband zur XIII,2' at the University of Osnabrück. The site gives a very interesting look inside the project and deserves recommendation for all students of epigraphy who want to get an idea of how any primary epigraphical research is conducted.

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U.S. Epigraphy project

U.S. Epigraphy project, New Brunswick (NJ), Rutgers University, Department of Classics, http://usepigraphy.rutgers.edu/, °1997

The goal of the U.S. Epigraphy Project is to gather and distribute information about ancient (mainly but not only) Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the United States of America. Each inscription catalogued by the U.S. Epigraphy Project is assigned a U.S. Epigraphy number, based upon its current location in the United States, by which it is uniquely identified.

Aims to register all Greek or Latin inscriptions in the U.S.

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PHI CD-ROM of Machine-Readable Texts # 7 (PHI 7)

((successor of PHI 6, 1991, 2nd edn. 1996), no link available)
Contains a number of important databases:

A. Duke Databank of Documentary papyri (cf. Papyrology)

B. Cornell Greek Epigraphy Project (PHI 7)

Cornell Greek Epigraphy Project (PHI 7), Ithaca (NY), Cornell University, Classics Department, http://132.236.125.30/default.html, °1996.

A large collection of published Greek inscriptions from all parts of the mediterranean area assembled and prepared for electronic publication by the The Greek Epigraphy Project at Cornell University in collaboration with the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies of The Ohio State University

C. Inscriptions of the Christian Empire ICE / Inscriptions of the Christian Kingdoms

MANSFIELD John M., The Infimae Aetatis page. ICE-ICK information. A textual databank of late antique and medieval inscriptions, Ithaca (NY), Cornell University, Classics Department, http://132.236.125.30/JMM/ICE_ICK_top.html, 1987-1996

Two computerized collections of published texts of Late Antique and Medieval inscriptions, both in Greek and Latin. ... The limits of the ICE-ICK collections are purely chronological. «Inscriptions of the Christian Empire» includes Greek inscriptions of the Late Antique and Byzantine periods, from the accession of Diocletian to the fall of Constantinople (285-1453 AC); however, pre-Constantinian Christian inscriptions and Jewish inscriptions of the earlier Imperial period are also included. The corresponding group of Latin inscriptions includes texts of the Late Antique period only (4th-7/8th c. AC). «Inscriptions of the Christian Kingdoms» includes Latin inscriptions dating from roughly the eighth/ninth century through the thirteenth century AC. In the case of the Latin inscriptions, these limits are imposed by the publications themselves, which typically cover the period before or after roughly the beginning of the eighth century AC. The upper limit of AD 1300 is adopted after the example of the Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale (Poitiers).

D. Four often quoted Latin Inscriptions

• Res Gestae Divi Augusti
• Record of the Augustan ludi saeculares
• Laudatio Turiae
• Acts of the Arvales Fratres

E. Three Byzantine Inscriptions

• The Cadastral Codex of Thebes
• An Athenian Praktikon
• The Chronicle of Monembasia

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Epigraph

Epigraph, University of Western Australia, Department of Classics, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/Classics/EpiGraph1.html, s.d.

EpiGraph, a database of Roman inscriptions, contains the text of those inscriptions collected at the instigation of Th. Mommsen and published under the auspices of the German Academy of Sciences in volume VI of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. The editors Henzen, de Rossi, Bormann, Huelsen and Bang published the various fascicles of volume VI in the years between 1876 and 1933 and they contain almost 40,000 reports of inscriptions found in the city of Rome itself. Both the size of the collection and the provenance, the capital of the Roman Empire, make this the most important volume of the whole corpus and the mass of invaluable source material it contains provides the basis for any serious enquiry into Roman society, culture and history. (400 $ for an individual licence, 600 for an institutional licence.

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Xanthos - Letoon (Lycia). The Canadian Epigraphic Mission of Xanthos - Letoon (Lycia)

The Canadian Epigraphic Mission at Xanthos-Letoon (Lycia) / La mission épigraphique canadienne de Xanthos-Létôon (Lycie), at: Université de Laval, Département d'histoire, http://www.hst.ulaval.ca/xanthos/

The Canadian university of Laval has an ongoing epigraphic project to collect and (re-)publish as many as possible of the inscriptions from ancient Xanthos-Letoon. This mission is part of the French archaeological mission of Xanthos-Letoon (Université de Michel Montaigne, Bordeaux III).

The project's website offers access to a database of photographs and squeezes of inscriptions.

The distribution of Xanthian epigraphic publications has confirmed the necessity to collect all Greek and Latin texts—a task that is being progressively finalized with each survey by creating a computerized data base using the Bordeaux-based software program PETRAE (Programme d’Enregistrement, de Traitement et de Recherches Automatiques en Épigraphie). This data base will then be published in a traditional paper format and called Corpus des inscriptions grecques et latines de Xanthos et du Létôon and inserted in the collection Fouilles de Xanthos, which could make up several parts. After exploring the city and the surrounding area, the mission will turn its efforts to the Letoon inscriptions in order to usefully complete an overall study of the city. The most important texts will be published individually on occasion as part of the excavation report or in a relevant journal.

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Tools and guides

Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions

ELLIOT Tom, Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions, at: American Society for Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE), http://asgle.classics.unc.edu/abbrev/latin/

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Sigles et abbréviations épigraphiques

Sigles et abbréviations épigraphiques, at: Locutio.com. Expressions et citations latines,  http://www.locutio.com/expressions-abreviations/abreviation-intro.htm

(copied from CAPELLI A., Dictionnaire des abbreviations latines et italiennes, at: Locutio. Expressions et citations latines, http://www.locutio.com/expressions-abreviations/abreviation-intro.htm

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Claros

RODRIGUEZ SOMOLINOS Juan, Claros. Concordancia de Iscripciones Griegas, at: Dizionario Griego Espagnol, http://www.dge.filol.csic.es/claros/cnc/cnc.htm

An online searchable database of concordances of edited Greek inscriptions.

The purpose of the data base CLAROS is to make easier the task of locating new editions of Greek inscriptions appeared all along the last hundred years. ... It is ... a sum of the concordances included at the end of many epigraphical collections that were published since the end of the Nineteen Century. In addition, we have included a certain number of concordances prepared by the authors of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum for volumes that had an incomplete concordance or had no concordance at all (more than 180). Finally, we made a number of concordances through direct reading of volumes that also had no concordance (those are more than 60). Among them can be mentioned for instance collections such as GVI, INomima, ISE, ISic.MG, RDGE, Schwyzer or Sokolowski. ...

(The) fourth version of CLAROS contains more then 380.000 equivalences coming from near 450 collections. In general terms (with the main exceptions of the concordances of SEG and BE), we only collect references to editions and translations, not to commentaries that do not include the Greek text or a translation. We think that, once the editions are located, it will be easy to find further critical bibliography. Nevertheless, we have exceptionally gathered also references to commentaries in the case of those collections that in its final concordance mix both types of references, not being easy to separate them.

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Paper publications of inscriptions

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/cil/index.html

Homepage of the most renowned editing project for Latin Epigraphy, started in 1853 by Theodor Mommsen.

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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG), Leiden, Universiteit Leiden, Opleiding Geschiedenis, http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/SEG/SEG.html

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents. Every volume contains the harvest of a single year and covers the entire Greek world. Material later than the 8th century A.D. is not included.
SEG presents complete Greek texts of all new inscriptions with a critical apparatus; it summarizes new readings, interpretations and studies of known inscriptions, and occasionally presents the Greek text of these documents. However, texts which are published in epigraphical corpora, repertoria or monographs containing elaborate indices are normally not included
The website gives background information on the SEG, announcing i.a. a CDRom version (no sooner than 2003).