Directory of Epigraphy Resources

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The study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material; the study of inscriptions from the earliest civilizations through to the present day, their interpretation and classification.

Subcategories

• Akkadian
• Egyptian Hieroglyphics
• Greek
• Harappan
• Latin
• Linear B
• Mesoamerican
• Ogham
• Rongorongo
• Runes
• Sumerian
• Ugaritic

Resources in This Category

• British Epigraphy Society

  http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/
  An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.

• Browsing the Memory of the World

  http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/papiuc11.htm
  Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.

• Celtic Inscribed Stones

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/
  A study by University College London of all non-Runic early medieval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.

• Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD)

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cdd/
  A lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic.

• Cuneiform Tablet Collection Catalogue

  http://cdli.ucla.edu/
  Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).

• Discussion Group: Inscriptiones-l

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inscriptiones-l/
  A scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy.

• Earliest Writing Found

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm
  The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.

• Inscriptions from the Land of Israel

  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/
  Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.

• Linear A Texts in Phonetic Transcription

  http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/
  Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images.

• Phaistos Disc

  http://web.gvdnet.dk/GVD002393/phaistos.htm
  Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc.

• Picturing the Past

  http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2000/oct-dec/3dimaging.html
  Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs.

• The Arabic & Islamic Inscriptions

  http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/
  Examples of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabic Inscriptions from 1st Century of Hijra onwards.

• The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

  http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/
  Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.

• The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/epi/epigraphy.html
  The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.

• The two sides of the Phaistos Disc

  http://www.kereti.de/indexEngl.html
  Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.

• Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)

  http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/
  International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French.

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