Epigraphic seminar - Archaeological Institute of Thessalian Studies - Electronic resources for epigraphers: a selection

Eleonora SANTIN

CNRS - HiSoMA

Lyon - FRANCE

[email protected]

What are the most reliable websites for epigraphers? How to choose? How to navigate in this big sea?

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LATIN EPIGRAPHY

Epigraphik - Datenbank Clauss-Slaby

Portal

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Federated Database AIEGL

(under the aegis of International Association of Greek and Latin epigraphy)

Federated search in different databases:

1. EDH (Epigraphische Datebank Heidelberg)

2. EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma)

3. EDB (Epigraphic Database Bari)

4. HE (Hispania Epigraphica)

Europeana EAGLE project

EAGLE project

• EAGLE, The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy is a best-practice network co-funded by the European Commission, under its Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme. EAGLE will provide a single user-friendly portal to the inscriptions of the Ancient World, a massive resource for both the curious and for the scholarly.

• The world-class EAGLE Consortium is composed of nineteen partners from thirteen European countries. Participating institutions range in size from small to large and boast an impressive range of complementary competences and roles.

Main EAGLE project goals

• Suggesting best practices and providing guidelines for epigraphers

• Creating a portal to entry EAGLE epigraphic collections and performe federated searches

• Providing translations of the inscriptions into English and other modern languages

• Vocabularies (object-type, type of inscription, etc.)

• Bibliography (provide stable URIS for epigraphic pubblications, using Zotero and ZENON DAI = network of libraries and OPAC of Deutsches Archäologisches Institut & Co)

What about Greek Epigraphy ?

Packard Humanities Institute PHI CD-ROM7 (now on line)

DATABASE : Searchable Greek Inscriptions Cornell University - Ohio State University

• It does not provide texts restored on the basis of new acquisitions.

• You will find just transpositions in digital form and UNICODE font (formerly Beta Code) of textual transcriptions published in: o Main epigraphic corpora (IG, IK, MAMA, the Fouilles de Delphes, etc.)

o Miscellaneous collections and books

o Journals (AD, AE, ZPE, etc.)

o Most important epigraphic bulletins (Bulletin épigraphique; L'Année Épigraphique ; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, SEG).

• Just the text of the inscriptions is taken into account: the lemma (metadata) is very basic. There are no images.

CLAROS

Concordance of Greek inscriptions

Diccionario Griego-Español Project on line. First digital edition of the published section (α-ἔξαυος) of the Greek-Spanish Dictionary. Dir. Francisco R. Adrados and Juan Rodríguez Somolinos

LEXICON OF GREEK PERSONAL NAMES

PURPOSE: to collect and publish with documentation all known ancient Greek personal names (including non-Greek names recorded in Greek, and Greek names in Latin), drawn from all available sources (literature, inscriptions, graffiti, papyri, coins, vases and other artefacts), within the period from the earliest Greek written records down to, approximately, the sixth century A.D.

POINIKASTAS

Anne Jeffery Archive

• Collection of papers and photographs assembled by L.H. Jeffery (known as "Anne Jeffery") throughout her working life.

• Bequeathed to Oxford University on her death in 1986

• It comprises one hundred foolscap folders, two "scribbling diaries" and one large box of photographic negatives.

• The section of the archive relating directly to the production of The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece ("LSAG") has been catalogued and digitised, as part of a programme of work (Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This portion of the archive amounts to about five thousand pages of notes filed in seventy-seven of the folders. The notes are typically written in pencil and include observations, bibliography, transliterations and drawings of epigraphic documents.

Les Archives de Paul Roesch

Project HiSoMA - UMR 5189, MOM, Lyon

Principal investigator: Isabelle PERNIN

[email protected]

Paul Roesch

Paul Roesch, Research Director at the CNRS and member of the Institut Fernand Courby. Specialist in epigraphy of Boeotia, died in 1990. On the death of Paul Roesch, his family donated to the Institut Fernand Courby his scientific archives. During the missions he had done almost every year in Greece between 1960 and 1981, P. Roesch had gathered a considerable material essentially Boeotian that includes several important series of documents, mainly: - Photos of landscapes, inscribed

monuments, squeezes - Squeezes - Notebooks

Les archives de l'épigraphiste P. Roesch (HiSoMA - UMR 5189, MOM, Lyon)

Thebes, Thespies, Tanagra, Oropos, Lebadea, Coronea, Thisbae, etc…

LANDSCAPE PHOTOS

Lake Υλίκη

LANDSCAPE PHOTOS

Squeezes

Photos of squeezes

Photo of a squeeze of a borne for a field dedicated to Dionysos Thespies, 3rd - 2nd century

Notebooks

Diplomatic transcription of IG VII 1883-1884 Thespies, funerary epigrams

The web site

• Now just a sample (80 objects) is on line

• The full achive will be soon avalaible at the

URL http://www.mom.fr/roesch/

Digital editions compliant with the

TEI-EpiDoc schema

In the last decade, the digital edition of Greek and Latin inscriptions marked-up using the EpiDoc schema goes through at least three important changes and gives rise to three types of publications: - Electronic republications of print books: Vindolanda Tablets Online + Vindolanda Tablets Online II Aphrodisias in late Antiquity 2004 - New editions of corpora (they still close to the paper editions model, thin apparatus criticus and commentary) Reynolds, Roueché, Bodard, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2007 - Critical editions of new epigraphic corpora whose editors were able to give a more extensive and accurate representation of the text - its restitution and commentary - taking advantage of the previous experiences Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiquae XI, Monuments from Phrygia and Lycaonia

Greek epigraphic corpora online: some examples

ΠΑΝΔΕΚΤΕΗΣ: Ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions from Upper Macedonia, Aegean Thrace and Achaia

πώς να κάνει έκτυπa;

Demonstration by Dominique Mulliez in collaboration with Denis Rousset in the archaeological site of Delphi. Filmed by Pierre Diouf.