Epigraphy
Epigraphy Links
- The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy 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.
- Celtic Inscribed Stones A study by University College London of all non-Runic early mediaeval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
- Earliest Writing Found The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
- U.S. Epigraphy Project Aims to gather and distribute information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the USA. Index of published ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in the USA. Collections, databases.
- LacusCurtius: Latin Inscriptions Bill Thayer's photographs and transcriptions of Etruscan and Roman inscriptions, arranged as a list for researchers and a self-paced course in Latin epigraphy for students.
- British Epigraphy Society An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
- African Writing Systems Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
- Inscriptions from the Land of Israel 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.
- Sumerian Text Archive Offers a collection of transliterated Sumerian texts, using only characters from the ASCII alphabet so that the text files can be used on every type of computer. Hosted by Leiden University.
- Mesopotamian Year Names The list of more than 2,000 Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian date formulae drawn up by Marcel Sigrist and Peter Damerow as a tool for the dating of cuneiform tablets.
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature In preparation at the University of Oxford aims to make accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC.
- Sumerian Lexical Archive Forum for the presentation and discussion of particular points of the Sumerian lexicon, edited by Miguel Civil, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Translations of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 BC, until the end of the third millennium BC.
- Roman Inscriptions of Britain Roman expert Guy de la Bédoyère has made available on-line the texts from the standard work 'Roman Inscriptions of Britain', vol.1.
- Picturing the Past 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.
- Sumerian Language John Halloran's lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing Proto-Sumerian, illustrated description of symbolic counting tokens, proverbs in Sumerian cuneiform and a map of Sumerian archaeological sites.
- Rosetta Stone Photograph and description from the British Museum of the slab found in 1799 in Rosetta, with a text written in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek, enabling the crucial breakthrough in deciphering Egyptian writing.
- The Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project Jeff Lloyd and Nick Wyatt of the University of Edinburgh provide digital images of texts written in the alphabetic cuneiform script developed at the ancient city of Ugarit.
- Rosetta Stone Photograph and description from Virtis of the famous text in three languages that provided the crucial breakthrough in the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- Akkadian Cuneiform John Heise explains the cuneiform writing system on clay tablets, the language, the grammar. Some texts examples with transliteration and explanation are presented. Bibliography.
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