Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents
The Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents (CCED) is a non-profit organization founded in order to archive, catalog, and digitize
Initially housed at the Department of Classics,
The CCED is currently housed at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. The CCED is working with the Harrak Collection of Iraqi Syriac and Garshuni inscriptions, the largest corpus of its type in the world. These inscriptions are preserved in analog and digital photograph format and date from the 7th to the 20th century A.D.[1]
The centre is also working with the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) Collection and the Association for the Preservation of the Saint Thomas Christian Heritage (APSTCH) Collection. These two collections are from Kerala, India. They contain Syriac, Malayalam, Tamil and Pahlavi inscriptions dating from the 9th/10th century to the 20th century.[1]
The centre has most recently issued a Call for Papers in the bid to establish a scholarly journal.
The CCED Journal especially welcomes articles on inscriptions from the CCED online collection and editions of unpublished inscriptions.[1]