Greek inscriptions

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IG Dedication of Ion of Chios to Athena

The

ostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full texts.[3][4]

Inscriptiones Graecae

The Inscriptiones Graecae (IG),

inscriptions
from the ancient world. As such it will eventually make all other previous collections redundant.

It is divided by regions.

I/II/III - Attica

IV - Aegina, Pityonesus, Cecryphalia, the Argolid

V - Laconia, Messenia and Arcadia

VII - Megarid, Oropus, and Boeotia

IX - Aetolia, Acarnania, West Locris and Thessaly

X - Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Scythia, Thessalonica, Lyncestis, Heraclea, Pelagonia, Derriopus and Lychnidus

XIV - Sicily-Italy

Other printed collections

Numerous other printed collections of Greek inscriptions exist.

Liddell-Scott-Jones
lexicon:

  • CGIH = Corpus der griechisch-christlichen Inschriften von Hellas: I. Die griechisch-christlichen Inschriften des Peloponnes, Nikos Athanasiou Bees, vol. i, Athens 1941.
  • CID = Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes. I: Lois sacrées et règlements religieux, Georges Rougemont, Paris 1977; II: Les comptes du quatrième et du troisième siècle, J. Bousquet, D. Mulliez, Paris 1989.
  • CIJud. = Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum, ed. Jean-Baptiste Frey: vol. i (Europe), Rome 1936 repr. [New York 1975]; vol. ii: Asie-Afrique, Rome 1952.
  • CISem. = Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, E Renan et al., Paris 1881–1951.
  • Inscr.Perg. = Die Inschriften von Pergamon (in Altertümer von Pergamon viii), ed. Max Fränkel, Berlin 1890–1895; 8(3) = Altertümer von Pergamon viii (3). Die Inschriften des Asklepieions, Christian Habicht (historian), Berlin 1969.
  • Supp.Epigr. = SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Hondius, Netherlands

Online collections

Over the last 20 years, a growing number of online databases, catalogues and corpora of Greek inscriptions have been created. A selection is offered below:

Some other inscriptions are found incidentally in

Digital resources

Alongside the development of online collections of Greek inscriptions, several projects have created online epigraphic tools for the study of inscriptions.

  • Epigraphy.info, collaborative environment for digital epigraphy
  • Trismegistos, portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources
  • LGPN, the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
  • EpiDoc, XML text markup for ancient documents
  • Ubi Erat Lupa, image database on ancient stone monuments
  • Europeana EAGLE, Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
  • Digital Epigraphy Toolbox, 3D digitization of inscriptions
  • Krateros, digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes
  • GIO, translations of Ancient Greek inscriptions into Modern Greek
  • Pythia (machine learning), a deep learning model for the automatic restoration of Greek inscriptions

See also

References

  1. ^ Bodel, John, ed. 2001 Epigraphic evidence: Ancient history from inscriptions. London: Routledge.
  2. ^ Guarducci, Margherita. 1967–1978. Epigrafia greca. 4 vols. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato.
  3. ^ Robert, Louis. 1970. Die Epigraphik der klassischen Welt. Bonn, Germany: Habelt.
  4. ^ Woodhead, Arthur G. 1981. The study of Greek inscriptions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
  5. ^ Bérard, F., D. Feissel, N. Laubry, P. Petitmengin, D. Rousset, and M. Sève. 2010. Guide de l’épigraphiste: Bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales. 4th ed. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm.