Other Epigraphies

Last update to this page: 21 Mar 2004

arabian epigraphy
arabic epigraphy
celtic epigraphy
cuneiform
mayan epigraphy
medieval and modern epigraphy
ogham inscriptions
punic, neo-punic and latino-punic inscriptions
runic scripts
related sites in other categories

Arabian epigraphy

Arabic epigraphy

Written in Stone: Inscriptions from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia

http://www.mnh.si.edu/epigraphy/

An online exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution in partnership with the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The site includes images, texts, translations and discussion of 54 of the 9,000+ epigraphic items that comprise the collection of the National Museum of Saudi Arabia. A variety of scripts and languages are represented, including Thamudic, Lihyanite, Greek, Aramaic, Safaitic, South Arabic (Musnad al Janubi), Naskh and Kufic.

owner: Ali Saleh al-Moghanam and Paul Michael Taylor ()
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
17 Aug 2002	17 Aug 2002	17 Aug 2002 by Tom ELLIOTT

Celtic epigraphy

Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP)

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/

A joint project of the Department of History and the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. CISP is undertaking a collaborative, interdisciplinary study of Medieval Celtic inscriptions. Its main objectives include the creation of a comprehensive database of all known Celtic inscribed stones, presenting that database to scholars in a usable form, and producing a definitive corpus of the inscribed stones of early medieval Brittany . The database is now online, and searchable via the CISP web site.

owner: Wendy Davies and James Graham-Campbell ()
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001 by Tom ELLIOTT

Cuneiform

Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/ARI/ARI.html

The aim of the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions project is to create an electronic study edition of the inscriptions of the Achaemenid Persian kings in all of their versions–Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and, where appropriate, Aramaic and Egyptian. The edition is to be accompanied by translations, glossaries, grammatical indexes, basic bibliographic apparatus, basic text critical apparatus, and some graphic apparatus (e.g., plans indicating provenience of the inscriptions, images of exemplars); the texts will be available for downloading and printing. The first stage of the project presents the inscriptions from Persepolis and nearby Naqsh-i Rustam, where the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out excavations between 1931 and 1939.

owner: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago ()
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
21 Nov 2001	21 Nov 2001	4 Jun 1998 by Tom ELLIOTT

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

http://early-cuneiform.humnet.ucla.edu/

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium. The CDLI, directed by Robert. K. Englund of the University of California at Los Angeles and Peter Damerow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is pursuing the systematic digital documentation and electronic publication of these 3rd millennium sources. Cooperative partners include leading experts from the field of Assyriology, curators of European and American museums, and computer specialists in text markup. The CDLI data set will consist of text and image, combining document transliterations, text glossaries and digitized originals and photo archives of early cuneiform. There is a mirror site in Berlin: http://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/.

owner: UCLA and Max Plank Institute ()
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
21 Nov 2001	21 Nov 2001	21 Nov 2001 by Tom ELLIOTT

Mayan epigraphy

dictionary of maya hieroglyphs

http://www.famsi.org/montgomery/dictionary/

languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
2 Mar 2003	2 Mar 2003	2 Mar 2003

mayan epigraphic database project

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med/medwww.html

MED consists of a relational database of glyphs (“gnumbers”), images, phonetic values (“pvalues”), and semantic values (“svalues”) according to the consensus among various American Mayanists. Also present is the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

owner: Rafael C. Alvrado (alvarado@princeton.edu)
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001 by Tom ELLIOTT

mayan languages: a comparative vocabulary

http://maya.hum.sdu.dk/

A searchable database of data from John Dienhart’s work by the same name. Web-hosted by the University of Southern Denmark.

languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001 by Tom ELLIOTT

Mesoweb

http://www.mesoweb.com/

Mesoweb is “an exploration of Mesoamerican cultures. This site is maintained as a public service by Joel Skidmore of Fleet Gazelle, with Jorge Pérez de Lara and Mark Van Stone … Mesoweb is devoted to ancient Mesoamerica and its cultures: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacano, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Aztec and others.” The site provides a large collection of on-line illustrated reports and papers, many of them epigraphic in nature. Hosted resources include an on-line archive of rubbings of Maya sculptures, vocabulary resources, archives and photographs, and much more.

owner: Joel Skidmore (joel@mesoweb.com?SUBJECT=’Mesoweb Mail’)
languages: English, Spanish

accession	last URL check	description updated
2 Mar 2003	2 Mar 2003	2 Mar 2003 by Tom ELLIOTT

rabbit in the moon: mayan glyphs and architecture

http://www.halfmoon.org/index.html

A sprawling site with several major sections: mayan hieroglyphic writing; mayan calendar and date calculator; culture, games and resources; mayan architecture models; languages; a “talking syllabary”; and meetings, classes and books.

owner: Nancy McNelly (halfmoon@halfmoon.org)
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
2 Mar 2003	2 Mar 2003	2 Mar 2003 by Tom ELLIOTT

Medieval and modern epigraphy

Inschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/gema/in.html

languages: German

accession	last URL check	description updated
18 Aug 2002	18 Aug 2002	18 Aug 2002

Ogham inscriptions

Ogham Inscriptions Index

http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ogam/

Online access to information so far compiled in the preparation of a new edition of Ogham inscriptions. Part of theThesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) effort, based at Frankfurt-am-Main.

owner: Jost Gippert (gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
languages: German and English

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001 by Tom ELLIOTT

Punic, neo-punic and latino-punic inscriptions

Latino-punic texts from North Africa

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/vtw/jongeling/latpun/lpintro.htm

A database of Latino-Punic texts from North Africa. “These pages offer an index of sites where Latino(Graeco)- Punic texts have been found, the transcribed texts … with comment and bibliography … For most of the texts a drawing and photo is given for comparison; click it should you wish to study it enlarged … In addition, more detailed grammatical discussions of some aspects of these texts is also presented.” An integrated dictionary is also included. NOTE: users with browsers other than Netscape 4.6+ will have to put up with repeated pop-up admonishments from the website creator to “Get a real browser” vel sim because said creator has been unable to figure out how to make some features of the website work in other commonly used browsers like Opera and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

owner: R. Kerr ()
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Aug 2002	25 Aug 2002	25 Aug 2002 by Tom ELLIOTT

Neo-Punic Inscriptions and Coin Legends

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/vtw/jongeling/PUNINSCR.html

A database of Neo-Punic inscribed texts, organized geographically by modern country of discovery. “Clicking on a country name will give the overview of all places in a given country where NP texts have been found. Clicking on a place name will bring the reader to the texts from that place. The complete Neo-Punic text is available, together with a more or less up to date bibliography for each inscription.” Some texts are also illustrated.

owner: K. Jongeling (jongeling@rullet.leidenuniv.nl)
languages: English

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Aug 2002	25 Aug 2002	25 Aug 2002 by Tom ELLIOTT

Runic scripts

Runological Projects at NCCH

http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/NCCH-docs/runes.html

Describes and links to various runological projects hosted by, or affiliated with, the Norwegian Computer Center for the Humanities.

languages: English and Norwegian

accession	last URL check	description updated
25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001	25 Mar 2001 by Tom ELLIOTT

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