TheGreek-language inscriptions andepigraphy are a major source for understanding of the society, language and history of ancient Greece and other Greek-speaking or Greek-controlled areas.[1][2] Greek inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, potteryostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full texts.[3][4]
TheInscriptiones Graecae (IG),Latin forGreek inscriptions, project is an academic project originally begun by thePrussian Academy of Science, and today continued by its successor organisation, theBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Its aim is to collect and publish all knownancientinscriptions 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
Numerous other printed collections of Greek inscriptions exist.[5] The following abbreviations are as listed in the prefaceEpigraphical Publications to theLiddell-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 (inAltertümer 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.
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:
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
^Robert, Louis. 1970. Die Epigraphik der klassischen Welt. Bonn, Germany: Habelt.
^Woodhead, Arthur G. 1981. The study of Greek inscriptions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
^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.
