Epigraphy and Papyrology: Epigraphy

Provides texts and bibliographic citations for “nearly all Latin inscriptions." Search the CIL here.

Significant collection of Greek inscriptions culled from a variety of publications. Maintained by the Packard Humanitites Institute (based on PHI CD-ROM #7). Search the IG here.

Compilation of abbreviations assembled from digital texts of all Latin inscriptions published in L’Année Épigraphique between 1888 and 1993.

Important annual collects and publishes all new Latin inscriptions as well as emendations of previously edited texts. Also includes Greek inscriptions of the Roman Empire (since 1966).

"This site makes available the complete up-to-date onomastic data for the population of ancient Athens, through a search facility, and through html files that present the latest version of the Onomasticon."

Searchable database of English translations of inscriptions from ancient Athens and Attica.

Correlates the multiple editions of published Greek inscriptions. [Link currently broken 9-7-2023]

"Allows access to the collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references maintained by the CIL research centre, sorted by inscription-number." In addition, digitizations of the volumes published before 1940 can be viewed at Arachne, the object database of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

Single search interface to four major epigraphical projects, which can also be searched separately at the following links:

Epigraphic Database Bari (based on the Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae)
Epigraphic Database Roma (primarily Latin inscriptions from Italy)
Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (primarily Latin inscriptions from the rest of the Roman Empire)
Hispania Epigraphica (HE) (primarily Latin inscriptions from Spain)

Early Christian inscriptions from Asia Minor and Greece. Provides the original text and a translation of the inscription, including commentary and bibliographic references. Images and/or facsimiles are provided when available.

Searchable database of IG volumes published after 2001 (with the addition of I(3) 2, published in 1994). All inscriptions are translated into German (which is also searchable).

Database of metadata and, when available, links to images of "texts from the ancient world, particularly late period Egypt and the Nile valley (roughly BC 800 and 800 AD).” Important subsets can be searched at the following links:

TM Magic — Religious, Ritual, Magical and Divinatory texts
Leuven Database of Ancient Books (i.e., "texts that were intended to reach the eyes of a reading public ..."

Texts and archaeological context of inscribed lead tablets from Roman Britain.

Database currently includes Greek and Latin inscriptions from "several regions from the Roman province Galatia" (with those of Laodiceia being added). Inscriptions are accompanied with detailed commentary in German.

Database of Etruscan inscriptions.

Database of some 2,500 Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the USA.

Online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England.

Blog publishing "workshop and conference announcements; notices of discoveries, publications and reviews; project reports; and descriptive links to digital epigraphic projects."

Downloadable supplements to the Guide de l'épigraphiste (3rd ed.), which is shelved at Z7018.I5 G85 2000 in SC.