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Akkadian
Akkadian Cuneiform, Brown Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets, Parsing Akkadian Verbs
Greek
Byzantine Paleography, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Cornell Greek Epigraphy Project, Epigraphical Museum of Athens, Hekatompedon Inscription Reconsidered, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Phaistos Disk Decipherment, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Suda On-Line
Ogham
Celtic Ogham, Ogham, Ogham Inscriptions Index, The Ogam Scales from the Book of Ballymote, The Ogham Stone, The Traditional History of the Ogham
Rongorongo
A Genealogy on the Small Santiago Tablet?, Easter Island's Rongorongo Script, Rongo Rongo Tablets, Rongorongo: Easter Island Writing, Rongorongo: The Easter Island Tablets, The Jaussen List, The Rongorongo of Easter Island, Two Systems of Symbolic Writing
Sumerian
Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JCS), Key to an Ancient Tongue, Now That Summers Gone: Understanding qz in KTU 124, Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD), Sumerian Language, Sumerian Text Archive, The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, The Study of Diachronic and Synchronic Variation i, The Sumerian Home, UR III Sumerian Font
Ugaritic
The Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project, Ugaritic Writing
African Writing Systems
Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
A non-profit organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. The Society fosters collaboration in the field and facilitates the exchange of scholarly research and discussion, both in the public forum and in published form.
British Epigraphy Society
An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
Browsing the Memory of the World
Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
Celtic Inscribed Stones
A study by University College London of all non-Runic early mediaeval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studie
Research facility for the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in the United States. Its purpose is to foster the study of inscriptions and manuscripts and promote research opportunities for those interested in these primary sources of information for the ancient and medieval world.
Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD)
A lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic.
Chiron
Journal of the German Archaeological Institute, covering many epigraphic topics. Lsts content of recent volumes.
Cuneiform Tablet Collection Catalogue
Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).
Discussion Group: Inscriptiones-l
A scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy.
Earliest Writing Found
The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
Iberian Epigraphy
Jesús Rodríguez Ramos discusses and illustrates the languages and writing systems of Spain and Portugal, including Celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, with selected bibliography.
Inscriptions from the Land of Israel
Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.
Phaistos Disc
Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc.
Picturing the Past
Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool that?lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs.
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.
The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy
The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.
The two sides of the Phaistos Disc
Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.
U.S. Epigraphy Project
Aims to gather and distribute information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the USA. Index of published ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in the USA. Collections, databases.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)
International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French.