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and squeezes as well as a selected bibliography. A variety of other resources are available from this
website, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g a glossary of stone types used for <strong>in</strong>scriptions and a concordance to the CIL.
Another significant database of Lat<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>scriptions is the Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss-Slaby
(EDCS) 334 which, accord<strong>in</strong>g to the website “records almost all Lat<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>scriptions.” As of April 2010,
the EDCS <strong>in</strong>cluded more than 539,000 sets of data for 381,170 <strong>in</strong>scriptions from over 900 publications
cover<strong>in</strong>g more than 19,000 places with over 32,000 pictures. Inscription texts are typically presented
without abbreviations and as completely as possible, with only a few special characters to <strong>in</strong>dicate
miss<strong>in</strong>g texts. A full list of the publications <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> this database is provided, and the EDCS
provides coverage of <strong>in</strong>scriptions <strong>in</strong> the CIL and many other major corpora. Users can search for
<strong>in</strong>scriptions by text (of the Lat<strong>in</strong> transcription), publication name, and prov<strong>in</strong>ce or place of <strong>in</strong>scription
(or a comb<strong>in</strong>ation of these). A full list of relevant publications is given for an <strong>in</strong>scription search, and
each <strong>in</strong>scription record conta<strong>in</strong>s abbreviated publication <strong>in</strong>formation, the prov<strong>in</strong>ce and place of the
<strong>in</strong>scription, and a Lat<strong>in</strong> transcription. L<strong>in</strong>ks are occasionally provided to images of these <strong>in</strong>scriptions <strong>in</strong>
other databases.
The largest database of Greek <strong>in</strong>scriptions onl<strong>in</strong>e appears to be the PHI-funded “Searchable Greek
Inscriptions,” 335 a project managed by the Greek Epigraphy Project at Cornell University with
significant support from Ohio State University. The website describes the collection as a “scholarly
work <strong>in</strong> progress” and it is frequently updated. The Greek <strong>in</strong>scriptions are organized by 15 regions
(Attica, Asia M<strong>in</strong>or, North Africa, etc.). After select<strong>in</strong>g a region, the user chooses from a variety of
options, such as ma<strong>in</strong> corpora, regional and site corpora, miscellaneous collections, miscellaneous
books, or journals. After choos<strong>in</strong>g one of these options, the user is presented with a browsable list of
<strong>in</strong>scription numbers; choos<strong>in</strong>g one of these numbers then allows the user to view the entire Greek
<strong>in</strong>scription. The whole collection or specific regions can be searched <strong>in</strong> Greek or Lat<strong>in</strong>. In addition,
there is a concordance feature where a user can type a search pattern and the keyboard emulates an
Ibycus keyboard. The user can then launch a concordance search for that term.
One of the largest epigraphy resources for both Greek and Lat<strong>in</strong> is EAGLE (Electronic Archive of
Greek and Lat<strong>in</strong> Epigraphy), 336 a federated database that searches across four epigraphical archives:
Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH), 337 Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR), 338 Epigraphic
Database Bari (EDB), 339 and Hispania Epigraphica (HE). 340 Each of these databases conta<strong>in</strong>s
<strong>in</strong>scription texts, metadata, and, <strong>in</strong> some cases, images for Greek and Lat<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>scriptions. While the
EDB conta<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong>scriptions from <strong>Rome</strong> only, EDR <strong>in</strong>cludes Lat<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>scriptions from <strong>Rome</strong> and greater
Italy, and the HE conta<strong>in</strong>s Lat<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>scriptions and images from Spa<strong>in</strong>. The EDH is a far larger database
that conta<strong>in</strong>s both Lat<strong>in</strong> and Greek <strong>in</strong>scriptions. EAGLE provides federated search<strong>in</strong>g of these four
databases, and click<strong>in</strong>g on search results takes the user to the <strong>in</strong>dividual epigraphy databases. The
website and search<strong>in</strong>g are currently available only <strong>in</strong> Italian, but there are plans to create English,
German, French, and Spanish <strong>in</strong>terfaces.
The EDH database, which can be accessed through EAGLE, is a longstand<strong>in</strong>g project <strong>in</strong> its own right
that seeks to <strong>in</strong>tegrate Lat<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>scriptions from all parts of the Roman Empire. S<strong>in</strong>ce 2004, the EDH has
334 http://www.manfredclauss.de/gb/<strong>in</strong>dex.html
335 http://epigraphy.packhum.org/<strong>in</strong>scriptions/ma<strong>in</strong>
336 http://www.eagle-eagle.it/, and for more on the early development of EAGLE, see Pasqualis dell’Antonio (2005).
337 http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/<strong>in</strong>stitute/sonst/adw/edh/<strong>in</strong>dex.html.en
338 http://www.edr-edr.it/
339 http://www.edb.uniba.it/
340 http://www.eda-bea.es/pub/search_select.phpnewlang=en