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The study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material; the study of inscriptions from the earliest Hellenic civilizations through to the present day, their interpretation and classification.

Subcategories

• Linear B

Resources in This Category

• Byzantine Paleography

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/paleog.asp
  Resource for manuscripts and for Greek transcriptions.

• Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents

  http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/CSAD/
  Oxford University's epigraphical archive, which includes one of the largest collections of squeezes (paper impressions) of Greek inscriptions in the world. Broad coverage of early Greek inscriptions, Attic epigraphy and the Hellenistic world, as well as Chios, Samos, Priene, Rhodes, and Samothrace.

• Hekatompedon Inscription Reconsidered

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~mkosian/hekat.html
  Topographical and social study of the so-called Hekatompedon inscription (IG I2, 4). The paper focuses on the reasons behind the inscription and gives a hypothesis on the every day situation in this area on the Acropolis.

• Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

  http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/
  Research Project of the British Academy, whose aim is to collect and publish with documentation all known Ancient Greek personal names, drawn from all available sources, within the period from the earliest Greek written records to approximately the sixth century CE.

• Suda On-Line

  http://www.stoa.org/sol/
  Searchable translations and forum for Byzantine lexicography.

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