Digital instruments
This website presents an overview of useful digital instruments, also those employed by our project, and of websites by other projects researching the archaeological heritage of the ancient Middle East. It will be expanded and organized with time.
Digital Instruments
EpiDoc – a variant of TEI XML designed for editing inscriptions
EFES – EpiDoc Front End Service
Open Source XML editors capable of reading EpiDoc rng schemas:
Recogito – semantic annotation tool for texts and images
RTI – Reflectance Transformation Imaging
Digital Epigraphy Toolbox – a tool for 3D digitization of inscriptions based on squeezes
Beth Mardutho – home for a number of initiatives in digital Syriac studies, with instructions for typing Unicode Syriac and a downloadable package of Meltho fonts
Digital Maps of the Ancient World
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
- The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
- The Syriac Gazetteer
QGIS – A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
Digital databases of inscriptions from the Middle East
PHI – Packard Humanities Institute Database of Greek Inscriptions
Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine
IPalmyra – a forthcoming project by DAI
Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscriptions Project
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity (CSLA) Database
OCIANA – The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia
DASI – Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
Useful websites
Manar al-Athar Open-Access Photo-Archive
iDAI Objects – an archive of digitized photographs from the DAI collection
The Palmyra Portrait Project, Aarhus
Howard Crosby Butler Archive: Syria
Syriaca.org – Places (the Syriac Gazetteer), Persons, Saints, Authors, Hagiography