Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie vol. 8/1

Presentation

I have produced an online edition (forthcoming) of an epigraphic database of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions discovered in and around Beirut.

As part of the international research program on the Greek and Latin inscriptions of Syria (IGLS), this database was encoded in the XML-TEI EpiDoc format by Julien Aliquot (CNRS, laboratoire Hisoma) on the basis of modelization elaborated by Élysabeth Hue-Gay (Université Lyon 2, laboratoire Hisoma).

This online publication complements the printed version published in 2024 at the Presses de l’Institut français du Proche‑Orient :

Aliquot, Julien, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, 8/1, Beyrouth et sa région, Beyrouth/Caen, Presses de l’Ifpo/Presses universitaires de Caen, Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 225, 2023. ISBN version numérique : 978-2-35159-567-1.

The project

This digital edition is part of the Portail d’Édition de Sources Structurées project (PRESS), which was funded by the French national fund for open science (FNSO).

The PRESS project aims to make automated tools for the online publishing of complex editorial forms, including ancient epigraphic corpora.

It brings together several services of the Université Caen-Normandie:

The University Press (Presses Universitaires de Caen=
The CERTIC
The university library (Service Commun de la Documentation)
The research infrastructure Métopes
The Pôle Document Numérique

Texte, apparat critique, traduction, commentaire

IGLS 8/1 and the PRESS project

The online edition of 8/1 serves as a matrix for the publication in the PRESS portal of epigraphic corpora encoded according to the same interpretation of the XML-TEI EpiDo standard. The processing of the 500 or so inscriptions in the corpus includes the display :

The online edition of IGLS 8/1 serves as a matrix for the publication in the PRESS portal of epigraphic corpora encoded according to the same interpretation of the XML-TEI EpiDoc standard. The processing of the 500 or so inscriptions in the corpus includes the display:

of the metadata of the inscription
of its original text in ancient language
of its facsimile
of the XML-TEI EpiDoc encoding
of its critical apparatus
of its translation
of its commentary
and of its bibliography

Indices

The portal will allow automated processing of the index marks that are present in XML-TEI EpiDoc files:

Names of divinities and other mythological characters
Sovereigns
Other persons
Toponyms, ethnic groups, tribes, other groups
Remarkable features:
- Dates
- Magic words and formulas
- Abbreviations
- Ligatures
- Signs and symbols
- Hammering
Types of inscriptions
- By theme
- By period
Types of inscribed items
Materials
Travelers, epigraphists, collectors, archaeologists
Documentary and literary sources

For each index, the list of attested languages is dynamically generated, as are the navigation menus within each page.

The MaX XML display engine

This digital edition was made with the MaX XML display engineXML (MaX). MaX is an open source tool which was developed at the Université de Caen Normandie by the CERTIC and the Pôle Document Numérique.

Based on the XML database system BaseX, it uses technologies such as RestXQ, XSLT, XQuery, as well as all the typical resources of front-end development.