Inscriptions of Aphrodisias was a project funded by the

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and the

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that aimed to publish the inscriptions of the Greek ancient site of

Aphrodisias Aphrodisias (; grc, Ἀφροδισιάς, Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about east/inland from the ...

(modern day Turkey) online. Apart from aiming for a digital publication of the inscriptions, the experience from this publishing process was intended to be used for further development of the guidelines of the

EpiDoc EpiDoc is an international community that produces guidelines and tools for encoding in TEI XML scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents, especially inscriptions and papyri. The EpiDoc Guidelines were originally proposed as a rec ...

collaborative, on which the publication was based.

History

Initial efforts to form an international team of collaborators were already made in 2002, with a British Academy project led by Charlotte Roueché and Geoffrey B. Waywell. A first major result was the publication of 'Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity' ('ala2004') by Charlotte Roueché in 2004, which i
available online
Leverhulme's grant in 2004 also allowed the establishment of several workshops a year from May the same year. These workshops were held in the United States, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe to allow wide participation and collaboration. The goal was to create a follow-up publication of a much wider range of inscriptions from

as well as to amend existing standards for the digital publication of epigraphic material and producing new guidelines where necessary. To this end, more than ten workshops were held between 2004 and 2006, and representatives of the project also gave talks on the project in various context during this period. The final first edition of a corpus of all inscriptions from Aphrodisias was published in 2007 by Joyce Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché and Gabriel Bodard, and is als
available online

Project aims

was a small ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey. It is well known for its rich epigraphic record with about 2000 known inscriptions conditioned by the high-quality marble from the area. This richness invited a publication format different from the conventional, and the choice of online publication using

was chosen for the possibility to incorporate diverse archaeological information as well as good accessibility. Initially intended to create a corpus of the inscriptions of Aphrodisias and to further develop the EpiDoc guidelines, the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project also proved to foster the networks and collaboration between scholars in the field. Another result was the plan to develop the EpiDoc guidelines not only as a tool for publication, but also for editing and preparing a publication.http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/project/index.html

References

Links

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website of the excavations
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Inscriptions Archaeological sites in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey