Middle Aramaic epigraphy in Wikidata. Case of inscriptional material from Dura-Europos.
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Keywords: epigraphy, digital humanities, databases, ancient languages, linked open data
TL;DR: It wants to turn the attention to the other languages than Classic and its place in the digital environment.
Abstract: As a consultant for the inscriptional material in various dialects of Aramaic for the IDEA (International Digital Dura-Europos Archive) project at Bard College and Yale University, I realised how the Aramaic epigraphy is underrepresented in the digital databases. There are a lot of databases which gather Ancient Greek (e.g. packhum, Trismegistos) and Latin (e.g. EDH), but the easily accessible online database which would be focused only on the Aramaic evidence is missing. The works for the IDEA project has on focus, among others, to collect the entire epigraphic evidence in the Linked Open Data datasets and create the Wikidata entries. It is an excellent tool for providing all the editions of the inscriptions with different readings and translations to present the complexity of the field. My paper highlights the role of Wikidata for making the innovative inscriptional corpus, accessible for the broad community. Furthermore, it reflects new perspectives for the studies of the Aramaic inscriptions from the time period between 300 BCE and 300 CE.
Format: Paper (20 minutes presentation)
Submission Number: 6
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