Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Inscriptions in US Museums

The organisation of information on-line continues apace. The latest to appear is a database of ancient inscriptions in the US. It is located at this site.

We delved in and located those related to Antioch & Daphne. Here they are:

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=CA.Berk.UC.HMA.G.8-4300

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=CA.Malibu.JPGM.G.96.AI.146

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=DC.DO.G.38.87

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=DC.DO.G.38.77

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=DC.DO.G.38.91

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=FL.WiPark.RC.G.Tmp97.3.1

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P2209-I23_S91

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P3278-I29

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P3399-I44

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P3782-I69_S241

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P3783-I70

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P3784-I71

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.P4754-I131_S241

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb143-I275_S519

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb21-I259_S500

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb290-I279_S534

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb30-I260_S503

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb42-I264_S508

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb50-I266

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb75-I268_S514

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pb94-I271

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/view.php?textID=NJ.Princ.PU.AM.G.Pc370-I308

We reserve a special wrist slap for those institutions (the Getty?? and Dumbarton Oaks?? - shame on you!) that, in this day and age of digital photography, can't be bothered taking a photo of their inscription to accompany the entry on the object.




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