Beschreibung:
The Hamburg Epigraphic Database for ancient Asia Minor. The Hamburg project “ Epigraphic database for ancient Asia Minor” aims to collect the Greek and Latin inscriptions from the region of today’s Turkey, which have been published widespread in the past 150 years, in an electronic database, and thanks to the availability of digital word search make the inscriptions accessible in form and content. With an estimated 60-80,000 inscriptions, with a few dozen new inscriptions being found yearly throughout all of our target regions, an electronic database is the only possibility, with an acceptable workload, of collecting the required documents also of smaller regional units. The compilation of the epigraphic material requires a combination of two main approaches : Defining the geographic regions (regions and city-territories) is one of the two main approaches of our work ; the other is assigning different categories to all inscriptions according to their content such as laws and decrees, treaties, letters, edicts, building inscriptions, religious inscriptions (e. g. vows or prayers), milestones, epigrams, honorary inscriptions and especially headstone inscriptions. The individual texts of the inscriptions themselves come from the main publications. This can be either the first publication, the editio princeps, if the inscription is not mentioned in other publications, or the most recent publication, which normally gives a complete bibliography. If more plausible readings of words are available in other publications we correct our texts, noting the correction in the corresponding lemma. The lemmata serve to inform in short first about the type of inscription (the categories mentioned above), then about the content, date and originating location of the inscription. Because not only the texts, but also the short commentaries are searchable within the database, terms referring to historical geography (topographic terms), constitutional history (urban and provincial public offices), religion (names of gods and priesthood), social history (proper name, profession, functions), building history and architecture (monuments) can be found as well as philological, numismatical and epigraphical documents as an additional help. The regional units are divided into two levels on which our work is based – so-called authors and works, a terminology once established by the PHIs Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. The aim is to give a reliable, complete and up-to-date access to the actual research concerning the inventory of the inscriptions of a region, without wanting to substitute the profound comments of classical inscription-corpora and of individual publications. At the moment several regions from the Roman province Galatia, in total 2738 inscriptions, are available online already. Currently the inscriptions of the city-territory of Laodiceia are edited and will be added step by step. Also most of the finding-places have been linked to Google Maps.