Clauss-Slaby epigraphic database

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The Clauss-Slaby Epigraphic Database (EDCS) is a Latin epigraphic database containing more than 510,000 inscriptions in Latin .

With more than 785,000 publication entries, the EDCS achieves the most extensive cataloging of inscribed monuments of antiquity , specifying their sites and provinces, the scientific publications and, in some cases, illustrations. In addition, the individual entries are linked to other online materials on the corresponding inscription; In total, around 30 additional databases are made accessible by the EDCS in this way. The project thus makes a significant part of the traditional texts on stone, metal, ceramics and other materials from the ancient Mediterranean world for research (such as political, social, economic, cultural history, linguistics , onomastics) and accessible to interested laypeople in digital form. This makes the EDCS a central research tool for epigraphic research and all of Classical Classical Studies .

Epigraphy database Clauss-Slaby center was established in the 1980s at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt by the then Professor of Ancient History , Manfred Clauss , and the director of the University Computer Center Wolfgang A. Slaby. The current persons responsible for the database (as of 2018) are Clauss, the Zurich professor for Ancient History Anne Kolb and Wolfgang A. Slaby with the support of staff from the Eichstätter University Computer Center.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the database on the EDCS website , accessed on August 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Tom Elliott: Epigraphy and Digital Resources. In: Christer Bruun, Jonathan Edmondson (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-533646-7 , pp. 78–85, here p. 80.
  3. ↑ Information on links to other databases on the EDCS website , accessed on August 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Compare, for example: Hans-Joachim Gehrke , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Antike. Source volume. 2nd edition, JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02495-4 , p. XXII.
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. hc Manfred Clauss, Professor of Ancient History at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt from 1984 to 1987. Website of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Entry on EDCS in the "Digital Classicist Wiki" , accessed on September 11, 2018.