Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

• Host: King's College London
• Other institutions involved:
  • Cambridge University
  • New York University
  • British School at Rome
• URL: http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/

Description: A digital edition (forthcoming 2009) of c. 1000 Latin inscriptions from the province of Tripolitania (the western part of modern Libya). Re-publication of the paper publication by Joyce Reynolds and John Ward-Perkins of 1951. Funded by a joint JISC/NEH grant.

Implementation description: The inscriptions are encoded according to the EpiDoc guidelines and DTD (http://epidoc.sourceforge.net/), and linked via Atom feeds to the Pleiades geographical gazeteer (http://pleiades.stoa.org/) and the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/).

Other Related Resources:

• EpiDoc Guidelines: http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/5/
• Concordia Project: http://concordia.atlantides.org/

Access : Texts and TEI XML published under Creative Commons Attribution license. XML is available from: http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/inscr/xmlrepo.html (TEI P4 by default; experimental version in P5).

Contact:

Dr. Gabriel Bodard

Department of Digital Humanities

King's College London

Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk