Open Access Journal: Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect

[First posted in AWOL 9 November 2009. Updated 13 July 2011]

Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID)

About SMID Online

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Welcome to the online version of the Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID). SMID is an analytical bibliography of Mycenaean text studies, including short summaries of scholarly works, cross-references of reviews, and indices of Linear B and Linear A signs, words and texts, as well as a fully cross-referenced subject index. SMID is a unit of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory in the Department of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin. 

PASP director Tom Palaima initiated the revival of SMID at the University of Texas at Austin and published the first volume (for the year 1979) in 1995. The database and print format were set up by Elizabeth Sikkenga, the new series' 1st editor & project director. Successors as editor are: Peter van Alfen, Nick Dobson, and Amy Dill. At this website you can search the volumes of SMID that have been published by PASP. Publication was suspended in 2010, leaving three unpublished volumes. 

List of Current Volumes

1979	Sikkenga, E. (ed.)	Published 1995	220 pages	ISBN 0-9649410-0-7
1980-81	Sikkenga, E. (ed.)	Published 1997	286 pages	ISBN 0-9649410-1-5
1982-83	Sikkenga, E. and Van Alfen, P. (eds.)	Published 1998	235 pages	ISBN 0-9649410-2-3
1994-95	Van Alfen, P. (ed.)	Published 1999	296 pages	ISBN 0-9649410-3-1
1996-97	Dobson, N. and Van Alfen, P. (ed.)	Published 2001	247 pages	ISBN 0-9649410-5-8
1998-99	Dobson, N. (ed.)	Published 2002	222 pages	ISBN 0-9649410-6-6
2000-01 and 2002-03 (merged volume)	Dill, A. (ed.)	(In process)	[n/a]	[pending]
2004-05	Dill, A. (ed.)	(Currently under production)	[n/a]	[pending]

We will update the databases as new volumes are published. All volumes are (c) Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin. SMID 1953-64 and SMID 1965-78 were published by Lydia Baumbach in 1968 and 1986, respectively, through Edizioni dell'Aeteneo, Rome.

For more information on the print version of SMID, please consult the main SMID website.
You can search the SMID online database by author or keyword. Author abbreviations and keywords are the same as they are in the print version of SMID. You can look up an author abbreviation using our Author Abbreviation Look-Up Tool. Keywords include Linear A or B ideogram, sign, tablet, or word; you can also enter a subject (for ex. "religion"). 

After a year of down time due to hardware and software problems, we have relaunched a fully upgraded version of SMID Online. This new version, developed by Dygo Tosa and John Ly in 2011, uses current web interface and database technology (ASP.NET and SQL Server) to enable expanded search capabilities and more reliable service. New improvements are being introduced! PASP previously hosted the online version of SMID using FileMaker under guidance of Kevin Pluta. 

The SMID database currently searches over 64,000 indexed article references for nearly 2,000 articles.
Please note that SMID Online is a work in progress. Not all authors may have currently indexed articles, and not all articles may have summaries. We are also constantly updating the site. You can see the list of changes here.

Click here to search the SMID database!

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