[First posted in AWOL 15 March 2013, updated (new URLs) 1 October 2021]
Telamon: Online Library of the Ancient Greek Inscriptions from Bulgaria
The aim of the Telamon project initiated by the Department of
Classics to St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia is to create a
digital library of the ancient Greek inscriptions found in Bulgaria.
Their number is over 4000 and they have been created over the span of
more than eleven centuries (6. c. BC - 6. c. AD). The inscriptions
dating up to the 4. c. AD are published by Georgi Mihailov in the
5-volume corpus "Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae"
(1956-1997), while the late antique inscriptions are edited by Vesselin
Beshevliev in “Spätgriechische und spätlateinische Inschriften aus
Bulgarien” (1964). Our goal is to revise these editions as well as to
add to them monuments discovered later and often scattered through
various, sometimes inaccessible, publications. For the first time these
monuments are now being collected into a bilingual digital corpus with
translations added. Their revisions, corrections, the publications of
new inscriptions and also the commentaries are the result of the
scholarly research of Nicolay Sharankov.
Apart from the unrestricted access to all the available epigraphic
documentation, the digital database allows the constant enlargement and
updating of the information, as well as the establishing of various
relations between the documents and searches according to different
criteria.
The Telamon platform aids the study of the ancient history, culture
and languages of Antiquity in the region of today’s Bulgaria and also of
Graeco-Roman civilisation as a whole.