The foundation for our work on this site is a digital
corpus of all published Gāndhārī texts. We started
jointly compiling this corpus in 2002, and brought
coverage to completion in 2014 (see
Baums & Glass 2013
for a brief history of our work, as well as our
Blog).
Going forward, we continue to keep our corpus updated
as new material is discovered and published, add
improved documentation to each text, and carry out a
comprehensive linguistic analysis of the full range of
Gāndhārī texts that we assembled. Especially the
Gāndhārī manuscripts discovered in the last twenty
years (most of which remain unpublished) are making
significant contributions to the corpus, but also new
inscriptions and coins from Gandhāra and wooden
documents from Central Asia continue to be found.
Sources: Hultzsch 1925, British Library,
British Library, Stefan Baums.
The current numbers of items and word tokens in our
corpus are as follows:
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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