The project “The Epigraphic Corpus of Georgia” has been in progress since 2015 at the Institute of Linguistic Research of
Ilia State University. Its aim is to document the wealthy epigraphic
legacy discovered or preserved in Georgia, according to the standards of
EpiDoc, the digital heir to the Leiden Convention. The first electronic
publication of the Armazi Bilingual
produced according to those standards was prepared in 2014 by Tamar
Kalkhitashvili within the framework of her MA research. Because of its
use of the latest approaches to digital humanities, this publication
merited a high score at the International Conference of Digital
Epigraphics organized by EAGLE (The Europeana network of Ancient Greek
and Latin Epigraphy). At this stage, the Epigraphic Corpus (head of the
project: Prf. N. Doborjginidze) includes the 1st-9th cc AD. Georgian,
Aramaic and Greek inscriptions. The project is long term, and besides
the Georgian, it also aims at preparing, according to the above
mentioned standards, the publication of the corpora of the Urartian,
Aramaic, Greek, Jewish, Arabic, Persian and Armenian inscriptions.
Mark up of the texts and Linked data
All meta data and texts are marked up in XML according to the EpiDoc guidelines. HTTP URI-s are used in:
- the description of object type and material:
<objectType ref=”http://www.eagle-network.eu/voc/objtyp/lod/250”>Stele</objectType>
<material ref=”http://www.eagle-network.eu/voc/material/lod/16”>Basalt</material>
- the description of placename:
<placeName type=”ancientFindspot” ref=”http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863746”>Armazi</placeName>
- the description of photos:
<facsimile><graphic
url=”https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armazi_Bilingual.jpg”><desc><ref
type=”licence”
target=”https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en”>Pictures
are
available</ref></desc></graphic></facsimile>
The high-resolution photo
documentation has been made for this edition and can be observed in the
diplomatic and critical editions of the listed inscriptions. Photos were
taken in the lapidary repository of The National Museum of Georgia and on archeological sites.
Web page is being built on Asp.Net MVC technology. Database is Sql, for UI we use Html5, css3 javascript technologies.
We will be sharing English XML-s with other databases, such as Trismegistos,
where "it only has the literary texts pre-dating AD 800, in Asomtavruli
script. The early inscriptions are currently missing, but we hope to
add them in cooperation with the project 'Epigraphic Corpus of
Georgia'."
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