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Electronic Epigraphy
This documents lists a number of electronic tools that are useful for the study of
inscriptions.

Contents
Electronic Epigraphy......................................................................................................................................1
Contents.......................................................................................................................................................1

Epigraphic texts and searches.......................................................................................................................2

Searching and browsing Greek inscriptions................................................................................................2
Searchable Greek Inscriptions (On-line).................................................................................................2
PHI 7 (CDROM).....................................................................................................................................3
Diogenes (MAC and WIN)................................................................................................................3
Antiquarium (Windows). ...................................................................................................................3
Pandora (MAC)..................................................................................................................................4
Workplace (WIN)...............................................................................................................................4
SNS-GREEK&LATIN (MAC and WIN) ..........................................................................................4
ConCeyst: The Eichstatt Concordance of Greek and Latin Inscriptions (WIN).....................................4
Searching and browsing Latin inscriptions:................................................................................................4
Eagle: Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy......................................................................4
Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH).........................................................................................5
The Epigraphic database, Bari (EDB).....................................................................................................5
The Epigraphic database Roma (EDR)...................................................................................................5
Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (EDCS).........................................................................................5
On-line corpora and repertoria: ................................................................................................................6
Greece .........................................................................................................................................................6
Philippoi..................................................................................................................................................6
Eleusis.....................................................................................................................................................6
Asia Minor...................................................................................................................................................6
Aphrodisias.............................................................................................................................................6
Boubon...............................................................................................................................................6
Nemrud Dag............................................................................................................................................7
Pergamon............................................................................................................................................7
Xanthos ..................................................................................................................................................7
Other areas..................................................................................................................................................7
Hispania Epigraphica..............................................................................................................................7
Bibliography................................................................................................................................................8
Absolute Beginners Guide......................................................................................................................8
Groningen survey of epigraphic publications (Greek)............................................................................8
Bibliotheca Classica Selecta...................................................................................................................8
Claros: Concordance of Greek inscriptions............................................................................................8
Guide de l’épigraphiste...........................................................................................................................8
Useful links..................................................................................................................................................8
Kirke........................................................................................................................................................8
Fonti epigraphiche...................................................................................................................................8
Periodicals...................................................................................................................................................9
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE).................................................................................9
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.................................................................................................9

L’Année Epigraphique............................................................................................................................9
Bulletin Epigraphique.............................................................................................................................9
Abbreviations of publications:.....................................................................................................................9
SEG.........................................................................................................................................................9
DGE......................................................................................................................................................10
Frankfurt abbreviations.........................................................................................................................10
Aristarchos (WIN).................................................................................................................................10
Images........................................................................................................................................................10
CSAD....................................................................................................................................................10
OHIO.....................................................................................................................................................10
Lexical tools...............................................................................................................................................10
Lewis and Short (ONLINE)..................................................................................................................10
Liddell and Scott (ONLINE).................................................................................................................10
Liddell and Scott Greek-English Dictionary (WIN).............................................................................11
Bibliographical repertorium Of Greek Lexicography RBLG (ONLINE).............................................11
Lexicon of Greek personal names LGPN (ONLINE)...........................................................................11
Abbreviations in Latin inscriptions (ONLINE)..........................................................................................11
Greek fonts and keyboard programs:.........................................................................................................11
Unicode fonts:.......................................................................................................................................11
Gentium: http://scripts.sil.org/gentium ............................................................................................12
Cardo: http://scholarsfonts.net/index.html ......................................................................................12
Keyboard programs:..............................................................................................................................12
Antioch classical languages utility (WIN))......................................................................................12
Tavulte Keyman (WIN)....................................................................................................................12
Linguist Software (WIN/MAC).......................................................................................................12
Greekkeys (MAC)............................................................................................................................12
Converters:............................................................................................................................................13
Antioch.............................................................................................................................................13
Linguist Software.............................................................................................................................13
Meander’s Nod.................................................................................................................................13
Greekconverter (WIN). ...................................................................................................................13
Greekkeys Converter (MAC)...........................................................................................................13

Epigraphic texts and searches

If you use epigraphic texts, you will want to do two things: have quick access to the texts
(browse by area or by publication) and search for keywords in inscriptions. Fortunately
these things are getting very easy: most corpora of Greek inscriptions are now available
in one electronic form or other. The field of Latin inscriptions, of which there are many
more, is lagging a bit behind, but there are major projects under way.

Searching and browsing Greek inscriptions

Searchable Greek Inscriptions (On-line)
http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/
Since 2005 the Packard Humanities Institute has launched a web-site with the text of
many Greek inscriptions. The site is periodically updated. Documentation is limited, but
the site is easy to use. You can perform simple searches and complex wordsearches, using
boolean operators. You can also browse for inscriptions per region and site. There are
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several ways of displaying the results: per individual text and as a concordance which is
very useful for comparative purposes. The site has a succinct helpfile. The texts are easily
downloadable (and can be exported to a wordprocessor or database). The texts are all in
unicode format, and they offer limited bibliographic information. You will need a unicode
Greek font, such as Gentium (see below). NB the site works with most browsers: you will
need to turn on JAVA. The helpdesk is very responsive. The only (obvious) snag is, that
you will have to be online to access the data.

PHI 7 (CDROM)
Several years ago the Packard Humanities Institute published a CD ROM (PHI 7) with a
very large selection of Greek inscriptions – and a few Latin ones- as well as the Duke
database of papyri. (A list of contents of the CD ROM is available on the website of
Cornell: http://132.236.125.30/content.html). You will need to use a separate search
program. The disk is available on the network of the Faculty of Arts, University of
Groningen. The CD Rom contains less data than the website, but there are some very
good reasons to work with the CD Rom, as the search programmes that were developed
for the CD Rom offer various nice features that the website does not.
Over the years various other search programmes were developed for this CD ROM on
Mac and Windows platforms. These programs are normally designed for the TLG disk.
The best place to find out more and to get links: is the website of the Thesaurus Linguae
Graecae. http://www.tlg.uci.edu/about/cd_soft.php which offers information for PC and
Mac users. It does not list as yet the best program: Diogenes (see below)

Diogenes (MAC and WIN)

A freeware search program for the TLG and PHI disks, developed at the University of
Durham. http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/
It works on Mac (OSX 10.3 and above) Windows and Linux. I have only been able to test
this on a MAC. Installing version 3.1 is a breeze, browsing is easily done, and texts are
displayed individually. The programme displays texts in Unicode, or in a variety of other
fonts that are easily changed. Searching and browsing are easy and the results come
quickly. There seems to be a issue that when you browse to a specific inscription it will
displayb the end of the previous text, but you get used to that.There are various additional
tools that seem to be open for TLG users only. A brief introduction can be found at a
Princeton site: http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/tech/diogenes.html
This is already great, but the biggest bonus is that from version 3.1 it has inbuilt
dictionary function with word-links to Liddell-Scott, Jones and Lewis & Short as well as
to Perseus (which work of course also with TLG and PHI latin texts!). I.e. you can click
on any individual word in a text to get a morphological analysis via Perseus as well as as
the lexicon lemma in LSJ (or L&S). You will not want to read these texts in any other
way! The author is very responsive and helpful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Antiquarium (Windows).
Another player in this field has been the program Antiquarium which is an equally superb search program
for the PHI 7 CD-ROM, it works also for TLG (Greek literary texts) and PHI 5 (Latin literary texts). It runs
only on PCs (or MACs with PC emulation such as Virtual PC). Like the others, it allows you to perform
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complex searches, which it performs very fast. It uses UNICODE and it contains special glyphs for rare
epigraphic symbols, which are made available in a freely downloadable font. Another advantage is that it
can be integrated with the electronic version of Liddell and Scott’s Greek dictionary. It is not cheap, but it is
great to work with. http://antiquarium.eremus.org/ (not responsive on 29/05/09).
Some of the other programs may still have their uses (especially for ‘legacy’ hardware).

Pandora (MAC)
This program was developed by the American Philological Association for the MAC. It is now at version 3,
but only works under system 9 (Classic), not OS X, and it does not use Unicode. The program will not be
further developed.Links have stopped working.

Workplace (WIN)
http://www.silvermnt.com/wpinfo.aspx
This is one of the best known search programs. It is now at version 10, and it is still being developed
further. It has many useful features including Built-in link to the online Perseus intermediate Liddell-Scott
lexicon. It has some feature that may be of interest to users of the Logos/Libronix system (see below under
Dictionaries). It has a facility to export text in Unicode format.

SNS-GREEK&LATIN (MAC and WIN)

http://snsgreek.sns.it/eng/sns.html
This search program was originally developed for the MAC. In January 2007 the new SNS-Greek & Latin
6.0 for Mac OSX and SNS-Greek & Latin 2.0 for Windows were released. Among the new features there is
the user interface, the search for three patterns and the Unicode support.

ConCeyst: The Eichstatt Concordance of Greek and Latin

Inscriptions (WIN)
http://www.kueichstaett.de/Fakultaeten/GGF/fachgebiete/Geschichte/Alt
e%20Geschichte/Projekte/conceyst/
A special case is the (free) epigraphic concordance of Greek and Latin inscriptions that is
being produced by Juergen Malitz of the University of Eichstatt. This is a combination of
a simple but useful search program and a database. The database (that is still expanding)
covers a selection of Greek and Latin inscriptions. You will need to download the
program and the textfiles ands install them on your PC (MAC users should use
Bootcamp, Parallels, or a similar emulation program). There are periodic updates for the
database.

Searching and browsing Latin inscriptions:

There has also been considerable progress with the digitalization of Latin Epigraphical
texts. Most progresss has been made with the texts that were included in Année
Epigraphique, but other texts were included as well. By and large it is easy to search for
words and expressions, but it less easy to browse corpora.

Eagle: Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

http://www.eagle-eagle.it/
The International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy is striving to integrate
various initiatives to make electronic versions of inscriptions available. It has set up a
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portal, which so far focus on Latin inscriptions. This gives access to the EDH as well as
to The Epigraphic database, Bari (EDB) and The Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR) (see
below)

Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH)

www.epigraphische-datenbank-heidelberg.de
The aim of the project Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) is to integrate Latin
inscriptions from all parts of the Roman Empire into an extensive database. Since 2004
Greek inscriptions from the same chronological timespan are also being entered. It
consists of three databases the Epigraphic Text Database, the Epigraphic Bibliography
and the Photographic Database. At present, the Epigraphic Text Database contains over
56.000 inscriptions and thus includes most of the especially noteworthy inscriptions
published outside the main editions.

The Epigraphic database, Bari (EDB)

http://www.edb.uniba.it/
This site offers a searchable version of ICVR (Inscriptiones Christianae Vrbis Romae
Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores, Nova Series). A simple search is freely available, if you
need to perform a complex search you can request a login name and pasword on the site.

The Epigraphic database Roma (EDR)

http://www.edr­edr.it/
This site allows you to search a growing number of inscriptions from Italy:
Aemilia; Apulia et Calabria; Bruttii et Lucania; Etruria; Latium et Campania; Liguria;
Picenum; Regio incerta; Roma; Sabina et Samnium; Sardinia; Sicilia; Transpadana;
Umbria; Venetia et Histria.

Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (EDCS)

http://www.manfredclauss.de
Manfred Clauss, who has also collaborated with the Heidelberg project, has also set up
his own search site, which comes close in completeness and ease of use to the PackHum
site for Greek inscriptions. On this site you find a data base that records almost all Latin
inscriptions. The texts are presented without abbreviations and completed where possible.
The presentation of the texts is kept as simple as possible. Beside the commonly used
indications for resolution, completions and erasures as few special characters as possible
have been used. The abbreviations give the references for the publications used. The
statistical data indicates which volumes (with how many texts per volume as far as the
Latin inscriptions are concerned) are recorded completely in the data base. By now (May
2009) 500.880 sets of data for 355.068 inscriptions from over 850 publications for more
than 18.600 places with pictures for 19.226 inscriptions have been recorded. A nice touch
is that inscriptions can have a link to Google Earth, which allows you to see the findspot
of the inscription, or to other databases.
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On-line corpora and repertoria:

There is an increasing number of sites that present epigraphic texts per site or region.
Sometimes these are connected to the excavations, some are intended to supplement
printed editions, but there are also sites that simply collect the inscriptions. I also list
some epigraphic publications that are now on-line available via JSTOR.

Greece
Philippoi
http://www.philippoi.de/index.php
The inscriptions of Philippoi. A growing number of photographs of inscriptions from
Philippoi are put on-line by Prof. Peter Pilhofer of Erlangen University.

Eleusis
http://eleusis.library.cornell.edu/
This site contains photographs of the inscriptions from Eleusis.

Thespiae
Crete
Thrace
Laconia
Athens
Corinth

Asia Minor
Aphrodisias
The inscriptions of Aphrodisias that were published by Joyce Reynolds and Charlotte
Roueché are now also published in an electronic version:

ALA2004
http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004
In 2004 Charlotte Roueché has republished her corpus Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The
Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions, on-line in a revised second edition.

IAph2007
http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/iaph2007/index.html
An expanded edition of Joyce Reynolds’ Aphrodisias and Rome is now published as:
Joyce Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007).

Boubon
http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/igra/projects/boubon/agora.asp
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This website offers a preliminary presentation of the results of three survey campaigns
conducted in Boubon and its territory in 2004-2006 as part of the Cibyratis Project of the
University of Heidelberg under the direction of Thomas Corsten in collaboration with
Christina Kokkinia of the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity (ΚΕRΑ) of the
National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens (NHRF/ΕΙΕ). It includes a corpus of
the inscriptions found in Boubon and its territory, 15 of which are published here for the
first time.

Nemrud Dag
The International Nemrud Foundation has made available texts photos and translations of
the Nomos inscriptions on the West and East-terraces

Pergamon
http://www.dainst.org/index.php?id=902
The DAI makes available for download as PDF a number of publications of inscriptions
from Pergamon that were not included in I.Pergamon. The majority was published in AM
1899-1913, but other publications are also included.

Xanthos
http://www.hst.ulaval.ca/xanthos/eng/index_eng.html
The Canadian excavators of the site of Xanthos-Letoon have a site with photographs of
the inscriptions from the excavations. (There are references allowing for easy retrieval of
the original publication of the text).

Other areas
Israel
North Africa
Vindolanda

Hispania Epigraphica
http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.austrogate.at/hispep/public/index.php
An Online database of roman inscriptions from the Iberian Peninsula.
Vindolanda

Thematic collections:
manumission
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Bibliography
Absolute Beginners Guide
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannijf/epigraphy1.htm
A first place to look is my brief, but by now a bit dated, Introduction to Greek and Latin
Epigraphy: An Absolute Beginners Guide.

Groningen survey of epigraphic publications (Greek)

http://www.scribd.com/full/15919671?access_key=key-1p8q6qrxvj1ceew27tj8 (full-text
access) for a download version:
This is a basic list of epigraphic publications, covering the Greek world on a regional
basis. The list contains the classmarks of the volumes in the various Groningen libraries.
NB The PDF document is searchable!

Bibliotheca Classica Selecta

http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Epi.html
The excellent Bibliotheca Classica Selecta (In French) has a good bibliographic survey of
epigraphic publications.

Claros: Concordance of Greek inscriptions

http://www.dge.filol.csic.es/claros/cnc/2cnc.htm
An important off-shoot of the new Greek-Spanish dictionary project (Diccionario
Griego-Espanol or DGE) is the concordance site Claros. This allows you to find out
quickly whether a particular inscription has been republished elsewhere. It does not
supersede SEG or BE, but it is very useful.

Guide de l’épigraphiste
http://www.antiquite.ens.fr/txt/dsa-publications-guidepigraphiste-fr.htm
This is a crucial resource. The guide itself is not available on-line. However, supplements
are now being produced between the printed editions and these can be downloaded. This
is a good way of keeping up-to-date with the latest major publications.

Useful links
Kirke
http://www.kirke.hu-berlin.de/ressourc/ressourc.html
A useful web-site with links to classical subjects is KIRKE, which has also a section
dedicated to epigraphy.

Fonti epigraphiche
http://www.rassegna.unibo.it/epigrafi.html
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A very comprehensive site (in Italian) with links to and descriptions of many epigraphic
websites

Periodicals
Many periodicals are now available also electronically via JSTOR and similar projects.
Consult the catalogue of the University Library. In addition to these you may want to
consult:

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)

http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/
This important periodical is in the process of putting older issues on line for download as
PDF file.
At the moment opf writing the issues from 1988 to 2000 are on-line. It also gives the
indices to to all volumes content pages of the most recent issues. The articles of most
recent issues (from 2001) are not free, however.

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

www.history.leidenuniv.nl/seg
This yearly survey of newly published Greek inscriptions has a small site with a history
of the project, contact addresses and a list of abbreviations. (The link was broken on 29
May 2009)

L’Année Epigraphique
http://www.anneeepigraphique.msh-paris.fr/
The leading survey of epigraphic publications (Latin and Greek) that are relevant to the
study of the Roman Empire. The site contains some information on the periodical, contact
addresses and information on the indexes.

Bulletin Epigraphique
http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/BulletinEpigraphique.html
A brief site with basic information on this yearly survey of Greek epigraphic publications.
(The link was broken on 29 May 2009)

Abbreviations of publications:
Publications of Greek and Latin inscriptions often have complex titles. It has become
customary to refer to these by means of abbreviations and acronyms. Complete
consistency is probably beyond anybody’s reach: but try to follow as much as you can
some of the more authoritative lists as e.g.

SEG
http://www.geschiedenis.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=22&c=169
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www.arts.leidenuniv.edu/history/seg-abbreviations.jsp (voor SEG XXXVI - XLV)

The abbreviations used by SEG (Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum)

DGE
http://www.filolcsic.es/dge/1st/21st3.htm
http://www.moderna1.ih.csic.es/claros/cnc/2cnc.htm
The site of Claros DGE has a similar list.

Frankfurt abbreviations
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~clauss/abkuerz.html
www.manfredclauss.de/
A list that includes Latin inscriptions.

Aristarchos (WIN)
Aristarchos is a freeware program that allows the user to search for abbreviations
commonly used for periodicals, series and monographs in archaeology. It is an extremely
useful tool that can be downloaded from
http://www.archeolinks.com/aristarchos.htm

Images
It is easy to forget that inscriptions have a material side to them. Various projects now
offer photographs or scans of Greek and Latin inscriptions.

CSAD
A major collection of images, including photographs, and scans of squeezes is put on the
web by the Center for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford. These cover
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/

OHIO
Images from the squeeze collection of Ohio State University
(A large collection, mainly of classical Greek inscriptions.
http://epigraphy.osu.edu/attic/default.cfm

Lexical tools
Lewis and Short (ONLINE)
http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
The Perseus project has made available online versions of Lewis. An Elementary Latin
Dictionary and Lewis and Short. A Latin Dictionary.

Liddell and Scott (ONLINE)

http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
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The Perseus project has made available online versions of Liddell and Scott Greek-
English Dictionary and of the Intermediate Liddell and Scott. They can be integrated
with epigraphic search programs like Diogenes and Workplace.

Liddell and Scott Greek-English Dictionary (WIN)

http://www.logos.com/lsj
An electronic version of Liddell and Scott’s Greek English Dictionary (9th edition with
revised supplement) has been produced by LOGOS software (at roughly the same price
as the printed edition). The electronic version has many advantages over the printed
version: such integration of the supplements, integration with search programs such as
Antiquarium and various search options. (It is also considerably faster and easier to use
than the Perseus version). The electronic version works only with a PC, but a Mac
version has been announced. This program will shortly be made available on the network
of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen.

Bibliographical repertorium Of Greek Lexicography RBLG (ONLINE)

http://www.filol.csic.es/dge/index2.htm
A second important off shoot of the The Greek Spanish Dictionary project (DGE) is the
Bibliographical repertorium Of Greek Lexicography (RBLG) which offers you an easy
survey of the most recent studies of important words. Very useful if you need to know a
bit more that the standard dictionaries have to offer.

Lexicon of Greek personal names LGPN (ONLINE)

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/index.html
This site offers information on the LGPN project and online searches of the database.

Abbreviations in Latin inscriptions (ONLINE)

http://asgle.classics.unc.edu/abbrev/latin/
A useful tool for the interpretation of Latin inscriptions is the list of abbreviations in
Latin inscriptions that was conceived and compiled by Tom Elliott for the ASGLE web
site.

Greek fonts and keyboard programs:

Using Greek used to be a complex matter with different fonts for MAC and Windows that
were normally not compatible. The last few years, however, the situation has much
improved, as UNICODE has become the de facto standard. Texts made up in UNICODE
can be used on the various platforms (WIN, MAC, LINUX). You can chose between
various fonts, that usually include glyphs for most epigraphic symbols. Installing the font
only allows you to read the UNICODE formatted text. To enter unicode you will need a
keyboard program.

Unicode fonts:
There ared many Greek fonts available. For epigraphy you will need to make sure that
the font includes glyphs for various epigraphic symbols.
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Among the fonts that are freely available you may have a look at:

Gentium: http://scripts.sil.org/gentium

Cardo: http://scholarsfonts.net/index.html
New Athena Unicode:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/NAUdownload.html

Keyboard programs:
If you want to type Greek as well you will need a keyboard programme:

Antioch classical languages utility (WIN))

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm
Antioch is a utility which allows you to type classical Greek, (and
Hebrew and Coptic) in Word. It includes a free font (Vusillus), but works
smoothly also with other fonts. You can download a free working version, but you will
need to register and pay a registration fee (c. E 50). You will then receive other fonts.
The University of Groningen has a site licence, which means that it should work on all
public computers. Copies for home use are also allowed under the terms of the license.

HOWEVER IMPORTANT CAVEAT

Antioch is designed as a MACRO for use within MS Word (version 97 -2003), which
means that it does not work with other programmes (such as databases, or websearches).
This limits its usefulness. One good reason to use it though is that Antioch includes a
conversion tool (see below).
If you want to use Greek in other applications than MS word there are various keyboard
programmes that you can explore:

Tavulte Keyman (WIN)

This comes in various versions: including an educational version (c. $25,-) and a free
HOME version.
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/

Linguist Software (WIN/MAC)

http://www.linguistsoftware.com/
This company offers a wide variety of fonts and keyboard programmes for different
ancient and modern languages, for both MAC and WIN environments. They are more
expensive than Antioch, but worth the investment if you have specialised needs. NB the
company sells UNICODE and non-Unicode versions, so make sure that you get the right
package.

Greekkeys (MAC)
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html
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This package has been around for a while now. A new version, which has full UNICODE
support is now available for c. E35,-. It includes font, keyboard program and a conversion
program.

Converters:
There are various tools for the conversion of various non-unicode Greek fonts (both
MAC and WIN), to UNICODE which can save you a lot of time re-typing. Note that in
most cases texts with many dotted letters, various types of bracket, and other epigraphic
signs usually present problems.

Antioch
For easy conversion of (small) texts in various Greek fonts you can use the conversion
utility that is available in ANTIOCH.

Linguist Software
http://www.linguistsoftware.com/
Offers a special program for the transfer of its own old Laser Greek fonts to UNICODE
(both Mac and Windows)

Meander’s Nod
http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode-converter/
Sean Redmond’s site Meanders’ Nod has an on-line unicode converter. The site was
down for a long time due to migration to another server for some months, but has
fortunately resurfaced recently.

Greekconverter (WIN).
http://members.aon.at/neuhold/antike/grkconv.html
http://home.tele2.at/thersites/antike/grkconv.html
Michael Neuhold offers a program that is still in development.

Greekkeys Converter (MAC)

http://www.lucius-hartmann.ch/programme/gkconver.php
A similar program was developed for the MAC community by Lucius Hartmann. It is
included with the Greekkeys package.

Last revised: Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Comments and suggestions: o.m.van.nijf@rug.nl