Ἐπιγραφαί

Inscriptions

Interactive facsimiles of Greek inscriptions: the carved letters as they stand on the stone, line by line, with the edited Greek text and an English translation.

Attica · before 420 BC Sacrificial Calendar of Thorikos The month-by-month sacrificial calendar of the Attic deme Thorikos (IG I³ 256bis = CGRN 32 = AIO 847). Click any line of the facsimile to see it as carved on the stone and as edited, with the matching English translation. 65 lines · typographic facsimile calibrated to the stone Vibo Valentia · ca. 410–400 BC Orphic Gold Lamella of Hipponion A gold leaf buried on the chest of a dead woman (SEG 26:1139): sixteen hexameters guiding the initiate’s soul past the first spring to the lake of Memory. Click any line of the facsimile to see it as incised on the foil and in the two modern editions, with an English translation. 16 hexameters · letters of 1–2 mm incised freehand in gold foil Gortyn, Crete · ca. 480–450 BC Law Code of Gortyn The longest inscription of the ancient Greek world (IC IV 72): 621 lines of family and property law carved boustrophedon — alternating direction, mirrored letters — on a curved wall at Gortyn. Browse the twelve columns one at a time and click any line to see it as carved and in the edited Greek text. 12 columns · 621 lines · boustrophedon in the archaic Cretan alphabet