Linear B
CaLiBRA
https://calibra.classics.cam.ac.uk/
CaLiBRA is a searchable database containing black-and-white photographs of the Pylos documents. These were taken by Emile Seraphis in 1969 and are housed at the University of Cincinnati. Posts of documents which were subsequently joined are linked to each other. Scribal attribution has also been added which is based on current publications. Documents are searchable through a simple search interface which allows searches in all the metadata fields (including scribal data).
Contact: Mycenaean Epigraphy Group, University of Cambridge: mycep@classics.cam.ac.uk
Cite as: Judson, A. P., Meißner, T., and Thompson, R. J. E., CaLiBRA — Cambridge Linear B Research Archive, University of Cambridge 2015. Accessed 10 April 2022.
DAMOS
DAMOS is database containing all the published linear B texts in transcriptions. Texts are enriched with metadata and philological and linguistic annotations. It also includes a basic bibliography for each document, referring to entries in the main handbooks and anthologies in the field. The material is made accessible through an online graphic user interface allowing advanced searches of metadata and textual data (including proximity searches of words). DAMOS records are connected to LiBER, pa-i-to project, CaLiBRA, Arachne and Museums’ websites containing pictures and other metadata and can also be used as a general entry point to access information stored in different online resources. The data for the linguistic annotation are unfortunately not yet available for online searches, but will be made available online when completed.
Contact: Federico Aurora (University of Oslo): federico.aurora@ub.uio.no
Cite as: Aurora, Federico. 2015. DAMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo). Annotating a fragmentarily attested language. In: Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera et al. (eds.), Current Work in Corpus Linguistics: Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond. Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2015) (Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 198), 21-31, doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.415
Further documentation:
Aurora, F. 2015. DAMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo). Annotating a fragmentarily attested language. In: Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera et al. (eds.), Current Work in Corpus Linguistics: Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond. Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2015) (Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 198), 21-31. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.415
Aurora, F. 2017. pa-ro, da-mo. Studying the Mycenaean Case System through DAMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo). In: Aegean Scripts, 83-98. https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/65527
LiBER
LiBER is a database containing the published linear B texts in transcription from Knossos, Mycenae, Tiryns and Midea, together with black-and-white pictures provided by Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. LIBER also contains metadata and philological annotations. The material is made accessible through an online graphic user interface allowing advanced searches of metadata and textual data, including full-text searches in the critical apparatus. LiBER also features the possibility to visualize data and search results by plotting them onto GIS maps.
LiBER is project by the Institute of Heritage Science and the Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean.
Contact: Maurizio Del Freo (CNR, Institute of Heritage Science): maurizio.delfreo@cnr.it; Francesco Di Filippo (CNR Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean): francesco.difilippo@ismed.cnr.it
Further documentation:
Di Filippo, Francesco & Del Freo, Maurizio. (2014). LiBER: un progetto di digitalizzazione dei testi in scrittura Lineare B. 33-50. http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/indice/PDF25/02_Del_Freo_Di_Filippo.pdf
Di Filippo, F. 2018. Sinleqiunnini: Designing an Annotated Text Collection for Logo-Syllabic Writing Systems. In: A. De Santis, & I. Rossi (eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy, 49-64. Doi: 10.1515/9783110607208-005
Cite as: Del Freo M., Di Filippo F. 2019, Linear B Electronic Resources (LiBER v.2), <https://liber.cnr.it/>.
PA-I-TO Project
The aim of PA-I-TO Project aims at providing a new critical edition of a subset of Mycenaean documents, namely those referring to the ancient site of Phaistós. The edition will be published online together with RTI pictures and 3D models of the documents. A number of RTI pictures are already freely accessible on the website.
Further documentation:
Greco, A., Flouda, G. The Linear B pa-i-to epigraphic project. In: Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in oriente, 95, 2018, 143-160.
Flouda, G. Greco, A., Notti E. The pa-i-to epigraphic web project, www.paitoproject.it. Pasiphae, 15, 165-168.
DOI:10.19272/202133301010
Contact: Alessandro Greco (Sapienza University, Rome): a.greco@uniroma1.it; Georgia Flouda (Herakleion Archaeological Museum): gflouda@culture.gr; Erika Notti (IULM University, Milan): erika.notti@iulm.it
The Pylos Digital Tablets Project
https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/nakassis/research/pylos-digital-tablets-project
The project aims to document the administrative texts from Pylos, adding new digital technologies (RTI, 3D scanning, X-Ray Fluorescence analysis, Macroscopic analysis of the clay fabric) to traditional methods for documenting the tablets.
Further documentation:
D. Nakassis, K. Pluta, and J. Hruby (2021) “The Pylos Tablets Digital Project: Aegean scripts in the 21st century,” in New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 27), ed. C.L. Cooper (Leiden: Brill) 161–171.
D. Nakassis and K. Pluta (2017) “Vorsprung durch Technik: Imaging the Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14thInternational Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies. Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, ed. M.-L. Nosch and H. Landenius Enegren (Roma: Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico) 285-298.
Contact: Dimitri Nakassis (University of Colorado Boulder): dimitri.nakassis@colorado.edu; Kevin Pluta (University of Texas at Austin): kpluta@austin.utexas.edu
Cypriot Syllabary
Inscriptiones Graecae (Digital edition)
Available at: http://telota.bbaw.de/ig/
Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphic, Cypro-Minoan
INSCRIBE – Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings
https://site.unibo.it/inscribe/en
Contact: Silvia Ferrara (University of Bologna): s.ferrara@unibo.it
Linear A Texts & Inscriptions in phonetic transcription & Commentary
http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/
Contact: John Younger (University of Kansas): jyounger@ku.edu
SigLA
SigLA is a database containing the Linear A inscriptions from Such a research tool is currently missing, and is essential in order to carry out statistical and palæographic analyses within the epigraphic corpus, only available in print form at the moment.
Available at: https://sigla.phis.me/
Documentation:
Ester Salgarella & Simon Castellan (2020), “SigLA: The Signs of Linear A. A Palæographical Database,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 5, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 945–962.
Contact: Ester Salgarella, (University of Cambridge): es636@cam.ac.uk; simon Castellan (INRIA): simon.castellan@inria.fr-
If you are working at a digital project which you think should be mentioned here, please let us know: federico.aurora@ub.uio.no