Off the beaten track. Epigraphy at the borders

This volume contains the papers presented during the Meeting ‘Off the Beaten
Track – Epigraphy at the Borders’, the sixth in a series of international events
planned by the EAGLE, Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
international consortium.
The Meeting was held on 24–25 September 2015, with the support of the
Department of Classics and Late Antiquity Studies at the University of Bari Aldo
Moro (Italy).
During the event, the EAGLE Portal (http://www.eagle-network.eu) was officially
launched and presented to the public for the first time.
The event was intended to address the issues which arise in digitizing inscriptions
characterised by ‘unusual’ features in comparison with the epigraphic norm.
Here are collected contributions from several ongoing digital projects raising
questions and proposing solutions regarding encoding inscriptions – from the
Archaic period to the Middle Ages and beyond, even in languages other than
Greek and Latin – which do not fall within those labelled as standard.
The projects involved are the following: ILA – Iscrizioni Latine Arcaiche; The
Ancient Graffiti Project; DASI – Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic
Arabian Inscriptions; EDB – Epigraphic Database Bari; EDV – Epigraphic Database
Vernacular Inscriptions; AshLi – Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project.