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Dead Sea scrolls
15,000 fragments of about 850 scrolls from ancient Judaism
Pyramid Texts
corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom in Old Egyptian, carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara
Nag Hammadi library
collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945
birch bark manuscript
document written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark
Coffin Texts
collection, text corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
literary & non-literary manuscripts recovered from Al-Minya, Egypt
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions
Elephantine papyri
collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts
Ebla tablets
collection of clay tablets from the ancient city of Ebla in Syria
L'Année épigraphique
French publication on epigraphy (i.e the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing)
Inscriptiones Graecae
academic project by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; its aim is to collect and publish all known ancient inscriptions from the mainland and islands of Greece
Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum
corpus of Etruscan texts collected by Karl Pauli and his followers since 1885.
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae
anthology of Latin inscriptions
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
collection of ancient inscriptions in Semitic languages
Mawangdui Silk Texts
Chinese philosophical and medical works written on silk
CIMRM
Incantation bowl
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
academic journal
stamping
Estampage or stamping, is a term commonly used in epigraphy to obtain the exact replica of an inscription that cannot be transported.
Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum
Greek epigraphy
the study of Greek inscriptions, or epigraphs, to clarify their meanings, classify their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and draw conclusions about the writing and the writers
Shuanggudui
Shuanggudui () is an archeological site located near Fuyang in China's Anhui province. Shuanggudui grave no. 1, which belongs to Xiahou Zao (), the second marquis of Ruyin (), was sealed in 165 BCE in the early Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE). Excavated in 1977, it was found to contain a large number of texts written on bamboo strips, including fragments of the Classic of Poetry and the Songs of the South, a text on breathing exercises, a "year table" () recounting historical events, a manual on dogs, a version of the I Ching (Yijing) that differs from the received one, and artifacts inclu