We are pleased to announce the launch of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project web catalogue:

http://latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk

This is a free scholarly edition of 460 Latin inscriptions in the Ashmolean Museum, including images, RTI and sound files. Downloadable EpiDoc source files will be available very soon.

It is accompanied by a resources section for school teachers that uses real Latin inscriptions to teach Latin language, Classical Civilisation and primary school History topics:

http://latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/resources/

The Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project is a research project funded by the AHRC, a collaboration between the University of Warwick and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Full details can be found on the website.