EAGLE contribution to LatinNow GIS

Posted by EAGLE on Mar 12, 2018

This blog post by Michael P. A. Loy is an output of the ERC-funded project Latinization of the North-western Roman Provinces (LatinNow), grant number 715626.   One of the planned outputs for LatinNow is a publicly accessible GIS. This will be an easily navigable web-based interface (similar to tools produced by ORBIS or EngLaId, fig. 1), which will display, amongst other things, inscriptions of the north-western Roman provinces as points on a map. Users will be able to search for inscriptions, filtering the data by e.g. location, date,...

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Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Web Catalogue

Posted by EAGLE on Mar 10, 2018

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...

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