Description

The DASI archive content can be accessed by different Indexes, whose lists can be refined by using filters. Corpora of inscriptions are hierarchically organized by language and script typology; Collections of objects are organized by deposit and gather epigraphic and an-epigraphic objects from ASA collections worldwide, digitized on DASI thanks to specific agreements with museum institutions. The indexes of Epigraphs, Objects and Sites provide refinable alphabetical lists of inscription/object sigla and modern toponyms respectively, giving access to their records. Each record displays meta-information specific to its category, plus links to the related records; the Epigraph records also host the transcription of the inscriptional text and potential translations. A Bibliography index is also provided. Thanks to the xml mark-up of the textual features and to the record of extra-textual features, the DASI user can enjoy two useful sections for the consultation and study of inscriptions. The Word lists allows to retrieve the list of the words occurring in the inscriptions of the archive, both for lexicon and onomastics. Two separate lists are provided: the General word list and the list of all the words with Lacunae at beginning. The Textual search tool allows to perform dynamic searches on words or patterns of words within the texts of the inscriptions. Searches can be refined using one or more filters that will be applied to the meta-information of the epigraphs or to the encoded texts. A Map is also available in the Tools section: it displays the location of the sites, whose coordinates have been recorded in the archive, and gives access to the Site cards.