cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243424
title: Yehaumilk Inscription

description: [Text Description:] Dedication of altar, gateway and portico to small shrine to Mistress of Byblos ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 10; Gibson III:25 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unearthed in 1869 by local resident on tell of Byblos ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone stele 1.13 x 0.56 x 0.24 m., inscription on lower register. Upper register: king in Persian dress offering homage to Mistress of Byblos; winged solar disk carved above. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Bottom right corner found separately, poor state of preservation; section in middle of stone badly faded. Stele is only roughly finished on back. May have been set into a wall in a portico.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110806273
title: Mesha Inscription, KAI 181, Mesha' Inscription, Mesha'-Inschrift, Mesha Stela, Mesha' Stela

description: [Text Description:] Commemoration of military actions and building projects of Mesha, King of Moab ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 181 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Discovered in 1868 by a German missionary in Diban (Dhiban) ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Moabite ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Basalt Stone, 1.1 meters high, 60-68 cm wide (or 1.15 m x 60 cm), rounded at the top ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Present stele has been restored from fragments, and missing text reconstructed based on paper squeezes
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto800947
title: InscriptiFact -- an image database of inscriptions and artifacts

description: The InscriptiFact Collection is designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions and artifacts, primarily from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The targeted inscriptions constitute some of the world’s earliest written records, which are mostly housed in a number of international museums and libraries, as well as field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ. Included, for example, are, selected Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, Persia, Canaan and Egypt; early Jewish papyri from Egypt; lapidary inscriptions, primarily from Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus; inscriptions on a variety of hard media (e.g., ostraca, copper, semi-precious stones, jar handles) mostly written in early Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite; and much more. These ancient texts are foundational documents that serve as a point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged. The name "InscriptiFact" is intended to convey the concept of a scholarly archive based on "facts" about "inscriptions" and "artifacts." West Semitic Research Project (WSRP) under the auspices of the University of Southern California (USC) is broadly acknowledged as a leader in the application of photographic and digital technologies to capture and analyze data of ancient texts. The West Semitic Research image archive now contains approximately 1,500,000 images. Important! Search terms with more than one word or number need to be enclosed in quotation marks.Guide to Searching InscriptiFact
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110806240
title: Mesha Inscription, KAI 181, Mesha' Inscription, Mesha'-Inschrift, Mesha Stela, Mesha' Stela

description: [Text Description:] Commemoration of military actions and building projects of Mesha, King of Moab ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 181 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Discovered in 1868 by a German missionary in Diban (Dhiban) ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Moabite ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Basalt Stone, 1.1 meters high, 60-68 cm wide (or 1.15 m x 60 cm), rounded at the top ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Present stele has been restored from fragments, and missing text reconstructed based on paper squeezes
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15235008
title: Loan of Grain

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD B3.13; Kraeling 11 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Found by farmers in tell on island of Elephantine; acquired by Charles Edwin Wilbour in 1893 ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, BM 47.218.93
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110806230
title: Mesha Inscription, KAI 181, Mesha' Inscription, Mesha'-Inschrift, Mesha Stela, Mesha' Stela

description: [Text Description:] Commemoration of military actions and building projects of Mesha, King of Moab ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 181 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Discovered in 1868 by a German missionary in Diban (Dhiban) ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Moabite ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Basalt Stone, 1.1 meters high, 60-68 cm wide (or 1.15 m x 60 cm), rounded at the top ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Present stele has been restored from fragments, and missing text reconstructed based on paper squeezes
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15235059
title: Jar Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sachau 85/14; Sachau Pl. 72/14 ? [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ? [Medium:] Clay ? [Script Note:] Phoenician ? [Physical Object Description:] Clay jar fragment, P11452
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110806222
title: Mesha Inscription, KAI 181, Mesha' Inscription, Mesha'-Inschrift, Mesha Stela, Mesha' Stela

description: [Text Description:] Commemoration of military actions and building projects of Mesha, King of Moab ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 181 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Discovered in 1868 by a German missionary in Diban (Dhiban) ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Moabite ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Basalt Stone, 1.1 meters high, 60-68 cm wide (or 1.15 m x 60 cm), rounded at the top ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Present stele has been restored from fragments, and missing text reconstructed based on paper squeezes
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15235006
title: Exchange of Inherited Shares

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD B5.1; Cowley 1; Sachau Pl. 30; Sachau Pap 30; Ungnad 31 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, P13489
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110806196
title: Mesha Inscription, KAI 181, Mesha' Inscription, Mesha'-Inschrift, Mesha Stela, Mesha' Stela

description: [Text Description:] Commemoration of military actions and building projects of Mesha, King of Moab ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 181 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Discovered in 1868 by a German missionary in Diban (Dhiban) ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Moabite ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Basalt Stone, 1.1 meters high, 60-68 cm wide (or 1.15 m x 60 cm), rounded at the top ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Present stele has been restored from fragments, and missing text reconstructed based on paper squeezes
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15235002
title: Fragmentary Letter re Egyptians Imprisoned

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD A4.6; Cowley 66/1-3,5,6+68/12; Sachau 72/1,2,5,6+74/12; Sachau Pl. 59/1 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, P13445A, frgs 13445/1,2,5,6; 96/88; 13461/12r
DOI: 10.15468/dl.sbsqzf
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 14472 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 The dataset includes 14472 records from 76 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0028617-251025141854904/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto800944
title: InscriptiFact -- an image database of inscriptions and artifacts

description: The InscriptiFact Collection is designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions and artifacts, primarily from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The targeted inscriptions constitute some of the world’s earliest written records, which are mostly housed in a number of international museums and libraries, as well as field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ. Included, for example, are, selected Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, Persia, Canaan and Egypt; early Jewish papyri from Egypt; lapidary inscriptions, primarily from Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus; inscriptions on a variety of hard media (e.g., ostraca, copper, semi-precious stones, jar handles) mostly written in early Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite; and much more. These ancient texts are foundational documents that serve as a point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged. The name "InscriptiFact" is intended to convey the concept of a scholarly archive based on "facts" about "inscriptions" and "artifacts." West Semitic Research Project (WSRP) under the auspices of the University of Southern California (USC) is broadly acknowledged as a leader in the application of photographic and digital technologies to capture and analyze data of ancient texts. The West Semitic Research image archive now contains approximately 1,500,000 images. Important! Search terms with more than one word or number need to be enclosed in quotation marks.Guide to Searching InscriptiFact
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243316
title: Yehaumilk Inscription

description: [Text Description:] Dedication of altar, gateway and portico to small shrine to Mistress of Byblos ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 10; Gibson III:25 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unearthed in 1869 by local resident on tell of Byblos ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone stele 1.13 x 0.56 x 0.24 m., inscription on lower register. Upper register: king in Persian dress offering homage to Mistress of Byblos; winged solar disk carved above. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Bottom right corner found separately, poor state of preservation; section in middle of stone badly faded. Stele is only roughly finished on back. May have been set into a wall in a portico.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15234996
title: Beginning of a Document of Wifehood, TAD B6.1, A Fragmentary Marriage Document

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD B6.1; Kraeling 14 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Found by farmers in tell on island of Elephantine, acquired by Charles Edwin Wilbour in 1893 ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, BM 47.218.12
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243314
title: Yehaumilk Inscription

description: [Text Description:] Dedication of altar, gateway and portico to small shrine to Mistress of Byblos ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 10; Gibson III:25 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unearthed in 1869 by local resident on tell of Byblos ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone stele 1.13 x 0.56 x 0.24 m., inscription on lower register. Upper register: king in Persian dress offering homage to Mistress of Byblos; winged solar disk carved above. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Bottom right corner found separately, poor state of preservation; section in middle of stone badly faded. Stele is only roughly finished on back. May have been set into a wall in a portico.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto800943
title: InscriptiFact -- an image database of inscriptions and artifacts

description: The InscriptiFact Collection is designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions and artifacts, primarily from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The targeted inscriptions constitute some of the world’s earliest written records, which are mostly housed in a number of international museums and libraries, as well as field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ. Included, for example, are, selected Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, Persia, Canaan and Egypt; early Jewish papyri from Egypt; lapidary inscriptions, primarily from Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus; inscriptions on a variety of hard media (e.g., ostraca, copper, semi-precious stones, jar handles) mostly written in early Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite; and much more. These ancient texts are foundational documents that serve as a point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged. The name "InscriptiFact" is intended to convey the concept of a scholarly archive based on "facts" about "inscriptions" and "artifacts." West Semitic Research Project (WSRP) under the auspices of the University of Southern California (USC) is broadly acknowledged as a leader in the application of photographic and digital technologies to capture and analyze data of ancient texts. The West Semitic Research image archive now contains approximately 1,500,000 images. Important! Search terms with more than one word or number need to be enclosed in quotation marks.Guide to Searching InscriptiFact
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243312
title: Elibaal Inscription

description: [Text Description:] Inscription of Elibaal written on statue of Osorkon I; for Mistress of Byblos ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 6; Gibson III:8 ❧ [Excavation Description:] frgs. from private source; others excavations at Byblos ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Fragmentary red granite statue of Osorkon I. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscription of Elibaal on statue of Osorkon ❧ (914-874 BCE). Three fragments bought by Louvre from private source, others discovered in excavations at Byblos, adding some letters.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15234993
title: Sale of Apartment to Son in law

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD B3.12; Kraeling 12 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Found by farmers in tell on island of Elephantine; acquired by Charles Edwin Wilbour in 1893 ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, BM 47.218.94
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243311
title: Honeyman Inscription

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 30; Gibson III:12 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unknown provenience; probably from entrance to ❧ tomb. ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Rectangular stone 0.4 m. high ❧ 0.44 m. ❧ 0.2 m. Reddish sandstone as occurs in southeast Cyprus. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] The object is at present mounted permanently to ❧ stone base in the Cyprus Museum. It is inscribed only on the face. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscr. Ph. 6
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15234991
title: Recommendation for Reconstruction of Temple

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD A4.9; Cowley 32; Sachau Pl. 4; Sachau Pap 3; Ungnad 3 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, P13497
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243256
title: Accounts Fragment, TAD D3.7

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D3.7 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Papyrus ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Papyrus, P13461A, frg. 13445B/15
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243193
title: Honeyman Inscription

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 30; Gibson III:12 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unknown provenience; probably from entrance to ❧ tomb. ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Rectangular stone 0.4 m. high ❧ 0.44 m. ❧ 0.2 m. Reddish sandstone as occurs in southeast Cyprus. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] The object is at present mounted permanently to ❧ stone base in the Cyprus Museum. It is inscribed only on the face. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscr. Ph. 6
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243246
title: Receipt

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] Samaria Ostracon, Reisner 55; Gibson I, p.10/lv. ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1910 Harvard University expedition at Sebastiyeh (Samaria). Found in level of the royal palace, September 26. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Hebrew ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Fragment from large jar of hard gray ware ❧ [Physical Object Note:] 55/4660
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243242
title: Inscription on White Marble Base

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] A 30 ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1972 near church of Pananyia Angeloktistos village of Kiti. ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] White marble base 0.382 by 0.085 ❧ 0.35 m., inscription on one side. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Three lines inscribed on long side, top of base has ❧ depression of three sides. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscr. Ph. 15
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243190
title: Honeyman Inscription

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 30; Gibson III:12 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unknown provenience; probably from entrance to ❧ tomb. ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Rectangular stone 0.4 m. high ❧ 0.44 m. ❧ 0.2 m. Reddish sandstone as occurs in southeast Cyprus. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] The object is at present mounted permanently to ❧ stone base in the Cyprus Museum. It is inscribed only on the face. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscr. Ph. 6
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243180
title: Yehaumilk Inscription

description: [Text Description:] Dedication of altar, gateway and portico to small shrine to Mistress of Byblos ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 10; Gibson III:25 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unearthed in 1869 by local resident on tell of Byblos ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone stele 1.13 x 0.56 x 0.24 m., inscription on lower register. Upper register: king in Persian dress offering homage to Mistress of Byblos; winged solar disk carved above. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Bottom right corner found separately, poor state of preservation; section in middle of stone badly faded. Stele is only roughly finished on back. May have been set into a wall in a portico.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243241
title: Honeyman Inscription

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 30; Gibson III:12 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unknown provenience; probably from entrance to ❧ tomb. ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Rectangular stone 0.4 m. high ❧ 0.44 m. ❧ 0.2 m. Reddish sandstone as occurs in southeast Cyprus. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] The object is at present mounted permanently to ❧ stone base in the Cyprus Museum. It is inscribed only on the face. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscr. Ph. 6
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243189
title: Yehaumilk Inscription

description: [Text Description:] Dedication of altar, gateway and portico to small shrine to Mistress of Byblos ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 10; Gibson III:25 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unearthed in 1869 by local resident on tell of Byblos ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone stele 1.13 x 0.56 x 0.24 m., inscription on lower register. Upper register: king in Persian dress offering homage to Mistress of Byblos; winged solar disk carved above. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Bottom right corner found separately, poor state of preservation; section in middle of stone badly faded. Stele is only roughly finished on back. May have been set into a wall in a portico.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243222
title: Receipt

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] Samaria Ostracon, Reisner 18 ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1910 Harvard University expedition at Sebastiyeh (Samaria). Found in level of the royal palace, August 16. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Hebrew ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Fragment of large jar of hard gray ware ❧ [Physical Object Note:] 18/3931
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243183
title: Receipt

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] Samaria Ostracon, Reisner 44; Gibson I, p.10/xliv. ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1910 Harvard University expedition at Sebastiyeh (Samaria). Found in level of the royal palace, August 13. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Hebrew ❧ [Physical Object Description:] From rim of flaring bowl of reddish brown ware with red wash ❧ [Physical Object Note:] 44/3867
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243197
title: Honeyman Inscription

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 30; Gibson III:12 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Unknown provenience; probably from entrance to ❧ tomb. ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Phoenician ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Rectangular stone 0.4 m. high ❧ 0.44 m. ❧ 0.2 m. Reddish sandstone as occurs in southeast Cyprus. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] The object is at present mounted permanently to ❧ stone base in the Cyprus Museum. It is inscribed only on the face. ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Inscr. Ph. 6
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243648
title: Kirta Legend

description: [Text Description:] The story recounts the loss and restoration of Kirta/Keret's family, and the consequences of his unfulfilled vow to Athirat ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] KTU 1.16; CAT 1.16; KTU2 1.16; CTU 1.16; CTA 16; RS 3.325,3.342,3.408 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavations at Ras Shamra 1931. Found in Library of the High Priest.3.325 Room 7/8, pt.335, dep.1.30, 3.342 Room 7, pt.338, 343, 341, dep.0.30-0.40, 3.408, pt.368, dep.0.20 on Acropolis, excavated by Claude F.A. Schaeffer, Mission Archeologique Francaise. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Alphabetic Cuneiform ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Clay tablet 23 cm. by 17.5 cm., fragments ❧ [Physical Object Note:] Ocher clay, six columns, incomplete.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto800942
title: InscriptiFact -- an image database of inscriptions and artifacts

description: The InscriptiFact Collection is designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions and artifacts, primarily from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The targeted inscriptions constitute some of the world’s earliest written records, which are mostly housed in a number of international museums and libraries, as well as field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ. Included, for example, are, selected Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, Persia, Canaan and Egypt; early Jewish papyri from Egypt; lapidary inscriptions, primarily from Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus; inscriptions on a variety of hard media (e.g., ostraca, copper, semi-precious stones, jar handles) mostly written in early Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite; and much more. These ancient texts are foundational documents that serve as a point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged. The name "InscriptiFact" is intended to convey the concept of a scholarly archive based on "facts" about "inscriptions" and "artifacts." West Semitic Research Project (WSRP) under the auspices of the University of Southern California (USC) is broadly acknowledged as a leader in the application of photographic and digital technologies to capture and analyze data of ancient texts. The West Semitic Research image archive now contains approximately 1,500,000 images. Important! Search terms with more than one word or number need to be enclosed in quotation marks.Guide to Searching InscriptiFact