cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto801095
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-ouc15239697
title: Fragmentary Letter

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.49; Sachau 80/4; Sachau Pl. 67/4 ❧ [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:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P11370
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15242626
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-ouc15239694
title: Letter Fragment re Wood

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.54; Sachau 84/1,2; Sachau Pl. 71/1 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P11366
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15242624
title: Unclassified Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D5.27; Cowley 67/17; Sachau 73/17; Sachau Pl. 60/17; Ungnad 73 ❧ [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, P13444D, frg. 13448/17
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239685
title: Fragmentary Letter re Tunic Wine and Oil

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.55; Sachau 81/1; Sachau Pl. 68/1 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Purchased by Prof. Carl Schmidt in Edfu, 1906 ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P10964
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15242617
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-ouc15239682
title: Notice of Dispatch and Instruction

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.43; Sachau 78/1; Sachau Pl. 65/1; Ungnad 78/1 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P11380
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15242612
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-ouc15239677
title: Fragmentary Letter re Sack etc

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.26; Sachau 77/1; Sachau Pl. 64/1 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Purchased by Prof. Ludwig Borchardt in Elephantine in 1897 ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P8763
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15242611
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-ouc110805558
title: Part of painted plaster wall

description: [Text Description:] Red, blue and black decoration with lines, circles and rosettes. ❧ [Excavation Description:] Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, an international collaboration led by Prof. Tim Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio ❧ [Medium:] Plaster ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Text ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Assemblage of painted wall plaster
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239670
title: Fragmentary Letter re Meshullach

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.32; Sachau 80/3; Sachau Pl. 67/3 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P11378
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805557
title: Part of painted plaster wall

description: [Text Description:] Red, blue and black decoration with lines, circles and rosettes. ❧ [Excavation Description:] Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, an international collaboration led by Prof. Tim Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio ❧ [Medium:] Plaster ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Text ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Assemblage of painted wall plaster
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239660
title: Letter Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D1.25 ❧ [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, P13445E, frg. 96/34
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805545
title: Part of painted plaster wall

description: [Text Description:] Red, blue and black decoration with lines, circles and rosettes. ❧ [Excavation Description:] Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, an international collaboration led by Prof. Tim Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio ❧ [Medium:] Plaster ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Text ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Assemblage of painted wall plaster
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239551
title: Fragmentary Letter re Meshullach

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.32; Sachau 80/3; Sachau Pl. 67/3 ❧ [Excavation Description:] Excavation of tell on island of Elephantine, beginning 20th c. by Berlin Museums and Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P11378
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805535
title: Part of painted plaster wall

description: [Text Description:] Red, blue and black decoration with lines, circles and rosettes. ❧ [Excavation Description:] Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, an international collaboration led by Prof. Tim Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio ❧ [Medium:] Plaster ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Text ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Assemblage of painted wall plaster
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239549
title: Unclassified Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D5.2 ❧ [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, P13461D, frg. 96/28
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805542
title: Part of painted plaster wall

description: [Text Description:] Red, blue and black decoration with lines, circles and rosettes. ❧ [Excavation Description:] Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, an international collaboration led by Prof. Tim Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio ❧ [Medium:] Plaster ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Text ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Assemblage of painted wall plaster
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239544
title: Unclassified Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D5.13 ❧ [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, frg. 96/87
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399kfp6
title: Armen Aroyan Collection

description: California History Through Armenian ExperiencesFocusing on the power of the individual story, "California History Through Armenian Experiences" oral history initiative by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection were conducted starting in 2018 and will continue through 2024, ranging from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, such as the Displaced Persons Documentation Project and the Armenian-American Experiences Oral History Project, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s “My Armenian Story” project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections. Displaced Persons Documentation ProjectThe USC Institute of Armenian Studies has been recording oral histories and gathering documents on the unique history of the Armenian displaced persons (DP) community formed during and after World War II. Many interviewees migrated to Southern California, with Montebello, California fostering a large number of diasporans eager to rebuild the connective tissues torn by war and displacement. This growing collection of oral histories and digitized documents is meant to serve as a primary source for researchers who are interested in World War II, post-Genocide Armenian history, and Diaspora Studies. The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History through Armenian Experiences” project.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239525
title: Fragment of Document of Withdrawal

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D2.5 ❧ [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, P13444C, frg. 13445B/14
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399ge3d
title: June_1994

description: California History Through Armenian ExperiencesFocusing on the power of the individual story, "California History Through Armenian Experiences" oral history initiative by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection were conducted starting in 2018 and will continue through 2024, ranging from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, such as the Displaced Persons Documentation Project and the Armenian-American Experiences Oral History Project, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s “My Armenian Story” project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections. Displaced Persons Documentation ProjectThe USC Institute of Armenian Studies has been recording oral histories and gathering documents on the unique history of the Armenian displaced persons (DP) community formed during and after World War II. Many interviewees migrated to Southern California, with Montebello, California fostering a large number of diasporans eager to rebuild the connective tissues torn by war and displacement. This growing collection of oral histories and digitized documents is meant to serve as a primary source for researchers who are interested in World War II, post-Genocide Armenian history, and Diaspora Studies. The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History through Armenian Experiences” project.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239520
title: List Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D3.3; Cowley 67/6; Sachau 73/6; Sachau Pl. 60/6; Ungnad 73 ❧ [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, P13444D, frgs. 13448/6, 96/20
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399ge1r
title: September_1994

description: California History Through Armenian ExperiencesFocusing on the power of the individual story, "California History Through Armenian Experiences" oral history initiative by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection were conducted starting in 2018 and will continue through 2024, ranging from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, such as the Displaced Persons Documentation Project and the Armenian-American Experiences Oral History Project, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s “My Armenian Story” project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections. Displaced Persons Documentation ProjectThe USC Institute of Armenian Studies has been recording oral histories and gathering documents on the unique history of the Armenian displaced persons (DP) community formed during and after World War II. Many interviewees migrated to Southern California, with Montebello, California fostering a large number of diasporans eager to rebuild the connective tissues torn by war and displacement. This growing collection of oral histories and digitized documents is meant to serve as a primary source for researchers who are interested in World War II, post-Genocide Armenian history, and Diaspora Studies. The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History through Armenian Experiences” project.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239519
title: Letter Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D7.34 ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Aramaic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Ostracon, P17802
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399feo0
title: Armen Aroyan Collection

description: California History Through Armenian ExperiencesFocusing on the power of the individual story, "California History Through Armenian Experiences" oral history initiative by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection were conducted starting in 2018 and will continue through 2024, ranging from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, such as the Displaced Persons Documentation Project and the Armenian-American Experiences Oral History Project, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s “My Armenian Story” project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections. Displaced Persons Documentation ProjectThe USC Institute of Armenian Studies has been recording oral histories and gathering documents on the unique history of the Armenian displaced persons (DP) community formed during and after World War II. Many interviewees migrated to Southern California, with Montebello, California fostering a large number of diasporans eager to rebuild the connective tissues torn by war and displacement. This growing collection of oral histories and digitized documents is meant to serve as a primary source for researchers who are interested in World War II, post-Genocide Armenian history, and Diaspora Studies. The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History through Armenian Experiences” project.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15239517
title: Fragment of Document of Withdrawal

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D2.5 ❧ [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, P13444C, frg. 13445B/14
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399efj0
title: May_1993

description: California History Through Armenian ExperiencesFocusing on the power of the individual story, "California History Through Armenian Experiences" oral history initiative by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection were conducted starting in 2018 and will continue through 2024, ranging from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, such as the Displaced Persons Documentation Project and the Armenian-American Experiences Oral History Project, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s “My Armenian Story” project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections. Displaced Persons Documentation ProjectThe USC Institute of Armenian Studies has been recording oral histories and gathering documents on the unique history of the Armenian displaced persons (DP) community formed during and after World War II. Many interviewees migrated to Southern California, with Montebello, California fostering a large number of diasporans eager to rebuild the connective tissues torn by war and displacement. This growing collection of oral histories and digitized documents is meant to serve as a primary source for researchers who are interested in World War II, post-Genocide Armenian history, and Diaspora Studies. The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History through Armenian Experiences” project.
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto801059
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-ouc110805551
title: Part of painted plaster wall

description: [Text Description:] Red, blue and black decoration with lines, circles and rosettes. ❧ [Excavation Description:] Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, an international collaboration led by Prof. Tim Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio ❧ [Medium:] Plaster ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Text ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Assemblage of painted wall plaster