cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc1sto801107
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/ias-ouc11399kjg3
title: May_1996

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-ouc110805714
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399kjfy
title: May_1996

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-ouc110805708
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805715
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399kjci
title: Marilyn Kezirian Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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/ias-ouc11399kjcg
title: Marilyn Kezirian Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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-ouc110805694
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399kjce
title: Marilyn Kezirian Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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-ouc110805693
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243234
title: Unclassified Fragment

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] TAD D5.29 ❧ [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. 96/86
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805689
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805688
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc15243230
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-ouc15243229
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-ouc110805684
title: Proto-Sinaitic Inscription 347, Sinai 347, Sass 18, Sass 20, Sass 21

description: [Text Description:] Possibly connected with goddess Hathor, inscription reads tnt ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] Sinai 347 ❧ [Medium:] Stone ❧ [Script Note:] Early Alphabetic ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Stone bust, 13.5 x 8.7 x 7 cm
DOI: 10.25549/inscriptifact-ouc110805667
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-ouc15243228
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-ouc15243223
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-ouc110805656
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/ias-ouc11399kja7
title: Armenian Gethsemane Congregational Church Newsletter, June 13, 1937

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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-ouc15243225
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-ouc15243215
title: Receipt

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 184; Samaria Ostracon 2; Reisner 2; Gibson I, p.9/ii. ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1910 Harvard University expedition at Sebastiyeh (Samaria). Found in level of the royal palace, September 20. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Hebrew ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Fragment from great heavy two-handled wine jar of gray ware ❧ [Physical Object Note:] 2/4583
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399kj7p
title: Marilyn Kezirian Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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/ias-ouc11399kj2i
title: Marilyn Kezirian Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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-ouc15243219
title: Receipt

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] KAI 184; Samaria Ostracon 2; Reisner 2; Gibson I, p.9/ii. ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1910 Harvard University expedition at Sebastiyeh (Samaria). Found in level of the royal palace, September 20. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Hebrew ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Fragment from great heavy two-handled wine jar of gray ware ❧ [Physical Object Note:] 2/4583
DOI: 10.25549/ias-ouc11399kj0o
title: John Chookasezian (Chookasian) Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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-ouc15243209
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/ias-ouc11399kj0f
title: John Chookasezian (Chookasian) Images

description: California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, 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.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-ouc15243207
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-ouc110805643
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-ouc15243202
title: Receipt

description: [Text or Publication Number Note:] Samaria Ostracon, Reisner 57 ❧ [Excavation Description:] 1910 Harvard University expedition at Sebastiyeh (Samaria). Found in level of the royal palace, September 20. ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Hebrew ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Fragment from side of large thin-walled jar of gray ware ❧ [Physical Object Note:] 57/4582