Organization: University of Bologna

Creators: Catherine Dobias-Lalou, Alice Bencivenni

Extent: The collection includes 1297 photographic materials from several archival collections made available by IGCyr project partners and content holders. The images are photographs of the stones and/or squeezes, as well as drawings and pages from notebooks.

Abstract: Greek and Roman epigraphic heritage from ancient Cyrenaica coming from a variety of archives and collections.

Description: IGCyr|GVCyr Images is a collection of images pertaining to the epigraphic corpora Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica and Greek Verse inscriptions of Cyrenaica. It includes images related to the great majority of the inscriptions from Greek Cyrenaica (VII-I BC) and to the Greek verse inscriptions from Greek and Roman Cyrenaica (VII BC-VII AD). Images of inscriptions, drawings, facsimiles, squeezes are stored in the archives of the Centre de recherches sur la Libye antique of the Université Paris IV Sorbonne, in the private archive of the editor of the corpora Catherine Dobias-Lalou, in the archives of Università di Macerata, in the archives of Department of Antiquities of Libia, in the archives of the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project in London and at some other institutions. Some reproductions of images already published in printed epigraphic editions complete the collection, which is a rich iconographic resource on the Greek epigraphy of Cyrenaica.

History: Archive materials digitized in the framework of IGCyr project.

Quantity: 1297 items