U.S. Epigraphy Project
The U.S. Epigraphy Project (USEP) collects and shares information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the United States of America.
The Project currently provides access to a database of some 750 Greek and 1,700 Latin inscriptions in the USA through browsing by collection and publication and by searching various categories of metadata (language, date, origin, type, material) and bibliographic information. A growing digital corpus of the collection registers some 400 EpiDoc editions of Latin texts and provides some 1,000 images of the inscriptions registered by the Project, each of which is identified by a unique USEP number based upon its location.
The materials registered by the Project also include texts in languages other than Greek and Latin (mainly Etruscan) from within the territory of the Roman empire and nearly 300 paper squeezes of Greek inscriptions from (mostly) Attica and the Greek cities of Asia Minor.
At its inception at Rutgers University in 1995, the Project’s immediate aim was to compile a preliminary inventory of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in American collections as part of an international effort coordinated by the then President of the Association Internationale d’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine, Silvio Panciera, who wished to present at the Eleventh International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Rome in September 1997 an overview of the epigraphic patrimony of Greco-Roman antiquity preserved outside the Mediterranean world. The Project moved to Brown University in 2003.
