Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae

在前现代时期，铭文是最重要的公共交流手段之一。因此，两位签名者向DFG申请支持此处描述的项目。它的目的是收集和编辑没有列入《叙利亚和约旦的希腊文和拉丁文铭文》的所谓近东部分，即以色列的所有铭文（根据教科文组织规则，不包括巴勒斯坦权力机构和戈兰地区）。它的时间跨度从公元前4世纪开始，即希腊罗马在近东地区的霸权，到公元7世纪中期结束，即大约一千年的历史；此外，它是一个多语言语料库：它包括该地区使用的所有语言，即拉丁语、极客语和各种闪米特语：希伯来语、腓尼基语和各种阿拉姆语“方言”（犹太语、纳巴泰语、伊杜曼语和巴尔米拉语、基督教阿拉姆语和叙利亚语）、塔穆迪语以及格鲁吉亚语和阿尔门尼亚语。所有这些语言的铭文都要收集、阅读、翻译，并尽可能在其考古背景下进行研究。其内容千差万别：政治事件、行政管辖、宗教、经济；它们比文学作品在更大程度上反映了社会的日常生活。收集到的不同语言的使用证明了存在着许多民族群体，他们彼此生活在一起，彼此生活在一起；他们的内容在很大程度上揭示了整个地区的社会交流。不用说，在这一领土上使用的语言非常多，因此绝对有必要由一组使用单一语言的专家相互密切合作。

In pre-modern times there were periods in which inscriptions constituted one of the most im-portant means of public communication. Therefore the two undersigned applied to the DFG to support the project described here. It aims at collecting and editing all the inscriptions from that part of the so called Near East which is not included in the Inscriptions Grecques et Latines de la Syrie et de la Jordanie, namely Israel (excluded is - according to the UNESCO-Rules - the area of the Palestinian Authority and the Golan). Its time span extends from the 4th century BC, the beginning of Graeco-Roman hegemony in this part of the Near East, to its end in the middle of the 7th century AD, i.e. more or less one thousand years of history; furthermore it is a multi-lingual corpus: it includes all the languages used in this area namely, Latin, Geek and the various Semitic languages: Hebrew, Phoenician and the various Aramaic “dialects” (Jewish, Nabataean, Idumaean and Palmyran, Christian Aramaic and Syria), Thamudic, as well as Georgian and Ar-menian. All the inscriptions in these languages are to be collected, read, translated and as much as possible studied within their archaeological context. Their contents vary a great deal: political events, administration and jurisdiction, religion, economy; they reflect the everyday life of a so-ciety to a much greater extent than the literary sources do. The use of different languages attest-ed in the collection testifies to the existence of numerous ethnic groups, who lived alongside each other, and together with each other; their content goes a long way to reveal social communica-tions within the entire region. Needless to say the very many languages used in this territory have made it absolutely necessary for a group of specialists in single languages to cooperate closely with each other.