The Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae Database. Towards a Digital Corpus of Early Christian Inscriptions from Greece and Asia Minor

Abstract

This paper offers a report on the completion and publication of the first version of a database of early Christian Greek inscriptions from Asia Minor and Greece, which was developed by the research groups B-III-2 and B-5-3 of the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi, Berlin, from 2008 to 2016. It explains the rationale, structure, and content of the database, and announces anticipated publication outputs made possible by this new research tool.