!!!Epigraphik

Epigraphy, scholarly discipline dealing with the collection, research 
and publication of annotated editions of inscriptions (architectural 
and monument inscriptions, on memorials, windows and bells, around 
frescoes etc.). While ancient and early Christian e. are 
well-established fields of research, the e. of the Middle Ages and the 
modern age is still being developed. Since inscriptions are an 
invaluable source of historical information, the research approach is 
interdisciplinary (palaeography, history of art, history, linguistics, 
ethnology etc.). The Epigraphic Commission of the Austrian Academy of 
Sciences collects and compiles the data, which are then stored in 
picture archives (backup copies), and edits Austrian and South 
Tirolean inscriptions from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern 
period. In co-operation with epigraphic commissions of all the German 
academies, an extensive series of German inscriptions is in process 
("Die Deutschen Inschriften"). In the Vienna series, the volumes 1 
(Burgenland), 2/1 (Carinthia: Spittal an der Drau and 
Hermagor), 3/1 (Lower Austria: Amstetten and Scheibbs) have already 
been published, 12 volumes are in preparation.

!Literature
W. Koch (ed.), Epigraphik, 1982; idem (ed.), Epigraphik, 
1988.


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