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The diachronic and synchronic study of the use of language, music and the
written record in Middle Eastern society
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CBRL has been supporting
the following projects:
Corpus of Phoenician Inscription in Cyprus
Dr Robert Allan (former CBRL Research Officer, Jerusalem)
The production of three volumes on the inscriptions, textual commentary,
glossary, onomasticon, theophoricon’ grammatical sketch of the Cypro-Pheonician
dialect, palaeographic charts, bibliography and concordance.
Safaitic Database, Syria (1994-2006)
Dr Michael Macdonald (Oxford University, with the Directorate General of
Antiquities and Museums of Syria)
The Safaitic inscriptions are graffiti carved
by nomads on the rocks of the desert in southern Syria, eastern Jordan and
northern Saudi Arabia from 1st-4th Century AD. They are the only first-hand
source for information about the history, way of life and language of these
nomads. This project will create an electronic database of all known Safaitic
inscriptions (about 30,000) making it possible to produce new editions of the
inscriptions as well as indexes and concordances of their content.
Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Project
Dr Michael Macdonald (Oxford University, with the Directorate General of
Antiquities and Museums of Syria)
Its aims are to (a) identify the sites in
southern Syria where Safaitic inscriptions were discovered in the 19th and 20th
centuries and to record them accurately on maps. (b) to rediscover and photograph
as many as possible of the Safaitic inscriptions copied at these sites by early
travelers, so that their readings can be verified before they are entered in the
Safaitic Database. (c) to make systematic and comprehensive surveys of each of
these sites, and others discovered by the SESP, to record all the epigraphic
material present including the large numbers of previously unrecorded texts.
There have been four season of fieldwork in which over 4000 inscriptions were
recorded and the two-volume final report will be completed in 2006.
The Fones of Cypriot traditional music
Nicoletta Demetriou (SOAS, PhD project)
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