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This screen allows you to search the inscriptions in two different ways. 'In the Inscription' searches only within the edited texts (in their original languages) and English translations of the inscription. Searching for 'Jerusalem' with 'In the Inscription,' for example, will return only inscriptions that actually contain the word Jerusalem.

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'About the Inscription' searches the 'metadata,' information that is about the text and context of the inscription. Such information, for example, includes where it was found and how scholars date and classify it. Searching for 'Jerusalem' in 'About the Inscription' will return inscriptions found in Jerusalem; it would not return an inscription that explicitly mentions Jerusalem but is not found within it.

You can combine these two ways of searching. You can fill in as many, or as few, fields as you want; the search will return those inscriptions that meet all of your specifications (i.e., they are all, including the top string search box, linked by AND). Thus, not only can you conduct more typical, but powerful, scholarly searches (e.g., all Christian inscriptions written in Latin from Jerusalem that might date from the fifth century), but also inventive or even quirky searches that allow you to reconfigure these inscriptions in ways that might open new windows into ancient society, culture and religion. The more extensive A Guide to Searching the Inscriptions might be useful in understanding the kinds of searches that are, and are not, possible.

Note that you can sometimes select more than one value for a given criteria. For "Type," "Language," and "Religion," you can do this by holding down the Control key (on a PC) or Command key (on a Mac) as you make your second (and third, fourth, etc.) selections. Highlighting "Hebrew" and "Greek," for example, will deliver only those inscriptions that contain both languages.

Technical Considerations:

Input: The original languages of the inscriptions have been entered in Unicode, so in order to search using Hebrew or Greek characters, you will need to enter your search string in Unicode. Windows XP allows you to do this by selecting the appropriate system language. There are a variety of other products (e.g. GreekKeys; SC Unipad) that will also allow you to input Unicode.

Browsers: You may encounter two problems while running searches if you are using Internet Explorer. First, IE cannot properly display polytonic characters (that is, accented Greek); these characters will appear as boxes. Second, IE tends to be very slow. The searches run faster, and display properly, on other browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and Opera.



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Inscription ID

About the inscription

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Date of inscription:

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Type of inscription:

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for Mac users) to select multiple options



Language of inscription:

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Religion of inscription:

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In the inscription
Occupation:



Epithet:



Title:



Formula:



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