Is Still Arabia at the margins of digital Epigraphy? Challenges in the digitization of the pre-Islamic inscriptions in the project DASI

Abstract

DASI - Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions, is an ERC Advanced Grant project (2011-2016) of the University of Pisa, in collaboration with Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, that aims at getting the Whole corpus of ancient Arabian inscriptions inventoried and digitized, to enhance historic and cultural knowledge of Ancient Arabia and strengthen the linguistic study of texts