PETRAE

Available

• https://petrae.huma-num.fr/

Project Directors

• Alain Bresson, until 2006
• Milagros Navarro Caballero, 2006–2022
• Alberto Dalla Rosa, 2022–

Technical Direction

• Nathalie Prévôt, 2012–

Description

The PETRAE system, which has been used by the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne to publish printed volumes of inscriptions since the 1990s, now provides online access to collections of inscriptions encoded in XML-TEI/EpiDoc.

These corpora are organised by geographical region, comprising:

• Galliae and Germaniae
  • Latin inscriptions from Aquitaine
  • Recueil Informatisé des Inscriptions Gauloises
• Hispaniae
  • Lusitania
  • Baetica
  • Citerior Hispania / Tarraconensis
• Africa Numidia – Zeugitana
  • Thugga
  • Uchi Maius
• Asia Minor
  • Caria
• Scythia - Pontus Septentrionalis
  • Byzantine inscriptions
  • Tyras
• Sicilia - Sardinia – Corsica
  • Corsica
  • Sardinia
• Thracia-Moesia-Dacia
  • Novae

For further details, see the current list of texts available (7190 as 2026-09-16):

• https://petrae.huma-num.fr/corpus/

A concordance of PETRAE fields and conventions to the EpiDoc Guidelines can be found at https://epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/app-epi-petrae.html