The Database of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-speaking Areas

The dataset comprises a compilation of inscriptions featuring epigrams from Ancient Greece, dated to the Hellenistic age (3rd – 1st c. BC), from Doric-speaking areas, comprehensively collected for the first time. Each inscription is associated with an ID, a main edition, details regarding its provenance, date, type, metrical scansion, and digital editions and identifiers with corresponding URL/DOI references. The data was collected manually, by updating earlier collections of inscribed epigrams (Kaibel 1878, Peek 1955) through the main corpora of inscriptions (IG) and their Supplementa (SEG, BCH). The database is stored in the Harvard Dataverse repository in the form of two Excel/CSV tables (one ‘compact’, one ‘machine-readable’), each accompanied by a readme file. It encourages the analysis of Hellenistic inscribed epigrams as unique literary, linguistic, and historical sources. The data is both searchable and reproducible, which ensures its adaptability across different research domains and interests.