Eugenio R. Luján

(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

HESPERIA: THE ELECTRONIC CORPUS OF PALAEO-HISPANIC INSCRIPTIONS AND LINGUISTIC RECORDS

Abstract: The Hesperia project is being currently developed at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It is a digitization project aiming at producing an electronic corpus of all the inscriptions in Greek and pre-Roman languages from ancient Hispania (Spain and Portugal). It also includes all the onomastic records in the pre-Roman languages of that area. This paper provides a general overview of the project with some examples of the various types of files used in it. It also mentions future developments of the electronic corpus and directions of research.

Key words: epigraphy, inscriptions, pre-Roman languages, onomastics, databases