I.Sicily and Crossreads:

Abstract

This paper presents the I.Sicily and Crossreads projects, which aim to build and exploit a digital corpus of the epigraphic texts of ancient Sicily. The introduction summarises the history of epigraphic corpora for the island. In part two the core elements of the I.Sicily corpus project are outlined and briefly discussed. In part three, the primary areas of focus of the Crossreads project are summarised (historical linguistics, petrographic analysis, and palaeographic study). *