The objective of the CSAI project, which began in 1999 is to collect the published Ancient South Arabian inscriptions.
New corpora have been added in recent years: the catalogue of the British Museum inscriptions, and those of a number of Yemeni museums. For the first time, texts written in minuscule writing are also included into the database. Up to the present, the published corpus of non-monumental texts from south Arabia is relatively small, but a big edition of new texts is going to be published.
The flexibility of the CSAI software have been also tested on epigraphic corpora in other Semitic languages, as the Phoenician inscriptions and the inscriptions from Jordan.
The database can be consulted at different levels and through different kind of searches. Scholars and experts can analyse the material through predefined indexes (index of inscriptions, word lists, index of iconographic elements) or by performing simple or combined searches within the texts or into groups of them.
Users can try the demo version of the database, while access to the corpora is by means of a password which can be obtained free of charge from: csai@humnet.unipi.it
Fonts and other utilities can be downloaded from the site. In addition to that, each page visualized during the consultation can be printed out or saved in word format.
All the inscriptions Corpus of Inscriptions from the Yemeni Museums Corpus of Inscriptions from the British Museum South Arabian Minuscule Texts Corpus of Phoenician Inscriptions from the Beirut National Museum Corpus of Inscriptions from Jordan Try the demo version of CSAI