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Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (TIR) is an online edition of the Raetic inscriptions in the form of an interactive online platform of the MediaWiki type. It was created during an FWF-funded research project (no. P 25495) conducted at the Department for Linguistics of the University of Vienna. Funding ran from 24^th June 2013 until 23^rd June 2016.

The contributors are:

• Stefan Schumacher (project director)
• Gudrun Bajc (illustrator and photographer)
• Martin Braun (system administrator)
• Sindy Kluge (research and data entry)
• Corinna Salomon (research and data entry)

The aim of the TIR project was a comprehensive collection, display and linguistic analysis of the inscriptions which are considered part of the Raetic corpus. The project therefore comprised the following tasks:

• Collecting all Raetic inscriptions hitherto known, including those of doubtful status.
• Examining the original inscriptions, and documenting them, including photos, drawings and photogrammetry.
• Collecting and examining the secondary literature concerning both the individual inscriptions, and Raetic language and script, archaeology, and history in general.
• Creating a database and online interactive platform capable of displaying the inscriptions in an online corpus, with all aspects of the inscriptions (linguistic, archaeological, and graphematic data) documented exhaustively.

As of 24^th June 2016, with the end of the project, the edition can be considered complete. All inscriptions and the objects they are written on, except the lost pieces, were autopsied, and all are recorded in TIR on individual pages. However, the website will continue to be edited and serviced. Minor corrections may still be made; further information on the Raetic script, language and archaeology of the Raetic area will be added continuously in the form of pages for words, morphemes, phonemes, characters and sites, as well as summary texts on relevant topics. For information on the structure of the system and help with navigating it, please consult How to use TIR.

Note that herewith, the TIR edition is fully citable: In the future, pages will only be deleted and created anew when this is made necessary for technical reasons. Otherwise, all changes made in the data provided on the website are recorded via the page history. I.e., even when pages are updated, all previous versions will be accessible.

The project is considered to be a follow-up task to Lexicon Leponticum, and constitutes the next step towards a comprehensive online collection and edition of sources concerning the North Italic alphabets. In the course of the project, the employment of free open-source software for the online presentation of scientific content in the humanities has been be further improved and refined. We encourage the adoption of such collaboration and communication tools as MediaWiki for scientific purposes. Watch this space for notifications on continuative projects!

If you have comments, suggestions for improvement, or if you found a dangling link, please do not hesitate to contact us!

The project continues to take part in the COST-project AELAW - Ancient European Languages and Writings (ISCH COST Action IS1407), supported by the European Union, active from 13^th April 2015 to 12^th April 2019. Further information on the AELAW-project can be found on the project's website.

Presentations, publications and news releases

• On occasion of our study tour at the Vintschger Museum in September 2014, an article about our on-site work in the local newspaper.
• Presentation of the project and database on 29^th January 2015 at the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum (invitation [pdf, 105 KB] ).
• Sindy Kluge, Corinna Salomon & Stefan Schumacher, 'Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Eine neue Inschriftendatenbank', Ferdinandea. Die Zeitung des Vereins Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Nr. 32 (Mai–Juli 2015), 9.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Probleme der Schriftentwicklung nördlich des Po' – presentation at the colloquium in honour of Bedřich Hrozný (Vienna Department of Linguistics) on 15^th May 2015.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum' – presentation at the 1^st Training School of the AELAW project (Jaca) on 9^th September 2015.
• Sindy Kluge & Corinna Salomon, 'Ausgewählte Funde aus Dercolo im Kontext der rätischen Inschriften', Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch der Tiroler Landesmuseen 8/2015, 80–95.
• Stefan Schumacher, 'Raetic' – presentation at the 2^nd Training School of the AELAW project (Verona) on 6^th September 2016.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Die lateinische Inschrift auf dem Opistograph TV-1 (Castelciés) – Lesungs- und Datierungsfragen' – presentation at the 70^th Papyrologisch-epigraphische Werkstatt of the Viennese Department of Ancient History on 24^th October 2016.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Raetic and Runes. On the Relevance of North Italic Inscriptions for the Question of the Origin of the Runic Script' – presentation at the conference Runic Inscriptions and the Early History of the Germanic Languages (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) on March 14^th 2017.
• Corinna Salomon, Raetic. Language – Writing – Epigraphy. AELAW Booklet 2 (Zaragoza 2017). (AELAW publications).
• Corinna Salomon, 'Zu Varianten von Pi und Tau in rätischen Inschriften', Die Sprache 51,2 (2014/2015 [2017]), 237–263. (download pdf)
• David Stifter & Corinna Salomon, 'MediaWiki in Academic Online Publications – Asset or Drawback?' – presentation at the conference Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research (Maynooth University) on 18^th June 2018.
• Corinna Salomon, 'The Raetic alphabets – local variants or independent traditions?' – presentation at the conference Learning Scripts, Forgetting Scripts. New approaches to the history of writing in the Roman West (Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria) on 8^th November 2018.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Die norditalischen Alphabete – Genese und Interferenz' – presentation at the conference LautSchriftSprache/ScriptandSound 4 (LMU Munich) on 10^th November 2018.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum – New readings and inscriptions', Die Sprache 52,1 (2016/2017 [2018]), 32–101.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Raetic: gaps of knowledge and lines of research' – presentation at the conference Lingue e scritture paleoeuropee: sfide e prospettive degli studi (AELAW, EEHAR Rome) on 13^th March 2019.
• Corinna Salomon, 'On the productivity of Raetic patronyms I – The inner-Raetic evidence' – presentation at the conference Personal Names and Cultural Reconstructions (University of Helsinki) on 22^nd August 2019.
• Corinna Salomon, 'On the productivity of Raetic patronyms II – The evidence of Roman inscriptions' – presentation at the conference Bewegte Namen. Anpassungsprozesse von Eigennamen in räumlichen, zeitlichen und sozialen Spannungsfeldern (GfN-Tagung Münster) on 11^th September 2019.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Alphabets in Contact – Some thoughts on literacy in Iron Age Northern Italy' – talk at the Classics Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, on 9^th October 2019.
• Stefan Schumacher & Corinna Salomon, 'Die rätischen Inschriften vom Schneidjoch (Brandenberger Alpen, Tirol)', Die Höhle – Zeitschrift für Karst- und Höhlenkunde 70, 159–174.
• Corinna Salomon, 'Raetic Epigraphic Documents as Landmarks of Waterway Transit in the Central Alps' – presentation at the conference Down by the Water. Interdisciplinary symposium on the role of water transit points in past societies (University of Helsinki) on 8^th November 2019.