DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

 
DASI Project director
Prof. Alessandra Avanzini
 
Scientific coordinator
Alessia Prioletta (May 2011 - July 2015)
Irene Rossi (January 2017 - ongoing)
 
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions
University of Pisa
Alessandra Avanzini, Maria Gorea, Alessandra Lombardi, Khaldon Noman, Costanza Odierna, Alessia Prioletta, Irene Rossi (epigraphy)
Fabio Betti, Chiara Condoluci, Alessandra Lombardi, Alexia Pavan (archaeology and art-history)
Daniele Mascitelli (Arabic epigraphy and language)
Giulia Buono, Cleto Carbonara, Clara Mancarella, Cristina Pappalardo, Carlotta Rizzo (students)
Annamaria De Santis, Irene Rossi (digital epigraphy)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Irene Rossi (CNR-ISPC)
Giulia Buono (CNR-ISPC associate - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Chiara E. Salvador (CNR-ISPC)
Mohammed Atbuosh
Davide Mariani, Sonia Menoncin (PCTO students 2023, Liceo delle Scienze Applicate "E. Fermi", Desio)
Jacopo Giussani, Ethan Maspes, Gabriela Pagliarani Gusmão (PCTO students 2024, Liceo delle Scienze Applicate "E. Fermi", Desio)
 
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia
University of Oxford
Prof. Jeremy Johns (project supervisor)
Michael C.A. Macdonald (scientific coordinator)
María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, Ali Al Manaser (epigraphy)
Daniel Burt (IT developer), Jennifer Brooke Lockie (technical support)
Crispin Smith (doctoral student)
 
Corpus of Nabatean Inscriptions
CNRS-UMR8167 Orient & Méditerranée
Laïla Nehmé (scientific supervisor)
Yann Gayet
 
Corpus of Aramaic Inscriptions
Maria Gorea (Université de Paris VIII)
 
Geographic data
Jérémie Schiettecatte (scientific coordinator, CNRS-UMR8167 Orient & Méditerranée)
Annamaria De Santis (University of Pisa)
 
Participant scholars
Alessio Agostini (Università La Sapienza, Roma)
Mounir Arbach (CNRS-UMR5133 Archéorient, Lyon)
Prof. Christian Julien Robin (CNRS-UMR8167 Orient & Méditerranée, Paris; Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris)
 
Technical project
Scuola Normale Superiore
Prof. Amos Bertolacci (scientific coordinator)
Umberto Parrini (technical supervisor)
Daniele Marotta (technical coordinator)
Annamaria De Santis (technical support and dissemination), Irene Rossi (technical support)
Enrico Caruso, Gianfranco Di Tota, Matteo Gallo (IT developers)
Mirko Delcaldo (web design)
 
DASI system is currently maintained by the CNR-Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale of the CNR-Dipartimento Scienze Umane e Sociali, Patrimonio Culturale with the technical support of the CNR-Reti e Sistemi Informativi.