Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions, and more specifically, the deciphering of ancient inscriptions. Several resources related to the study of ancient Greek epigraphy are available on the web and can be reached through this page.

For a thorough discussion of the epigraphic evidence dating from the Hellenistic-Roman period, see Bradley H. McLean, An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great down to the Reign of Constantine 323 B.C. - A.D. 337. For a discussion of the wider question of the nature of epigraphy and its role in the judgments of historians, see A. Geoffrey Woodhead, The Study of Greek Inscriptions.

Numerous organizations maintain websites providing information on their own epigraphical work or offering brief descriptions of work with inscriptions done by others. Some provide images of significant inscriptions.

• The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, associated with L’Association Internationale d’Epigraphie grecque et latine
• The British Epigraphy Society, an independent 'chapter' of L’Association Internationale d'Epigraphie grecque et latine
• Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University
• Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford University
• Epigraphic Database Heidelberg, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Packard Humanities Institute Greek Epigraphy Project (Searchable inscriptions!), A Project of Cornell University and Ohio State University
• Inscriptiones Graecae, Berlin-Brandenburgishe Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin
• The Sara B. Ailshire Center for the Study of Ancient Greek Epigraphy, University of California, Berkley
• The U.S. Epigraphy Project, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA

The list below provides direct access to a number of image collections. These collections are developed and maintained by some of the organizations listed above. By placing their images on the internet they have made them available to a worldwide network of scholars interested in ancient Greek epigraphy. They deserve our sincerest gratitude.

• Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
  This site presents the electronic second edition of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions, by Charlotte Roueché, King's College London, expanded and revised from the version published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies in 1989. Several Greek inscriptions are included in this electronic edition.
  

• J.M.R. Cormack Macedonian Collection (Squeezes)
  A large collection of inscriptions from Macedonia.
  

• The web site of the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies at Ohio State University contains a list of scanned images of dated Attic inscriptions. Each listing serves as a link to an image of the relevant squeeze and is accompanied by information listing publication(s) where a copy of the text can be found including the most recent publication from which a bibliography for the inscription can be obtained. Each image also serves as a link to a larger version of the same squeeze. A 2 cm scale has been scanned in with each squeeze (most are approximately twice actual size).
  

• Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Project (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/)
  The “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” project at Brown University seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). There are about 15,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin.
  

• Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions
  Cornell University Library has in its digital collection a large number of high quality photographs of inscriptions from Eleusis. You can even download copies of the pictures!

While many books on epigraphy are available, the following are influential and provide specific discussion of ancient Greek inscriptions. Any of them would make a good starting place for your study.

Bradley McLean, An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great down to the Reign of Constantine 323 B.C. - A.D. 337. University of Michigan Press, 2011.