SEARCH IN THE FIELDS: Area-Location (original context), City/Town-Location (conservation), Transcription.
Similarly to currently available web search engines, EDB provides an advanced text-based system which allows users to obtain different results according to a predefined syntax:
| Input | Output | |
|---|---|---|
| EXACT WORD MATCHING User searches for a single “exact” word |
quiescit | all the records containing exactly the term quiescit (i.e. inscriptions containing requiescit, conquiescit, etc. are not returned) |
| PARTIAL WORD MATCHING User searches for a single word, also partially composing other terms |
*quiescit | all the records containing the term quiescit or other terms ending with the text quiescit, such as requiescit, conquiescit |
| vix* | all the records containing the term vix or other terms starting with the text vix, such as vixit, vixerunt | |
| *vix* | all the records containing the term vix or other terms partially composed by the text vix, such as vixit, vixerunt, convixi, convixit, convixerunt | |
| EXACT PHRASE MATCHING User searches for an exact sequence of words |
"quiescit in pace" | all the records containing exactly the sequence of words quiescit in pace |
| PARTIAL PHRASE MATCHING research several words not in sequence |
benemerenti pace quiescit | all the records containing, in sequence or not, exactly the terms benemerenti, pace and quiescit |
| "in somno pacis" quiescit | all the records containing, in sequence or not, exactly the sequence in somno pacis and the term quiescit | |
| "in somno pacis" *quiescit | all the records containing, in sequence or not, exactly the sequence in somno pacis and the term quiescit or other terms ending with quiescit, such as requiescit, conquiescit | |
| "in pace" vix* | all the records containing, in sequence or not, exactly the sequence in pace and terms beginning with vix, such as vixit, vixerunt | |
| "in pace" *vix* | all the records containing, in sequence or not, exactly the sequence in pace and the term vix or other terms partially composed by the text vix, such as vixit, vixerunt, convixi, convixit, convixerunt | |
| *quiescit *posit* | all the records containing, in sequence or not, the term quiescit or other terms ending with quiescit, such as requiescit, conquiescit, and terms partially composed by posit, such as positus, posito, posita, or depositus, deposito, deposita |
Enter Greek letters with your Roman keyboard (A for α, B for β, C for γ etc.). Some Greek characters are less intuitive to obtain in such way and can be acquired as follows:
| Letter | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Theta | Q | θ |
| Xi | C | ξ |
| Final Sigma | J | ς |
| Psi | Y | ψ |
| Omega | W | ω |
You can also add diacritics after the letters:
| Diacritic | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| rough breathing | a( | ἁ |
| smooth breathing | a) | ἀ |
| acute | a/ | ά |
| grave | a\ | ὰ |
| circumflex | a= | ᾶ |
| Iota subscript | a| | ᾳ |