Advanced Inscription Search

Siglum

Enter either exact siglum or beginning of siglum, i.e. either 'C 12' or 'C.' If you wish to enter more than one siglum, separate them witb a comma. Please note that sigla are case sensitive

Transliterated text

Enter one or more words. You may use an underscore (_) as a single-character wildcard, so that r_b will return results with rtb, rġb, rhb, etc.

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Searching the OCIANA Database

OCIANA allows searching on many different criteria:

Field	Search Method
Siglum	You may search for an individual siglum (ie `HCH 8` ) or for a group of sigla (for instance `AMJ` ). To search for multiple sigla, you can use the format `HCH 8, C, AMJ` with sigla separated by a comma. Important: the siglum search is case-sensitive!
Text searching (Transliterated Text and Translation)	You can search these fields for any number of words, and choose to search either for all the words to be present ('All Words'), or for the exact sequence of words ('Phrase'). An 'all words' search for `cats and dogs` would match both 'Raining cats and dogs' and 'Raining dogs and cats' but would not match 'I have a dog.' A 'phrase' search for `cats and dogs` would match 'Raining cats and dogs' but not 'Raining dogs and cats'. This search is not case-sensitive.
Current Location, Registration Number, Old Record ID	You can search these fields for any string of characters and the application will look for that string anywhere in the text of that field. It is not case-sensitive.
Filtering Criteria (Part of Speech, Script, Script Variant, Country, Region, Site, Subjects)	These fields use combo boxes to let you find particular criteria, but they are not free-text. You can type in a few characters to help you locate the selection you want. Note that for subjects, you may choose any number of subject tags to search and it will match any of those tags. All others allow only a single selection.
Limiters (Genealogy, Generations, Prayers, Narratives)	The checkbox fields allow you to limit your results to only those inscriptions that have been marked as including a prayer, narrative section, or genealogy. If filtering for genealogical records, you may also indicate how many generations of genealogy the inscription should contain.

You can also look at further details of our editorial conventions.