Corpus of Pyu Inscriptions
About the publication
Arlo Griffiths, Julian Wheatley, James Miles, Ashin Nyarna Daza, Bob Hudson, Nathan Hill, Marc Miyake, Wai Lin Thu, and Ne Myo Win, at the Pedaw monastery in Myittha (south of Mandalay), November 2016.
Bob Hudson, Win Maung, Julian Wheatley, Marc Miyake, Arlo Griffiths, and Nathan Hill at the home of Win Maung, Tampawaddy (near Mandalay), November 2016.
Arlo Griffiths, Julian Wheatley, James Miles, Ashin Nyarna Daza, Bob Hudson, Nathan Hill, Marc Miyake, Wai Lin Thu, and Ne Myo Win, at the Pedaw monastery in Myittha (south of Mandalay), November 2016.
Bob Hudson, Win Maung, Julian Wheatley, Marc Miyake, Arlo Griffiths, and Nathan Hill at the home of Win Maung, Tampawaddy (near Mandalay), November 2016.
This digital publication aims to present the complete primary textual data along with metadata, including precise information on the whereabouts of the inscribed artefacts, annotated English translations, for a major the Burmese epigraphic corpus that has so far only been studied with pre-digital methods. Our aim has been to identify in the field, or in museums, all inscriptions falling within our purview, to document them photographically, to re-edit them from the originals whenever possible, and to exploit the full potential of a digital corpus approach to these historical documents.
The corpus focuses on inscriptions in the Pyu language, but includes inscriptions in other languages if they may be connected with the urban system in first-millennium Upper Burma, i.e., with ‘Pyu culture’.
The data presented in this publication have been encoded in XML according to the EpiDoc schema compliant with the Text Encoding Initiative and processed through ODD in an eXist database.