For researchers

The corpus, as JSON and CSV.

No key. No registration. Three endpoints, every row carrying its source and licence. Rate-limited so a walk of the catalogue cannot stall the site — if you need the lot, ask for a dump.

Download 25 rows as CSV Open a record (JSON) Corpus counts

195,471

Records

Sources

GET

Read-only

429

If you rush

Endpoints

three routes, that’s the whole API

GET /api/export.csv

Filterable bulk file. Every row carries source, source_url and rights_statement.

curl "https://egyptianinscriptions.org/api/export.csv?source=MET&has_image=true&limit=250"

Try MET photographs →

GET /api/export.json

The same rows as JSON. Response includes next_offset until the page is short.

curl "https://egyptianinscriptions.org/api/export.json?form=ostracon&has_text=true"

Try 5 stelae →

GET /api/object/{id}

One record: inscriptions, images, cross-references, entities, and a _provenance note.

curl "https://egyptianinscriptions.org/api/object/22"

Sow Amulet (id 22) →

Export filters

source form has_image has_text limit offset

Source unit codes are on Sources; forms are the Browse facets. Counts live at /api/stats.

Limits

per IP, anonymous

records / minute

/api/object/{id}. A person looking up a handful of IDs never hits this.

exports / minute

CSV or JSON. One export runs at a time, site-wide, so a pull cannot stall every page.

1,000

rows / request

Then 12,000 rows per hour. Page with offset. Going over returns 429 and Retry-After.

Need the whole corpus? Don’t page it off the live database — use the contact details on the About page and we will send a dump.

Read it honestly

fields that are not the source speaking

find_point_precision

approximate is a site centroid, not the findspot — nearly all geography in this corpus. inherited came from another record of the same text.

has_inherited_fields

True when a findspot, site or date was read from a sibling across the Trismegistos spine, not stated by this row’s own source.

match_method

On cross-references. Anything other than explicit-source-field was matched here, not asserted by the holding institution.

link_source: ai-vision

Entities tagged this way come from a machine reading of a photograph. They can be wrong; they are labelled as such.

Licence and citation

The aggregation, cross-referencing and geocoding are free to reuse. The underlying records belong to the institutions on Sources and carry their own terms — each row’s rights_statement and source_url point at them. Check those before republishing images or text.

Egyptian Inscriptions Database https://egyptianinscriptions.org
Accessed <date>. 195,471 records from 19 sources.

Cite a single record as https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/<id>, and where possible cite the holding institution’s own record too.