The Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) are the oldest long-term project of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, founded in 1815 as Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum and reformed by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf in 1902 with the purpose of achieving a critical edition of all Greek inscriptions of Greece in geographical corpora. The history of IG has been the object of numerous studies in the past decades, while the archive is less known to the scientific community. Because of its age the archive houses the largest collection of paper squeezes in the world (today around 100.000) and also notebooks, drawings, photographs, transcriptions, and correspondences accumulated over the last two centuries.
Beside the edition of corpora, which is the main duty of our institution, Klaus Hallof and myself recently began studying the lifelong correspondence, until present day 782 letters, between two of the most significant epigraphers of the 20th century: Günther Klaffenbach (1890-1972), Director of the Inscr...