The book of the Corpus Epigráfico deciphers for the first time the inscriptions of the Alhambra

The Director of the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife, María del Mar Villafranca, and the director of the School of Arabic Studies (EEA) of Granada, Juan Castilla, have presented this morning the book Corpus epigráfico. For the first time, a scientific study has developed in collaboration with the EEA, a dependent institution of the High Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), has deciphered and registered 3,116 Nasrid inscriptions located in the Comares’s Palace. This one is the first volume of a collection of five, which publication is programmed to be finished in 2011, which includes a book and a DVD catalogue that gathers the database and a virtual visit of the architectural space.
María del Mar Villafranca has explained that the Corpus epigráfico “will allow all the citizens, besides the scientific community, to enter the knowledge of what the words registered in the walls of the Alhambra means”. Furthermore, the Principal of the Board of the Alhambra and Generalife, has insisted on the effort made by the researchers of the School of Arabic Studies and by the Conservation and Diffusion Departments of the Board of the Alhambra on this work that she has qualified as “innovative and didactical, were it has been used cutting-edge technology”.
Moreover, the director of the School of Arabic Studies has indicated that this work is an “effective and useful tool for the researchers and also for a group of onlookers and lovers of the Monument that was interested in discovering what the walls of the Alhambra say”. Furthermore, Castilla has revealed that most of the registered inscriptions has a didactic character. Also brief fervent prayers, royal, coranics and poetics”.
The Board of the Alhambra has published 1,000 copies of the Corpus epigráfico that will have a cost of 30 Euros.