Teaching (digital) epigraphy

Although having the experience of directly manipulating an ancient textbearing artifact is important for developing the skills of an epigrapher - an experience that books and photo cannot replace - such access to primary sources is often problematic. In this article we present our experience with teaching students to transcribe and interpret Roman inscribed lead tags, using a Digital Autoptic Process (DAP) in a Web environment, so to develop basic competences in epigraphy and digital epigraphy.