ABSTRACT
Before turning to review Euting's contribution to Semitic epigraphy and some details of the great journeys undertaken by him in the 1880s and 1890s, it is worth saying a little about the non-orientalist side of this extraordinary man. Euting's main work was epigraphic. Indeed his name came to be known first by the following generations of Semitists through his ‘Script Tables’, which appeared in a variety of publications in the late nineteenth century and are still being reproduced. It is impossible in a brief compass to review all of the epigraphic publications arising from these travels. The notebooks on the Syrian journey of 1889-90 are particularly rich and remain unpublished. Euting's is the most cited name in the literature of Semitic epigraphy between c. 1875 and 1920: his contribution to the CIS alone was enormous. Books concerned with the exploration of Arabia also give some biographical information.
