Encoding Strategies and the Ethiopic Literary Heritage: The Physiologus as a Case Study

Producing the Clavis of Ethiopic literature while making the data computer readable for extensive indexing and research purposes is among the aspirations of the project Beta maṣāḥǝft. Here, we illustrate the challenges faced with and the solutions offered by the project on the example of the Physiologus, a literary work, translated into Ethiopic from Greek during the Late Antiquity.