First stop (for Dutch readers): LAMPAS 54.1 (2021), a special issue of the periodical Lampas dedicated to Greek epigraphy.
Handbooks and introductions in alphabetical order:
Links to online editions or WorldCat entries have been added where available.
- COOK B.F. 1987. Greek Inscriptions. London: British Museum Publications. [A brief introduction on the basis of inscriptions in the British Museum]
- GUARDUCCI, M. 1967-1978 (reprint: 1995). Epigrafia greca. Rome [A massive 4 volume introduction, organised thematically, with introduction and discussion of individual inscriptions]
- 1. Caratteri e storia della disciplina. La scrittura greca dalle origini all’età imperiale. 1967. 580 p.; index.
- 2. Epigrafi di carattere pubblico. 1969. 768 p.; index.
- 3. Epigrafi di carattere privato. 1974. 611 p.; index.
- 4. Epigrafi sacre pagane e cristiane. 1978. 601 p.; index.
- GUARDUCCI, M. 1987. L’epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero. Rome, X-561 p.; index [An abbreviated version of the above volumes]
- HONDIUS, J.J.E. 1938. (reprint: Chicago, 1976). Saxa loquuntur. Leiden, VI-169 p. [In Dutch; a general introduction and list of publications]
- KLAFFENBACH, G. 1957, 1966 (2nd edition). Griechische Epigraphik. Göttingen, 107 p.; index (Studienhefte zur Altertumswissenschaft, 6). (See also the 1957 edition)
- LARFELD, W. 1902-1907. Handbuch der griechischen Epigraphik. Leipzig. [A massive technical manual] (an online version may be found here)
- 1. Einleitungs- und Hilfsdisziplinen. Die nicht-attischen Inschriften. 1907. VIII-604 p.; index.
- 2. Die attischen Inschriften. 1902. XIV-957 p.; index.
- LARFELD, W. 1914 (3rd edition). Griechische Epigraphik. München, 536 p.; index (Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, I, 5). Abbreviated version of the above] (an online version may be found here)
- McLean, Bradley H. 2002. An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great Down to the Reign of Constantine (323 B.C.-A.D. 337).Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Recent technical manual for inscriptions of later periods; A detailed table of contents may be found here; an index may be found here)
- PFOHL, G. et al. 1977. Das Studium der griechischen Epigraphik. Eine Einführung. Darmstadt. 164 p.; index (Die Altertumswissenschaft). [With contributions by W. Peek, A.E. Raubitschek, A. Woodhead et al.]
- REHM, A. 1969 (2nd edition) “Die Inschriften,” in Handbuch der Archäologie I, München, p. 182-238. [Or edition 1939; 2nd edition by G. Klaffenbach 1969, overview p. 331-393]
- REINACH, S. 1885. Traité d’épigraphie grecque. Paris. XXXIII-560 p.; index. [Contents: I Essai sur l’épigraphie grecque; II Traité des inscriptions et des formules 1: Histoire de l’alphabet grec; 2: Orthographie et grammaire des inscriptions; 3 Des inscriptions en general; 4: Les actes publics; 5: Inscriptions diverses, titres privés; 6: Notions complémentaires; Addenda et corrigenda] (an online version may be found here)
- REMY, B. and F. KAYSER, 1999. Initiation a l’épigraphie grecque et latine. Paris. 192 p.; index. [Brief general introduction, and selection of texts, also for Latin inscriptions]
- ROBERT, L. 1961. “Épigraphie,” in L’histoire et ses methodes Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, Paris, p. 453-497 [= OMS 5, 102 also on Latin epigraphy. Translated into German: Die Epigraphik der klassischen Welt, Bonn, 1970. 66 p., 8 pl .; no index]
- SABA, S and G. RENBERG, 2012-2019. Greek Epigraphy (Oxford bibliographies)
- WOODHEAD, A.G. 1992 (2nd edition). The Study of Greek Inscriptions. Cambridge. p. [XIV-] 150; index.