Parpola is a brother of the Akkadian language epigrapher Simo Parpola. He was married to Hripsime Djanpoladjian, who was an archaeologist and epigrapher. His accuracy as a meticulous epigrapher was praised by Giovanni Battista de Rossi. A person using the methods of epigraphy is called an "epigrapher" or "epigraphist". An epigrapher, numismatist, he was also a specialist of historical geography. He is an epigrapher noted for his work on onomastics. F. W. "Chip" Dobbs-Allsopp is a biblical scholar, epigrapher, and literary theorist. Morley, the foremost epigrapher, did not originally agree with the readings of the dates. Other scholars who worked there were Thorkild Jacobsen as epigrapher, Seton Lloyd, and Pinhas Delougaz. Damais was reappointed acting epigrapher in 1945, but in September 1947 he returned to France. On 3 August 1939 De Casparis was appointed epigrapher to the Oudheidkundige Dienst in Batavia.