Tick anything you already have, in any order. Quests unlock once this is done.
The Epigraphik-Datenbank and the Packard Institute hold hundreds of thousands of texts, free, with photographs. This is the raw material of the whole field.
Open an epigraphy database2 things left above. Quests are real things you go and do, so they only make sense once you have what you need.
First one waiting: Read the date off an inscription in Roman numerals