The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy / Alison E. Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Latin--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Inscriptions, Latin.

Christian inscriptions--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Christian inscriptions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 531 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This book advances our understanding of the place of Latin inscriptions in the Roman world. It enables readers, especially those new to the subject, to appreciate both the potential and the limitations of inscriptions as historical source material, by considering the diversity of epigraphic culture in the Roman world and how it has been transmitted to the twenty-first century. The first chapter offers an epigraphic sample drawn from the Bay of Naples, illustrating the dynamic epigraphic culture of that region. The second explores in detail the nature of epigraphic culture in the Roman world, probing the limitations of traditional ways of dividing up inscriptions into different categories, and offering examples of how epigraphic culture developed in different geographical, social and religious contexts. It examines the 'life-cycle' of inscriptions - how they were produced, viewed, reused and destroyed. Finally, the third provides guidance on deciphering inscriptions face-to-face and handling specialist epigraphic publications.

Contents:

Epigraphic culture in the bay of Naples: Introduction

Inscriptions and civic life

Personal inscriptions

Inscriptions and the economy: texts of production, distribution and ownership

Inscriptions in art ; Epigraphic culture in the Roman world: Defining epigraphy

Epigraphic categorization

Epigraphy in society

Monuments, not documents

The emergence of Christian epigraphy

The geography of epigraphy: a case-study of Tripolitania

Urban epigraphy

Epigraphy in the pre-desert interior

The army camp at Bu Njem

The life-cycle of inscriptions

The production and design of inscriptions

Language choice

Reading and viewing inscriptions

Afterlife of inscriptions ; A technical guide to Latin epigraphy

Finding published inscriptions

Guide to CIL and other corpora

Major corpora of Christian inscriptions

Reading an epigraphic publication

How to use CIL

Editorial conventions

"History from square brackets"

Abbreviations

Working with stemmata

Beyond the book: viewing and recording an inscription

On site and in museums

Forgeries

Dating inscriptions

Putting the pieces together ; Appendixes: Consular fasti, 298 BC-AD 541

Imperial titles, Augustus-Justinian.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316089019

1316089010

9781139579254

1139579258

9781139020442

1139020447

9781107253735

110725373X

9781139572408

1139572407

9781139568845

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9781139570657

113957065X

9781283637596

1283637596

9781139569743

1139569740

OCLC:

815389284