The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy

1. Verfasser: Cooley, Alison.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Ausgabe: First published 2012
Umfang/Format: 554 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 6 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.