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Author Cooley, Alison.

Title The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy / Alison E. Cooley
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 531 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary Explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to modern students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English and Latin
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Subject Inscriptions, Latin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Christian inscriptions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Languages.
Christian inscriptions
Inscriptions, Latin
Latein
Epigraphik
Epigrafik.
Latinska inskrifter.
Romerska riket.
Genre/Form manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
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