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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Print version record |
Subject |
Inscriptions, Latin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Christian inscriptions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Languages.
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Christian inscriptions
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Inscriptions, Latin
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Latein
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Epigraphik
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Epigrafik.
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Latinska inskrifter.
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Romerska riket.
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Genre/Form |
manuals (instructional materials)
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781139568845 |
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1139568841 |
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9781139020442 |
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1139020447 |
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9781139570657 |
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113957065X |
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110725373X |
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9781107253735 |
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1139572407 |
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9781139572408 |
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1283637596 |
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9781283637596 |
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1139569740 |
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9781139569743 |
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1316089010 |
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9781316089019 |
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1139579258 |
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9781139579254 |
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