The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy /
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| Author / Creator: | Cooley, Alison. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 531 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English Latin |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831134 |
Table of 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.