The Cambridge handbook to Latin epigraphy
By: Alison E. Cooley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780521840262
Subjects: Christian inscriptions; Latin Inscriptions; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epigraphic culture in the bay of Naples: Introduction; title: Inscriptions and civic life; title: Personal inscriptions; title: Inscriptions and the economy: texts of production, distribution and ownership; title: Inscriptions in art ; Epigraphic culture in the Roman world: Defining epigraphy; title: Epigraphic categorization; title: Epigraphy in society; title: Monuments, not documents; title: The emergence of Christian epigraphy; title: The geography of epigraphy: a case-study of Tripolitania; title: Urban epigraphy; title: Epigraphy in the pre-desert interior; title: The army camp at Bu Njem; title: The life-cycle of inscriptions; title: The production and design of inscriptions; title: Language choice; title: Reading and viewing inscriptions; title: Afterlife of inscriptions ; A  technical guide to Latin epigraphy; title: Finding published inscriptions; title: Guide to CIL and other corpora; title: Major corpora of Christian inscriptions; title: Reading an epigraphic publication; title: How to use CIL; title: Editorial conventions; title: "History from square brackets"; title: Abbreviations; title: Working with stemmata; title: Beyond the book: viewing and recording an inscription; title: On site and in museums; title: Forgeries; title: Dating inscriptions; title: Putting the pieces together ; Appendixes: Consular fasti, 298 BC-AD 541; title: Imperial titles, Augustus-Justinian.