| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 531 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Inscriptions, Latin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Inscriptions, Latin. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
Christian inscriptions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Christian inscriptions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooley, Alison. Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521840262 (DLC) 2012019056 (OCoLC)793497211 |
| ISBN |
9781139568845 (electronic book) |
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1139568841 (electronic book) |
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9781139020442 (electronic book) |
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1139020447 (electronic book) |
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9781139570657 |
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113957065X |
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9780521840262 |
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0521840260 |
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