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Roman Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions from ancient Rome and its territories, focusing on the analysis of texts carved on stone, metal, and other durable materials. This field examines the language, script, and cultural context of inscriptions to understand social, political, and historical aspects of Roman society.
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Roman Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions from ancient Rome and its territories, focusing on the analysis of texts carved on stone, metal, and other durable materials. This field examines the language, script, and cultural context of inscriptions to understand social, political, and historical aspects of Roman society.

Key research themes

1. How does epigraphic evidence illuminate the social roles and identities of Romans, particularly freedmen and local elites?

Epigraphy provides direct, contemporaneous records revealing social status, office-holding, personal identities, and commemorations that textual sources often overlook or idealize. This theme explores inscriptions documenting civic roles, funerary commemorations, and honorific markers, with a special focus on freedmen’s participation in public life and the complex negotiation of social identity in the Roman Empire.

Key finding: Hartnett explicates how the funerary inscription and life-sized marble portrait of Flavius Agricola—a freedman’s descendant—offers precise biographical insights into an average Roman’s life. The epigraphic and sculptural... Read more
Key finding: This work documents variations and expansions in the nomenclature of the seviratus Augustalis, a collegial civic institution primarily comprised of wealthy freedmen. The epigraphic record, encompassing around three thousand... Read more
Key finding: The recently discovered funerary altar inscription from Nevesinje reveals a prominent Roman citizen of equestrian status, Publicius Iustinus, who served as a quinquennal duumvir. The epigraphic evidence provides not only his... Read more
Key finding: This ongoing project compiles an extensive epigraphic onomastic database of Thracian and Thraco-Bithynian personal names in Greek and Latin inscriptions, facilitating spatial-temporal analysis of name distributions and social... Read more

2. What do inscriptions reveal about Roman commercial practices, production, and trade networks?

Roman epigraphy offers vital data on economic activities, including production evidence such as stamped amphorae, commercial coordination in ports, and craft production. This theme integrates epigraphic evidence with archaeological and legal records to elucidate the organization, administration, and spatial dynamics of Roman trade and industry within provincial and imperial contexts.

Key finding: The epigraphically stamped amphora handle reading "ΚΟΥΑΡΤΟΥ" from Romula, dated to the late 2nd century AD, identifies a ceramic producer whose products circulated from the Greek world into the Danubian provinces. This find... Read more
Key finding: This study integrates juristic literature, archaeological finds, and epigraphic evidence to propose a procedural model of Roman maritime trade centered on port operations. The material culture, including inscriptions related... Read more
Key finding: Epigraphic finds, combined with archaeologically identified viticultural tools, provide evidence for local wine production in Southern Pannonia. This challenges prior assumptions that wine was predominantly imported,... Read more

3. How does epigraphy contribute to reconstructing administrative, civic, and cultural practices in Roman urban and provincial settings?

Inscriptions document the administration of public spectacles, urban offices, and honorific practices that shaped Roman social and political life. This theme explores epigraphic records related to civic offices (e.g., decurional ornamenta), theatrical administration, guild activities, and public commemorations, shedding light on institutional evolution, local identity construction, and the negotiation of honor and status in urban contexts.

Key finding: This study analyzes inscriptions referencing ornamenta decurionalia, elucidating their function as external insignia linked to magistracies. It reveals that these honors were sometimes conferred independently of the actual... Read more
Key finding: Epigraphic evidence from the Julio-Claudian period demonstrates the progressive institutionalization of theatrical performance administration in Rome. This work identifies changes in the organization of ludi scaenici, showing... Read more
Key finding: This conference report synthesizes research on epigraphic evidence documenting craft workers and workshops, focusing on prosopographical and workshop localization methodologies. The epigraphic corpus from the 3rd to 5th... Read more

All papers in Roman Epigraphy

This paper takes as its starting point the reflections made by Fábio Duarte Joly and José Ernesto Moura Knust in the article "Ancient Slavery in a Mediterranean Perspective: a Proposal for Global Approach". My comments consist of a first... more
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L'analisi dei contesti tardoantichi dello scavo dell'area del nuovo ospedale di Lucca, in località Arancio, permette di concludere l'itinerario nei paesaggi della campagna lucchese fra IV e V secolo d.C. iniziato quasi quaranta anni prima... more
Une inscription grecque inédite provenant de la région de Suweidā' permet de localiser avec précision le monastère de 'A , mentionné par la Lettre des archimandrites d'Arabie vers 570, sur les pentes du tell Jefneh. Ce monastère y... more
The site of Apulum I, Colonia Aurelia Apulensis was impacted by public infrastructure works in the modern city of Alba Iulia, carried out during 2023. Here, during an archaeological supervision on Regimentul V Vânători Street, no. 88, in... more
newly discovered inscription during the rescue excavations within the fortress of the XIII Gemina legion at Apulum is published here. The marble slab was probably set by the members of a religious collegium (or of a collegium... more
This paper presents the latest epigraphic discovery in the camp of XIIIth Legion Gemina, represented by a votive altar dedicated to Iupiter Optimus Maximus, the protective Genius of the centuria, by a non-commissioned officer with the... more
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The article examines the tombstone of the naval centurion Liccaeus, which was discovered in the village of Osor (Apsorus) on the island of Cres. According to the inscription, it appears that a public site was allocated for the monument,... more
RESUMEN: En este artículo se presentan y analizan cinco inscripciones romanas procedentes de Belorado (Burgos), algunas de ellas inéditas, que se registran en un manuscrito, de autor desconocido, conservado en la Biblioteca Nacional de... more
Se analizan diversos materiales marmóreos procedentes del anfiteatro de Itálica, identificando materiales de origen bético (Almadén de la Plata, Mijas, Alconera) y lusitano (Anticlinal de Estremoz, Aroche, Beja). Se discute asimismo la... more
"Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra solo puede ser realizada con la autorización de sus titulares, salvo excepción prevista por la ley. Diríjase a CEDRO (Centro Español de... more
En el presente trabajo se recopilan y analizan las inscripciones de médicos incluidas en la obra de Ligorio, poniendo el foco en los textos inventados, así como en algunas anotaciones que este humanista hizo acerca de la práctica de la... more
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In this text I have examined four significant inscriptions found in or near Bitola, N. Macedonia. The document focuses on four distinct epigraphic monuments spanning various historical periods, including a Hellenistic dedication to King... more
The Bucharest conference focuses on the historical and political epistemology of the Roman Republic, examining how ancient sources help us understand processes of constitutional change. It explores phenomena of political and legal... more
Se presenta en este trabajo una pieza de época romana relacionada con el juego infantil encontrada en la excavación de las termas orientales de Torreparedones. Se trata de una muñeca articulada que está fabricada en terracota a la que... more
Otra de las piedras localizadas en el collado de Jarilla. Piedras con inscripciones que ya se habían localizado en la zona del collado.
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Se presentan diez piezas fálicas de época romana de función apotropaica depositadas en el Museo Arqueológico de Medina Sidonia (Cádiz). Entre ellas se encuentran ocho amuletos de diferente tipología, un silbato y una breve inscripción... more
Resumo: Nas vastas coleções do atual Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE), da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), há muitos objetos arqueológicos do Oriente (Egito, Mesopotâmia), da Grécia e de sítios romanos. Um dos principais problemas... more
Latin literature is famously dependent on and imitative of Greek liter- ature and, in terms of content and style, Latin epistles are not greatly different from Greek counterparts. But in other respects, the two epistolographical tradi-... more
First e-edition. Publication is available in open access at : https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL
DOI: 10.4312/9789612976378
Research on Roman slavery has mainly been focused on questions of market economy since the beginning of the twentieth century. With the growing focus on the treatment of slaves and their experience of slavery, the master-slave... more
Aperçu sur le culte de Cybèle en Afrique proconsulaire à Zama Regia à partir des 30 œuvres de l'exposition "La Magna Mater entre Rome et Zama". Une exposition qui s'est maintenue au Parc Archéologique du Colosseo de Rome du 05 Juin au 05... more
The Roman reliefs from Ptuj include one that shows a nude male figure previously interpreted as Lysippian Kairos. It is an attractive interpretation, but one that calls for a careful analysis of all the elements of the relief to either... more
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Occupying over a thousand acres of the Roman Campagna, the tuff quarries of the Lower Aniene Valley represent one of the largest extant sources of evidence for the extraction of building stone in antiquity. Yet these enormous quarries,... more
Il presente studio si propone di indagare in profondità il ruolo svolto dai decurioni, ossia i membri del consiglio municipale (ordo decurionum), nella vita politica, religiosa e sociale della città di Terracina in età romana. Tale... more
This study aims to conduct an in-depth investigation into the role played by the decurions-the members of the municipal council (ordo decurionum)-in the political, religious, and social life of the city of Terracina during the Roman era.... more
Gérer les territoires, les patrimoines et les crises le Quotidien municipal ii ©
Journée d’étude internationale « De la peregrina à la clarissima : l’épigraphie au féminin », LUHCIE, Université Grenoble Alpes, 24 mai 2024.
This paper examines a newly discovered votive altar dedicated to the goddess Terra Mater, from Ratarska Ulica (Ratarska Street) in Sremska Mitrovica (ancient Sirmium). This is the first recorded evidence of this deity in Sirmium. The... more
RESUMEN: Se presenta en este trabajo un conjunto de evidencias epigráficas que demuestra la presencia de inscripciones de carácter monumental asociadas al templo sobre podio del temenos de colonia Augusta Firma.
Edition of a Roman funerary inscription mentioning a patriciensis found in the vicinity of La Carlota (Córdoba).
Lorsque le 25 mars 101, l'empereur Trajan quitta rome (CIL vi, 2074 = ILS 5035 = IDRE i, 4), ses armées de Pannonie et des mésies préparaient l'assaut contre les Daces qui se montrent des voisins encombrants et remuants depuis l'époque... more
Andreas HOFENEDER Überlegungen zu den keltischen Götternamen bei griechischen und römischen Schriftstellern .
Here is the translation of the Spanish review into English: Roman theatre is not merely a playful performance for the entertainment of the people. It
A partir de un exhaustivo análisis de las evidencias epigráficas e iconográficas de] culto a Némesis en la Hispania romana, el autor analiza y contrasta las últimas hipótesis suscitadas en torno a esta cuestión. Aunque la baja extracción... more
This article analyzes epigraphical evidence from the city of Rome (CIL VI) as well as medical and legal texts, Roman comedy, and Latin literature to better understand how working freedwomen negotiated the potential for motherhood. It... more
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