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The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy

Alison Cooley

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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.

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