Greek and Roman Epigraphy

In questo volume di 816 pp. (Cagliari, Edizioni AV., ISBN: 978-88-8374-112-8) vengono studiate le 285 epigrafi funerarie latine e greche finora note di Karales (Cagliari, Sardegna). Nei capitoli introduttivi sono passate in rassegna la storia degli studi, la storia politico-istituzionale della città romana, la sua generale articolazione urbanistica e quella particolare delle sue due principali aree funerarie. La sezione seguente consiste nel Catalogo dei tituli ed è suddivisa in quattro parti sulla base del luogo di rinvenimento dei testi. Le schede del Catalogo seguono, con qualche variazione, lo schema del sistema informatico di classificazione P.E.T.R.A.E. Nel Quadro conclusivo di sintesi sono analizzati i tipi di monumenti, i formulari epigrafici, l'onomastica e la condizione giuridico-sociale, le gentes, la cronologia dei testi, i fenomeni paleografici, linguistici e simbolico-decorativi. Chiudono il volume gli indici onomastici, le tavole di concordanza tra il Catalogo e le principali raccolte epigrafiche, la Bibliografia e l'Appendice documentaria.

This book it is neither a manual about epigraphy, papyrology, or paleography albeit it has all the characteristics and analogies to be considered as such. Instead, its innovative nature lies in a new and more complete image of the ancient documents from the viewpoint of the scholars who study them. The time to overcome misleading barriers and definitions is overdue. Today, more than ever, such concepts, which came to be during specific cultural and political periods, show their weak scholarly foundations. Consequently, following Karl Popper' s brilliant statement that "we study not disciplines, but problems, and often problems transcend the boundaries of a particular discipline": epigraphs, papyri, tabulae, parchment, graffiti, paintings, and so forth will be treated as one with the unique objective to give the reader the skills needed to read an ancient document, regardless of its writing surface and script type (Majuscule, Minuscule, Cursive, Capitals, Uncial, etc.) and with applied methodology reconstruct its context in order to obtain the largest amount of possible information.

Therefore, this manual is formed of two sections: The first part presents a history of writing, its surface support materials, instruments, and types of scripts, the essential elements of paleography and a history of the book. Whereas the second part of the manual takes on the analyses between the most prominent documents (epigraphs, papyri, manuscripts) which convey the history of Rome from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity.


Questo libro non è tanto un manuale di epigrafia né di papirologia e neppure di paleografia, sebbene ne mostri di tutti caratteri e affinità. Il suo carattere innovativo piuttosto consiste in una visione nuova e più completa dello studioso dei documenti provenienti dall' antichità. Sono infatti maturi i tempi per superare artificiosi steccati e definizioni sorti storicamente in momenti culturali e politici precisi, che oggi, ancor più che nel passato, mostrano la loro debolezza scientifica. E poiché non siamo studiosi di certe materie, bensì di problemi. E i problemi possono passare attraverso i confini di qualsiasi materia o disciplina secondo un luminoso insegnamento di Karl Popper epigrafi, papiri, tavolette, pergamene, graffiti su cocci o intonaci, pitture, ecc., saranno oggetto di una trattazione unitaria finalizzata a trasmettere al lettore le necessarie competenze per leggere un documento antico, a prescindere dal suo supporto scrittorio e dal tipo di scrittura utilizzata (capitale, maiuscola, corsiva, minuscola, onciale, ecc.), e con metodo ricostruirne il contesto per ricavarne così ogni informazione possibile.
Il manuale è, dunque, articolato in due parti. Una parte generale dedicata alla storia della scrittura, ai materiali scrittori, alla storia del libro, alle varietà di scritture, agli elementi essenziali della paleografia. Mentre, nella seconda parte speciale, contiene si affronta l' analisi tra i più importanti importanti documenti (epigrafi, papiri, manoscritti) che attraversano la storia di Roma dall' età arcaica a quella tardoantica

Orazio Licandro

Year: 2020
Edizione: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Series
Manuali L'ERMA, 4
ISBN: 9788891309907
Binding: Brossura
Pages: 304
Size: 17 x 24 cm

Inscriptions on stone often perpetuate the memory of individuals. Today, we associate them mainly with statue bases and gravestones, as in antiquity they were used widely for funerary and honorary purposes. Another trait that we associate with inscriptions is conciseness and precision of expression—what we call a “lapidary style.” In this paper, however, I deal with ancient inscriptions that were the exact opposite of lapidary. I discuss four epigraphic dossiers, which consisted of many inscribed documents, including some that were wordy and repetitious. The dossiers date from the Roman imperial period and were found in Asia Minor. All four have been preserved well enough for us to be able to reconstruct their original design. They are connected, I argue, more or less directly and in ways that are not always immediately obvious, with the activities of civic benefactors; therefore, they perpetuate the memory of individuals. But, I also argue, their creation also reflected the interests of larger groups and political entities and served to perpetuate collective along with individual fame. This, I dare to speculate, must be one reason why they escaped the fate of Diogenes’ huge inscription at Oenoanda, which was dismantled not long after its creation. The documents displayed at Aphrodisias, like those in the other three dossiers discussed here, were picked out of archives, combined into new entities, arranged with specific intent, and were made part of monuments in which writing—in fact thousands of words—played a central role. They, therefore, deserve a place in our discussion on readers vs. viewers of inscriptions, particularly in the Greek East.

RESUMEN El autor publica ocho inscripciones inéditas de la ciudad de Polirrenia (Creta), las cuales fue-ron encontradas en 1960 en la necrópolis de la antigua ciudad pertenecientes a un mismo monumento. Todas estas inscripciones funerarias se han perdido al ser reutilizadas para la construcción en el pueblo actual y sólo se han conservado hasta ahora gracias a la transcrip-ción inédita de los textos que hizo, sin indicaciones precisas sobre la escritura, Stilianós Kiriacoyannakis en 1960. Estas inscripciones contienen sólo relaciones de nombres. ABSTRACT The author publishes eight unpublished inscriptions of Polyrrhenia in Crete, which were found in 1960 in a monument in the old city´s necropolis. All these funerary inscriptions were lost when they were reused for construction and they have only been preserved until now, thanks to the copy of the text made by Stilianos Kiriacoyannakis in 1960, without any precised indication about its handwriting. These inscriptions contain only lists of names. KEY WORDS: Greek Epigraphy. Polyrrhenia. Crete. Las ocho piedras con las inscripciones objeto del presente artículo contie-nen sólo relaciones de nombres y pertenecían a un mismo monumento. Estas pie-dras fueron localizadas en Polirrenia en abril de 1960 por Stilianós Kiriaco-yannakis, conservador extraordinario de Antigüedades de Kísamos y director del Instituto de la misma ciudad, en el patio de la casa de Yorgos Emmanuil Jaralam-bakis, donde se encontraban preparadas para la construcción. Según las informa-ciones del propio Jaralambakis y de otros vecinos, las piedras habían sido traslada-das allí unos pocos años antes desde un terreno propiedad del mismo, situado al sur del pueblo de Polirrenia en el lugar llamado Langós, 15 metros aproximada-mente al oeste del lugar en el que unos años antes se había encontrado la estela funeraria de mármol publicada por Stilianós Alexíou (S. Alexiou, Kretiká Chroniká X, 1956, 237-240, recogido en SEG 16, 1959, 532). Este lugar está situado en el cementerio oriental de la antigua necrópolis. Las piedras habían sido encontradas en un monumento semicircular o circular que existía alrededor de un olivo. Mu-chas de las letras, las cuales oscilaban en el tamaño de 3 a 8 centímetros, se encon-NUEVAS INSCRIPCIONES FUNERARIAS DE POLIRRENIA

This third volume in the TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series offers a new encounter between posthumanism and Roman archaeology. Posthuman theoretical perspectives have had substantial impacts in various fields, including archaeology, critical studies, and feminist studies, but only recently have emerged in the study of the ancient world. Posthumanism is an umbrella term for a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives that critique humanism, de-centre the human subject, reconsider the boundaries and relations among humans and the natural world, and frame the human condition as non-fixed and variable. Such perspectives also consider the agency of non-humans, their entanglements, interactions, and relations with humans, as well as the ethical implications thereof. The Romans were entangled with other beings and the world around them: they were relational beings, as we are today. With this volume, the editors aim to explore the potential and utility of posthuman theoretical perspectives for Roman archaeology. The contributors to this volume consider a diverse array of themes including posthuman performances of emperors, the agency and relationality of epigraphic funerary markers, the ritual function and agency of votive figurines, the materiality of divine agency in the city of Rome, hybrid i en-human coins, plant agency, the agency and nature of water in Roman urban infrastructure, and the Anthropocene. Collectively, the contributions demonstrate the numerous possibilities posthumanism offers Roman archaeology and reveal the posthuman nature of the Roman world. Ultimately, the volume stresses that humans and non-humans are entangled and imbricated in larger systems: we are all posthuman.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Katherine A. Crawford
Foreword: A Posthuman Call to Scholars Francesca Ferrando
1. Introduction: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology
Lewis Webb and Irene Selsvold
2. Posthuman Ambitions in the Roman Principate: The Cases of Caligula and Nero
Filippo Carlà-Uhink
3. Roman Epigraphic Funerary Markers, Ontological Transition, and Relational Work-nets
Vladimir D. Mihajlović
4. Decentralising Human Agency: A Study of the Ritual Function of the Votive Figurines from Grotta Bella, Umbria
Arianna Zapelloni Pavia
5. The Materiality of Divine Agency in Imperial Rome
Kristine Iara
6. Chicken Hybrid Imagery on Late Iron Age Coinage in Northern Gaul and Southern England during the Iron Age–Roman Transition
Mike P. Feider, Ellen Hambleton, and Mark Maltby
7. Weeds in the Field, Weeds in the City: Posthuman Approaches to Plants in the Roman World
Lisa Lodwick
8. Two Parts Hydrogen, Oxygen One? Re-evaluating the Nature of Roman Urban Water Infrastructure
Jay Ingate
9. The Romans and the Anthropocene: Posthuman Provocations
Irene Selsvold and Lewis Webb
10. Commentary: Pathways to Posthumanism
Oliver J.T. Harris

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Dois valiosos catálogos epigráficos: um que dá conta das inscrições romanas do ager Barcinonensis e, o segundo, do território de Lérida. Publicação que se insere no propósito do Centre Pierre Paris de vir a dar a conhecer, através de publicações singulares, o mundo epigráfico romano peninsular. Os autores assumem-se, pois, como epigrafistas e, nesse plano, dão o maior relevo a todos os aspectos do monumento epigráfico, inclusive o tipo de material em que a inscrição foi exarada, pelo testemunho histórico que tal pode fornecer.
Como o texto é uma recensão, alem de dar conta do interesse histórico das duas publicações, não se coíbe o seu autor de comentar aspectos de ordem metodológica no que respeita ao estudo das inscrições.

Some inscriptions found at Ephesus (IEph. Ia 17-19) evidence a part of the edict that the proconsul Paullus Fabius Persicus addressed to the city in 44 AD. A section of this edict (IEph. Ia 17, ll. 48-49) attests some of the banking operations carried out by the temple of Artemis, the allowing of loans on the basis of the provision by the debtor (probably the city) of the pledges on the incomes of the current and the following year. After the study of the epigraphic problems that arise from the inscription (rather fragmentary) and its editions, and after the reconstruction of the historical context when the edict was placed, the article shows how the measures of the proconsul aimed at limiting the use of those guarantees, which appeared unreliable and especially conflicting with the Roman juridical mens. In particular, a comparison is made with the discipline of the pledge of future things, as known from the Digest and from some imperial constitutions. Finally, the responsibility of city officials, acting in the name of the city, is briefly considered.

L'articolo presenta tre reperti epigrafici in marmo rosa di Candoglia rinvenuti a Baveno e accomunati dall'essere monumenti funerari figurati. Si tratta di due edicole a ritratti e di una lastra con scena bucolica ed elementi di genere (ghirlande, maschere, candelabri vegetali). I tre reperti potrebbero essere ricondotti ad un'unica bottega di scultori attiva attorno alla metà del I secolo d.C.