Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit

The Epigraphic Cultures of Greece, Rome, and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68311-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

Inscriptions are a major feature of the Greek and Roman worlds, as inhabitants around the Mediterranean chose to commit text to stone and other materials. How did the epigraphic habit vary across time and space? Once adopted, how was the epigraphic habit variously expressed?
The chapters of this volume analyze the epigraphic cultures of regions, cities, and communities through both large-scale analyses and detailed studies. From curse tablets in Britain to multilingual communities in Judaea-Palestine, from Greece to Rome to the Black Sea, and across nearly a millennium, the epigraphic outputs of cities and individuals underscore a collective understanding of the value of inscribed texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Benefiel, Rebecca

Keesling, Catherine M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Catherine M. Keesling and Rebecca R. Benefiel

List of Figures, Graphs, Maps, and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Epigraphic Culture and the Epigraphic Mode

John Bodel

Part 1: Epigraphy and Regional Trends

2 Reader-Oriented Strategies in Attic Funerary Monuments from the Fourth Century BCE

Caterina A. Stripeikis

3 Artemis Kindyas and the Traveling Tombs of Bargylia

Jan-Mathieu Carbon

4 Roman Voting Tribes, Citizenship, and Epigraphic Habit: The Case Study of Hispania Citerior

Marta Fernández-Corral

5 The Epigraphic Habit of the Northwestern Black Sea Region during the Roman Period

Joanna Porucznik

Part 2: Epigraphy and Civic Life

6 A Deceptively Simple Ritual: Libation in Greek Inscriptions

Sebastian Zerhoch

7 The Keepers of the Agora: Contracts and the Office of Agoranomos in the Epigraphic Record

Susan Rahyab

8 Writing on Columns: Graffiti in the Campus of Pompeii

Rebecca R. Benefiel and Holly M. Sypniewski

Part 3: Epigraphy and Collective Identity

9 The Fictores and the Epigraphic Habit in the Atrium Vestae

Morgan E. Palmer

10 Viae Appiae multorum annorum negotians: Place in Merchant Funerary Inscriptions

Jane Sancinito

11 Servi empticii and Manumission in the Roman Municipal familia publica

Jeffrey A. Easton

12 Epigraphic Permanence and Ephemerality: The Augusteum Assemblage and Memory Construction at Ostia’s Caserma dei Vigili

Kathryn A. Langenfeld

Part 4: Epigraphy and the Individual

13 New Evidence for Slave Names and Social Mobility in Archaic Greece

Cameron G. Pearson

14 Curse-Writing and the Epigraphic Habit in Athens

Jessica L. Lamont

15 Semitic Loanwords and Transcriptions in the Greek Epigraphy of Judaea-Palestine

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

16 The Epigraphic Habit in a Pompeian House: Rules of Good Manners

Gianmarco Bianchini and Gian Luca Gregori

17 May the Thief Become as Liquid as Water: Persuasion and Power in a Curse Tablet from Roman Bath

Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld

Conclusion: Epigraphic Habits and Epigraphic Communities

Elizabeth A. Meyer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca R. Benefiel, Ph.D. (2005), Harvard University, is Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics at Washington & Lee University. She is Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project and has authored numerous articles on Latin epigraphy and Roman social history. She is co-editor of Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2016).

Catherine M. Keesling, Ph.D. (1995), University of Michigan, is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. Her publications include articles and book chapters on the epigraphical evidence for ancient Greek sculpture as well as the monographs The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge 2003) and Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories (Cambridge 2017).

Contributors are: Rebecca R. Benefiel, Gianmarco Bianchini, John Bodel, Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Jeffrey Easton, Marta Fernández-Corral, Gian Luca Gregori, Jessica L. Lamont, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, Elizabeth A. Meyer, Morgan E. Palmer, Cameron G. Pearson, Joanna Porucznik, Susan Rahyab, Jane Sancinito, Caterina A. Stripeikis, Holly M. Sypniewski, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Sebastian Zerhoch.