The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy / Alison E. Cooley.
| Author/creator | Cooley, Alison |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| Description | xxii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012019056 |
| ISBN | 9780521840262 (hard back) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |