TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooley,Alison
TI  - The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy
SN  - 9781139568845
AV  - CN510 .C665 2012eb
U1  - 411/.7 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Inscriptions, Latin
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Christian inscriptions
KW  - Inscriptions latines
KW  - Guides, manuels, etc
KW  - Inscriptions chrétiennes
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Alphabets & Writing Systems
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Spelling
KW  - Languages
KW  - eflch
KW  - fast
KW  - Latein
KW  - gnd
KW  - Epigraphik
KW  - Epigrafik
KW  - sao
KW  - Latinska inskrifter
KW  - Romerska riket
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - manuals (instructional materials)
KW  - aat
KW  - handbooks
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Guides et manuels
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to modern students
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ER  -