The Inscriptions of the Roman Colony of Deultum in Thrace. – Archaeologia Bulgarica, 3, 2017 (original) (raw)

The paper makes an outline of the epigraphical situation in the Roman colony of Deultum in Thrace and provides a preliminary publication of the more important Latin and Greek inscriptions found there. Most numerous and well-preserved are the inscriptions honouring Roman emperors and members of their families, which stood under statues dedicated by the city authorities. The funerary inscriptions found so far are mostly fragments which were re-used as building material in the city during the Late antique period. In the earlier period, they used to be in Latin, but from the mid-second century Greek prevailed and Latin was in decline, so it was used only for the official inscriptions. There are numerous inscriptions on instrumentum – weights and measures, lead mirrors, graffiti and dipinti on amphoras, etc.