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- Latin Epigraphy, Roman Baetica, Roman cities of Baetica (Hispania), Funerary Epigraphy
- by Alfredo Buonopane
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- Latin Epigraphy, Roman Epigraphy, Funerary Epigraphy, Lucania antica
- by Silvia Tantimonaco
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- Roman Religion, Latin Epigraphy, Cult of the dead, Supernatural Folklore
- by Cecilia Ricci
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- Memory Studies, Funerary Epigraphy

Il presente lavoro, incentrato sulla storia del lavoro e dei lavoratori nel mondo romano, si propone di ricostruire, attraverso l'epigrafia monumentale, l'identità e il profilo socio-economico di alcuni individui vissuti a Mutina o nel suo ager in età tardorepubblicana e altoimperiale. Si tratta di alcuni uomini e una donna le cui iscrizioni, di natura prevalentemente funeraria, ricordano diverse figure professionali: un aurifex, un copo, un medicus, un negotians lanarius, un praeceptor, un tonsor, diversi vestiarii, un vicesimarius, un possibile unctor e una vilica. Nel testo si formulano inoltre alcune ipotesi in merito alle funzioni esercitate in ambito domestico dai cosiddetti "delicia" o "pueri delicati"; vengono infine analizzati i tre gentilizi di derivazione professionale finora attestati nel Modenese: Aerarius, Aurarius e Purpurarius. Quest'ultimo nome, in particolare, fino a oggi sembrerebbe attestato esclusivamente nella colonia di Mutina e nel suo ager.

- by Laura Parisini
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Economic History
- by Desiderio Vaquerizo
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- Funerary Archaeology, Roman Amphitheater, Gladiators, Colonia Patricia
- by Reine-Marie Bérard and +3
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- Greek History, Roman History, Greek Epigraphy, Funerary Archaeology

Il patrimonio epigrafico lapidario modenese, che attualmente comprende circa 300 iscrizioni, ha restituito più di 160 menzioni relative a schiave, liberte e ingenuae vissute a Mutina e nell'ager Mutinensis tra la seconda metà del I secolo a.C. e la prima metà del IV secolo d.C. Le epigrafi esaminate mettono in luce alcuni interessanti aspetti relativi alla condizione femminile nella splendidissima colonia emiliana e, più in generale, nella società romana.

- by Laura Parisini
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies
- by Massimiliano Ghilardi
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- Ancient History, Archaeology, Roman History, Early Modern History

L’Afrique du Nord présente une densité d’épitaphes tardo-antiques élevée, uniquement comparable à celle de l’Italie. Cette contribution donne un bilan des problèmes et des progrès de la recherche funéraire tardive en Afrique pendant les dernières trois décades. A l’aide de quelques études de cas en Tunisie et en Algérie nous examinons les épitaphes dans leurs contextes originaux sur le plan spatial, rituel et social. Des nouvelles cartes de SIG (avec indications sur la chronologie, les types, et les métiers) visualisent les mutations de la culture épigraphique tardive en Afrique et les diversités régionales. Avec ces nouveaux moyens il est possible de fournir une synthèse actuelle du paysage funéraire tardo-antique de l’Afrique.

Se publica una inscripción funeraria inédita procedente de Toletum. El texto menciona explícitamente el estado servil de la difunta y es interesante por la ausencia de abreviaturas en el formulario epigráfico. También digno de notar es el... more

- by Helena Gimeno Pascual and +1
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- Slavery, History of Slavery, Roman Epigraphy, Storia antica ed epigrafia latina
- by Mauro Dadea
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- Sardinia (Archaeology), History of Archaeology, Cemeteries, Funerary Epigraphy

Greek funerary inscribed poetry is anonymous and shared
by a whole community of language and literature; its variety
of themes is impressive; the monumental con-text –
including the inscribed object, the layout of the inscribed
text, the form of its letters, the lectional signs – vehicles an
important part of the message, therefore it should be taken
into consideration when we translate this poetry. A few
examples are examined. The separation of the inscribed
text from its material context took place already in antiquity,
when verse inscriptions were transcribed from stone into
books and begun to circulate in this form.

- by Valentina Garulli
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- Greek Epigraphy, Grave inscriptions, Greek Epigram, Greek poetry
- by Marta Fernández Corral and +1
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- Roman Epigraphy, Epigraphy, Funerary Epigraphy, Epigrafía romana
- by Ilaria Bultrighini
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- Ancient History, Roman History, Early Christianity, Greek Epigraphy

The funerary field is particularly interesting and rich in stimuli allowing us knowledge of religious thought and art of ancient civilisations.
Pre-Islamic South Arabia (8th century BC - 6th century AD) produced a large amount of objects related to this field and, among them, the funerary stelae are the most important for their large number, the variety of subjects and decorations represented on them.
Starting from the rich British Museum collection, this study organizes and classifies material for the most part from the international antique trade. Often information regarding provenance and archaeological context is lacking here. However, the analysis of these stelae allows us to reconstruct a picture rich in regional styles, with reciprocal influences.
From the archaic and more traditional stylized expressions - typical of the Minaean region - to the more recent complex and figurative representations of the Sabaean area, this book shows the originality and specificity of South Arabian art, paying particular attention to the contacts with foreign cultures, especially with the Hellenistic and Roman world.
Such foreign influences are analysed in depth in the rich Appendix, edited by Fabio E. Betti, where specific topics in relation to the changes in ancient South Arabian art during the first centuries AD are studied. They were changes of 'fashion', evident especially in decorative motifs within the architecture and the daily life of the South Arabian élites, as shown by the clothes, hairstyles and jewellery of the women of that time.

Because it is a flexible genre, the epigram can be analyzed in groups or alone. It provides researchers with different possibilities of epigram grouping and methodological approaches. Studies on funerary epigram frequently analyze the poems according to related themes focusing on the dead: dead warriors, women dead in childbirth, dead in the sea among others. However, an approach to funerary epigrams which does not focus on the dead allows a broader investigation of other themes. Thus, the present thesis was based on the studies of Giuseppe Giangrande, Francis Cairns and Alexander Sens on funerary epigrams that use sympotic elements in order to analyze the function of such elements and to verify how the sympotic τόποι found in funerary epigrams continue being used of if they suffer modifications. In order to do so, we selected epigrams from Book VII of The Greek Anthology that display sympotic and funerary lexicon and, departing from the τόποι, three groups of epigrams were identified: 1) those dedicated to the poet Anacreon, 2) those dedicated to drunk women and 3) those dedicated to drunk men. In epigrams dedicated to Anacreon, sympotic elements recover his poetry and connect it to the epigrammatists by means of the transformation of the funeral space and the relationship between the passerby and the poet. In poems dedicated to drunken women, the consumption of wine and their burial near places of wine production emphasize the mobility of old women, their distancing from their relatives and the comic character of the dead women due to the characterization of their drunkenness. Finally, in the funerary epigrams dedicated to drunken men, moderation and immoderation are evident. In some, moderation is aligned with poetic composition. In others, the excess of wine causes accidents portrayed with a comic tone. These epigrams warn the passerby not to make the same mistakes as the dead they commemorate. Another group of epigrams uses sympotic references to create charades to the passerby. The last group, in turn, is composed by epitaphs for philosophers killed by drunkenness. Here we see the tension between moderation and philosophical teachings permeated by the anecdotal and comic tone. It is suggested, therefore, that the presence of sympotic elements acquires a different function according to the group of dead. Thus, it is observed that, although the epigrams were composed in different centuries, the τόποι portrayed gain different nuances, which allows us to conclude that funerary epigrams with sympotic elements also reflect the creative tension between tradition and innovation, as debated by Marco Fantuzzi and Richard Hunter.
Keywords: Hellenistic poetry; Greek epigram; Funerary epigram; The Greek Anthology; Symposium; Drunkenness.

In a big grave "a schiena" found at Cumas, in the Fondo Correale, from the 6th century BC., came into sight an inscription engraved. Its interpretation has been very controversial. Discussion is centred about elucidating the meaning of the word ληνός, for which different explanations have been proposed. Some scholars have interpreted it as the anthroponymo Ληνός; others have prefered to see in this term the designation as 'initiate' of a follower faithful of mystery cults, but the greatest part has translated it as 'sarcophagus'. In our opinion, these interpretations should be reconsidered from a double perspective: the religious environments at Cumas from the 6th BC and the exhaustive analysis of the word ληνός in contemporary documents with the inscription.

ForewordIntroductionEditorial ConventionsCatalogue
1. Ash Chest of Tiberius Dama
2. Grave Monument of Ti. Claudius [Iso]chrysus
3. Grave Monument of Sosus
4. Grave Monument of Primigenius
5. Grave Monument of Hesychus, C. Iulius Phileros, and C. Septumius Stephanus
6. Grave Monument of Plautia Prima
7. Grave Monument of Spendo and Tryphosa
8. Grave Monument of Q. Pactumeius Alexander and Volumnia Urbana
9. Grave Monument of C. Siminius Priscus
10. Grave Monument of Felicio
11. Grave Monument of Thelxis and Chelys
12. Grave Monument of L. Gellius Felix
13. Grave Monument of Aelia Iulia Artemidora and P. Aelius Porcianus
14. Grave Monument of Amphion
15. Grave Monument of Antonia Sophia
16. Grave Monument of Appuleia Gratilla
17. Grave Monument of C. Calpurnius Sabinus
18. Grave Monument of Several Cassii
19. Pine Cone Cippus of C. Fabius
20. Grave Monument of Flavia
21. Grave Monument of T. Flavius Ianuarius Mus
22. Grave Monument of T. Flavius Spendo
23. Grave Monument of Furia Eutychia
24. Grave Monument of Herennia Sabathis
25. Grave Monument of Irana
26. Grave Monument of Iulia Felicissima
27. Grave Monument of Martialis
28. Grave Monument of Mutia Chreste
29. Grave Monument of M. Octavius Diadumenus
30. Grave Monument of Cn. Papirius Isochrysus
31. Grave Monument of Paratio
32. Grave Monument of Pompeia Dionysia
33. Grave Monument of Pudens
34. Grave Monument of L. Salvius Daduchus
35. Grave Monument of Suavis
36. Grave Monument of L. Syllatius Fortunatus
37. Grave Monument of Sex. Terentius Nassus
38. Grave Monument of C. Terentius Vitalis and Flavia Faustina
39. Grave Monument of C. Titius Hermeros and C. Avillius Onesimus
40. Grave Monument of M. Ulpius Galaesus
41. Grave Monument of L. Volusenus Eumenes

L'epigramma III, 59 di Marziale offre lo spunto per riflettere sul ruolo delle categorie sociali subalterne nelle città romane, con particolare riferimento a Bononia e a Mutina, dove un ciabattino e un lavandaio, dice il poeta, offrirono spettacoli di gladiatori alle rispettive comunità. Marziale potrebbe avere citato due categorie professionali particolarmente umili (il sutor e il fullo) per evidenziare lo scandalo, tuttavia, è anche possibile che queste due citazioni nascondano precisi riferimenti all'economia e alla storia sociale delle due città emiliane.

- by Laura Parisini
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology
- by François Kayser
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- Roman Army, Roman Egypt, Funerary Epigraphy

Edition of an unpublished funerary inscription, with some considerations
on the tribes carried by colonia Augusta Firma inhabitants.

- by Sergio García-Dils de la Vega and +1
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- Epigraphy (Archaeology), Latin Epigraphy, Roman Epigraphy, Greek and Roman Epigraphy

La stele modenese del tonsor L. Rubrius Stabilio Primus si rivela una fonte preziosa per riflettere su varie problematiche legate alla considerazione del lavoro nel mondo antico. Molto interessante e complessa è anche la storia familiare... more

- by Laura Parisini
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

This article consists of a series of comments, revisions, and new readings of three Greek inscriptions coming from different areas of the Roman Empire (Asia Minor, Thessaly, Gaul), and dating approximately from the third to the fifth century CE. I offer a restoration proposal and a new interpretation of inscription no. 1 – a votive dedication inscribed on an altar from Ankyra in Galatia – while my comments, revisions, and new readings of nos. 2 and 3 – two epitaphs, from Nea Anchialos in Thessaly and Augusta Treverorum in Gallia Belgica, respectively – concern primarily, though not exclusively, questions related to their date formulae.

- by Ilaria Bultrighini
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- Ancient History, Roman History, Roman Religion, Greek Epigraphy
- by Sergio García-Dils de la Vega and +1
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- Latin Epigraphy, Roman Baetica, Roman cities of Baetica (Hispania), Funerary Epigraphy
- by Ilaria Bultrighini
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- Roman History, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Christianity, Greek Epigraphy

Il saggio è dedicato ad alcune figure professionali del mondo romano legate alla lavorazione e alla vendita dell'oro e di manufatti realizzati con questo metallo prezioso. Nel testo si analizzano in particolare le testimonianze epigrafiche di Roma e quelle di Mutina nel cui territorio, secondo un'antica tradizione popolare, sarebbe stato possibile estrarre masse aurifere.

- by Laura Parisini
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Economic History

En el siguiente trabajo damos a conocer diez inscripciones de época romana conservadas en
la iglesia de la Asunción de San Vicente del Valle (Burgos). A pesar de su mal estado de conservación y
de la fragmentación de varias de ellas, todo ello derivado de su reutilización como material constructivo,
su análisis nos permite identificar el carácter funerario de la mayoría. Su lectura e interpretación
muestra, además, el uso de onomástica latina, así como de estructuras textuales y fórmulas funerarias
propias del hábito epigráfico romano.

- by Marta Fernández Corral
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- Latin Epigraphy, Roman Epigraphy, Roman Empire, Roman Onomastics
- by Thomas J Goessens
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- Latin Epigraphy, Roman Spain, Epigraphy, Mérida
- by Ilaria Bultrighini
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- Roman History, Patristics, Early Christianity, Greek Epigraphy

Exposición proyecto de investigación

This article consists of a series of comments, revisions, and new readings of five Latin epigraphic documents dating approximately from the third to the sixth century CE. Four inscriptions come from various areas of Italy (Rome, Ascoli Piceno, and Folloni di Montella, near Avellino), while the fifth inscription comes from Spain (Villadecanes, region of Léon). The common denominator between these assorted inscriptions (one votive inscription and four epitaphs) is the presence of a more or less articulated dating formula within their texts, on which my comments, revisions, and new readings primarily –although not exclusively– focus.

- by Ilaria Bultrighini
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- Ancient History, Roman History, Roman Religion, Late Antiquity
- by Antonio Caballos Rufino
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- Latin Epigraphy, Roman Baetica, Funerary Epigraphy
- by Reine-Marie Bérard and +1
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- Greek Epigraphy, Funerary Archaeology, Latin Epigraphy, Death and Burial (Archaeology)
- by Silvia Tantimonaco
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- Roman Religion, Latin Epigraphy, Funerary Epigraphy