Understanding Roman Inscriptions

ISBN-13: 9780415151436 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 160 str.

Lawrence Keppie

Opis

The Romans commemorated many different events with inscriptions, and not just carved in stone: they are found also on such materials as bronze, wood, mosaic, glass and pottery. They range from the official and highly formulaic to the ordinary and personal. Lawrence Keppie introduces the non-specialist to the subject of inscriptions and provides clear guidance towards translating the Latin texts. Reading the text is only part of interpretation, however, and this book also gives an account of the other aspects needed for a full understanding of inscriptions. The author covers such subjects as local government; the armies and frontiers; religion; the titles of emperors; business and commerce; as well as the craft of stonecutting, developments in the alphabet and the discovery and publication of material.

Recenzje

'Understanding Roman Inscriptions is well named. It is written by a scholar who understands the things, and what is more, his readers will understand them too' - Britannia

'Dr Keppie ... has done signal service to Roman Studies by this new guide to Roman inscriptions' - Antiquaries Journal

'Filled with scholarly exposition, informative commentary and common-sense deductions ... All the examples are well chosen.' - Robert K. Sherk, State University of New York

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Stonecuttel and his Craft; Chapter 3 Reading Roman Inscriptions; Chapter 4 Dating Roman Inscriptions; Chapter 5 The Survival of Roman Inscriptions; Chapter 6 Recording and Publication; Chapter 7 The Emperor; Chapter 8 Local Government and Society; Chapter 9 The Roads that Led to Rome; Chapter 10 Administration of an Empire; Chapter 11 The Army and the Frontiers; Chapter 12 Temples and Altars to the God; Chapter 13 Gravestones and Tomb Monument; Chapter 14 Trade, Economy and the Business World; Chapter 15 Populusque Romanus; Chapter 16 Christianity; Chapter 17 The Later Roman Empire; Chapter 18 Conclusion: The Value of Roman Inscriptions;

O autorze

Dr Lawrence Keppie is Senior Curator (Archaeology and History) at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Honorary lecturer in Classics at the University in Glasgow, and President of the Glasgow Archaeological Society. He has excavated extensively on the Antonine Wall and at other Roman sites in Scotland. Among his publications is the acclaimed Making of the Roman Army: from Republic to Empire (Batsford 1984).