Inscriptions and the epigraphic habit : : : the epigraphic cultures of Greece, Rome, and beyond / / edited by Rebecca R. Benefiel, Catherine M. Keesling.

• TeilnehmendeR: Benefiel, Rebecca, 1975-; Keesling, Catherine M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, Volume 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 366 pages) :; map.

"Inscriptions are a major feature of the Greek and Roman worlds, as inhabitants around the Mediterranean chose to commit text to stone and other materials. How did the epigraphic habit vary across time and space? Once adopted, how was the epigraphic habit variously expressed? The chapters of this volume analyze the epigraphic cultures of regions, cities, and communities through both large-scale analyses and detailed studies. From curse tablets in Britain to multilingual communities in Judaea-Palestine, from Greece to Rome to the Black Sea, and across nearly a millennium, the epigraphic outputs of cities and individuals underscore a collective understanding of the value of inscribed texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Preface / Catherine M. Keesling and Rebecca R. Benefiel -- Epigraphic culture and the epigraphic mode / John Bodel -- Reader-oriented strategies in attic funerary monuments from the fourth century BCE / Caterina A. Stripeikis -- Artemis Kindyas and the traveling tombs of Bargylia / Jan-Mathieu Carbon -- Roman voting tribes, citizenship, and epigraphic habit : the case study of Hispania citerior / Marta Ferna´ndez-Corral -- The epigraphic habit of the Northwestern Black Sea Region during the Roman period / Joanna Porucznik -- A deceptively simple ritual : libation in Greek inscriptions / Sebastian Zerhoch -- The keepers of the Agora : contracts and the office of Agoranomos in the epigraphic record / Susan Rahyab -- Writing on columns : graffiti in the campus of Pompeii / Rebecca R. Benefiel and Holly M. Sypniewski -- The fictores and the epigraphic habit in the Atrium Vestae / Morgan E. Palmer -- Viae Appiae multorum annorum negotians : place in merchant funerary inscriptions / Jane Sancinito -- Servi empticii and manumission in the Roman municipal familia publica / Jeffrey A. Easton -- Epigraphic permanence and ephemerality : the Augusteum Assemblage and memory construction at Ostia's Caserma dei Vigili / Kathryn A. Langenfeld -- New evidence for slave names and social mobility in archaic Greece / Cameron G. Pearson -- Curse-writing and the epigraphic habit in Athens / Jessica L. Lamont -- Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Judaea-Palestine / Michael Zellmann-Rohrer -- The epigraphic habit in a Pompeian house : rules of good manners / Gianmarco Bianchini and Gian Luca Gregori -- May the thief become as liquid as water : persuasion and power in a curse tablet from Roman Bath / Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld -- Conclusion: Epigraphic Habits and Epigraphic Communities / Elizabeth A. Meyer.