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Book SynopsisInscriptions 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.
Table of ContentsPreface Catherine M. Keesling and Rebecca R. Benefiel List of Figures, Graphs, Maps, and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Epigraphic Culture and the Epigraphic Mode John Bodel Part 1: Epigraphy and Regional Trends 2 Reader-Oriented Strategies in Attic Funerary Monuments from the Fourth Century BCE Caterina A. Stripeikis 3 Artemis Kindyas and the Traveling Tombs of Bargylia Jan-Mathieu Carbon 4 Roman Voting Tribes, Citizenship, and Epigraphic Habit: The Case Study of Hispania Citerior Marta Fernández-Corral 5 The Epigraphic Habit of the Northwestern Black Sea Region during the Roman Period Joanna Porucznik Part 2: Epigraphy and Civic Life 6 A Deceptively Simple Ritual: Libation in Greek Inscriptions Sebastian Zerhoch 7 The Keepers of the Agora: Contracts and the Office of Agoranomos in the Epigraphic Record Susan Rahyab 8 Writing on Columns: Graffiti in the Campus of Pompeii Rebecca R. Benefiel and Holly M. Sypniewski Part 3: Epigraphy and Collective Identity 9 The Fictores and the Epigraphic Habit in the Atrium Vestae Morgan E. Palmer 10 Viae Appiae multorum annorum negotians: Place in Merchant Funerary Inscriptions Jane Sancinito 11 Servi empticii and Manumission in the Roman Municipal familia publica Jeffrey A. Easton 12 Epigraphic Permanence and Ephemerality: The Augusteum Assemblage and Memory Construction at Ostia’s Caserma dei Vigili Kathryn A. Langenfeld Part 4: Epigraphy and the Individual 13 New Evidence for Slave Names and Social Mobility in Archaic Greece Cameron G. Pearson 14 Curse-Writing and the Epigraphic Habit in Athens Jessica L. Lamont 15 Semitic Loanwords and Transcriptions in the Greek Epigraphy of Judaea-Palestine Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 16 The Epigraphic Habit in a Pompeian House: Rules of Good Manners Gianmarco Bianchini and Gian Luca Gregori 17 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 Index
