Roman Epigraphy

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Face-to-face theoretical-practical classes, using theoretical explanation coordinated with critical analysis of texts (especially epigraphic) and/or specific iconography, resulting from appropriate visual or audiovisual teaching material; carrying out works and presentations, individually and/or in groups, by students. The complement with visit(s) to epigraphic fund(s) associated with museums will be expected, as well as practical testing of auxiliary techniques for reading epigraphic monuments.

Learning Outcomes

It is intended that students achieve a set of general goals related to epigraphic sources from the Roman period
and research, namely:
-Understand the historical and archaeological importance of epigraphic sources
-Know the fundamental methods and techniques associated with the recording, scientific study and dissemination of epigraphic sources
-Be able to autonomously research, analyze, use and critically communicate the Latin inscriptions
-Achieve critical awareness in terms of identity, linked to the exercise of citizenship
Specifically, students should be able to:
-identify the different types supports and texts
-comment an inscription from the historical and paleographical perspectives
-identify some anthroponymy and theonomy
-understand how people are identified, a cursus honorum or an imperial title
-understand the process of edition
-identify the value of the inscriptions as source of historical and archaeological knowledge for the study of Antiquity and as heritage

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.From the concept of epigraphy to the epigraphic habit in Roman times
Concepts
Historical synopsis on epigraphic studies in the national context
The supports and preparation of the inscription(epigraphic writing)
The alphabet and the Latin language(notions of Latin)
2.Typology of inscriptions: textual characteristics and contexts
Onomastic practice and cursus honorum
Funerary epigraphy: epitaphs and the funerary world
Religious epigraphy: manifestations of religiosity
Honorific and monumental epigraphy: elites, territory and city
Legal epigraphy: legal regulation of public and private life
Instrumentum: everyday
3.The epigraphic work
Auxiliary reading and recording techniques and instruments
Editing epigraphic texts
Epigraphic corpora and other specialized bibliography
Online resources and others
Dating and its limits
4.Documentary importance and museum integration of Roman epigraphs
Epigraphic sources and Ancient History
Forgeries and copies
Roman epigraphs in a museum context

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Frequency: 70.0%

Bibliography

ANDREU, J. (coord.)– Fundamentos de Epigrafía Latina. Madrid: Liceus, 2009

BUONOPANE, A. – Manuale di Epigrafia Latina. Roma: Carocci, 2009

BRUUN, C.; EDMONDSON, J. (eds.) – The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015

DAVIES, J. & WILKES, J. (eds.) – Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012

Di STEFANO MANZELLA, I. – Mestiere di epigrafista: guida alla schedatura del materiale epigrafico lapideo. Roma: Quasar, 1987

DONATI, A. – Epigrafia romana: la comunicazione nell’antichità. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002

ENCARNAÇÃO, J. d’ – Epigrafia: as pedras que falam. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2006

LASSÈRE, J.-M. – Manuel d’Épigraphie romaine. 2 vols. Paris: Picard, 2007

REDENTOR, A. – A cultura epigráfica no conuentus Bracaraugustanus (pars occidentalis): percursos pela sociedade brácara da época romana. 2 vols. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017

SUSINI, Giancarlo – Epigrafia Romana. Roma: Jouvence, 1982.