The Commemoration of Children in the Funerary Epigraphy of the Conventus Cluniensis (Hispania Citerior)

This article examines the funerary inscriptions dedicated to children in the Roman period in the Conventus Cluniensis. The rate of infant mortality was high in this period but only a low percentage of inscriptions were dedicated to children. This underrepresentation of infant mortality has been analyzed from different perspectives, including the emotional attachment of the parents or archaeological funerary remains connected to non-adults. The aim of this article is to contextualize the epitaphs dedicated to children within the general analysis of funerary epigraphy, comparing the representation of children with other social groups and the use of Latin epigraphy in the provinces.

Epigrafia musicale nel mondo romano

Some representative issues were revealed in a few emblematic case studies regarding musical data in Latin epigraphy. Some such issues are a complex relationship between texts and images, and the symbolic meaning of some specific musical depictions. Therefore, in order to add new information to what we know about the ancient Roman soundscape, it is necessary to tackle this question by taking an intercultural approach.

PERSONAL BOOK COLLECTION OF THE HISTORIAN, ARCHAEOLOGIST, NUMISMAT, PROFESSOR OF THE ODESSA UNIVERSITY P. KARYSHKOVSKYI–IKAR IN THE STOCKS OF THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF THE ODESSA I. I. MECHNIKOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

The main purpose of the article is a subject-thematic analysis of the personal book collection of an outstanding Odessa historian-antiquarian, specialist in numismatics, Greek and Latin epigraphy of the Northern Black Sea littoral, Byzantine scholar, brilliant lecturer, professor of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Head of the Department of History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages Petr Yosypovych Karyshkovskyi-Ikar (1921–1988) held in the stocks of the Scientific Library. The article tells the story of the delivery of the personal book collection to the Scientific Library of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University in 2019. The collection contains 208 units of periodicals, 10 pictorial units, there are also cartographic atlases (6 units). The main part of the collection (1710 units) consists of books on historical sciences mainly on archeology, numismatics, history of the ancient world and Byzantium. Reference editions (38 units) as well as materials of domestic and international conferences (29 units) make an important part of the collection. Special attention is paid to some rare and valuable publications of the first half of the 20th century, such as the Bulletin of the Odessa Commission of Local Lore at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Chersonese Collection. It can be noted that this collection is of great importance for the research and educational process of the university, as it contains important books on historical and other sciences carefully selected by the owner, as well as foreign scientific literature, which has not been republished and sometimes is not available in Ukrainian libraries. The collection also gives an idea of the range of scientific interests of its owner.

Engraved Lives

Inscriptions—permanently incised texts on stone or bronze—are a characteristic feature of Greek and Roman Antiquity. It applies to all periods of ancient epigraphy that by far the most common genres of inscriptions are those directly related to individual persons: funerary inscriptions provide the most substantial single corpus, followed by religious dedications and honorific inscriptions. In their simplest forms, these kinds of texts are almost entirely reduced to a name, the crucial element used to identify a person. To be called biographical, an inscription should contain more substantial information on the various stages of a person’s life that serves to characterize them in greater detail and proposes a moral judgement of their lives. Unlike literary texts, inscriptions as artefacts were generally conceived to communicate condensed information on a restricted space. For this purpose, a special language with a fixed repertoire of standardized formulae was developed, and especially Latin epigraphy also makes heavy use of abbreviations. Only very long texts—that on the grounds of their exceptional importance were inscribed irrespective of their length and the effort required—can come close to biographies but account for only an infinitely small percentage of the extant epigraphic material.

EAGLE: storia di un'idea dalle origini all'ingresso di EDF

Il contributo fornisce una breve storia di EAGLE: nasce nel 2003 come Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, una federazione di banche dati che si riconoscono nello stesso modo di concepire l’epigrafia digitale; si evolve tra il 2013 e il 2016 come aggregatore e content provider di Europeana (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy); dal 2020 accoglie EDF (Epigraphic Database Falsae), la prima banca dati dedicata al fenomeno della falsificazione epigrafica.

Relative Pronouns in Light of Epigraphic Evidence:The Province of Lusitania*

Summary:This paper focuses on the uses and forms of the relative pronouns as evidenced from the Latin epigraphy in Lusitania. Inscriptions are considered from the 1st to the 8th century AD, with special attention being paid to the future developments in the Portuguese language. To this purpose, other in- scriptions or documents of a different nature dated to later chronologies are also considered as a point of comparison.

Epigrafika łacińska w farze poznańskiej. Inskrypcje w ołtarzach i kaplicach świętych jezuickich

Rosół Rafał, Epigrafika łacińska w farze poznańskiej. Inskrypcje w ołtarzach i kaplicach świętych jezuickich (Latin Epigraphy in the Parish Church in Poznań. Inscriptions in the altars and chapels of the Jesuit Saints).The paper deals with some Latin inscriptions from the Parish Church in Poznań (the former Jesuit Church). The material under consideration is located in two altars and five chapels devoted to the Jesuit Saints. The author provides a critical edition of the texts, their Polish translations, as well as a commentary.