"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"--
This volume illustrates how the epigraphic habit is ubiquitous but variously expressed. Inscriptions become part of the fabric of Greek and Roman culture.
Preface
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 Fernįndez-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 Ostias 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
Rebecca R. Benefiel, Ph.D. (2005), Harvard University, is Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics at Washington & Lee University. She is Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project and has authored numerous articles on Latin epigraphy and Roman social history. She is co-editor of Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2016).
Catherine M. Keesling, Ph.D. (1995), University of Michigan, is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. Her publications include articles and book chapters on the epigraphical evidence for ancient Greek sculpture as well as the monographs The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge 2003) and Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories (Cambridge 2017).
Contributors are: Rebecca R. Benefiel, Gianmarco Bianchini, John Bodel, Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Jeffrey Easton, Marta Fernįndez-Corral, Gian Luca Gregori, Jessica L. Lamont, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, Elizabeth A. Meyer, Morgan E. Palmer, Cameron G. Pearson, Joanna Porucznik, Susan Rahyab, Jane Sancinito, Caterina A. Stripeikis, Holly M. Sypniewski, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Sebastian Zerhoch.
