Current Epigraphy

Jacquelene Riley has posted a list of New Acquisitions (March 2007) by the Burnam Classical Library at the University of Cincinnati. As usual, this list contains much of interest. The most obviously epigraphic of the titles are glossed below:

• Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, Gli statuti municipali, Pubblicazioni del CEDANT 2, Pavia: IUSS Press, 2006, ISBN: 9788873580317, WorldCat record.
• Lukas de Blois, Peter Funke and Johannes Hahn (eds.), The impact of imperial Rome on religions, ritual and religious life in the Roman Empire : proceedings of the fifth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 B.C.-A.D. 476), Munster, June 30-July 4, 2004, Impact of Empire 5, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006, ISBN: 9789004154605, WorldCat record.
• Christophe Feyel, Les artisans dans les sanctuaires grecs aux epoques classiques et hellenistique a travers la documentation financiere en Grece, Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d’Athenes et de Rome 318, Athenes: Ecole franc’aise d’Athenes, 2006, ISBN: 9782869581692, WorldCat record.
• Harriet Flower, The art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in Roman political culture, Studies in the history of Greece and Rome, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780807830635, WorldCat record.
• Joan Gomez Pallares, Poesia epigrafica llatina als paisos catalans : edicio i comentari, Barcelona Spain: Institut D’Estudis Catalans Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2002, ISBN: 9788472836525, WorldCat record.
• Andreas Kakoschke, Die Personennamen in den zwei germanischen Provinzen : ein Katalog, Rahden Westf.: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2006, ISBN: 9783896460325, WorldCat record.
• Marici Magalhaes, Stabiae romana : la prosopografia e la documentazione epigrafica : iscrizioni lapidarie e bronzee, bolli laterizi e sigilli, Castellammare di Stabia (Na) [i.e. Naples Italy]: N. Longobardi, 2006, ISBN: 9788880902348, WorldCat record.
• Zahra Newby, Art and inscriptions in the ancient world, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN: 9780521868518, WorldCat record.
• Susanne Pilhofer, Romanisierung in Kilikien? : das Zeugnis der Inschriften, Munchen: Utz, 2006, ISBN: 9783831605385, WorldCat record.
• Steven Tuck, Latin inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum : the Dennison and De Criscio collections, Kelsey Museum studies 5, Ann Arbor Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2005, ISBN: 9780472115167, WorldCat record.

Items of epigraphical interest in the recent volume of Arctos (Acta philologica Fennica):
– Luca Maurizi: C. Salvius Liberalis Nonius Bassus. Un monumento equestre ad Urbs Salvia? (pp. 65–83)
– Fabrice Poli: Une inscription latine inédite d’Auch (pp. 85–90)
– Olli Salomies: Roman Names in Pisidian Antioch. Some Observations (pp. 91–107)
– Timo Sironen: Minora Latino-Sabellica II. Un trofeo in osco da Poggio Cinolfo (AQ) (pp. 109–130)
– Heikki Solin: Analecta epigraphica CCXXXI–CCXXXVI (pp. 131–165)

Archaeologia Bulgarica, vol. 10 (2006) has been published. Articles of epigraphic interest (per the online table of contents) include:

• M. Ivanov and I. Topalilov, “Two New Roman Grave Reliefs from Philippopolis” (10.1)
• M. Manov, “Die Inschriften auf den Silbergefässen und dem Bronzehelm von Seuthes III. aus dem Grabhügel Goljama Kosmatka” (10.3)
• E. Peeva and N. Sharankov, “A 1st Century AD Roman Helmet with Inscriptions” (10.1)
• N. Sharankov, “A Military Diploma of 7 March 70 AD for Legio II Adiutrix ” (10.2)

Elizabeth Fentress, “Romanizing the Berbers,” Past & Present 190 (2006), 3-33 (online: subscription required).

a brief outline of the social preconditions for the Romanization of North Africa, concentrating on the social and economic realities of Africa in the centuries just before and just after the Roman conquest … to situate the specific effects of the Roman occupation in the longue durée of North African history … examining the urban and rural landscapes of the pre-Roman period, concentrating on the zone of the Tell, the hilly, well-watered area near Carthage … outlin[ing] a few of the transformations effected by the Roman occupation on those landscapes, and on the economy of the countryside.

The article cites a full range of relevant and up-to-date secondary work on the subject of Romanization in North Africa and, independent of its specific agenda, provides an excellent springboard for becoming acquainted with this complex topic. Much of this literature exploits epigraphic evidence.

I have not listed the inscriptions cited here, as I only have access to an electronic version of the article (via a 3rd party database to which my institution subscribes), and the first 3 epigraphic citations I tried to spot-check therein proved wildly erroneous.