Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World

Rebecca Benefiel

ISBN 10: 9004307117 / ISBN 13: 9789004307117

Published by Koninklijke Brill BV Dez 2015, 2015

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Neuware - When one thinks of inscriptions produced under the Roman Empire, public inscribed monuments are likely to come to mind. Hundreds of thousands of such inscriptions are known from across the breadth of the Roman Empire, preserved because they were created of durable material or were reused in subsequent building. This volume looks at another aspect of epigraphic creation - from handwritten messages scratched on wall-plaster to domestic sculptures labeled with texts to displays of official patronage posted in homes: a range of inscriptions appear within the private sphere in the Greco-Roman world. Rarely scrutinized as a discrete epigraphic phenomenon, the incised texts studied in this volume reveal that writing in private spaces was very much a part of the epigraphic culture of the Roman Empire.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill BV Dez 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004307117
• ISBN 13: 9789004307117
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 159H x 25D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 159 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 574 grams

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Synopsis

When one thinks of inscriptions produced under the Roman Empire, public inscribed monuments are likely to come to mind. Hundreds of thousands of such inscriptions are known from across the breadth of the Roman Empire, preserved because they were created of durable material or were reused in subsequent building. This volume looks at another aspect of epigraphic creation – from handwritten messages scratched on wall-plaster to domestic sculptures labeled with texts to displays of official patronage posted in homes: a range of inscriptions appear within the private sphere in the Greco-Roman world. Rarely scrutinized as a discrete epigraphic phenomenon, the incised texts studied in this volume reveal that writing in private spaces was very much a part of the epigraphic culture of the Roman Empire.

About the Author

Rebecca Benefiel, Ph.D. (2005), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Classics at Washington and Lee University. She has published numerous articles on ancient graffiti, especially in Pompeii and surrounding areas. She is a supervisor for the Epigraphic Database Roma and is Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.

Peter Keegan, Ph.D. (2003), Macquarie University, is Senior Lecturer in Roman Studies and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at that university. He has published monographs and articles on epigraphic studies, including Written Space in the Latin West 200BC-AD300 (Bloomsbury, 2013), Graffiti in Antiquity (Routledge, 2014) and Roles for Men and Women in Roman Epigraphic Culture and Beyond (Archaeopress, 2014).

Contributors are: J. A. Baird, Francisco Beltrán Lloris, Rebecca Benefiel, Angela Cinalli, Mireille Corbier, Peter Keegan, Elisabeth Rathmayr, Karen Stern, Claire Taylor, Antonio Varone, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, and Mantha Zarmakoupi.