Roman Inscriptions (HMPMA 7 - Series A) (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture)

Latin inscriptions found on buildings, tombstones, altars and votive monuments form a rich source of information for historians about classical Rome. By the early seventeenth century, ancient epigraphy had become a highly developed branch of learning, and the drawings of inscriptions preserved in the Paper Museum offer a fascinating insight into this earlier world of scholarship - in some cases providing our only record of the piece being illustrated. The drawings in this volume cover a wide chronological range and provide details about Roman law, the Roman army and officials of the Roman Empire as well as aspects of Roman life overlooked in literary sources.

It was the spirit of discovery that so intoxicated Cassiano... -- The Observer