Nueva Epigrafía Funeraria de Augusta Emerita (NEFAE): Tituli sepulcrales urbanos (ss. I-VII) y su contexto arqueológico (Memoria: Monografías Arqueológicas de Mérida, 1). Mérida: Consorcio de la Ciudad Monumental de Mérida / Diputación Provincial de Badajoz. lxiii + 569 pp., 2019
NEFAE publishes 199 unpublished funerary inscriptions from the urban centre Augusta Emerita (Méri... more NEFAE publishes 199 unpublished funerary inscriptions from the urban centre Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain), dating from the 1st c. to the 7th c. CE and corrects the editions of eight others, taking full account of the archaeological contexts in which they were discovered. The epigraphic corpus is accompanied by six analytical chapters, examining the history of archaeological research on funerary areas in Mérida (ch. 1), the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions from the 1st c. to the 7th CE, using GIS (ch. 2), the typology of the funerary monuments (ch. 3), the nature of the Latin, the formulas and the letter-forms used for the epitaphs (ch. 4), and the onomastics and social context of those who were commemorated or who dedicated the funerary monuments (chs. 5-6). The volume is illustrated throughout with colour photographs, maps, plans and line-drawings and supported by full epigraphic and thematic indices.
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Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.
This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.
Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.
This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.
project “The new edition of CIL II. Conventus Emeritensis. 1. Augusta
Emerita: urban tituli sepulcrales” is composed of damaged inscriptions
that present serious difficulties of reading. Of a total of c. 1350 epitaphs
known from the urban centre of Mérida (c. 1100 Roman and c. 250
Early Christian), almost 100 are in this condition. Much of the damage
has been caused by natural erosion but in a few cases texts were
deliberately erased. To recover the original texts, the project’s research
team has successfully tested a novel spatial analysis technique,
Morphological Residual Modelling (M.R.M.), which it is currently
applying to the study of all the damaged inscriptions. This poster
discuss the results achieved with this new technique in a set of
intentionally erased epitaphs from this corpus.