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Inscriptions and beyond
Honorific inscriptions to Roman emperors use standard formulae to praise the virtues of a good ruler. This is particularly true[...]
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How many lives could an inscription live?
When we think of ancient inscriptions we instinctively associate them with the idea of a message engraved in stone meant[...]
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A Silver Statue and a Golden Mouth
A statue base with two inscriptions carved on opposite sides, one in Greek, one in Latin, stands in the courtyard[...]
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1 fragmentary epigraph, 1 anonymous relief fragment, and 2 gods
This is the story of a document and of many people. The document is a red stone in the vault of a small church in Sinsheim (Germany) that no one would look at really; to the expert eye of the epigraphist, however, even this apparently unimportant stone with a small cluster of scattered letters ("RIO / SION / L") is sufficient to raise intriguing questions and open up a window on the Ancient World.
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