See also epigraphic databases on the ICS website: https://www.catacombsociety.org/epigraphic-databases/
Corpora and reference works
ICUR – Iohannes Baptistae De Rossi, Guiglielmo Gatti. Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae septimo saeculo antiquores, 3 vols. Rome: Ex Officina Libraria Pontificia,1857-1915.
ICUR nova series – Angelo Silvagni, Antonio Ferrua, Danilo Mazzoleni, and Carlo Carletti. Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae. Nova series. Rome (1922-1935) and Vatican City (1961-1985).
ICI – Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae septimo saeculo antiquiores. Bari: Edipuglia, 1985-; 1-10 (1985-1995); nova series, 11 (2003)- Inscriptiones Christianae Italiae – Subsidia. Bari: Edipuglia,1989 et seq.
1. Carolus Wessel, Antonius Ferrua, Carolus Carletti eds., Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae veteres occidentis. Bari: Edipuglia, 1989.
2. Antonio Enrico Felle ed., Concordanze delle Inscriptiones Graecae Christianae veteres occidentis. Bari: Edipuglia, 1991.
3. Antonio Ferrua; a cura di Carlo Carletti e. a., Scritti vari di epigrafia e antichità cristiane. Bari: Edipuglia, 1991.
4. Antonio E. Felle, Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, n.s. : concordantiae verborum, nominum et imaginum : tituli graeci, composuit. Bari: Edipuglia, 1997.
5. Antonio Enrico Felle, Biblia epigraphica: la sacra scrittura nella documentazione epigrafica dell'orbis christianus antiquus (III-VIII secolo). Bari: Edipuglia, 2006.
6. Carlo Carletti, Epigrafia dei cristiani in Occidente dal III al VII secolo: ideologia e prassi. Bari: Edipuglia, 2008.
7. Paola De Santis, Sanctorum monumenta : 'aree sacre' del suburbio di Roma nella documentazione epigrafica, IV-VII secolo. Bari: Edipuglia, 2010.
ILCV – Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, I-III, Ernst Diehl, ed. Berlin: Weidmannos, 1925-1931.
Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres: Vol. IV Supplementum, ed. J. Moreau et H.I. Marrou, Hildesheim/Zürich: Weidmann, 1985.
SICV – Sylloge inscriptionum Christianarum veterum Musei Vaticani, ed. sodales Instituti Romani Finlandiae curante Henricus Zilliacus, 2 vol. (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 1). Helsinki: Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, 1963.
Le iscrizioni dei cristiani in Vaticano (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis 2). Ivano Di Stefano Manzella, ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997.
Inscriptiones sanctae sedis. Romae: Ex Officina Libraria Pontificia, 1995- CLE –
Carmina Latina Epigraphica, vols. I-II, Franz Bücheler, ed. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1895-97; vol. III Supplementum, Ernst Lommatzsch, ed. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1926.
ED – Epigrammata damasiana, Antonio Ferrua, ed. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1942.
AE – L'Année Épigraphique. 1888-
CIG – Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, vols. 1-4. Berlin: Officina Academica, 1825-1877.
CIL – Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Berlin, 1863 sqq.
Sup_Italica – Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementa Italica, 1888
DT – Defixionum tabellae quotquot innotuerunt, Auguste Audollent, ed. Paris : Luteciae Parisiorum, 1904.
Eph Epigr – Ephemeris Epigraphica (Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum supplementum). Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872-1879, 1903-1913.
IG – Inscriptiones Graecae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1873. IGUR – Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae, 4 vols. Luigi Moretti, ed. Rome: Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, 1968-1979 .
JIWE - Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols. David Noy, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993–1995.
SEG – Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. 1923-1971, 1979-
Inscriptiones sanctae sedis. Rome: Ex Officina Libraria Pontificia, 1995-
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3.1). Rosanna Barbera, ed. Vatican City: Monumenti musei e gallerie pontificie, 2009. Il codice epigrafico di Cornelio Margarini e le iscrizioni della Basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura nel XVII secolo. Concordanze e inediti (Inscriptiones Sanctae Sedis,
3.2). Giorgio Filippi, Rosanna Barbera, eds. Vatican City: Monumenti musei e gallerie pontificie, 2011. Le iscrizioni cristiane di Roma conservate nei Musei vaticani: indice dei vocaboli (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis
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Onomastic studies:
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Jewish inscriptions:
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