ICS BiblioSelect: Epigraphy

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-

Index inscriptionum musei vaticani. Ambulacrum Iulianum sive «galleria lapidaria (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis

1). Ivano Di Stefano Manzella, ed. Vatican City: Monumenti musei e gallerie pontificie, 1995. Le iscrizioni dei cristiani in Vaticano (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis

2). Ivano Di Stefano Manzella, ed. Vatican City: Monumenti musei e gallerie pontificie, 1997. Indice della raccolta epigrafica di San Paolo fuori le mura (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis

3). Giorgio Filippi, ed. Vatican City: Monumenti musei e gallerie pontificie, 1998. Iscrizioni latine della raccolta di San Paolo fuori le mura edite in ICUR : indice dei vocaboli (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis

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

4.1). Claudia Lega, ed. Vatican City: Monumenti musei e gallerie pontificie, 2000.

Other sources:

Benefiel, Rebecca, and Peter Keegan, eds. Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016.

Birk, Stine, Troels Myrup Kristensen, and Birte Poulsen, eds. Using Images in Late Antiquity. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2014.

Booms, Dirk. Latin Inscriptions. Ancient scripts. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016.

Bruun, Christer and Jonathan Edmondson, eds.  The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Caldelli, M. L., M.Cébeillac-Gervasoni, N. Laubry, I. Manzini, R. Marchesini, F. Marini Recchia, and F. Zevi, eds. Epigrafia ostiense dopo il CIL. 2000 iscrizioni funerarie. Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018.

Carletti, Carlo.  Epigrafia dei cristiani in Occidente dal III al VII secolo: ideologia e prassi. Bari: Edipuglia, 2008.

Carletti, Carlo. Iscrizioni cristiane a Roma: testimonianze di vita cristiana (secoli III-VII). Florence: Nardini: Centro internazionale del libro, 1986.

Carletti, Carlo. “Comunicare un’identità: un tratto specifico dell’epigrafia dei cristiani nel III secolo,” in La comunicazione nella storia antica. Fantasie e realtà, Atti del III incontro internazionale di storia antica (Genova, 23-24 novembre 2006), Maria Gabriella Angeli Bertinelli and Angelo Donati, eds. Roma 2008, pp. 195-207.

Carletti, Carlo. “’Epigrafia cristiana’-‘epigrafia dei cristiani’: alle origini dell terza età dell’epigrafia,” in La terza età dell epigrafia, Angelo Donati, ed. Faenza: Fratelli Lega, 1988, pp. 115-135.

Carroll, Maureen. Spirits of the Dead. Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Cook, B. F. Greek Inscriptions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.

Cooley, Alison E., ed. The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Cooley, Alison, ed.  The Afterlife of Inscriptions: Reusing, Rediscovering, Reinventing & Revitalizing Ancient Inscriptions. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 2000.

De Maria, Lorenza. “L’esodo delle iscrizioni cristiane dalle catacomb tra atteggiamenti religiose e collezionismo.” In D. Mazzoleni ed., Raffaele Fabretti, archeologo ed erudito: atti della giornata di studi, 24 maggio 2003. Città del Vaticano: Pontificio istituto di archeologia Cristiana, 2006, 15-23.

Desreumaux, Alain. "Les inscriptions araméennes christo-palestiniennes de Palestine et de Jordanie," in Architecture et décor dans l'Orient chrétien (IVe-VIIIe siècle). Actes de la journée d'études en hommages au père Michele Piccirillo, INHA, Paris, 8 décembre, 2011, eds. François Baratte and Vincent Michel. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2016, 89-100.

Eastmond, A. ed.  Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Felle, Antonio Enrico. "Esporre la Scrittura. L'uso di testi biblici in epigrafi d'ambito pubblico fra Tarda Antichità e prima età bizantina (secoli IV-VIII)," in Antiquité Tardive. Revue Internationale d'Histoire et d'Archéologie (IVe - VIIe siècle) 23 (2015), 353-370.

Felle, Antonio E. and Anita Rocco, eds.  Off the Beaten Track: Epigraphy at the Borders. Proceedings of 6th EAGLE International Event (24-25 September 2015, Bari, Italy). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016.

Fevrier, P. A. “Un plaidoyer pour Damase. Les inscriptions des necropolis romaines.” In M. Christol et al, eds., Institutions, soci´té et vie politique dans l’Empire romain au IVe siècle ap. J. C. Acts de la table ronde autour de l’oeuvre d’André Chastagnol, Paris 1989. Paris. 1992, 497-506.

Friggeri, Rosanna, Maria Grazia Granino Cecere, and Gian Luca Gregori, eds. Terme di Diocleziano: la collezione epigrafica. Milan: Electa, 2012.

Felle, Antonio Enrico. Biblia epigraphica. La Sacra Scrittura nella documentazione epigrafica dell’Orbus Christianus Antiquus. Bari: Edipuglia, 2006.

Galvao-Sobrinho, Carlos. "Funerary Epigraphy and the Spread of Christianity in the West.” Athenaeum 83 (1995), 431-462.

Grocock, C. W., ed. Inscriptions of Roman Britain. 5th edition, fully revised. Lactor 4. London: The London Association of Classical Teachers, 2017.

Guide de l'épigraphiste: bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales, 4th ed. François Bérard, Dominique Briquel, Denis Feissel, et al, eds. Paris: Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2010.

Harrison, James R., & L. L. Welborn, eds. The First Urban Churches 1: Methodological Foundations. Writings from the Greco-Roman world Supplement series, 7. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015.

Jensen, Robin M. “Inscriptions from Early Christian Baptisteries in Rome,” in Kristin B. Aavitsland and Turid Karlsen Seim, Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia. Vol. 24. Institutum Romanum Norvegiae, 2011, 65-83.

Krautheimer, Richard. “The Building Inscriptions and the Dates of Construction of Old St. Peter’s: A Reconsideration.” Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 25 (1989): 1-23.

Krautheimer, Richard.  “A Note on the Inscription in the Apse of Old St. Peter’s.” DOP 41 (1987): 317-320.

Landsford, Tyler. The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Mazzoleni, Danilo. Epigrafi del mondo cristiano antico. Vatican City: Lateran University Press, 2002.

Mitchell, Margaret M. “Looking for Abericus: Reimagining Contexts of Interpretation of the ‘Earliest Christian Inscription’.” In Laurie Brink, O.P. and Deborah Green eds, Commemorating the Dead. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008, 303-336.

Rhoby, Andreas. Byzantinische Epigramme auf Stein, Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung 3 = Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 474 = Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 35. Wien: Verlag der ÖAW, 2014.

Riccioni, Stefano. “Rewriting Antiquity, Renewing Rome. The Identity of the Eternal City through Visual Art, Monumental Inscriptions and the Mirabilia.” Medieval Encounters 17 (2001): 439-63.

Stern, Karen B. Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Tomlin, R.S.O. Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017.

Walker, Susan, ed. Saints and Salvation: the Wilshere Collection of Gold-glass, Sarcophagi and Inscriptions from Rome and Southern Italy. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2017.

Yasin, Ann Marie. “Displaying the Sacred Past: Ancient Christian Inscriptions in Early Modern Rome.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 7/1 (2000): 39-57.

Zilliacus, H.  Sylloge Inscriptionum Christianarum Veterum Mesei Vaticani, 2 vols. Helsinki, 1963.

Onomastic studies:

Kajanto, Iiro. Onomastic Studies in the Early Christian Inscriptions of Rome and Carthage (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 2.1). Helsinki: Bibliothèque de l'Université, 1963.

Kajanto, Iiro. A Study of Greek Epitaphs of Rome (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 2.3). Helsinki: Helsingfors, 1963.

Kajanto, Iiro. The Latin Cognomia (Societas Scientiarum Fennica. Commentationes humanarum litterarum ; XXXVI, 2). Helsinki: Keskuskirjapaino, 1965.

Kajanto, Iiro. “Roman Nomenclature during the Late Empire,” in Le iscrizioni dei cristiani in Vaticano (Iscriptiones Sanctae Sedis 2), Ivano Di Stefano Manzella, ed. Vatican City: Monumenti, Musei e gallerie pontificie, 1997, pp. 103-111.

Solin, Heikki. “Juden und Syrer im westlichen Teil der römischen Welt. Eine ethnisch-demographische Studie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der sprachlichen Zustände,” in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, 2.29.2 (1983), pp. 587-789.

Heikki Solin, Die stadtrömischen Sklavennamen: ein Namenbuch (Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei. Beiheft; 2). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996.

Solin, Heikki. Die griechischen Personennamen in Rom: ein Namenbuch (zweite, völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2003.

Solin, Heikki. “Introduzione allo studio dei graffiti parietali,“ in Unexpected Voices: the graffiti in the cryptoporticus of the Horti Sallustiani, Olof Brandt, ed., Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Rom, 2008.

Solin, Heikki. “On the Presence of Jews in Ancient Latium,” in Scripta Classica Israelica, 33 (2014), pp. 243-254.

Solin, Heikki and Olli Salomies, eds. Repertorium nominum gentilium et cognominum Latinorum (editio nova, addendis corrigendisque augmentata). Hildesheim; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 1994.

Jewish inscriptions:

CIJ – Corpus Inscriptionum Judicarum vols. I-II. Jean Baptiste Frey, ed., Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1936-52. Republication of vol. I (with prolegomenon, addenda, and corrigenda by Baruch Lifshitz), New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1975.

JIWE – Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols. David Noy, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993–1995.

Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum Graeciae (CIJG) - Constitution of Jewish and Jewish Signatures from Mainland and Island Greece (late 4th century BC 15th Century). Z. Battinou, ed. Athens: Jewish Museum of Greece, 2018.

Angerstorfer, Andreas.  Antike jüdische Grabinschriften aus christlicher Zeit (ca. 100-500 n.Chr.). Spuren von Hoffnung auf eine Auferstehung der Toten und die „kommende Welt, 2002.

Chilton, Bruce.  “The Epitaph of Himerus from the Jewish Catacombs of the Via Appia.” Jewish Quarterly Review 79/1 (1988-89): 93-100.

Kant, Larry H.  "Jewish Inscriptions in Greek and Latin." ANRW II, 20, 2 (1987): 671-713.

Kraemer, Ross S. “Jewish Tuna and Christian Fish: Identifying Religious Affiliations in Epigrahic Sourcces,” in Harvard Theological Review 84.2 (1991), pp. 141-162.

Noy, David. “Writing in Tongues: The Use of Greek, Latin and Hebrew in Jewish Inscriptions from Roman Italy.” Journal of Jewish Studies 48 (1997): 300-22.

Rajak, Tessa. “Inscription and Context: Reading the Jewish Catacombs of Rome.” In T. Rajak, ed., The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction. Brill: Leiden, 2000, 431-46.

Rajak, Tessa, and David Noy. “Archisynagogoi: Title and Social Status in the Greco-Jewish Synagogue,” in Journal of Roman Studies 83.9 (1993), pp. 89-92.

Solin, Heikki. “Juden und Syrer im westlichen Teil der römischen Welt. Ein ethnisch-demographische Studie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der sprachlichen Zustände.” ANRW II.29.2 (1983): 587-780.

van Henten, William, and Alice J. Bij de Vaate, “Jewish or Non-Jewish? Some Remarks on the Identification of Jewish Inscriptions from Asia Minor.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 53 (1996): 16-28.

van Henten, Jan Willem and Pieter Willem van der Horst, eds. Studies in Early Jewish Epigraphy. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.

van der Horst, Pieter Willem. Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary Epigraphy (300 BCE-700 CE). Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 1991.