Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit

Rebecca R. Benefiel, Ph.D. (2005), Harvard University, is Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics at Washington & Lee University. She is Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project and has authored numerous articles on Latin epigraphy and Roman social history. She is co-editor of Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2016).Catherine M. Keesling, Ph.D. (1995), University of Michigan, is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. Her publications include articles and book chapters on the epigraphical evidence for ancient Greek sculpture as well as the monographs The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge 2003) and Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories (Cambridge 2017).Contributors are: Rebecca R. Benefiel, Gianmarco Bianchini, John Bodel, Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Jeffrey Easton, Marta Fernández-Corral, Gian Luca Gregori, Jessica L. Lamont, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, Elizabeth A. Meyer, Morgan E. Palmer, Cameron G. Pearson, Joanna Porucznik, Susan Rahyab, Jane Sancinito, Caterina A. Stripeikis, Holly M. Sypniewski, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Sebastian Zerhoch.

• PrefaceCatherine M. Keesling and Rebecca R. BenefielList of Figures, Graphs, Maps, and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Epigraphic Culture and the Epigraphic ModeJohn BodelPart 1: Epigraphy and Regional Trends2 Reader-Oriented Strategies in Attic Funerary Monuments from the Fourth Century BCECaterina A. Stripeikis3 Artemis Kindyas and the Traveling Tombs of BargyliaJan-Mathieu Carbon4 Roman Voting Tribes, Citizenship, and Epigraphic Habit: The Case Study of Hispania CiteriorMarta Fernández-Corral5 The Epigraphic Habit of the Northwestern Black Sea Region during the Roman PeriodJoanna PorucznikPart 2: Epigraphy and Civic Life6 A Deceptively Simple Ritual: Libation in Greek InscriptionsSebastian Zerhoch7 The Keepers of the Agora: Contracts and the Office of Agoranomos in the Epigraphic RecordSusan Rahyab8 Writing on Columns: Graffiti in the Campus of PompeiiRebecca R. Benefiel and Holly M. SypniewskiPart 3: Epigraphy and Collective Identity9 The Fictores and the Epigraphic Habit in the Atrium VestaeMorgan E. Palmer10 Viae Appiae multorum annorum negotians: Place in Merchant Funerary InscriptionsJane Sancinito11 Servi empticii and Manumission in the Roman Municipal familia publicaJeffrey A. Easton12 Epigraphic Permanence and Ephemerality: The Augusteum Assemblage and Memory Construction at Ostia’s Caserma dei VigiliKathryn A. LangenfeldPart 4: Epigraphy and the Individual13 New Evidence for Slave Names and Social Mobility in Archaic GreeceCameron G. Pearson14 Curse-Writing and the Epigraphic Habit in AthensJessica L. Lamont15 Semitic Loanwords and Transcriptions in the Greek Epigraphy of Judaea-PalestineMichael Zellmann-Rohrer16 The Epigraphic Habit in a Pompeian House: Rules of Good MannersGianmarco Bianchini and Gian Luca Gregori17 May the Thief Become as Liquid as Water: Persuasion and Power in a Curse Tablet from Roman BathSarah Brucia BreitenfeldConclusion: Epigraphic Habits and Epigraphic CommunitiesElizabeth A. MeyerIndex