From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World

493 Pages·2019·8.896 MB·English

by  Carlos Noreña, Nikolaos Papazarkadas (eds.)

Cover illustration: Bilingual honorific inscription for the future emperor Hadrian, from the Theater of
Dionysus, Athens, 112 CE (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III 550 = Inscriptiones Graecae II2 3286).
Courtesy of Krateros, Squeezes of Inscriptions, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Noreña, Carlos F., editor. | Papazarkadas, Nikolaos, 1974– editor.
Title: From document to history : epigraphic insights into the Greco-Roman
world / edited by Carlos F. Noreña, Nikolaos Papazarkadas.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. | Series: Brill studies in Greek
and Roman epigraphy ; volume 12 | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019009571 (print) | LCCN 2019011826 (ebook) |
ISBN 9789004382886 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004382879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Inscriptions, Greek. | Inscriptions, Latin. | Graffiti—Greece. |
Graffiti—Rome. | Greece—Social life and customs—Sources. | Rome—Social
life and customs—Sources. | Greece—History—To 146 BC—Sources. |
Greece—History—146 BC–323 AD—Sources.
Classification: LCC CN350 (ebook) | LCC CN350 .F76 2019 (print) |
DDC 938—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019009571
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Contents
List of Figures, Charts, Maps, and Tables ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
From Document to History: Introduction 1
Carlos F. Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Part 1
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
1 Epigraphy of the Night 13
Angelos Chaniotis
2 War Orphans and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens: The
Decree of Theozotides and the Prytaneion Decree Reconsidered 37
Sviatoslav Dmitriev
3 The Quarries of Attica Revisited 56
Cristina Carusi
4 Writing on the Wall: The Epigraphy of Fortification and the Attic Deme
of Rhamnous 70
Noah Kaye
5 Anomalous Grants of isopoliteia and Diplomatic Discourse in Hellenistic
Greek Inscriptions 85
Randall Souza
6 New Hellenistic Inscriptions from Phigaleia (Arcadia) 103
Athanassios Themos and Eleni Zavvou
7 The horologion of Dexippos: A Fresh Insight into Hellenistic
Lemnos 120
Francesca Rocca
8 Homonyms in Greek Sculptors’ Signatures: The Case of Boëthos 135
Catherine M. Keesling
vi Contents
Part 2
The Roman West
9 Mapping Katadesmoi in the Western Roman Empire 151
Celia Sánchez Natalías
10 Graffiti in the So-Called College of Augustales at Herculaneum (Insula
VI 21, 24): New Work from the Ancient Graffiti Project 165
Stephanie Ann Frampton
11 Wall Inscriptions in the Ancient City: The Ancient Graffiti Project 179
Rebecca Benefiel, Holly Sypniewski, and Erika Zimmermann Damer
12 Public in Private: The Distribution and Content of Graffiti in Pompeian
domus and hospitia 197
Jacqueline DiBiasie Sammons
13 Shedding Light on ludi in Pompeii 219
Joe Sheppard
14 Casting a Wide Net: Searching for Networks of Gladiators and
Game-givers in Campania 246
Virginia Campbell
15 Political Relationships: The Terms Used to Represent the Public
Dedicators of Honorific Statues in the Cities of Africa Proconsularis,
c. 50 BCE to 299 CE 260
Christopher Dawson
16 Public Slaves in Rome and in the Cities of the Latin West: New Additions
to the Epigraphic Corpus 279
Franco Luciani
17 Secundae Nuptiae: A New Look at Remarriage through Epigraphy —
A Few Examples from Roman Spain 306
Anthony Álvarez Melero
18 Documenting Hispanic Immigrants in Italia, Gallia, and Britannia 326
M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbás
Contents vii
19 A New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis: The Army and
the Emperor in Severan North Africa 356
Riccardo Bertolazzi
Part 3
The Roman East
20 Encrypted Inscriptions: A Paradoxical Practice 373
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
21 Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus: A New Honorific Inscription from
Athens 393
Dimitrios Sourlas
22 Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the
World Museum, Liverpool 408
Peter Liddel and Polly Low
23 Two Latin Inscriptions from Ephesos in the Ashmolean Museum 431
Alison Cooley
Index of Subjects 455
Index of Literary Sources 464
Index of Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources 468

Figures, Charts, Maps, and Tables
Figures
4.1 Location of the inscriptions on East Wall of Fortress of Rhamnous. Map by
author; Google Earth and DigitalGlobe © 2016 78
4.2 I.Rhamnous 194. Photo by author 79
4.3 I.Rhamnous 193. Photo by author 79
4.4 I.Rhamnous 195. Photo by author 80
6.1 Inscription no. I: Proxeny decree for Kallistratos of Alipheira.
Photo by authors 108
6.2 Inscription no. II: Honorary decree for Archippos of Phigaleia.
Photo by authors 110
6.3 Inscription no. III: Proxeny list, side A. Photo by authors 112
6.4 Inscription no. III: Proxeny list, side B. Photo by authors 113
6.5 Inscription no. IV: Dedication to Zeus. Photo by authors 117
7.1 The horologion of Dexippos; Accame 1941/3 nr. 17 = MMyrina X21.
Photo by author 123
10.1 Plan of Insula VI 21,24 (credit: Mary Hale) 169
10.2 Apograph of graffiti 172
11.1 Detail of the map originally published with CIL IV (1871) 182
11.2 Homepage of the Ancient Graffiti Project 184
11.3 Locations of graffiti in the Casa del Gran Portale, Herculaneum 186
11.4 Table of line-drawings from CIL IV (1871) 189
12.1 V.1.18: Map of Graffiti 199
12.2 V.1.18: Visual Control 200
12.3 V.1.18: Closed doors 202
12.4 V.1.18: Visual Control 203
12.5 V.1.18: Agent Analysis 204
12.6 VII.12.35: Visual Control 206
12.7 V.2.4: Map of graffiti 211
12.8 V.2.4: Visual Control 212
12.9 VII.12.35: Visual Control 213
12.10 V.2.4: Graffiti in the peristyle 214
14.1 Munus te ub(i)q(ue) 247
14.2 Visualisation of CIL IV 10236–8 252
14.3 Visualisation of CIL IV 10528 253
14.4 Photo of AE 1989: 182b. Photo by author 253
x Figures, Charts, Maps, and Tables
14.5 Visualisation of AE 1989: 182b 254
14.6 Visualisation of CIL IV 4299 254
14.7 Visualisation of the epigraphic network map of gladiators and games 257
15.1 ILAfr. 455=Bardo 250: Limestone Lintel from the Baths of Bulla Regia, 198–211
CE. Image from: Zeϊneb Benzina Ben Abdallah, Catalogue des Inscriptions
latines paϊennes du Musée du Bardo. Collection de l’École Française de
Rome 92, 1986. 261
18.1 Inscriptions of possible immigrants from Hispania, by type of
reference 332
18.2 Hispani at Rome, by status 334
18.3 Hispani in Italia, by status 334
18.4 Hispani in Gallia, by status 335
18.5 Hispani in Britannia, by status 335
18.6 Hispani immigrants, by origin 336
19.1 Lambaesis, statue base with dedicatory inscription to Septimius Severus.
Photo credit: BBAW 358
20.1 Richard Pococke’s 1743 transcription of the Memnon inscriptions: partial
segment of the right leg. Image courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, Yale University 380
20.2 Squeeze and photograph of I.Col.Memnon 102 381
20.3 Photograph of I.Col.Memnon 102 showing letters under debate (sigma, zeta,
chi, upsilon) - νπυλϙθως vs. νπχλϙθωζ 384
20.4 I.Col.Memnon photograph (end of 2nd and all of 3rd line of section labeled
31) and squeeze of I.Col.Memnon 97 386
21.1 The “Aiolos” hotel: reused pedestals built into the gate of the Post-Herulian
wall. Photo E. Bardani (Archive of the the Ephorate of Antiquities of
Athens) 395
21.2 The “Aiolos” hotel: the gateway of the post-Herulian wall after the removal of
one row of pedestals. Photo E. Bardani (Archive of the Ephorate of
Antiquities of Athens) 396
21.3 IG II2 4217 (Old Acropolis Museum). Photo E. Bardani (Archive of the
Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens) 398
21.4 The inscription. Photo E. Bardani, drawing M. Lefantzis (Archive of the
Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens) 400
22.1 Small stele with relief of a bull: (a) full view; (b) detail of inscribed panel:
Liverpool, World Museum, 14.1.90.4. Images copyright National Museums
Liverpool (World Museum). All rights reserved 411
22.2 Altar of Aphrodite: Liverpool, World Museum, 14.1.90.5. Image copyright
National Museums Liverpool (World Museum). All rights reserved 413
Figures, Charts, Maps, and Tables xi
22.3 A Christian acclamation: Liverpool, World Museum, 14.1.90.6. Image
copyright National Museums Liverpool (World Museum). All rights
reserved 416
22.4 Re-worked slab with incised feet: Liverpool, World Museum, 14.1.90.7. Image
copyright National Museums Liverpool (World Museum). All rights
reserved 419
23.1 Stele of Pompeius Marcellinus, AN.Michaelis.214. Photograph: AshLI,
courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 434
23.2 List of names from Ephesos, 1896–1908, G.1188. Left side. Photograph: Ben
Altshuler 437
23.3 List of names from Ephesos, 1896–1908, G.1188. Centre. Photograph: Ben
Altshuler 437
23.4 List of names from Ephesos, 1896–1908, G.1188. Right side. Photograph: Ben
Altshuler 438
23.5 Top left corner. AshLI, courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of
Oxford 439
23.6 Lettering (a heading?) along top edge 439
23.7 Lettering along top edge, close-up 440
23.8 Column 1 440
23.9 Column 2 441
23.10 Column 3 442
23.11 Column 4 443
23.12 Column 5 444
23.13 Column 6 445
23.14 Column 7 446
23.15 Columns 8 and 9 447
Charts
15.1 Juridical status terms 268
15.2 Demonym terms 268
15.3 Institutional and constituency terms 270
15.4 Honorific statues from the decurions alone 272
15.5 Institutional and constituency terms compared to judicial status terms,
demonym terms, and indirect formulae 274
xii Figures, Charts, Maps, and Tables
Maps
9.1 Katadesmoi in the Republic (Scale 1: 12.000.000) 159
9.2 Katadesmoi in the High Empire and Late Antiquity
(Scale 1: 12.000.000) 160–161
Tables
15.1 Comparison of honorific statue inscriptions by the decurions of Sufetula 271
16.1 New additions to the epigraphic corpus on public slaves in Rome 283
16.2 New additions to the epigraphic corpus on public slaves and freedmen in the
cities of the Latin west 286
17.1 List of remarriages from Roman Spain 315
18.1 Corpus of documented immigrants from Hispania 338
20.1 I.Col.Memnon 102 lines 2-3 with their numeric-alphabetic equivalences 383
20.2 I.Col.Memnon 102 line 4 with its numeric-alphabetic equivalence 384