About 80 results for ‘Epigraphy’
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Epigraphy
Epigraphy (from the Greek: ἐπιγραφή epi-graphē, literally "on-writing", "inscription") is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers. Specifically excluded from epigraphy are the historical significance of an epigraph as a document and the artistic value of a literary composition. A person using the methods of epigraphy is called an epigrapher or epigraphist. For example, the Behistun inscription is an official document of the Achaemenid Empire engraved on native rock at a location in Iran. Epigraphists are responsible for reconstructing, translating, and dating the trilingual inscription and finding any relevant circumstances. It is the work of historians, however, to determine and interpret the events recorded by the inscription as document. Often, epigraphy and history are competences practiced by the same person. An epigraph is any sort of text, from a single grapheme (such as marks on a pot that abbreviate the name of the merchant who shipped commodities in the pot) to a lengthy document (such as a treatise, a work of literature, or a hagiographic prescription). Epigraphy overlaps other competences such as numismatics or palaeography. When compared to books, most inscriptions are short. The media and the forms of the graphemes are diverse: engravings in stone or metal, scratches on rock, impressions in wax, embossing on cast metal, cameo or intaglio on precious stones, painting on ceramic or in fresco. Typically the material is durable, but the durability might be an accident of circumstance, such as the baking of a clay tablet in a conflagration.
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- Archaeology
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
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- Designation:
- socle
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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Cippe d'Optata
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 2nd century
- 3rd century
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Cippe d'Antoninus
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 1st century
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Cippe d'Anicetus ; stèle funéraire d'un médiomatrice mort...
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Capital (architecture)
- Column
- Pediment
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- Date:
- 3rd century
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Cippe d'Itussius Sabinus
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cornice
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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Stèle d'Ipatteius Censorinus
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Beard
- Capital (architecture)
- Column
- Pediment
- Tunic
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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monument d'Aphonius
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 3rd century
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Cippe de C. Pomponius Fronto
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Altar
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- Date:
- 1st century
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Stèle d'Aeliana
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 1st century
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Bellicus
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Anvil
- Blacksmith
- Capital (architecture)
- Cat
- Column
- Dog
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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Stèle de Regiola
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Beaker (drinkware)
- Capital (architecture)
- Column
- Tunic
- Vase
- Woman
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- Date:
- 3rd century
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Cippe de Gabriella et de son mari ; Stèle de deux époux
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Capital (architecture)
- Column
- Man
- Woman
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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- Designation:
- plaque commémorative
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Designation:
- stèle funéraire
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Designation:
- stèle funéraire
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