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How the Romans Read Funerary Inscriptions: Neglected Evidence from the Querolus.

HABIS, 2019
The late antique comedy Querolus (or Aulularia) makes a number of references to the ways in which the text of an inscribed urn was read. This is important, hitherto neglected evidence for the way in which encounters and interactions with inscribed objects, especially from a funerary sphere, were imagined in the Roman world.
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A Funerary Stele from Kyzikos

Gephyra, 2008
This article revises a funerary inscription from Kyzikos recently published by A. Yaylalı; it also offers an explanation of the meaning of ἄναξ and new translations for two inscriptions published by E. Schwertheim and A. Yaylalı.
Murat Aydaş
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The I.Sicily Sketch Engine Corpus

Journal of Open Humanities Data
The dataset consists of the 723 early imperial (1 BC to AD 401) funerary and honorific inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew from the I.Sicily database.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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The funerary inscription of Gaius Tarquitius

Gephyra, 2011
This article presents a fragmentary inscription of a Roman soldier named Gaius Tarquitius who served probably as an ordinary soldier or as a middle-ranking officer at best in what presumably was an auxiliary cohort. Perhaps of Bithynian extraction, Gaius Tarquitius or one of his forebears may have received Roman citizenship through the patronage of ...
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New Inscriptions from Nikaia XVII [PDF]

Phaselis: Disiplinlerarası Akdeniz Araştırmaları Dergisi
This article introduces a total of six new inscriptions discovered in the Central, Söğüt, and Yenipazar districts of Bilecik Province. In antiquity, these districts were part of the territorium of Nicaea. These funerary inscriptions are important in that
Hüseyin Sami ÖZTÜRK, Ali Oğuz BOZKURT   +1 more
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Revealing inscriptions obscured by time on an early-modern lead funerary cross using terahertz multispectral imaging. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Dong J, Ribeiro A, Vacheret A, Locquet A, Citrin DS.   +4 more
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Three hundred years of Palmyrene history. Unlocking archaeological data for studying past societal transformations. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Raja R, Bobou O, Romanowska I.
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Does the longevity of the Sardinian population date back to Roman times? A comprehensive review of the available evidence. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Floris P, Dore MP, Pes GM.
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Under the Judgement of the Living God: The Early Christian Funerary Imprecations of Phrygian Eumeneia

Religions
Since the late nineteenth century, the Phrygian funerary imprecation, known as the Eumeneian formula, has been considered one of the clearest indicators of Christian religious identity on inscriptions from Roman Asia Minor.
Bernard Doherty
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Another Misunderstood Curse

Gephyra
H. Bru and E. Laflı in “Chronique d’Orient : Chronique 2025, Inscriptions gréco-romaines d’Anatolie XIV”, DHA 51.2 (2025) 251-278, at 262-265 no. 5, publish a 3rd c. AD limestone funerary relief of unknown origin, now in the Museum of Mersin (inv. 12.3.1)
Jan-Mathieu Carbon
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