Epigraphy – Selected Topics
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 30
ECTS credit: 5
Lecturer(s): doc. dr. Lovenjak Milan, doc. dr. Visočnik Julijana
The course consists of selected chapters. The discussed themes change from one year to another. Lectures are connected to the seminar.
The beginnings and history of the science. Systemization, institutions, and work tools. The system of abbreviations on Roman inscriptions, transcription signs in inscription publications, corpuses. Languages of the ancient world. Writings. Palaeography. Onomastics – Roman and ethnic names. Name formulas (citizens, peregrine, freedman, slaves). Prosopography. Careers of senators and equestrians (cursus honorum) in civil and military sphere. Imperial nomenclature. Organization of the Roman army, administrative apparatus of Roman provinces, municipal administration, organization of customs.
Individual inscription categories: votive, honorary, funerary, imperial inscriptions, milestones, military diplomas, inscriptions on items of everyday use – instrumentum. Dating and commenting inscriptions.
1. Antike Inschriften aus Jugoslavien (AIJ), Heft 1, Noricum und Pannonia Superior, bearbeitet von V. Hoffiller und B. Saria, Zagreb 1938. 279 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 673632
2. C. BRUUN, J. EDMONDSON (ur.), The Oxford handbook of Roman epigraphy. New York 2015. 888 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 38283053
3. J.-M. LASSERE, Manuel d'épigraphie romaine, vol. 1-2, Antiquité syntheses No. 8, Picard éditeur, Paris 2005. 1167 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 31788898
4. M. LOVENJAK, Neviodunum. ILSl 1, Situla 38 Ljubljana 1998. 405 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 78763776
5. R. MATIJAŠIĆ, Uvod u latinsku epigrafiju, Pula 2002. 225 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 25461858
6. P. STICOTTI, Tergeste. Inscriptiones Italiae, reg. X, vol. X, fasc. IV, Roma 1951. 152 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 2070368
7. J. ŠAŠEL, Opera selecta, Situla 30, Ljubljana 1992. Str. 227- 360. COBISS.SI-ID - 31701248
8. M. ŠAŠEL KOS, The Roman Inscriptions in the National Museum of Slovenia / Lapidarij Narodnega muzeja Slovenije, Situla 35, Ljubljana 1997. 541 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 66237696
9. J. VISOČNIK, The Roman inscriptions from Celeia and its ager. Ljubljana, Celje 2017. 503 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 292108032
Most of the literature is represented by catalogues of ancient sources (primary sources) to be consulted in accordance with the lecturer's instructions.