Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (abbreviated LIC) is a general collection of Latin inscriptions ancient bringing together public and private entries collected. The epigraph is an indispensable source of information for studying the Roman Empire and more generally the Antiquity.
CIL aims to systematically collect all Latin inscriptions from all the geographical territory of the Empire. The Corpus is treated continuously in new editions and supplements. The CIL is written in Latin , the universal language for epigraphists this area. The Academy of Sciences of Berlin-Brandenburg (BBAW) is responsible for this work.
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History
The Renaissance period saw the development of the first compilations of ancient inscriptions, under the leadership of the Medici in Florence , and Pope Sixtus IV in Rome. The first collections, as totius orbis Romani Inscriptiones antiquae published in Heidelberg in 1603 sought to assemble the final versions of all the Greek and Latin inscriptions previously published. But the absence of verification by on-site surveys limited the scope of this corpus. A considerable effort to distinguish the verification of the true false entries was synthesized in 1765 by the publication in Lucca a reference to Scipio Maffei, the Artis criticae lapidariae quae exstant. The magnitude of the work of fusion and Orderly these books and their updates is such that it took until 1815 for the Berlin Academy undertakes to finance a portion of the work, first for epigraphy Greek with a Corpus Inscriptiones graecorum whose publication began in 1828. Then in 1847 a committee was established in Berlin in order to publish a systematic collection of Latin inscriptions. The main character of the committee was Theodor Mommsen who undertook several volumes on Italy. Much of the work was for those who participated in the company to visit their own places and monuments to make copies of as many originals. Where the entries described earlier had disappeared we tried to reconstitute a correct variant by comparing what had been written the previous authors who had seen them. The first volume appeared in 1863 Introduction CIL currently has 17 volumes with more than 70 fascicles and contains about 180,000 entries. 13 volumes contain additional plates and index. The first volume in two parts, contains the oldest entries until the end of the Roman Republic, Volumes II through XIV are divided geographically: Volume XIII is devoted, for example, registration of Gallic and Germanic provinces List of volumes The list of volumes of the CIL is as follows (the date shown is the first issue) : Notes
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