Registration Coptic from ^the third century BC. AD

Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions made on non-putrescible materials such as stone (known as a "stone inscriptions), clay or metal. This science seeks to date them, place them in their cultural context, to translate and determine what information can be derived.

The person who practices this science is a epigraphist.

Medals uninscribed , bas-reliefs uninscribed, monuments uninscribed do not require registration or title.

The study of ancient handwriting, usually done in ink, is a separate field called paleography.

Scope

Epigraphy is a primary tool of archeology in the case of literate cultures. This science is especially important for the history of antiquity , the corpus of inscriptions are very important compared to what we bring literary sources.

History of epigraphy

The epigraphy has grown steadily since the Middle Ages. Here are some famous epigraphists: Dhul-Nun al-Misri (786-859), Abu al-Hasan al-Hamadani ( 945), Ibn Wahshiyya ^(tenth century), Shen Kuo (1031-1095), Georg Fabricius (1516 - 1571), August Zumpt Wilhelm (1815-1877), Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), Emil Hbner (1834-1901), Ren Cagnat (1852-1937), Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and Robert Louis (1904-1985 ).

Famous Listings

Africa

• Algeria
• Egypt
  • Rosetta Stone

Asia

• India
  • Edicts of Ashoka
• Mesopotamia
  • Code of Hammurabi
• Persian
  • Registration of Bisotun
• Myanmar
  • Registering Myazedi
• Turkey
  • Orkhon Alphabet

Europe

• Latin epigraphy
• France
  • Tables Claudiennes ( Lyon )
• Rome
  • Res gestae Divi Augusti
  • Registering Duenos
• Greece
  • Decree of Themistocles
  • Dipylon registration
  • Registering Abercius
  • Phaistos disk
• Runic inscriptions
  • Bryggen inscriptions
  • Big stone Jelling

Collection of epigraphic texts

• Greek: the IGC (Corpus Inscriptionum Grcarum) became the Inscriptiones Graecae
• Latin: CIL ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum ), established by Theodor Mommsen in the ^nineteenth century , and constantly updated since it includes all the Latin inscriptions found in the world.
• Jean-Marie Lassre , Manual of Roman epigraphy. Paris: Picard, Antiquity and synthesis, 2007, 2 vols., 1167 p. ^(2nd edition revised and ^updated, 1st ed. In 2005).
• Year epigraphic. This is an annual publication created by Rene French Cagnat assisted by Jean-Guillaume pretend in 1888. It identifies the vast majority of Latin inscriptions.

Competitions

There are competitions unofficial inscriptions say, which are to decipher some entries as soon as possible. The largest schools where the epigraphy is taught participate in these events ^{See also}

Related articles

• Paleography , Papyrology ;
• boustrophedon , stochdon ;
• writing ; epigraphic decoration Arabic.

External Links

• The International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
• Greek and Latin epigraphy: the ASGLE (American Association)
• French Society of epigraphic studies in Rome and the Roman world (SFER)
• Site of the Year epigraphic
• Minstrel: links to classical and medieval epigraphy.
• (IMDb) visibile parlare - Visible Words (Latin)
• (IMDb) visibile parlare - Visible Words (Greek)

• Portal of writing
• Archaeology portal

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