Séance du séminaire Épigraphie grecque et latine
Présentation par Dino Demicheli (University of Zagreb)
- mardi 7 mai 2024 - de 17h à 19h - salle Reinach - MOM - entrée par l'Université de Lyon2 - 86 rue Pasteur - Lyon 7e
- lien de connexion ZOOM ( ID Réunion : 983 5898 6448 / code : h1tJ0v)
- programme 2023-2024

The Roman province of Dalmatia was relatively large, but very heterogeneous in terms of landscape, climate, population density, urbanism, and epigraphic culture. The coastal part was the most populated, which is expected because the earliest Roman towns were established as harbors settled by the newcomers from Italia. The Latin language, and hence, the epigraphic culture was very well rooted in these towns from the first century BC, which resulted in a large number of inscriptions. With more than 6,000 inscriptions, the Dalmatian capital Salona is one of the richest Roman cities in the Empire considering the epigraphic evidence. Given the abundance of the material, it is not surprising that the study of the Dalmatian inscriptions began in the fifteenth century, when they were not just monuments in private collections, but also a subject for further examination. More recently, many new documents were found as a building material in the city walls and towers of Salona. The majority of these inscriptions emerged from the results of a scientific project about epigraphic spolia. The lecture will be focused on some of the most important inscriptions found in Dalmatia and on the unpublished epigraphic monuments that were discovered in recent archaeological excavations.