Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes.
Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes.
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Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes。
DOI:
10.1086/358940
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发表时间:
1906
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Edward Capps
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作者:
Edward Capps
Of this important publication, which will be complete in six volumes, seven fasciculi of about 100 pages each have already appeared: of Tom. I three fasc.(Britannia, Germania, Gallia. Hispania, Italia, Sicilia, Sardinia et Melita, Pannonia, Dacia, Dalmatia, Moesia, Thracia), in 1901, 1903, 1904; of Tom. III four (Bithynia et Pontus, Cappadocia, Armenia, Galatia, Lycia et Pamphylia, Cilicia, Syria, Palaestina, Arabia), in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905. It is edited under the direction of the distinguished Latin epigraphist, MR Cagnat, assisted in Tom. I by MJ Toutain and in Tom. III by MG Lafaye, both well known for their work in Greek epigraphy and in allied fields. In organizing and publishing at a remarkably low price this collection of inscriptions, most of them scattered in journals and monographs inaccessible to most students, and the rest embraced in the expensive volumes of the Berlin Corpus, the Academy of Inscriptions has rendered a unique service to scholarship. Every student of Greek and Latin epigraphy, history, institutions, religion, and private life may now have in his library some fifteen thousand inscriptions at a price hitherto unknown in publications of this sort. The documents are printed in minuscules. No uniform plan of indicating orthographical, scribal, and mason's errors is followed. A method by which the reader is never left in doubt as he reads the text should be adopted and rigidly adhered to. A goodly number of improved readings and restorations have been introduced into the text; but much remains to be done in this direction. In I. 590 NaEKaevs 8 O/Uo, TrEKrv, with the preposterous explanation" domo Nicaea," should give way to 8ouorTEK7WV; cf. Ath. Mitth. XXIV, p. 123. Reference is made to the Corpus if an inscription has appeared there, and often also to a journal, apparently to the latest publication or discussion of the document, but not always with good judgment; eg, the reference on III. 551 to Am. Jour. Arch. is only to a report of the find! The value of the publication would be greatly enhanced if the literature were cited fully, as in Dittenberger and Michel. A full table of concordance at the end of the publication will partly remedy this defect, and will, in fact, be indispensable. The notes are very brief, but to the point and helpful, if occasionally too elementary. OXOLVL'a in I. 659 is explained in Ditt. Syl. 2 I, p. 366, n. 29. Dates furnished by the text are adequately explained. Epigraphical evidence of date, however, is never furnished, even when we may assume that at least the general period of a document is indicated by the lettering. As to the completeness of the collection within the limits indicated by the title it is difficult to form a judgment, and the editors do not tell us their conception of its proper range and limitations. It is to be hoped