Re-Writing Cityscapes in Late Antique Asia Minor: Religious, Civic, and Imperial Agencies in Public Epigraphies of Ephesos and Aphrodisias

在“重写小亚细亚古董晚期的城市风貌：以弗所和阿弗罗迪西亚斯的公共铭文中的宗教、公民和帝国机构”(RCLA)项目中，我将研究小亚细亚古董晚期(公元3-7)的两个主要城市阿弗罗迪西亚和以弗所公共空间的铭文，从一个迄今为止从未尝试过的新角度。这些铭文是城市空间的关键元素之一，也是基督教作为社会主导的、帝国赞助的信仰到来而引发的社会和宗教变革的前沿。它们位于中心城区，如有门廊的街道、广场、城市和越来越多的邪教基督教大教堂，或者用虔诚的涂鸦覆盖封闭的宗教空间。存在着各种各样的流派--从铭刻的皇室声明到敬语，再到墓志铭。这些铭文(主要是希腊文，但也有拉丁文)为这两个城市内一系列令人印象深刻的社会参与者提供了声音，并有力地促进了城市居民在城市空间中的生活体验。

In the project "Re-Writing Cityscapes in Late Antique Asia Minor: Religious, Civic, and Imperial Agencies in Public Epigraphies of Ephesos and Aphrodisias" (RCLA), I will study inscriptions in public spaces in Aphrodisias and Ephesos-two major cities of late antique (3rd-7th c. AD) Asia Minor from a new perspective not attempted so far. These inscriptions were among the key elements of urban spaces, and at the forefront of social and religious changes engendered by the arrival of Christianity as the socially dominant, imperially-sponsored faith. They were located in central urban areas such as porticoed streets, agoras, civic and, increasingly, cultic Christian basilicas, or covered enclosed religious spaces in devotional graffiti. A variety of genres existed-from inscribed imperial pronouncements to honorific and to funerary epigraphy. These inscriptions (predominantly in Greek, but also in Latin) gave voice to an impressive range of social actors within the two cities, and powerfully contributed to the lived experience of city dwellers within urban spaces.