Carving a Professional Identity

This volume presents the results of long-term research into occupational epigraphy from the Latin-language provinces of the Roman Empire. It catalogues stone epigraphs of 690 independent professionals (excluding state workers, imperial slaves, freedmen and military personnel) providing quantitative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varga, Rada
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2020.
Colección:Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Ser.
Temas:
Inscriptions, Latin > Rome.
Stone carvers > Rome.
Inscriptions latines > Rome.
Sculpteurs sur pierre > Rome.
Inscriptions, Latin
Stone carvers
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • I. Introductory notes
  • I.1. Motivation for the research
  • I.2. Structure of the book
  • I.3. Acknowledgements
  • II. Historiographic coordinates for Roman-era occupational epigraphy
  • II.1. Professions, occupations and Roman economy
  • II.2. Ancient middle classes
  • II.3. Historiographic outline
  • III. Quantitative analyses on the primary data
  • III.1. Demography and representativeness
  • III.2. Encoding the attested occupations
  • Graph 1. Quantitative distribution of professional groups.
  • Table 1. Encoding of the occupational titles
  • III.3. Space and time
  • III.4. People and monuments
  • Graph 2. Provincial distribution of the monuments.
  • Graph 3. Juridical status.
  • Graph 4. Gender distribution.
  • Graph 5. Distribution of the dedications.
  • Graph 6. Types of monument.
  • IV. People and professional identities
  • IV.1. Tales of trade and friendship
  • Graph 7. Distribution of commercial workers throughout provinces.
  • Figure 1. Aurelius Aquila's network.
  • IV.2. Doctors
  • the healing science
  • Graph 8. Special distribution of civilian and military medical personnel.
  • IV.3. Crafting for a living
  • Graph 9. Professional quality registered in inscriptions.
  • Graph 10. Distribution of craftsmen throughout provinces.
  • IV.4. Entertaining the masses
  • Graph 11. Comparison between arts and sports professionals attested.
  • IV.5. Case study: local identities
  • Graph 12. Provincial distribution of the epigraphs with origin indications.
  • Graph 13. Professional group distribution of the epigraphs with
  • origin indications.
  • V. Concluding remarks
  • Index
  • Index of people
  • Index of toponyms
  • Glossary
  • Latin title
  • English translation/explication
  • Artis sutoriae
  • shoemaker
  • aurarius
  • goldsmith
  • brattiarius
  • worker in gold-leaf, gold beater
  • caelator anaglyptarius
  • carver in bas-relief
  • calciarius
  • producer/seller of shoes
  • capistarius (= capistrarius)
  • producer/seller of muzzles
  • capsarius
  • satchelmaker, mender of clothes
  • cassidarius
  • helmet maker
  • clavarius materiarius
  • timber merchant
  • coactor argentarius
  • silversmith
  • cocus
  • cook
  • columnarius
  • builder of columns
  • contrascriptor
  • controller
  • coponus
  • inkeeper/shopkeeper
  • coriarius
  • leather worker
  • culinarius
  • cook
  • cuparius

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