Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the basic tools for reading, understanding and commenting ancient inscriptions. Secondly, it will provide them with the necessary skills to use the inscriptions as fundamental sources for studying ancient history. For this purpose, thanks to practical exercises in classroom and in museum, students will learn the use of the epigraphic corpora and the techniques of consultation of the most important epigraphic databases.

Program

- Ancient epigraphy: definition, topics, limits.
- History of ancient epigraphy
- Work tools.
- The Inscription as a monument.
- The iscription as a document.
- Relief, filing, editing of the inscriptions.
- The taxonomy of the inscriptions.
- The instrumentum inscriptum.

Didactic methods
For attending students, teaching methods consist of lectures dedicated to the transmission of
Basic notions and basic tools of work. Added to this are the practical exercises in the classroom and museum. Attending students will receive at the first lesson the complete calendar of didactic activities with the dates and topics covered in the lessons provided by the time, the classroom and the indication of possible suspension for academic reasons.
Throughout the academic year, there is also available the individual reception service handled by the teacher at the timetable indicated on the teacher's web pages.
With regard to non-attending students, teaching methods consist of a support teacher for personal study of the manual during the talks, also attached to the outside the scheduled time and providing, on request, additional teaching materials.

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Examination Methods