The Vespasianic Fossa Regia Inscriptions
a citation handlist, by Tom Elliott, 1 December 2000
The following citations are meant to supplement various lists of the 9 published inscriptions testifying to re-demarcation of a small portion of the Fossa Regia during the reign of the emperor Vespasian. The list derives from that published as part of a useful and extensive overview of the Fossa and related academic issues by N Ferchiou (EncBerb, s.v. "Fossa Regia"). Unfortunately, that list cites only initial publications; here I provide corresponding citations for the major
and regional corpora, the Heidelberg epigraphic databank and the Année épigraphique. Most citation data derives from the EDH entries (I have verified all references). Entries in red are not included in Campbell 2000, Appendix 3, "Epigraphic Evidence for the Settlement of Land Boundaries and Disputes".
If you are aware of additional inscriptions, citations or relevant literature (or if you see something that needs correction), please email me at tom_elliott@unc.edu. I will include the information in this page (with credit). Thanks!
The Inscriptions
- ILT 1293 = CIL 8.25860 = CIL 8.14882
- EDH HD028212 = [AE 1912.148] = Patchère, Excursion archéologique, no. 36
- EDH HD028215 = [AE 1912.149] = Patchère, Excursion archéologique, no. 37
- EDH HD028218 = [AE 1912.150] = Patchère, Excursion archéologique, no. 38
- EDH HD028221 = [AE 1912.151] = Patchère, Excursion archéologique, no. 39
- EDH HD031815 = [AE 1902.44] = [ILS 5955] = CIL 8.25967
- EDH HD024240 = ILT 624 = [AE 1932.28] = Contencin, Note sur une borne
- EDH HD010742 = ILT 623 = [AE 1939.131 with AE 1941, 27 note 79] = Poinssot, Une borne inédite
- EDH HD028735 = CIL 8.23084 = [AE 1898.26] = [AE 1894.64 with AE 1894, 41 note 128] = Cagnat, Note sur les limites
Abbreviations
- AE
- L'Année épigraphique; revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l'antiquité romaine. Paris, 1888 - . ISSN 0066-2348. More information at http://www.anneeepigraphique.msh-paris.fr/.
- BCTH
- Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris, 1885 - . ISSN: 0071-8394.
- Cagnat, Note sur les limites
- R. Cagnat. "Note sur les limites de la Province romaine d'Afrique en 146," CRAI (1894), 43ff.
- Campbell 2000
- B. Campbell, The writings of the Roman land surveyors: introduction, text, translation and commentary. JRS monograph no. 9. London, 2000.
- CIL 8
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. 8 = G. Wilmanns and Th. Mommsen (eds.), Inscriptiones Africae Latinae. Berlin, 1881 (reprint 1960) and supplements (various years and editors). See full citation information at http://www.bbaw.de/vh/cil/pub.html#8.
- Contencin, Note sur une borne
- A. Contencin, "Note sur une borne de la Fossa Regia," BCTH (1934/5), 390.
- CRAI
- Comptes rendus des séances / Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres, Paris, 1858 - . ISSN: 0065-0536.
- EDH
- Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/)
- EncBerb
- Encyclopedie berbere. Aix-en-Provence, 1984 - .
- ILS
- Hermann Dessau. Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 2d ed., 3 vols. Berlin, 1954-55.
- ILT
- A Merlin. Inscriptions latines de la Tunisie. Paris, 1944.
- JRS
- Journal of Roman Studies. London, 1911 - . ISSN: 0075-4358.
- Patchère, Excursion archéologique
- F. de Patchère, "Excursion archéologique dans la région du Fahs et de Téboursouk," BCTH (1911), 402-403.
- Poinssot, Une borne inédite
- L. Poinssot, "Une borne inédite de la Fossa Regia," BCTH (1938/40), 203-204.
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