(1) While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.(2) He also helped them study epigraphy in the temple.(3) It has four boats and employs 60 divers, whose skills include archaeology, history, epigraphy (the study of inscriptions) and numismatics (the study of coins).(4) The second is epigraphy : there are very few Greek inscriptions in Upper Galilee during this period.(5) Now epigraphy , the interpretation of inscriptions, is one of the many gaps in my training as a historian.(6) An important early transformation in this apparently uniform written culture came with the use of palaeo-Christian epigraphy in funerary inscriptions.(7) There is no more exemplary statement than this of epigraphists ' proper attitude toward epigraphical conclusions - and historical conclusions based on epigraphic evidence.(8) Nonetheless, most, if not all, familial funerary portraits have become identified as a type of freedman art in scholarship, even when accompanying epigraphic evidence does not designate the social standing of those depicted.(9) The combination of theory and solid evidence, particularly archaeological, but also some epigraphic , is most welcome and several of the contributors are to be commended for their innovative approaches to the subject.(10) This 331-page volume provides detailed epigraphical , paleographical, archaeological, philological, and historical analyses that seem to echo the Copenhagen International Seminar (often branded as ‘minimalist’).(11) It used evidence from epigraphic sources, linguistics, and palaeography to reconstruct the life of artisans and their role in intercultural exchange at the regional level.(12) Besides epigraphical reports talking of land grants and agreements on the oil supply to the temple, the book also proves the existence of the Sabha in the distant past, which laid down elaborate procedures for punishment for crime.(13) The value of the available information (from the architecture, equipment, comparanda from other synagogue buildings, and literary and epigraphic sources) is discussed briefly in this context.(14) In his vision of the future, epigraphists - archaeologists who study inscriptions - will rely instead on digital cameras, specialized computer software, and their dexterity with a mouse.(15) As an epigraphical quotation printed in the preliminary pages, this ‘novel’ bore the lines from Horace: Let fiction meant to please be very near to truth.(16) The text of column II can be edited as follows (but, as indicated in the epigraphical commentary above, some of the text in lines 8-11 may have started on the left block).
