Archaeology Odyssey

Curzio Inghirami, Ethruscarum Antiquitatum Fragmenta (Florence: Amadore Massi, 1636 [with a false imprint of Frankfurt, 1637]). Much of the material relating to Curzio Inghirami’s words, thoughts and actions comes from this text.

With the cooperation of The Speed Art Museum, the inscriptions are being studied by Classics Professor George Houston of UNC-Chapel Hill and the author. The material is being published on the website of the US Epigraphy Project (usepigraphy.brown.edu), an online database of Greek and Latin inscriptions in American collections.

See H. Sigismund Nielsen, “Interpreting Epithets in Roman Epitaphs,” in The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space, B. Rawson and P. Weaver, eds. (Oxford: 1997), pp. 169–204.

See S.R. Joshel, Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions (Norman, OK, & London: 1992).

For a discussion of similar epitaphs from Rome, see J. Bodel, “Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University,” American Journal of Archaeology 96.1(January 1992), pp. 71–100.

See J.M.C. Toynbee, Death and Burial in the Roman World (Baltimore and London: 1996, 2nd ed.); and J.R. Patterson, “Living and Dying in the City of Rome: Houses and Tombs,” in Ancient Rome: The Archaeology of the Eternal City, J. Coulston and H. Dodge, eds. (Oxford: 2000), pp. 259–89.

Romische Graberstrassen: Selbstdarstellung-Status-Standard, H. Von Hesberg and P. Zanker, eds., (Munich: 1987); and Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae, M. Steinby, ed.(Rome: 1999), vol. 5, pp. 144–45 (“Via Salaria”).

References to the necropolis and transcriptions of several funerary inscriptions appeared in issues of the Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità and Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma between 1897 and 1907, as well as in volume 6 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.

R. Turchetti, “Necropoli fuori Porta Salaria,” in Thomas Ashby, Un archeologo fotografa la campagna romana tra Ô800 e Ô900 (Rome: 1986).