Epigraphy of "Byzantine" Rome: medieval Greek inscriptions from/in Rome and Latium (6th-15th cent. AD)

Acronym: EByRome

Description

The project focuses on a research topic that has been little studied thus far, and not always adequately, the “Byzantine” inscriptions of Rome and its environs – including with that term the whole of modern Latium, a territory that largely corresponds to the Byzantine duchy of Rome and the area that directly was under papal control.

The EByRome project proposes:

A) to create an online database that includes all the medieval Greek inscriptions of Latium regardless of their typology (on stone, terracotta, brick stamps, graffiti, fresco, and mosaic, and also on metal, ivory, wood, bone, and garments): the inscriptions to be considered are not only those that are original to Latium and preserved in situ, but also those transferred elsewhere and those created elsewhere but brought to the territory of Latium at some moment;

B) to examine with more detailed research some “case-studies” of greater interest, in articles or monographic contributions.