THE LATIN LANGUAGE IN THE INSCRIPTIONS OF ROMAN DACIA

Language, 1986

2024

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_7515.ahtml This book is dedicated to Professor Ioan Piso, one of the greatest epigraphists and historians of antiquity, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Professor Piso has been active for almost 60 years, publishing major inscriptional corpora from Roman Dacia as well as important studies on the elite, society, culture, economy and religion of Dacia and the Imperium Romanum. He gained international recognition not only through publications, but also through his participation in international conferences and projects, as well as through prestigious fellowships. He directed the scientific activities of many young scholars who later received international recognition. Professor Piso was actively involved in the civic life and was one of most important fighters for the preservation of cultural heritage in Romania. His moral principles, diligence and human qualities were unanimously appreciated. The volume comprises almost 40 studies written by scholars from Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. The main topics are epigraphy, archaeology, historiography, taking into account new epigraphic and historical documents as well as recent archaeological data. The book includes historiographic debates and new restitutions of medieval and modern documents on antiquity. In other articles, the authors provide new interpretations and original points of view on already known documents.

Mare Nostrum (São Paulo), 2017

In this essay I will analyse some inscriptions and graffiti that present features of the non-standard variety of Latin, the so-called Vulgar Latin. The case studies that I will take into consideration, namely some Pompeian graffiti, an inscription found on a wall of the Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano, and a graffito of the catacomb of Commodilla in Rome, are also evidence of linguistic change: they can be considered as different steps in the process of linguistic modification of Latin that led to Proto-Romance and, subsequently, to the Romance languages. In the first part of the essay, I will focus on the concepts of Classical and Vulgar Latin, and also on the importance of epigraphy as a way of tracing linguistic change. In the second part, I will move to the analysis of the specific case studies, by focusing in particular on the linguistic aspect and the features that distance them from the “standard variety of Latin”.

Acta Classica Univ. Scient. Debrecen., 2020

Around 200 inscriptions have been found at Potaissa so far. Some of them disappeared and their texts are known to us exclusively from publications, others are kept in museum collections. The subject of this study is their linguistic examination, by following the peculiarities and the deviations from the classical norms of the language. When possible, this data will be related to details on the donors, on the provenance of the epigraphs, on their type, and on other information that can contribute to shaping the cultural-linguistic profile of the Roman town. Located 30 km south from the ancient Napoca, the Roman town Potaissa (mod-ern: Ro. Turda-Hun. Torda) 1 was one of the most important settlements of Da-cia Porolissensis. Organized 2 in three provinces (Dacia Porolissensis, Superior and Inferior), Dacia was ruled, starting from Marcus Aurelius, by a consular rank governor-consularis trium Daciarum, since there were two legions in the province: one at Apulum (XIII Gemina), and one at Potaissa (V Macedonica). In addition , each province had a procurator Augusti in charge of the financial affairs. The V th Macedonica legion was garrisoned at Potaissa during 168/170-271, in a medium-sized camp (573 x 408 m), holding an area which exceeded 23 ha 3. It has been researched for more than 40 years, some of the results being published in articles, studies and monographs related to the architecture of the fortress (the walls, the ditch, the roads, the principia, the thermae, the barracks, together with 

Vjesnik Za Arheologiju I Povijest Dalmatinsku, 2015

Epigraphic materials are among the essential indicators of the language spoken by the Roman populace and they stand as testimony to the gradual development of the Latin into the Romance languages. This is because it provides a picture of the language used by the people themselves, which differed from the language in which literary works were written and which is deemed the standard. This work is therefore based on the extensive inscription materials of diverse types (sepulchral, votive, honorary...) found in the territory of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Among the inspected epigraphic monuments, those on which deviations in language in comparison to the norms of classical Latin may be seen were highlighted. To the greatest extent, research concentrated on changes in the framework of phonetics, because in short and concise forms such as the texts in these inscriptions they are the most relevant for analysis and obtaining specific results. The objective of this work is to delve deep...