Family and Community: Commemorative Choices among the Jewish Epitaphs from Rome

Epitaphs have long served as a medium for exploring identity and social relationships in the Roman world. Several important studies have quantified relationships between the deceased and dedicator, age at death, and the use of epithets on Roman epitaphs. This article applies the same quantitative ap...

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Published in:Jewish studies quarterly
Main Author: Nutzman, Megan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Mohr Siebeck [2020]
In: Jewish studies quarterly
Further subjects:B epithet
B Jewish catacombs
B Latin
B Greek
B Funeral inscriptions
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