This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective. The focus is on the diverse local histories and the varying degrees of significance of individual roads and regional networks, which are treated here for the most important regions of the empire and beyond. The assembled contributions will be of interest to historians, archaeologists and epigraphers, since they tackle matters as diverse as the technical modalities of road-building, the choice of route, but also the functionality and the motives behind the creation of roads. Roman roads are further intimately related to various important aspects of Roman history, politics and culture. After all, such logistical arteries form the basis of all communication and exchange processes, enabling not only military conquest and security but also facilitating the creation of an organized state as well as trade, food supply and cultural exchange. The study of Roman roads must always be based on a combination of written and archaeological sources in order to take into account both their concrete geographical location and their respective spatial, cultural, and historical context.
Anne Kolb Knihy
English Tomb inscriptions offer us information about the lives of well-known as well as unknown Romans and in fact manage to provide a degree of immortality to the dead-from slaves to emperors!»The earth keeps the body, the name is kept by the stone...« - these were the words used to say good-bye to the deceased in Ancent Rome. The sometimes very elaborate tomb monuments were used to preserve information on life and fate, career, or job of the deceased by decorating them with inscriptions. This volume presents the tomb inscriptions of very different people, from bakers to charioteers, from slaves to emperors - providing photographs and the original text as well as translations and commentaries. They can be found in prominent places in Rome or in the most important museums of the city. The reader will be able to understand the monuments in situ and put them into their proper historical context. German Grabinschriften vermitteln Lebensbilder bekannter und unbekannter Romer und verleihen den Toten ein Stueck Unsterblichkeit - vom Sklaven bis zum Kaiser!»Die Erde bewahrt den Leib, den Namen der Stein...« - mit diesen Worten verabschiedete man sich im alten Rom von den Verstorbenen. An z. T. aufwendigen Grabbauten hielt man Informationen ueber Leben und Schicksal, Karriere oder Beruf der Verstorbenen in Inschriften fest. Dieses Buch prasentiert die Grabinschriften unterschiedlichster Menschen, vom Backer bis zum Wagenlenker, vom Sklaven bis zum Kaiser - mit Foto und Originaltext, Ubersetzung und Kommentar. Sie sind an markanten Statten in Rom und in den bedeutendsten Museen der Stadt zu finden. Der Leser lernt, vor Ort die Monumente zu verstehen und sie historisch einzuordnen.