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Introduction

A rich production of epigraphic poetry written in Greek flourished in the territories of the Greco-Roman world during the Imperial age (late 1st century BC-3rd century AD). A corpus of about two-thousand Greek metrical inscriptions exhibits significant diversity in the geographical, socio-historical, archaeological contexts, and the literary aspects. Indeed, a wide range of poetic forms is written and enjoyed by authors, clients, and recipients from various socio-cultural backgrounds.

There is currently no repository that allows for easy collection of data on the inscriptions from the corpus. The inscriptions are indeed scattered across various editions, which are often incomplete due to the discovery of new inscriptions following publication. The aim of the database is to gather the Greek metrical inscriptions from the Imperial Age into a single collection, providing the following data: the geographic provenance, the edition(s), the dating, the type of inscription (/literary genre), the clients and recipients, the author (when known), the type of meter, the length of the text, the epigraphic support (with references to the images), the layout (in relation to the metrical structure), external links to the other epigraphy related websites. The database will enable the collection of the entire corpus of the Greek metrical inscriptions from the Imperial age. It will be possible to expand the corpus at any time, whether new inscriptions are discovered or new editions of already known inscriptions are published. By including external links, a network of digital resources will be created. In this way, it will be easier to have access to the production of Greek epigraphic poetry from the Imperial age, in its various literary forms, and diverse geographical, archaeological, and socio-historical contexts.

The project has been initiated by Pietro Ortimini (University of Pisa) and currently revolves around the data he has collected within the scope of his doctoral thesis on the literary forms and metrics of the Greek metrical inscriptions from the Imperial Age (late first century BC-third century AD). As a future perspective, it would be desirable to expand the database to include the Greek metrical inscriptions from the Archaic and Classical Period, Hellenistic Period and Late Antiquity.

The corpus: an overview

Geographic provenance	Inscriptions	Main epigraphic editions, corpora, and image repositories
Anatolian Peninsula (Provinciae Asiae, Bithyniae et Ponti, Galatiae et Cappadociae, Ciliciae)	A = 686 B = 404 tot.: 1090	Steinepigramme I, II, III/13-16, IV/17-19, Staab 2018, Merisio 2024, I.Cilicie, I.Milet, IGSK, MAMA, Steinepigramme (ibid.), TAM/ETAM, Pfuhl/Möbius, Ostgr. Grabreliefs, I.Milet, I.Pergamon, I.Pergamon Asklepieion, Studia Pontica III, I.Sardis, Milet VI.1-3, Robert, Carie, Bean/Mitford, Rough Cilicia, Dömer 1941, I.British Mus., Marek/Adak 2016, Marek 2003, Ramsay, Phrygia, I.North Galatia, Stauber 2022
Near East (Armenia, Mesopotamia, Media, Syria, Iudaea, Arabia, Cipro)	A = 69 B = 45 tot.: 114	Steinepigramme III/12, IV/20-22, IGLS, CIIP
Egypt	A = 135 B = 24 tot.: 159	I. Egypte métriques, I.Philae, I.Colosse Memnon
Creta et Cyrene	A = 42 B = 4 tot.: 46	Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica. Second edition, I.Cret.
North Africa (Africa Proconsularis, Numidia, Muretania)	A = 5 B = 7 tot.: 12	IRT
Achaia (Greece, Aegean/Ionian Islands), Macedonia/Epirus, Thrace	A = 264 B = 228 tot.: 492	IG II,2, II/III2, II/III³, III, IV, IV2,1, V,1, V,2, VII, IX,1, IX,12, IX,2, X,2,1, X,2,2 XI,2,1, XI,2,2, XI,4, XII,1-9, XII Suppl., I.Beroia, IGBulg, Corinth VIII, I.Eleusis, I.Thespies, I.Vallée Enipeus, I.Ano Maked., I.Thrake Aeg., I.Perinthos, IGSK 58, I.Ano Maked., I.Thrake Aeg., I.Perinthos, I.Rhénée
Italy (Regiones I-XI), Roma, Sicilia, Sardinia et Corsica	A = 85 B = 167 tot.: 252	IG XIV, IGUR, I.Aquileia, IG Locri, I.Messina, IG Napoli, IG Porto, IG Puglia, IG Ravenna, IGLMPalermo, IG Reggio Calabria, IG Velia, I.Mus. Catania
Western Europe (Britannia, Gallia, Germania, Hispania)	A = 15 B = 5 tot.: 20	IG XIV, IG France, LatinNow, RIB
Eastern Europe (Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Cimmerian Bosporus)	A = 15 B = 33 tot.: 48	IGBulg, I.Histria, IG Dacia, I.Chr. România, I.Mésie Sup., IG Pannonia³, Telamon
Non-geographic corpora	Cougny 1890; Kaibel, Epigrammata; Peek, GVI, Hunter 2022, AE, BE, SEG, CIL, The Squeeze Collection - CSAD, E-stampages, Venice Squeeze Project, Ubi Erat Lupa, Last Statues of Antiquity (LSA)

Dating (P5)

The period under consideration ranges from the late first century BC to the early fourth century AD. The span of centuries is bounded by the reforms of Augustus and the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine.

The following types of dating are distinguished:

1. Inscriptions dated to a specific year or within a span of years less than a century.
2. Inscriptions dated by centuries.
3. Inscriptions dated to the Imperial Period (first-third century AD), contrasting with the Hellenistic Period (third-first century BC) and the Late Antique Period (fourth-seventh century AD).
4. Inscriptions dated between the end of the Hellenistic Period (late first century BC) and the beginning of the Imperial Period (first century AD), or between the end of the Imperial Period (late third century AD) and the beginning of Late Antiquity (fourth century AD).
5. Inscriptions with uncertain dating between the Hellenistic Period and the Imperial Period or between the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity.
6. Inscriptions dated with generic terms like Kaiserzeit, Römische Zeit, aetatis imperialis, Imperial Age, époque imperiale, età imperiale, etc., without distinguishing between the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity.
7. Undated inscriptions.

Based on these types of dating, inscriptions are divided into two groups:

• A : Inscriptions falling under types 1-4, dateable to the Imperial Age with a reasonable margin of certainty.
• B : Inscriptions falling under types 5-6, assignable to the Imperial era with a low margin of certainty.
• C: undated inscriptions (type 7)

Types of inscriptions (P6)

• Epitaphs
• Honorific inscriptions / celebrative inscriptions
• Dedications, Prayers, Hymns
• Oracles
• Ritual inscriptions, informative/didactic inscriptions
• exhortatory inscriptions, warnings, curses

Geographic provenance	Epitaphs	Honorific/celebrative inscriptions	Dedications/Prayers/Hymns	Oracles	Ritual inscriptions	exhortatory inscriptions, warnings, curses
Anatolian Peninsula (Provinciae Asiae, Bithyniae et Ponti, Galatiae et Cappadociae, Ciliciae)	A = 508 (74%) B = 343 (85%) [tot.: 851 (78%)]	A = 76 (11%) B = 26 (6%) [tot.: 102 (9%)]	A = 52 (8%) B = 22 (5%) [tot.: 74 (7%)]	A = 32 (5%) B = 2 (0,5%) [tot.: (3%)]	A = 9 (1%) B = 2 (0,5%) [tot.: 11 (1%)]	A = 4 (1%) B = / [tot.: 4 (1%)]
Near East (Armenia, Mesopotamia, Media, Syria, Iudaea, Arabia, Cipro)	A = 49 (71%) B = (%)	A = 8 (12%) B = %	A = 9 (13%) B = %	A = / B = /	A = / B = /	A = / B = /
Egypt	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Creta et Cyrene	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
North Africa (Africa Proconsularis, Numidia, Muretania)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Achaia (Greece, Aegean/Ionian Islands, Macedonia/Epirus, Thrace)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Italy (Regiones I-XI), Roma, Sicilia, Sardinia et Corsica	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Western Europe (Britannia, Gallia, Germania, Hispania)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Eastern Europe (Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Cimmerian Bosporus)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %

Meters (P7)

• hexameters kata stichon
• elegiac couplets
• iambic meters kata stichon
  • iambic trimeters
  • choliambics
• catalectic trochaic tetrameters
• pentameters kata stichon
• sotadeans
• mixed meters
  • hexameters + pentameters
  • hexameters + iambic meters
  • hexameters + pentameters + iambic meters
  • hexameters + trochaic tetrameters

Geographic provenance
Anatolian Peninsula (Provinciae Asiae, Bithyniae et Ponti, Galatiae et Cappadociae, Ciliciae)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Near East (Armenia, Mesopotamia, Media, Syria, Iudaea, Arabia, Cipro)	A = %, B = %	A = % , B = %	A = %, B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Egypt	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Creta et Cyrene	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
North Africa (Africa Proconsularis, Numidia, Muretania)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Achaia (Greece, Aegean/Ionian Islands, Macedonia/Epirus, Thrace)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Italy (Regiones I-XI), Roma, Sicilia, Sardinia et Corsica	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Western Europe (Britannia, Gallia, Germania, Hispania)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Eastern Europe (Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Cimmerian Bosporus)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %

Layout (P15)

1. A.1 The layout does not follow the metrical structure

   A.1a The layout does not follow the metrical structure and no attention is paid to word endings (e.g. GVCyr008)

   A.1b The layout does not follow the metrical structure and attention is paid to word endings / certain parts of the text are highlighted (e.g. GVCyr051)

2. A.2 The layout follows the metrical structure

   A.2a 1 line = 1 verse (e.g. I.Egypte métriques 26)

   eisthesis of pentameters (e.g. I.Egypte métriques 68) / vacat at the central caesura (e.g. IG IV²,1 436 )

   A.2b Verses written as prose, with vacat and/or signs (e.g. colon, dicolon, hedera, diple), which indicate the end of the verse (e.g. IG XIV 2564)

   A.2c Verses arranged on multiple (two/three) lines

   A.2c.1 Verses arranged on two/three lines without eisthesis of the second/third line, with vacat and/or sign to indicate the end of the verse (e.g. IG IX 1², 4, 1498 )

   A.2c.2 Verses arranged on two/three lines with eisthesis of the second/third line and possibly vacat and/or sign to indicate the end of the verse (e.g. IGUR III 1163, I.Mus. Catania 24)

   A.2.c.3 Mixed layout types A.2.c.1-A.2.c.4 (e.g. IG IX 1², 4, 1497)

   A.2c.1-3 Verse division based on the caesurae (this subcategory includes inscriptions that exhibit verse division based on caesuras in at least 50% of the verses, e.g. I.Egypte métriques 49, Steinepigramme 06/02/20, Peek, GVI 588)

   A.3 Mixed layout types A.1-A.2a-c.1-3 (e.g. IGUR III 1272)

Geographic provenance	A.1	A.2a	A.2b	A.2c.1-3	A.3	(A.2c 1-5/A.3 % sul tot. di A.2c 1-4/A.3)
Anatolian Peninsula (Provinciae Asiae, Bithyniae et Ponti, Galatiae et Cappadociae, Ciliciae)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Near East (Armenia, Mesopotamia, Media, Syria, Iudaea, Arabia, Cipro)	A = %, B = %	A = % , B = %	A = %, B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Egypt	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Creta et Cyrene	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
North Africa (Africa Proconsularis, Numidia, Muretania)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Achaia (Greece, Aegean/Ionian Islands, Macedonia/Epirus, Thrace)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Italy (Regiones I-XI), Roma, Sicilia, Sardinia et Corsica	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Western Europe (Britannia, Gallia, Germania, Hispania)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %
Eastern Europe (Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Cimmerian Bosporus)	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %	A = % , B = %

Queries - access to data

Introduction

• Thematic queries have been created (see below) fot those who are not familiar with SPARQL query service.
• To start the query and obtain the data, use the function at the bottom left execute query (CTRL + ENTER).

• Wikidata - Full list of prefixes
• Full list of prefixes of the greek-metrical-inscriptions wikibase:

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 PREFIX gprn: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/prop/reference/value-normalized/>
 PREFIX gprv: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/prop/reference/value/>
 PREFIX gpsv: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/prop/statement/value/>
 PREFIX gps: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/prop/statement/>
 PREFIX gpsn: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/prop/statement/value-normalized/>
 PREFIX gd: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/entity/>
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 PREFIX gdtn: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/prop/direct-normalized/>
 PREFIX gdv: <https://greek-metrical-inscriptions.wikibase.cloud/value/>

• cf. https://hypotheseis.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Query

Edition

• All editions

Provenance

Egypt

• Egypt - region
  • Antinooupolis

Cyrenaica

• Cyrene

Greece

• Greece - region
  • Athens

Italy

Sicily

• Sicily - region
  • Catania

Western Europe

Germania

• Germania - region
  • Stockstadt am Mainz

Dating

A

• first century AD
• second century AD
• second/third century AD
• beginning of the third century AD
• third century AD
• late third/fourth century AD

Type of inscription

• epitaphs

• honorific inscriptions

• dedications

• oracles

Meter

• elegiac couplets

• hexameter

• catalectic trochaic tetrameters

Epigraphic support

• marble plaque
• marble stele
• block of sandstone

Layout

• A.1
• A.2a
• A.2b
• A.2c.1
• A.2c.2
• A.2.c.3
• A.2c.1-3
• A.3

Links

Digital epigraphic corpora

• Searchable Greek Inscriptions
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
• Inscriptiones Graecae
• Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica
• Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica. Second edition
• Telamon
• I.Sicily
• I Carmina Epigraphica Graeca di Peter Allan Hansen:un supplemento online (CEGS)
• Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR)
• Hispania Epigraphica
• EDF - Epigraphic Database Falsae
• Epigraphic Database Heidelberg
• Epigraphic Database Bari project (EDB)
• Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online

Related databases

• Epigraphische Datenbank zum antiken Kleinasien
• LatinNow

Related digital projects

• MAPPOLA
• CARMEN
• europeana - eagle project

Related wikibases

https://hypotheseis.wikibase.cloud/

Bibliography

I Epigraphic corpora / editions

• AE = Année Épigraphique.
• BE = Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (1938-).
• CIIP = (Various edd.) Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae. A Multilingual Corpus of the Inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Berlin 2010-.
• Cougny 1890 = Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum […], III, instr. E. C., Parisiis 1890.
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• I.Ano Maked. = T.Rizakis, G.Touratsoglou, Ἐπιγραφὲς Ἄνω Μακεδονίας(Ἐλίμεια, Ἐορδαία, Νότια Λυγκηστίς, Ὀρεστίς): Τόμος Α΄. Κατάλογος ἐπιγραφῶν, Athens 1985.
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• IG = Inscriptiones Graecae, Berlin 1873-.
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• IGUR = L. Moretti, Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae, Rome 1968-1990.
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• I.Pergamon = M. Fraenkel, Die Inschriften von Pergamon, I-II, Berlin 1890-1895.
• I.Pergamon Asklepieion = C. Habicht, Altertümer von Pergamon. VIII 3. Die Inschriften des Asklepieions, Berlin 1969.
• I.Perinthos = M.H.Sayar, Perinthos-Herakleia (Marmara Ereğlisi) und Umgebung. Geschichte, Testimonien, griechische und lateinische Inschriften, Vienna 1998.
• I.Philae = A. Bernand, Les inscriptions grecques de Philae, II, Paris 1969.
• IG Porto = G. Sacco, Iscrizioni greche d’Italia. Porto, Rome 1984.
• I.Rhénée = M.-T.Dinahet-Couillod, Exploration archéologique de Délos 30. Les monuments funéraires de Rhénée, Paris 1974.
• IRT = M.J. Reynolds, J.B. Ward Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome 1952.
• I.Sardis = W.H. Buckler, D.M. Robinson, Sardis, VII. Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Leiden 1932.
• I.Thrake Aeg. = L.D. Loukopoulou et alii, Ἐπιγραφὲς τῆς Θράκης τοῦ Αἰγαίου μεταξὺ τῶν ποταμῶν Νέστου καὶ Ἕβρου (Νομοὶ Ξάνθης, Ροδόπης καὶ Ἕβρου), Athens 2005.
• I.Vallée Enipeus = J.-C. Decourt, Inscriptions de Thessalie. I. Les cités de la valle de l’Enipeus, Paris 1995.
• Kaibel, Epigrammata = G. Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca ex lapidibus collecta, Berlin 1878.
• IGLS = Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, I-XXI/5, Beyrouth, Paris, 1929-.
• MAMA = Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua, I-X, London 1928-1993.
• Merisio 2024 = E.N. M., Le iscrizioni metriche greche della Frigia orientale. Ed., trad. e comm., Berlin-Boston 2024.
• Milet VI.1 = P. Herrmann, Inschriften von Milet, Teil 1: B. Nachträge und Übersetzungen zu den Inschriften n. 1-406, Berlin-New York 1997.
• Peek, GVI = W. Peek, Griechische Vers-Inschriften, I, Berlin 1955.
• SEG = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden 1923-.
• Staab 2018 = G. S., Gebrochener Glanz. Klassische Tradition und Alltagswelt im Spiegel neuer und alter Grabepigramme des griechischen Ostens, Berlin-Boston 2018.
• Steinepigramme = R. Merkelbach, J. Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. I. Die Westküste Kleinasiens von Knidos bis Ilion, Stuttgart-Leipzig 1998. II. Die Nordküste Kleinasiens (Marmarameer und Pontos), München-Leipzig 2001. III. Der “Ferne Osten” und das Landesinnere bis zum Tauros, München 2001. IV. Die Südküste Kleinasiens, Syrien und Palaestina, München 2002. V. Register, München-Leipzig 2004.
• TAM = Tituli Asiae Minoris, I; II 1-3; III 1; IV 1; V 1-3, Vienna 1901-1989.

II Collection of studies on epigraphic poetry

• Agosti 2005 = G. A., Miscellanea epigrafica I. Note letterarie a carmi epigrafici tardoantichi, «MEG» V (2005) 1-30.
• Agosti 2007a = G. A., Note a epigrafi tardoantiche (Miscellanea epigrafica II), «ZPE» CLX (2007) 41-49.
• Agosti 2007b = G. A., Cultura greca negli epigrammi epigrafici di età tardoantica, in L. Crisante-F. Ireneo (edd.), Incontri triestini di filologia classica VI (2006-2007), Trieste 2007, 3-18.
• Agosti 2008a = G. A., Gli epigrammi lunghi nella produzione epigrafica tardoantica, in Morelli 2008a [q.v.], II 663-692.
• Agosti 2008c = G. A., Literariness and levels of style in epigraphical poetry of late antiquity, in K. Carvounis-R. Hunter (edd.), Signs of Life? Studies in Later Greek Poetry, «Ramus» XXXVII (2008) 191-213.
• Agosti 2010a = G. A., Eisthesis, divisione dei versi, percezione dei cola negli epigrammi epigrafici in età tardoantica, «S&T» VIII (2010) 67-98.
• Agosti 2010b = G. A., Saxa loquuntur? Epigrammi epigrafici e diffusione della paideia nell’Oriente tardoantico, «ΑntTard» ΧVIII (2010) 163-180.
• Agosti 2011-2012 = G. A., Ancora sullo stile delle iscrizioni metriche tardo antiche, «Incontri di Filologia Classica» XI (2011-2012) 233-252.
• Agosti 2015a = G. A., Per una fenomenologia del rapporto fra epigrafia e letteratura nella tarda antichità, in L. Crisante-T. Mazzoli (a c. di), Il calamo della memoria: riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. VI, Trieste 2015, 13-33.
• Agosti 2015b = G. A., La mise en page come elemento significante nell’epigrafia greca tardoantica, in P. Orsini-M. Maniaci (edd.), Scrittura epigrafica e scrittura libraria: fra Oriente e Occidente, Cassino 2015, 45-86.
• Agosti 2020 = G. A., «Layout» e segni di lettura nelle iscrizioni metriche dell’Egitto tardoantico, in Carlig/Lescuyer 2020 [q.v.], 241-255.
• Allen 1888 = F.D. A., On Greek Versification in Inscriptions, «Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens» IV (1888) 35-204.
• Carlig/Lescuyer 2020 = N. C.-L. G., Signes dans les textes. Continuités et ruptures des pratiques scribales en Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine. Actes du colloque international de Liège (2-4 juin 2016), Liège 2020.
• Christian 2015 = T. C., Gebildete Steine: zur Rezeption literarischer Techniken in den Versinschriften seit dem Hellenismus, Göttingen 2015.
• Cirio 2011 = A.M. C., Gli epigrammi di Giulia Balbilla, (ricordi di una dama di corte) e altri testi al femminile sul Colosso di Memnone, Lecce 2011.
• Fantuzzi/Sens 2006 = M. F.-A. S., The hexameter of inscribed Hellenistic epigram, in M.A. Harder-R.F. Regtuit-G.C. Wakker (edd.), Beyond the Canon, Leuven 2006, 105-122.
• Garulli 2008 = V. G., L’epigramma longum nella tradizione epigrafica sepolcrale greca, in Morelli 2008a [q.v.], II, 623-662.
• Garulli 2012 = V. G., Byblos lainee. Epigrafia, letteratura, epitafio, Bologna 2012.
• Garulli 2014a = V. G., Stones as books: the layout of Hellenistic inscribed poems, in M. Annette Harder-R. Regtuit-Gerry W. Wakker (edd.) Hellenistic Poetry in Context, Leuven-Paris-Walpole 2014, 125-169.
• Garulli 2014b = V. G., Gli epitafi greci per animali. Fra tradizione epigrafica e letteraria, in A. Pistellato (ed.), Memoria poetica e poesia della memoria, Venezia 2014, 27-64.
• Garulli 2014c = V. G., Due studi recenti sui carmi epigrafici greci, «Eikasmos» XXV (2014) 468-481.
• Garulli 2015 = V. G., Conversazioni «in limine mortis»: forme di dialogo esplicite e implicite nelle iscrizioni sepolcrali greche in versi, in C. Pepe-G. Moretti (a c. di), Le parole dopo la morte: forme e funzioni della retorica funeraria nella tradizione greca e romana, Trento 2015, 59-96.
• Garulli 2016 = V. G., Playing with language in everyday poetry: hapax legomena in inscribed funerary epigrams, in E. Sistakou-A. Rengakos (edd.), Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram, Berlin-Boston 2016, 323-334.
• Garulli 2019a = V. G., The development of epigram into a literary genre, in Christer Henriksén (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Epigram, Hoboken 2019, 267-286.
• Garulli 2019b = V. G., Lectional signs in Greek verse inscriptions, in A. Petrovic-I. Petrovic-E. Thomas (ed. by), The Materiality of Text: Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity, Leiden-Boston, 2019, 105-144.
• Garulli 2020 = V. G., Signes de lecture dans les inscriptions métriques grecques de l’Égypte gréco-romaine, in Carlig/Lescuyer 2020 [q.v.], 223-240.
• Henriksén 2008 = Ch. H., Dignus maiori quem coleret titulo. Epigrammata longa in the Carmina Latina epigraphica, in Morelli 2008a [q.v.], II, 693-724.
• Morelli 2008a = Epigramma longum. Da Marziale alla tarda antichità. From Martial to Late Antiquity. «Atti del convegno internazionale. Cassino, 29-31 maggio 2006», a c. di A.M. M., I-II, Cassino 2008.
• Morelli 2008b = A.M. M., Epigramma longum: in cerca di una básanos per il genere epigrammatico, in Morelli 2008a [q.v.], I, 17-51.
• Palermo 2020 = G. P., Metri lirici nella poesia greca d’età imperiale: tra riuso e innovazione, Trieste 2020.
• Palumbo Stracca 1987 = B.M. P.S., Differenze dialettali e stilistiche nella storia dell’epigramma greco, in G. Bolognesi-V. Pisani (edd.), Linguistica e filologia. «Atti del VII convegno internazionale dei linguisti. Milano, 12-14 settembre 1984», Brescia 1987, 429-434.
• Robert, Hellenica IV = L. R., Hellenica: Recueil d’épigraphie, de numismatique et d’antiquités grecques, IV, Epigrammes du Bas-Empire, Paris 1948.
• Rosenmeyer 2018 = P.A. R., The Language of Ruins. Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus, Oxford 2018.
• Santin 2009 = E. S., Autori di epigrammi sepolcrali greci su pietra. Firme di poeti occasionali e professionisti, Roma 2009.
• Tentori Montalto 2017 = M. T.M., Essere primi per il valore. Gli epigrammi funerari greci su pietra per i caduti in guerra (VII-V sec. a.C.), Pisa-Roma 2017.