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Latin epigraphy : an introduction to the study of Latin inscriptions

Sandys, John Edwin, Sir, 1844-1922 · 1919 · Cambridge : University Press · 15 pictures

A 1919 Cambridge University Press handbook by classical scholar John Edwin Sandys, teaching students and antiquarians how to read Latin inscriptions. The plates are photographs and engravings of carved stone — altars, grave markers, sarcophagi and the tomb of Scipio Barbatus — showing incised capital lettering, rosette friezes, moulded cornices, relief figures and the cracks and chipping of weathered marble.

Inscriptions, Latin

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