ASSOCIATIONS AND THE ECONOMY IN ROMAN EGYPT

Abstract

followed epigraphic conventions so exclusively. Besides the epigraphic indexes (Gentilicia; Cognomina; Emperors and the Imperial House etc.), a more general index would be welcome. Referring to some of the topics noted above, it might also include more unfamiliar epigraphic ‘tips’, such as the late Republican/early Imperial tendency in this region to record a gentilicium ending in -ius simply as ending in -i (p. 16) or the doubling of f(ilius) in epitaphs (pp. 38–9). Barring such an index, a comprehensive bibliography could have usefully gathered the wide-ranging, up-to-date scholarship. Most helpful would have been more maps of the areas discussed: even the Barrington Atlas does not show Tor Tre Ponti (Tripontium) and some other locales discussed in the text. Ultimately such desiderata simply highlight the great interest of this publication. The volume whets our appetite for the forthcoming second edition of CIL X as it reveals the fascination and rewards of detailed, expert epigraphic study of one area of the Roman world.