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Particular commemoration habits of the middle class from Roman Dacia
Particular commemoration habits of the middle class from Roman Dacia

Author(s): Rada Varga
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: epigraphy;social history;middle class;epigraphic habit;Roman provincial society

Summary/Abstract: The current research focuses on a very specific class of funerary monuments from province Dacia: those in which absolutely no professional, social or status mentioning existed for neither deceased nor commemorator. The characters thus registered mainly represent part of what we would define as the economical and social middle class of the provincial society. Without being totally out of borders, their epigraphic behaviour is slightly different from that of other groups, classes or categories registered so far, underlining once again the necessity of a flexible and manifold approach when studying the layers of Roman society.The current research focuses on a very specific class of funerary monuments from province Dacia: those in which absolutely no professional, social or status mentioning existed for neither deceased nor commemorator. The characters thus registered mainly represent part of what we would define as the economical and social middle class of the provincial society. Without being totally out of borders, their epigraphic behaviour is slightly different from that of other groups, classes or categories registered so far, underlining once again the necessity of a flexible and manifold approach when studying the layers of Roman society.

  • Issue Year: 18/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 195-211
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English