Valete Vos Viatores: travelling through Latin inscriptions across the Roman Empire

The e-book Valete Vos Viatores: travelling through Latin inscriptions across the Roman Empire, published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, is available in open access and is one of the results of the European project with the same name that the University of Coimbra is a member of. 

CEIS20 researcher Armando Redentor is part of the editorial team. Two of the 10 chapters of the work – "Notes on the epigraphic landscape of the capital of the Igaeditani" and "The patrimonial valorisation of Roman inscriptions of Idanha-a-Velha" – are co-written with CEIS20 researcher Pedro C. Carvalho among other national researchers.

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Inscriptions were one of the trademarks of Romanization. Used as a real mass media, they covered almost all facets of Roman public and private life. Following common patterns, however, this habit of engraving inscriptions, the so-called “epigraphic habit”, took shape in different manifestations in each region, in each province, configuring diverse and attractive epigraphic cultures. This volume, the result of a Creative Europe project coordinated by the University of Navarra and with the participation of the University of Coimbra, the one at Bordeaux and La Sapienza in Roma and, also, of the Museo Nazionale Romano and different research centers in Portugal, France, Spain and Italy, reviews not only the functions of some of these inscriptions with new approaches to well-known repertoires but also the new tools that -from the rise of the Internet to the use of digital photogrammetry, from digital epigraphy to 3d epigraphy- are being implemented for their study, their understanding and, above all, the social dissemination of their values, builders, in large part, of European identity.