题 目：Latin Inscriptions / 拉丁铭文

作 者：Dirk Booms

出 版：British Museum Press ，2016

装 帧：平装，112页

尺 寸：14.7*21 cm

这本书是任何希望翻译拉丁铭文的人的完美指南，还为古罗马人的日常生活提供了一个全新的角度。

拉丁文铭文可能看起来令人生畏——一堆没有任何清晰结构或含义的字母。但是，一旦您知道如何操作，大多数都很容易阅读，因为它们遵循严格的语法和缩写规则。

这本书将教读者如何破译拉丁铭文，并将破译铭文可能提供的哪怕是最小的信息如何帮助古典学家和考古学家重建普通罗马人的日常生活。

本书以大英博物馆罗马收藏的最佳铭文示例进行说明，将探讨张贴公共铭文的含义以及用于确保帝国各个地区的罗马人都能阅读它们的标准缩写系统。

The perfect guide to anyone hoping to translate Latin inscriptions, this book also offers a fresh new angle on the everyday lives of ancient Romans.

Latin inscriptions can appear daunting – a jumble of letters without any clear structure or meaning. However, once you know how, most are easy to read, as they follow strict rules of grammar and abbreviation.

This book will teach readers how to decipher Latin inscriptions, and will decipher how even the smallest piece of information that an inscription may provide can help classicists and archaeologists to reconstruct the daily lives of ordinary Romans.

Illustrated with the best examples of inscriptions from the British Museum’s Roman collection, this book will explore the meaning of putting up public inscriptions and the standard system of abbreviation that was used to ensure that Romans from all areas of the Empire could read them.