''Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae'', standard abbreviation ''ILS'', is a three-volume selection of
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
inscriptions edited by
Hermann Dessau. The work was published in five parts serially from 1892 to 1916, with numerous reprints. Supporting material and notes are all written in Latin. Inscriptions are organized within chapters (''capita'', singular ''caput'') by topic, such as funerary inscriptions, or inscriptions pertaining to ''
collegia
A (plural ), or college, was any association in ancient Rome that acted as a legal entity. Following the passage of the ''Lex Julia'' during the reign of Julius Caesar as Consul and Dictator of the Roman Republic (49–44 BC), and their ...
''. Each inscription has an identifying number. Scholars citing a Latin inscription will often provide the ''ILS'' number in addition to a reference for the more comprehensive ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL''); for example, ''CIL'' 1
2.2.774—''ILS'' 39. A
concordance with ''CIL'' was published in 1950 (Rome) and 1955 (Berlin).
''ILS'' can also be found cited as Dessau or D.
References
; Sources
*
Gordon, Arthur E. ''Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy''. University of California Press, 1983, p. xx
online.* Wellington, Jean Susorney. ''Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines''. Greenwood, 2003, p. 42
online.
External links
* Dessau, Hermann. ''Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae''. Berlin 1892-1916, 3 vols.
: * vol. 1 (1892)
LS 1 to 2956– full text downloadable a
Internet Archive: * vol. 2, part 1 (1902)
LS 2957 to 7210– full text downloadable a
Internet Archive: * vol. 2, part 2 (1906)
LS 7211 to 8883– full text downloadable a
Internet Archive: * vol. 3 (1914/16)
LS 8884 to 9522 + index– full text downloadable a
Internet Archive
* The searchable, online databas
Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slabyincludes ''Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae'' under the abbreviation D.
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