''Roman Inscriptions of Britain'' is a 3-volume corpus of inscriptions found in Britain from the Roman period. It is an important reference work for all scholars of
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of ''Britannia'' after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410.
Julius Caes ...
. This monumental work was initiated by
Francis J. Haverfield, whose notebooks were bequeathed to the
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...
. The first volume, ''Inscriptions on Stone'', was then edited by
R. G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright with an addendum by
Roger Tomlin. It was first published in 1965, with a new edition in 1995.
Volume II contains, broadly speaking, the inscriptions found on .
Volume III (edited by R. S. O. Tomlin, R. P. Wright, and M. W. C. Hassall) is a continuation of Volume I, containing all the lapidary inscriptions found from the closing date of Volume I up to 31 December 2006.
There are also indexes published to the volumes allowing the scholar quickly to reference and , military units, imperial titles, emperors and consuls, deities and so forth. Entries are also cross-referenced to the
CIL and other indexes and journals as necessary.
See also
* ''
Roman Imperial Coinage
''Roman Imperial Coinage'', abbreviated ''RIC'', is a British catalogue of Roman Imperial currency, from the time of the Battle of Actium (31 BC) to Late Antiquity in 491 AD. It is the result of many decades of work, from 1923 to 1994, ...
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References
* Collingwood, R. G. and Wright, R. P. (1965). ''The Roman Inscriptions of Britain'', I, ''Inscriptions on Stone''. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
* Tomlin, R. S. O. (1995). ''Addenda and Corrigenda'' to ''RIB'' I, in Collingwood and Wright 1965 (new edition 1995). Stroud, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd.
* Collingwood, R. G. and Wright, R. P. (1990–95). ''The Roman Inscriptions of Britain'', II: ''Instrumentum Domesticum'' (in eight fascicules), Frere, S.S. and Tomlin, R. S. O. (eds.). Oxford.
* Tomlin, R. S. O., Wright, R. P., and Hassall, M. W. C. (2009). ''The Roman Inscriptions of Britain'', III: ''Inscriptions on Stone'', found or notified between 1 January 1955 and 31 December 2006. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
External links
''RIB'' Online(an
EpiDoc
EpiDoc is an international community that produces guidelines and tools for encoding in TEI XML scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents, especially inscriptions and papyri.
The EpiDoc Guidelines were originally proposed as a reco ...
-based corpus compiled by Scott Vanderbilt).
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1965 non-fiction books
British non-fiction books
Latin inscriptions in the United Kingdom
Roman Britain