Ricerc@Sapienza

Early Christianity was heir to the archival practice and discourse of Greek and Roman societies, in which public and private archives enjoyed a great deal of consideration. Even before creating their own archives, Christian congregations, when becoming a structured society, adhered to the archival discourse of their times, and the mention of archives in their writings served apologetic and theological aims.

In this survey article are collected and discussed most of the imperial inscriptions found in Rome after the pubblication of the last Supplement to CIL, VI by Géza Alföldy in 1996, together with a large number of possible corrections of the already published texts. The contributions are organized according the following schema: Addenda et corrigenda: small corrections, accidental gaps, methodological inconsistencies, texts to be removed.

“The Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project” is an epigraphic and philological pilot project aimed at publishing a new critical edition of 94 Linear B tablets from Knossos, kept in the Heraklion Museum where there is mention of the name of the ancient town of Phaestos —pa-i-to.

The Principle of Provenance is a pillar of Archival Science. In its very early stages it mostly meant not to intermingle documents from different origins. This view has been challenged in the past fifty years: archival provenance has moved from a simplistic one-to-one relationship to a multi-dimensional concept based on a network of relationships between objects, agents and functions.