''L'Année épigraphique'' (''The Epigraphic Year'', standard abbreviation ''AE'') is a French publication on
epigraphy
Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...
(i.e the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing). It was set up by
René Cagnat, as holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy and Roman antiquities' at the
Collège de France and Jean-Guillaume Feignon, as assistant epigraphist, in 1888. It was linked to the ''
Revue archéologique'' until the issue dated 1964, when it became an autonomous publication of the
Presses universitaires de France
Presses universitaires de France (PUF; ), founded in 1921 by Paul Angoulvent (1899–1976), is a French publishing house.
Recent company history
The financial and legal structure of the Presses Universitaires de France was completely restruc ...
(PUF) benefiting from a grant from the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
(CNRS), a part was edited under its aegis. It systematically collects all the inscriptions discovered each year from all around the world concerning
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...
, mainly in Latin or ancient Greek, and sorted by period.
Leadership and editorship
*1888–1935: René Cagnat, at first alone, then with Jean-Guillaume Feignon and
Maurice Besnier until 1932, finally with
Alfred Merlin
Alfred Merlin (13 March 1876, in Orléans – 16 March 1965, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a 20th-century French historian, archaeologist, pioneer and founder of underwater archaeology, a numismatist and epigrapher.
Biography
After his studies ...
.
*1936–1964: Alfred Merlin, with
Jean Gagé in some years.
*1965: Jean Gagé and
Marcel Le Glay.
*1966–1973: Jean Gagé, Marcel Le Glay,
Hans-Georg Pflaum and
Pierre Wuilleumier.
*1974–1978:
André Chastagnol, Jean Gagé, Marcel Le Glay and H.-G. Pflaum.
*1979–1980: André Chastagnol, Jean Gagé, Marcel Le Glay.
*1981–1986: André Chastagnol, Marcel Le Glay,
Patrick Le Roux.
*1987–1990: André Chastagnol,
André Laronde
file:André Laronde-1993.jpg, 300px, André Laronde in Cyrene, Libya, Cyrene, 1973
André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French historian and archaeology, archaeologist. He was a specialist of Greek colonisa ...
, Marcel Le Glay, Patrick Le Roux.
*1991–present: Led by
Mireille Corbier, Patrick Le Roux and Sylvie Dardaine.
External links
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Official site
Latin epigraphy
Archaeological corpora
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