Hi everyone,
While writing my thesis on the petition-and-response-model of Fergus Millar in accordance with emperor Tiberius, I find it very difficult to come across primary sources that cite edicts or laws that emperor Tiberius carried out. Are there epigraphic overviews or lists which cite which emperor proclaimed what? I do have acces to most historical journals through my university, but I don't know where to start. Thanks in advance!
Latin epigraphy is in general much more standardized than Greek epigraphy, thanks largely to the efforts of Theodor Mommsen. All Latin inscriptions eventually find their way into the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum, although they are of course generally published independently first. There are also other handy publications, such as the Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, that contain the same information in easier form. In Greek (as many Imperial pronouncements were issued to the Greek speaking world) there are the Inscriptiones Graecae, and the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
None of these is particularly easy to browse through, and the CIL in particular is stupidly difficult to search online through the project's own page. For that the best place to go is the Epigrafik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (EDCS), and secondarily probably the Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR) or the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg, both of which tend to have better pictures and an easier search function. Inscriptions are a world of their own, and require a fair bit of practice before you can really use them fluently, but those are the basics.
What you want to do is go look up articles or books that discuss Tiberius' edicts. For example, a quick search of L'Année philologique shows a fair few articles on inscriptions relevant to Tiberius, although I'm not really sure precisely what you're looking for. Depending on whether you know what sort of epigraphical language you're looking for you can do a keyword search in the epigraphical databases (I recommend starting with EDH, which has an easy search function and will refer you to other databases that have pictures). But if you have no idea what you're looking for that won't help very much.
Oh man, I hope you've checked out "Princes and Political Cultures" by Greg Rowe, which is an entire analysis about recent(ish) discovered inscriptions from the Tiberian period regarding early imperial governance. If you mine the book, it may give you some avenues as for other inscriptions.
Aside from that, you might also want to consult "Roman Statutes" by Crawford, which I think has the most comprehensive set of pre-Theodosian Code Roman laws.
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