Imperium Romanum Tributim Discriptum 2.0

Abstract

ABSTRACT : New technologies allow the complete and exhaustive updating of works that are of fundamental importance in the study of Ancient History, as well as the best analysis and evaluation of archaeological materials, which are scattered to such an extent that all traditional methods of data collecting would prove themselves very arduous. On this occasion I would like to present a new database dedicated to a specific kind of artifacts, that are epigraphic supports showing Roman citizens’ tribal ascription, with the aim of supplying a tool for the constant updating of the late 19th century cornestone that is Imperium romanum tributim discriptum, Praha 1889, by Wilhelm Kubitschek. This fundamental work, which is to this day the only existing catalogue raisonné concerning the tribal ascription in the Roman empire, proves itself to be timeworn by now as regards documentation that has considerably increased in more than one century of archaeological investigations and discoveries, although it still offers topical causes for reflection