A Female Doctor (Medica) at Augusta Emerita (Mérida)? Re-examining CIL II 497 from Humanist Readings to the Latest Digital Epigraphy Techniques

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dc.contributor.authorEdmondson, Jonathan Charles
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-05T20:24:17Z
dc.date.available2024-09-05T20:24:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-21
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a critical re-examination of a funerary altar (CIL II 497) from Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). It explores the strengths and weaknesses of all previous editions of the text from its first publication in 1633 to the present day, providing a critical review of the development of epigraphic scholarship on Mérida during this long period. Given the problems of all previous editions, including CIL II 497, it then re-examines the altar using traditional epigraphic methods alongside the latest digital techniques (especially Morphological Residual Modelling, M.R.M.) to provide a new edition of the text, while setting the presence of a female doctor at the provincial capital of Lusitania into the broader social context of medical practitioners in Rome’s western provinces.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research for this article has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada / Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines, Insight Grants 435-2014-1423: “Funerary Epigraphy of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)” and 435-2021-0380, “Latin Epigraphy of Augusta Emerita”. It results from the research project “Inscripciones latinas de Augusta Emerita (ILAE)”, supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of the Spanish Government (PGC2018-101698-B-I00), with Professor A. Alvar Ezquerra (Universidad de Alcalá) as principal investigator, and a joint-project of the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) and Universidad de Alcalá, co-directed by Professor A. Alvar Ezquerra and myself: “Epigrafía funeraria de Augusta Emerita: novedades, avances, retos”.
dc.identifier.citationEdmondson, Jonathan (2022), «A female doctor (medica) at Augusta Emerita (Mérida)? Re-examining CIL II 497 from humanist readings to the latest digital epigraphy techniques», Veleia, 39, 255-298. (https://doi.org/10.1387/veleia.23104).
dc.identifier.issn0213-2095
dc.identifier.issn2444-3565
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1387/veleia.23104
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42299
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUPV/EHU Press
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectLanguage, Communication and Culture
dc.subjectHistory, Heritage and Archaeology
dc.subjectLiterary Studies
dc.subjectAugusta Emerita (Mérida)
dc.subjectFemale doctors in the Roman provinces
dc.subjectFunerary epigraphy
dc.subjectEpigraphic manuscripts
dc.subjectDigital epigraphy (especially M.R.M.)
dc.symplectic.issue´39
dc.symplectic.journalVeleia
dc.symplectic.pagination255-298
dc.symplectic.subtypeJournal article
dc.titleA Female Doctor (Medica) at Augusta Emerita (Mérida)? Re-examining CIL II 497 from Humanist Readings to the Latest Digital Epigraphy Techniques
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