Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum II Pannonia/Austria

The aim of the project is a complete collection of all Latin inscriptions of the Roman province of Pannonia found in the Austrian part of that province - that is south-eastem Lower Austria, Vienna and the Burgenland. The last volume of CIL IH regarding the inscriptions of Pannonia was published in 1902. Since then the number of Pannonian documents found have doubled. In collaboration between Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia Geza Alföldy of the University of Heidelberg organises the edition of a new volume of CIL III with all inscriptions of Pannonia. The Austrian share will be provided by this project. The number of inscriptions of the Austrian part of Pannonia runs up to about one thousand. A third was already included in the "old" CIL, another major part of inscriptions were presented in different publications in the last decades. Some however are still unpublished. A complete presentation of all Austrian-Pannonian inscriptions has never been made. Following the rules of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum which were set out already by Theodor Mommsen, all inscriptions will be examined in original to take down the exact reading and to establish all technical facts. The collected material will be sorted in the antiques civitates Vindobona, Carnuntum and Scarabantia and published in the CIL. The modern CIL is reformed by giving more detailed presentation of the inscriptions with more technical information, descriptions and particulars to circumstances of finding and where the stones are kept today. There will be a short commentary, photographs and if necessary a reconstruction to each document. Detailed maps of the region and a historical summary will be provided for a better understanding of the documents and their meanings. Because of a close cooperation with archaeologists the archaeological aspects of an inscription will be considered, too. Within this project the inscription will be provided for the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) by which the documents are available an the internet.