Corpus - F.E.R.C.AN. I: Noricum

This is the first volume of the series Corpus F.E.R.C.AN. (Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which re-edits religious inscriptions from the provinces of the Roman world with a probably Celtic-speaking background. The F.E.R.C.AN. editions are meant to offer not only a thorough philological commentary on and a translation of the documents collected, but also an in-depth interdisciplinary analysis and classification of the invocations and the divine names contained in them, from a linguistic, an epigraphic-historical, and also an iconographical perspective. The present volume collects the Norican evidence and consists now of two fascicles. In the first one, a methodological section (From divine names to deities? On the analysis of the divine names) is followed by a section discussing the numina in alphabetical order and comprising the individual linguistic and historical commentaries on the invocations attested, together with several tables illustrating the diffusion of the single Norican cults, their mutual relationship, and the social provenance of their dedicants. An iconographical analysis of the few extant representations of Norican numina constitutes the third main section of Fasciculus 1. An extensive and well-illustrated inscription catalogue represents the core of Fasciculus 2, with 145 tituli scalpti and 13 instrumenta inscripta, while an appendix with concordances of the votive strings and the personal names contained in the documents is distributed, together with further information, over both fascicles.