Luis Ángel Hidalgo Martín, Jonathan Edmondson, Juana Márquez Pérez, José Luis Ramírez Sádaba (2020) Nueva Epigrafía Funeraria de Augusta Emerita (NEFAE): Tituli sepulcrales urbanos (ss. I-VII) y su contexto arqueológico (Memoria: Monografías Arqueológicas de Mérida, 1). Mérida: Consorcio de la Ciudad Monumental de Mérida / Diputación Provincial de Badajoz. lxiii + 569 pp.
NEFAE publishes 199 unpublished funerary inscriptions from the urban centre of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain), dating from the 1st c. to the 7th c. CE, and corrects the editions of eight already published texts, taking full account of the archaeological contexts in which they were discovered. The epigraphic corpus is accompanied by six analytical chapters, examining the history of archaeological research on funerary areas in Mérida (ch. 1), the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions from the 1st c. to the 7th CE, using GIS (ch. 2), the typology of the funerary monuments (ch. 3), the nature of the Latin, the formulas and the letter-forms used for the epitaphs (ch. 4), and the onomastics and social context of those who were commemorated or who dedicated the funerary monuments (chs. 5-6). The volume is illustrated throughout with colour photographs, maps, plans and line-drawings and supported by full epigraphic and thematic indices.