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KLAFFENBACH, G., Griechische Epigraphik. VandenHoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1957. 107p. Sewn. Spine and edges cover plastified. Signature on half title. Series: Studienhefte zur Altertumswissenschaft, Heft 6. 'There was an urgent need for a new book, clear, comprehensive and authoritative (...). No one was better qualified to meet that need than Professor Klaffenbach. He stands in the front rank of living epigraphists (...). His style is clear and concise and the arrangement of his material well ordered. The opening chapter deals with the definition and significance of epigraphy and the special characteristics and value of the evidence afforded by inscriptions for the thought and speech and life of the ancient world. Chapter ii gives an admirable survey of the history of Greek epigraphical study and publication from classical times to the present day, and the following chapter contains a useful bibliography of the most important publications of inscriptions - corpora, selections, and illustrations - in which the 'Inscriptiones Graecae' takes a leading, but not disproportional part. In Chaper iv we pass to a consideration of the origin of the Greek script and its early development from the creation of the Greek 'Uralphabet' (...). Chapter v discusses the objects, chiefly of stone or metal, on which the documents are inscribed and teir relation to the texts which they bear, the methods of engraving and the arrangement of the letters and other signs employed. Chapter vi (...) deals with the nature and contents of inscriptions (...). The book ends with three short chapters, dealing respectively with the language, the dating and the edition of Greek inscriptions (...). three indexes - of subjects, Greek words, and persons - enhance the value of the work.' (MARCUS N. TOD in The Hellenic Journal, 1958, pp.143-44). € 12.50 (Antiquarian)