Cent ans d’épigraphie à Thasos (1911-2011)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the history of epigraphic exploration at Thasos, from the edition of a first corpus in 1909 to the most recent excavations led by the French School at Athens, paying special attention to the inscriptions’ main places of discovery (sanctuaries, agora, necropolis). It expounds the editorial principles of a new corpus : more than one thousand Greek inscriptions will be gathered in several volumes, chronologically arranged and by categories of document. For example, the study of the formation of Roman imperial cult in the Julio-Claudian era illustrates some of historical gains we can expect from the gathering of an epigraphic material which up to then was spred in many books and articles.