L’elogium dans les inscriptions honorifiques de Narbonnaise

Abstract

The corpus of honorary inscriptions from Gallia Narbonensis includes but a few number of elogia. In other Western provinces, such elogia became rather common in latin epigraphy from the IInd century AD onwards. One may wonder why such a common figure of latin epigraphy is lacking in this particular province. It may be but a case, but evidence driven from ten inscriptions, where something like an elogium does appear, seem to indicate that elogia were not entirely unknown in this province, but found little local echo, and probably under external influences.