List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Introduction
Demography and the measurement of time in epitaphs
Understanding the use of chronological age: from the life course to timescapes
Inscribing age at death as a cultural practice
Birthdays, numbers and centenarians
Towards a geography of age (and gender) in the western Mediterranean
The family, age, and the commemoration of the dead
Freed slaves across the Mediterranean: commemorating the dead
Cities and soldiers: the use of age in the cemeteries of Roman Africa
The Roman armed forces as an epigraphic institution
Age and culture in Numidia: establishing localised timescapes
Explaining variation in the use of chronological age across the western Mediterranean
Timescapes of life and death in the western Mediterranean
Afterword: The archaeology of Latin epitaphs in the western Mediterranean
Index.