Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology No. 6.4/2019 78 Rada Varga Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca radavarga@gmail.com A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH ON LATIN OCCUPATIONAL EPIGRAPHY Abstract: Te current article is a catalogue-centered quantitative research concerning the occupational inscriptions of the Roman Latin West. Te focus of the investigation were independent professionals – not linked directly to the state administration or the army – who have their profession explicitly recorded on a stone monument. Te catalogue lists 691 individuals and links towards their detailed personal fles; while exhaustiveness is a goal hard to achieve when covering a vast geographical area, we have tries to collect all attestations and are convinced we succeeded in rendering the huge majority of professionals epigraphically attested. Te analysis is quantitative in nature and meant to contextualize the raw data of the catalogue. Keywords: profession, epigraphic habit, Western provinces, Principate. T he current work presents some essential results of a long-term research on the occupational epigraphy of the Latin-language provinces of the Roman Principate. Te focus on the Latin provinces is justifed by the diferences and even discrepancies existing between the epigraphic habits, as well as the ‘labour culture’ of the Greek and Latin parts of the Empire; nonetheless, Moesia Inferior, the utmost eastern province included in our research plan, serves as a case-study as well as a possible gateway to the future expansion of this scientifc endeavour. Methodologically, we have worked exclusively on stone epigraphs and we did not include, out of obvious reasons of uniformity, state workers, imperial slaves and freedmen, as well as military personnel. Working only on the independent professionals ofered a less biased view on the people who willingly found in profession an identity marker worth noting on a stone monument. Te study currently published is focused on the catalogue and the quantitative aspects revealed by the inscriptions. Te main statistics undertaken on the raw information regard the nature of occupation, spacial distribution, the attested people and the monuments themselves. Te article presents the information we extracted from occupational inscriptions in a systematic and quantitative manner. In order to make the results self- obvious, we decided to stick to the facts and the context they provide. Te catalogue, the core of our work, presents all people registered along their profession on stone monuments in the Western provinces of the Roman Empire; it does not comprise fgurative representations, only the linguistic, explicit rendering of an occupational title was taken into consideration. Each person has a Romans1by1 1 ID and the corresponding link to the database; here, comprehensive data on the people and the monuments, as well as 1 http://romans1by1.com/. DOI: 10.14795/j.v6i4.463 ISSN 2360 – 266X ISSN–L 2360 – 266X