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In late antiquity or the early medieval period, a laterculus is an inscribed tile, stone or terracotta tablet〔The original meaning of ''laterculus'' in Classical Latin was "brick" or "tile."〕 used for publishing certain kinds of information in list or calendar form. The term thus came to be used for the content represented by such an inscription, most often a list, register, or table, regardless of the medium in which it was published. A list of soldiers in a Roman military unit, such as of those recruited or discharged in a given year, may be called a laterculus,〔Sara Elise Phang, ''The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army'' (Brill, 2001), pp. 313, 326.〕 an example of which is found in an inscription from Vindonissa.〔Duncan Fishwick, ''Imperial Cult in the Latin West'' (Brill, 1990), vol. 2.1, p. 441 (online. ) For further examples, see for instance Brambach's ''Corpus Inscriptionum Rhenarum'' (online ''passim''. )〕 The equivalent Greek term is ''plinthos'' (πλίνθος; see plinth for the architectural use).〔Anthony Grafton, ''Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship'' (Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 331.〕 A common type of laterculus was the computus, a table that calculates the date of Easter, and so ''laterculus'' will often be equivalent to ''fasti''.〔Jane Stevenson, ''The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 1.〕 Isidore of Seville said that a calendar cycle should be called a laterculus "because it has the years put in order by rows," that is, in a table.〔Isidore, ''Etymologies'' (6.17 ): ''quod ordinem habeat stratum annorum''; Grafton, ''Joseph Scaliger'', p. 331 (online. )〕 ==List of laterculi== Notable laterculi include: * ''Laterculus Veronensis'', a list of Roman provinces from the times of the Roman emperors Diocletian and Constantine I. * ''Laterculus Malalianus'', a late 7th-century historical exegesis of the life of Christ from the ''Chronica Minora'' in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, drawing from the ''Chronographia'' of John Malalas and so called by Theodor Mommsen, though only a relatively small part of the text takes the form of a list (covering Roman emperors from Augustus to Justin II).〔Stevenson, ''The 'Laterculus Malalianus','' pp. 1–3.〕 * ''Laterculus regem Vandalorum et Alanorum'',〔''MGH, AA'' XIII, pp. 457–60.〕 a list of Vandal kings〔John Robert Martindale, ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992, reprinted 2000), vol. 3, p. xxiii.〕 based in Mommsen's view on diplomas or, alternatively, largely on an African version of the Chronicle of Prosper Tiro.〔Roland Steinacher, "The So-Called ''Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum'': A Sixth-Century African Addition to Prosper Tiro's Chronicle?," in ''Vandals, Romans, and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa'' (Ashgate, 2004), p. 163.〕 *''Laterculus regum Visigothorum'', list of Visigothic kings.〔''MGH, AA'' XIII, pp. 464–9.〕 * ''Laterculus Polemii Silvii'', an Imperial Roman list of emperors and provinces by Polemius Silvius.〔J.N. Adams, ''The Regional Diversification of Latin, 200 BC–AD 600'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 252.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「laterculus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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