La ‘flagranza’ dell’enunciazione nell’epigrafia monumentale e nell’immagine pubblica tardoantica

This article deals with Latin dedicatory verse inscriptions (for the most part from Late Antiquity), suggesting a four types-classification based on an enunciative approach. According to such an approach it is not important the object – what is said – but who speaks to whom. This new form of epigraphic communication, based on the use of the first and second person instead of the impersonal third person, is studied within a wider context of Late Antique Christian society and of early Christian mosaics, which offer a striking homology in the use of the frontality and the various meanings that this type of image can assume.