The Centre for Epigraphic and Sepulchral Studies, operating within the Documentation Department, focuses on research, methodological, documentation and coordination activities in the practice of the closely interconnected fields of sepulchral research, medieval and modern Latin epigraphy as an "auxiliary science" of art history. The Centre was established in 2005 on the basis of the epigraphic documentation that had already been built up. The Centre organizes international interdisciplinary meetings on sepulchral monuments, followed by the publication series Epigraphica et Sepulcralia. It manages and develops a database of historical inscriptions, which currently contains more than 23,000 inscriptions on more than 18,000 bearers, including those that have not been preserved. Its activities were largely curtailed by the sudden death of its founder, Jiří Roháček, in 2023 and it is currently undergoing a reorganisation.
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