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Information about employment and occupations in the Roman Empire can be obtained only partially, due to the limited focus of sources on this subject. Literary sources rarely mention physical work and those who performed it. The paper introduces the type of source that covers this topic best – funerary inscriptions. Epitaphs serve as an irreplaceable, and in many cases the only, source of information about the various occupations held by representatives of the middle and lower classes in the Roman Empire. Many tombstones of citizens, slaves, and freed slaves – men, women and children – have been preserved. The aim of this paper is to present specifically the occupations of women preserved on funerary inscriptions from the city of Rome and to introduce concrete, otherwise nameless persons never mentioned in other sources. The analysis is based on inscriptions from the city of Rome, set in the time of the late Republic and the early Roman Principate (1st century BC – 2nd century AD). The paper addresses concrete inscriptions dedicated to working women, or inscriptions that the employed women made, together with their analysis and translation. The paper can also be used as a source book on the topic of women’s professions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study researches the collection of Latin inscriptions - Corpus Inscriptio- num Latinarum (CIL), a project by Theodor Mommsen, which has been running sin- ce the 19th century until today. The CIL contains Latin inscriptions from the whole territory of the former Roman Empire. It consists of 17 volumes and each of them comprises several parts. Until today, 70 titles of the collection have been published. The study deals with the history and present time of this project, and pre- sents the content of the collection - the individual volumes and information of what can be found in them. The present time of the CIL collection brings modernization and digitization. Today, it is not necessary to look for information in extensive volu- mes of the A3 size. There are new solutions at hand, either the digitized part of the collection (volumes published until 1940) in PDF version, as a part of the Arachne project, or comfortable search engines, including information not only from the CIL, but also from other collections of inscriptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]