This volume presents 552 previously unpublished Latin pagan inscriptions from Carthage, ranging from imperial dedications to personal epitaphs. They join an already substantial body of epigraphy from this site, and the volume adds new primary material to the available resources on Roman-North African religion and onomastics in particular.

The catalogue of mostly fragmentary inscriptions, assembled by careful cross-referencing of published collections, other records and the objects at hand, represents a mix of local texts, foreign texts found or stored at Carthage and Carthaginian texts now stored abroad. Following a preface by A. Ennabli, former curator of the archaeological site of Carthage, the authors explain the nature and organisation of the catalogue in a concise introduction. They outline the types of inscriptions, a few choice pieces of previously unknown information revealed by them, and the apparatus used to present the material.

The inscriptions are organised by content: religion, imperial dedications, honorific texts, military texts, epitaphs, varia and texts of unknown type. Each entry begins with a description of the object on which the inscription appears, including the material (most often marble), the broken and cut edges, and the state of the other side(s) of the object (smooth, rough, inscribed, etc.). Dimensions of the object and heights of letters are given, along with a note of the quality of the writing (fine, crude, elongated, square, etc.).

In providing both a photograph and a transcription for each inscription, the authors render a real service. Occasionally the transcriptions restore partially preserved text rather ambitiously, but if there are any doubts, one can easily examine the text in the photographs. The majority are clearly legible, using a strong raking light on the texts, but a number of the images could have been larger or better lit. However, the combination of photograph and transcript should be sufficient for most purposes.

The entries include a full or partial reconstruction of the text (with abbreviations spelled out and missing parts of formulas supplied), followed by a commentary in most cases. The commentaries range from single remarks to multiple paragraphs of discussion, with the assignment of a date where possible. They demonstrate the authors' intimate knowledge of the subject, from African personal names to the variety of cults represented in Carthage, with references to bibliography and inscriptions in other catalogues.

Following the catalogue is a list of abbreviations and a bibliography, which contains mostly works in French relating to Latin epigraphy and the various subjects touched upon in the commentaries (e.g. the Roman military, religion, etc.). The subsequent 68 pages are devoted to tables presenting previously published inscriptions of Carthage, organised by the catalogues in which they appear and giving provenance within the city (if known). The tables cross-reference the publications of these inscriptions in other catalogues and give the current location for each; they also include a section for non-Carthaginian inscriptions housed at the Carthage museum, with their identifying numbers in other catalogues. The volume ends with a series of indexes that list the catalogued inscriptions by onomastics, by religious, imperial, civil or military terminology, by geographical terms, and by the ethnic, tribal and familial designations applied to individuals.

Everything has been done to make this group of inscriptions accessible and useful for research. For every instance where the reconstructions seem bold, there are other examples where the information supplied transforms a fragment into an informant on the life of the ancient city. Though almost all the inscriptions have suffered serious losses, this volume will facilitate more thorough scholarship on Latin epigraphy in North Africa.