The epigraphy of the late empire’s top administrators, 284–395 CE · 晚期罗马禁卫军长官之铭刻
Each inscription by the corpus’s own EpiDoc text-type. The record is overwhelmingly honorary — the prefects honouring emperors and, increasingly, being honoured themselves: the honorific economy of late-Roman office. Building inscriptions trace their public works; the normative texts are the edicts and constitutions they promulgated.
Dated inscriptions by quarter-century. The administrative-epigraphic record swells through the fourth century and peaks under the Valentinianic–Theodosian regime (375–399 CE) — the late-antique tail that the empire-wide epigraphic-habit curve compresses into its final decades.
The monumental context recorded for each text. Three-quarters stood in public space — fora, basilicas, civic centres — fitting the prefecture’s public-administrative character; the private and funerary monuments are the prefects commemorated as individuals.