Summary The present, inaugural volume includes selected papers from the two panels dedicated to Byzantine Epigraphy held at the XXIII International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade, August 2016, and the XV International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Vienna, August/September 2017. The papers, as indeed the events for which they were initially produced, celebrate both the progress and the promise of epigraphic research within medieval and early modern scholarship as a whole. TABLE OF CONTENTS Andreas Rhoby - Ida Toth, Byzantine Epigraphy: Whence and Whither? Arkadiy Avdokhin, Space Oddity? A Praepositus Inscribing Power and Appropriating Cityscapes in Theodosian Constantinople Christoph Begass, Der Kaiser als Schutzwall. Epigraphische und topographische Untersuchungen zum Basileios-Epigramm aus Thessaloniki (AP IX 686) und zum sp tantiken Kaiserbildnis Salvatore Cosentino, Epigrafia e societ nella Sardegna bizantina (VII-XI secolo). Alcune osservazioni Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Incorporating a Name in an Image and an Image in a Name. Comparison between Byzantine and Latin Traditions Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Language, Identity, and Otherness in Medieval Greece: The Epigraphic Evidence Denis Kashtanov - Maksim Korobov - Vadim Ponaryadov - Andrey Vinogradov, Greek Letters as scriptura franca: Writing in Local Languages on the Northern Periphery of the Byzantine World Emmanuel Moutafov, Word and Image in the Church of the Ascension in Nesseb?r. The Role of Inscriptions for the Reconstruction of the Iconographic Programme of 1609 Giorgos Pallis, Texts and Their Audiences: some Thoughts on the addressees of Inscriptions in Middle Byzantine Churches in Greece Mustafa H. Sayar (unter Mitarbeit von Andreas Rhoby), Die Mosaikinschrift in Dara/Anastasiupolis aus dem Jahr 514 n. Chr. Anna M. Sitz, An Epigram for the Everyman? Strategies of Commemoration at a Cappadocian Tomb Christos Stavrakos - Dimitrios Liakos, Post-Byzantine Inscriptions, Traditions and Legends: Authentic or Fabricated?