Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions.

CIL also refers to the organization within the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities responsible for collecting data on and publishing the Latin inscriptions.

The CIL collects all Latin inscriptions from the whole territory of the Roman Empire, ordering them geographically and systematically.

In 1847 a committee was created in Berlin with the aim of publishing an organized collection of Latin inscriptions, which had previously been described piecemeal by hundreds of scholars over the preceding centuries.

[2] The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) continues to update and reprint the CIL.