Fascicule 1 (roman Inscriptions of Britain), Vol. 2

RIB Vol. II, fasc. 2 covers inscriptions on weights, metal vessels (gold, silver, bronze, lead and pewter), shale and glass vessels and spoons. Each entry has the familiar format: provenance, description, bibliography, transcription, translation and illustration. 142p, 8pl. (A. Sutton for Haverfield Bequest 1991) Hb

Roger Tomlin is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford having retired in 2010 as the University Lecturer in Late-Roman History. He is the leading European scholar on the analysis of Roman inscriptions and has published extensively on material from thourghout the Roman Empire, and especially withi roman Britian, including the Bath curse tablets as Tabellae Sulis (1988) and the Bloomberg London stylus tablets as Roman London’s First Voices (2016). He is one of the joint editors of the annual ‘Roman Britain (Inscriptions)’ survey in the journal Britannia, and co-editor/contributor to the indispensible Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) volumes.