The Roman Inscriptions of Britain: fasc. 1. Instrumentum domesticum (Personal belongings and the like)

R.G. Collingwood, R.P. Wright

ISBN 10: 0750907436 / ISBN 13: 9780750907439

Published by Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd, 1997

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Minimal shelf wear, clean internals. May have remainder mark.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Roman Inscriptions of Britain: fasc. 1. Instrumentum domesticum (Personal belongings and the like)
• Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750907436
• ISBN 13: 9780750907439
• Binding: Library Binding
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

The latest addition to RIB II is devoted to graffiti on samian ware ( terra sigillata ), of which 879 examples have been collected. This large number, and the fact that samian sherds can usually be dated, provides a valuable statistical basis for the study of nomenclature, abbreviations, the growth of basic literacy and other epigraphic questions.

About the Author

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.