The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Volume II (Vol 2) Instrumentum Domesticum. Fascicule 2

R.G.Collingwood and R.P.Wright. Edited by S.S.Frere and R.S.O.Tomlin

ISBN 10: 0862998204 / ISBN 13: 9780862998202

Published by Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1991

About this Item

Part of the definitive publication of Roman written sources for the province of Britain. This volume covers weights, a gold vessel, silver vessels, bronze vessels, lead vessels, pewter vessels, shale vessels, glass vessels and spoons. 146 pages + xiii prelims. 8 pages of b/w plates, with drawn illustrations throughout the text. Black bds with gilt in Jacket. The jacket has a little discolouration and some minor surface damage on the back cover. The book itself is unmarked. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 29 cm x 21.5 Cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Volume II (Vol 2) Instrumentum Domesticum. Fascicule 2
• Publisher: Alan Sutton, Stroud
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0862998204
• ISBN 13: 9780862998202
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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

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.