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E-book Writing Equipment

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Writing equipment is key for the comprehensive study of Roman handwriting, non-monumental inscriptions and literacy. Cost, material and design of the equipment and how it was used had an impact on many aspects of writing such as letter shapes, document layout and who was writing. Im-portantly, the equipment also has an impact on what kinds of ancient handwritten texts have survived and therefore on our understanding of writing in antiquity. However, for a long time, research paid little attention to Roman writing equipment. One reason for this neglect is that finds of writing implements are often difficult to recognise and can end up labelled incorrectly or undetected with other small finds. Styli have been mistaken for hairpins, spindles or nails, spatulas and penknives have been categorised as razor knives, inkwells as pyxides and seal boxes as anything from jewellery to salt and pepper shakers (see e.g. Boži? and Feugère 2004; Furger et al. 2009, 17). What is more, instruments such as spatulas and tools with a metal point are far from monofunctional and can often only be identified as writing implements through context and associated finds. Despite such difficulties, the study of ancient writing equipment has seen increasing and sustained interest over the past four decades. Collections of writing implements were highlighted and described (e.g. Bilkei 1980), typologies were made (e.g. Gaitzsch 1984), and some objects were newly associated with writing equipment (see the important publications by Boži? and Feugère). As a result of such studies, the importance of writing implements for our knowledge of Roman literacy and writing culture is increasingly recognised and archaeological evidence has begun to be incorporated in studies of ancient literacy. An aspect that was picked up by scholars with particular enthusiasm is the potential that finds of writing equipment have as a proxy for the presence of literacy (e.g. Derks and Roymans 2002; Hanson and Conolly 2002). Statistical analysis of find numbers is always skewed by the biases of archaeological research and publication and it is problematic to use find numbers without the relevant data on factors such as the extent of excavations, which is rarely available. Nevertheless, the study of writing equipment is promising, and can even be used as a proxy for Latinization, particularly for areas without local non-Latin epigraphies.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

902 WIL w

Penerbit

London : LatinNow ePubs., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

73 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780853583424

Klasifikasi

902

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Miscellany of History

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