Writing Matters: Italy in the First Millennium Bce

by Ruth Whitehouse

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which the inscriptions occur.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350412511
• ISBN13: 9781350412514
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"