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Latinization, Local Languages, And Literacies In The Roman West

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 This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The patchwork of local languages which existed across the western provinces in the Iron Age was radically reconfigured by the rise of Latin. Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West offers a detailed anatomy of the local and regional patterning across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies and the Iberian Peninsula primarily from the later Republic to the end of the Principate. The chapters draw on a combination of various sets of evidence and an interdisciplinary perspective--historical, archaeological, sociolinguistic, and epigraphic--to uncover local voices, tracking 'differential Latinization', and revealing the probable survival of local languages, alongside, or even to the exclusion of, Latin in some communities in non-Mediterranean areas. The results underscore the variety of factors involved in language change and the importance of sensitivity to local communities. By including everyday writing in their epigraphic evidence, the volume reveals regionality in the varieties of Latin used and disparities in engagement in both the epigraphic habit and broader literate practices. New data enable the description of types of literacies, and movement away from debates on provincial percentages of literacy and from generalizations about associated social dynamics. Contributors to the volume grapple with the 'characterful' datasets they have created and collated, the careful treatment of which enables the exploration of a range of themes vital for understanding provincial life. The complexity uncovered by these studies will be a starting point for future investigations.
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Uley Tablets - Roman Curse Tablets From The Temple Of Mercury At Uley

by Roger S. O. Tomlin

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 The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like those found in the hot spring at Bath, they are 'curse tablets', so called because they seek divine intervention against the writer's enemies, who are mostly thieves unknown. They complain of farm animals being stolen or bewitched, even a stolen beehive (the first document of bee-keeping in Britain), the theft of clothing such as gloves, cloaks and gaiters, woman's underwear, the theft of rings and sums of money ranging from two 'mites' to a hundred thousand denarii. In formalised language they ask the god to recover their property and punish the thieves with ill health or the 'greatest death'. These tablets are the richest collection of manuscripts from the countryside of Roman Britain, unique as a written witness to the social and economic history of the province since they were not found in the usual urban or military context. They are a major new source for studying the language, whether written or spoken, of the civil population. The Uley Tablets provide a practical lesson in how to decipher Roman handwriting, and in this volume, they are transcribed and translated with detailed commentary, each inscribed face illustrated with a photograph and line-drawing. These texts are preceded by eleven introductory chapters which outline their context and content, the way in which the god was approached, the language and handwriting employed, and the implications for the study of literacy in Roman Britain. The Uley Tablets offer a vivid contribution to ancient history with a disturbing modern echo.
Greek Personal Names In Egypt

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 Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change.
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The Uley Tablets - Roman Curse Tablets From The Temple Of Mercury At Uley

by Roger S. O. Tomlin

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 The Uley Tablets is a new collection of manuscripts from Roman Britain, letters written to a god in the Cotswolds on homemade tablets of lead. They are transcribed, translated, and illustrated by photography and line-drawings, with commentary offering new insights into country life and literacy in Roman Britain.
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Languages And Communities In The Late-Roman And Post-Imperial Western Provinces

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 This volume provides a collection of chapters by a multidisciplinary collection of experts on the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west. It offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features, and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment.
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Social Factors In The Latinization Of The Roman West

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 This volume provides a collection of chapters written by an multidisciplinary collection of experts on the topic of Latinization in the western part of the Roman Empire. Topics covered include administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism.
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Material Dynamics Of Festivals In The Graeco-Roman East

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 Much of our knowledge of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East comes from material culture--inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art-works. This volume draws attention to the choices made on what to record (and where, and how) in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods.
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Material Dynamics Of Festivals In The Graeco-Roman East

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 Much of our knowledge of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East comes from material culture--inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art-works. This volume draws attention to the choices made on what to record (and where, and how) in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods.
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The Material Dynamics Of Festivals In The Graeco-Roman East

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 Much of our knowledge of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East comes from material culture--inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art-works. This volume draws attention to the choices made on what to record (and where, and how) in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods.
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Social Factors In The Latinization Of The Roman West

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 This volume provides a collection of chapters written by an multidisciplinary collection of experts on the topic of Latinization in the western part of the Roman Empire. Topics covered include administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism.
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Teos And Abdera - Two Cities In Peace And War

by Mustafa Adak e Peter Thonemann

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 This volume examines the important new Greek inscription discovered at Teos in Ionia in 2017, which records the relationship between Teos and its daughter-city Abdera in Thrace. The text is published here for the first time, alongside major new editions of other texts from Teos and Abdera.
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Teos And Abdera - Two Cities In Peace And War

by Mustafa Adak e Peter Thonemann

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 This volume examines the important new Greek inscription discovered at Teos in Ionia in 2017, which records the relationship between Teos and its daughter-city Abdera in Thrace. The text is published here for the first time, alongside major new editions of other texts from Teos and Abdera.
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Teos And Abdera - Two Cities In Peace And War

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 This volume examines the important new Greek inscription discovered at Teos in Ionia in 2017, which records the relationship between Teos and its daughter-city Abdera in Thrace. The text is published here for the first time, alongside major new editions of other texts from Teos and Abdera.
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Early Greek Alphabets - Origin, Diffusion, Uses

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 The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
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Early Greek Alphabets - Origin, Diffusion, Uses

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 The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
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The Early Greek Alphabets - Origin, Diffusion, Uses

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 The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
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Arsama And His World: The Bodleian Letters In Context - Volume Iii: Aršama''S World

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 The third of three volumes offering a detailed presentation of a set of letters associated with ArÅ¡ama, satrap in Egypt in the later fifth century BC and the bullae that sealed them. This volume explores the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic context of the letters.
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Arsama And His World: The Bodleian Letters In Context - Volume Ii: Bullae And Seals

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 The second of three volumes offering a detailed presentation of a set of letters associated with ArÅ¡ama, satrap in Egypt in the later fifth century BC and the bullae that sealed them. This volume presents a catalogue of thebullae and chapters examining the regional context of the seals.
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Arsama And His World: The Bodleian Letters In Context - Volume I: The Bodleian Letters

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 The first of three volumes offering a detailed presentation of a set of letters associated with ArÅ¡ama, satrap in Egypt in the later fifth century BC and the bullae that sealed them. This volume provides text and translation of the letters, along with appendices detailing Egyptiak and Akkadian documents that refer to ArÅ¡ama.
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Scribal Repertoires In Egypt From The New Kingdom To The Early Islamic Period

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 This volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the perspective of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, as a rich source for understanding the scribes' complex socio-cultural environments. A series of case studies applies this framework to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Islamic Egypt.
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Epigraphy Of Ptolemaic Egypt

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 This collection of detailed studies of the epigraphical landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt explores the historical and cultural contexts of the surviving Greek and Greek/Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions as a complement to the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions edition, in which the texts will be presented together for the first time.
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Epigraphy Of Ptolemaic Egypt

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 This collection of detailed studies of the epigraphical landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt explores the historical and cultural contexts of the surviving Greek and Greek/Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions as a complement to the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions edition, in which the texts will be presented together for the first time.
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Scribal Repertoires In Egypt From The New Kingdom To The Early Islamic Period

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 This volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the perspective of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, as a rich source for understanding the scribes' complex socio-cultural environments. A series of case studies applies this framework to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Islamic Egypt.
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Scribal Repertoires In Egypt From The New Kingdom To The Early Islamic Period

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 This volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the perspective of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, as a rich source for understanding the scribes' complex socio-cultural environments. A series of case studies applies this framework to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Islamic Egypt.
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