Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments

Contents

Foreword – Tibor Grüll

Representations of writing tools and materials on Roman funerary monuments – Tibor Grüll, Nándor Agócs, János Jusztinger, Ernő Szabó

Clio and Calliope: Why Diptych and Scroll? – Elizabeth A. Meyer

Educated by the nine Muses? – Josy Luginbühl

Tablet in Hand. Tabulae as markers of professional and social identity of Roman scribae – Benjamin Hartmann

Representations of writing tools and materials on Phrygian door stelae – Tibor Grüll

Broadening the view on literacy in Palmyra. Ten years after the first attempt – Łukasz Sokołowski

The scroll and codex on funerary steles in the Upper Moesian Limes – Sanja Pilipović

Depictions of bone ‘spatulate’ strips and a few thoughts about their function – Anna Willi

About the Author

Tibor Grüll is Professor of Ancient History and Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc.), awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has taught at the University of Pécs since 1998, where he has led the Department of Ancient History since 2015. He has published 16 books and 250 articles, and has given lectures in venues from Cambridge to Jerusalem over the past three decades.

Reviews

‘Senza dubbio le riflessioni e le osservazioni contenute nel volume, unite al fondamentale strumento costituito dalla banca dati, risultano di grande stimolo per affrontare ed approfondire un tema che, dati alla mano, come dimostrato in questo lavoro capitolo per capitolo, ha ancora molto da suggerirci e rivelarci sulla società romana. In definitiva, questo libro rappresenta una risorsa preziosa per chiunque desideri affrontare il tema della rappresentazione degli strumenti di scrittura romani sui rilievi epigrafici, offrendo un’analisi dettagliata e rigorosa e gettando nuova luce su un aspetto della cultura materiale romana cruciale e ancora ricco di interrogativi.’ [translated: Without a doubt, the reflections and observations contained in the volume, combined with the fundamental tool constituted by the database, are a great stimulus to address and explore a topic which … still has much to suggest and reveal to us about Roman society. Ultimately, this book represents a valuable resource for anyone wishing to address the topic of the representation of Roman writing instruments on epigraphic reliefs, offering a detailed and rigorous analysis and shedding new light on an aspect of Roman material culture that is crucial and still full of questions.] – Donato Fasolini (2024): Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos