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Usi delle tavolette lignee e cerate nel mondo greco e romano
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ISBN: 8872680786 Year: 1998 Publisher: Messina : Sicania,


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L'aventure des écritures : matières et formes
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ISBN: 2717720596 9782717720594 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris : B.N. (Bibliothèque Nationale),

Life and letters on the Roman frontier
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ISBN: 0415920248 0415920256 9781136773938 1136773932 9780203823699 0203823699 9780415920247 9780415920254 9781136773884 1136773886 9781136773921 1136773924 9780429237607 042923760X 1283965496 9781283965491 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Routledge

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Greetings, I ask that you send the things which I need for the use of my boys . . . which you well know I cannot properly get hold of here . . . --A Roman solider on the frontier of England around AD 100 Over three hundred letters and documents were recently discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, in Northern England, written on wooden tablets which have survived nearly 2,000 years. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman, the materials contribute a wealth of evidence for daily life in the Roman Empire. Military documents testify to the lifestyle of officers and soldiers stationed at Vindolanda,

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fortification, Roman --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Hadrian's Wall (England). --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Romans --- Tablets (Paleography). --- Wooden tablets --- Vindolanda tablets. --- Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England). --- Great Britain --- Chesterholme (England) --- History, Military --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Tablets (Paleography) --- Waxen tablets --- Writing tablets --- Diptychs --- Inscriptions --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Latin inscriptions --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Roman fortification --- Architecture, Roman --- Classical antiquities --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History --- Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England) --- Hadrian's Wall (England) --- Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, Northumberland) --- England --- Chesterholm (England) --- Chesterholme (Northumberland) --- Vallum (England) --- Wall of Hadrian (England) --- Antiquities --- Vindolanda tablets --- Römerzeit --- Schriftlichkeit --- Schreibtafel --- Tafel --- Literacy --- Literalität --- Schriftkultur --- Schriftliche Überlieferung --- Verschriftlichung --- Schreiben --- Schriftliche Kommunikation --- Römische Zeit --- Antike --- Römisches Reich --- v753-500 --- Geschichte 85-122 --- Vindolanda

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