This chapter explores some aspects of the materiality and layout of the Leukophryena epigraphic dossier (I.Magnesia 16-87). Starting from the dossier’s layout, I analyze the location of the documents within the dossier, the principles guiding the organization of the documents, the relation between formats and document typologies, and the use and meaning of the appended lists. In the second section of the chapter, I turn to some paratextual elements of the dossier, starting with the large-scale and gradually focusing upon ever smaller, but still significant, features. This entails a reconsideration of issues of mise en page and other devices of layout, such as variation in the size of the letters, rubrication, and the use of titles and lectional signs. To what extent did they fulfill an ornamental function? Were they intended to facilitate the documents’ readability? Through a close analysis of two documents (I.Magnesia 16 and 17), I try to assess how decorations, spaces, and indentations were used to build a visual framework, and how this framework served to highlight key messages and recurrent elements.
University of California Berkeley, United States
Titolo del capitolo
Layout and Materiality of the Leukophryena Epigraphic Dossier in Magnesia on the Maeander – Did They Matter?
Autori
Flavio Santini
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0456-9.13
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Text, Layout, and Medium
Sottotitolo del libro
Documents from the Greco-Roman World between Epigraphy and Papyrology
Curatori
Davide Amendola, Cristina Carusi, Francesca Maltomini, Emilio Rosamilia
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
426
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0456-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0455-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0456-9
Collana
Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli»
ISSN della collana
2533-2414
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7997