How is a document transformed in the journey from text to monument? This chapter explores how the process of inscribing (or recarving) a document could impact its appearance, function, and meaning. Monumental documents have been the subject of much scholarship, but the focus of studies has primarily been on content. While this approach makes sense from a historical perspective, recent scholarship has sought to incorporate aspects of materiality and physicality into interpretations of inscriptions, which are experienced both as texts and as objects. Did different versions of a document look like copies? How might differences in the physical appearance and context of a document shape its perception and meaning? Focusing on a specific case study, two copies of a letter from Hadrian to Aphrodisias inscribed at different times and places (I.Aphrodisias 2007 8.34 and I.Aphrodisias 2007 11.114), this chapter assesses how monumental copies of documents were presented and perceived by ancient viewers.
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Titolo del capitolo
Monumental Transformations: Two Copies of a Letter from Hadrian at Aphrodisias
Autori
Abigail Graham
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0456-9.15
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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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)
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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