Layout issues have never been systematically considered in relation to re-engraved epigraphic texts. In such cases, focusing on layout is important not only for the sake of restoring missing words, but also in order to reach a better understanding of the decisions made by stonecutters when confronted with older inscriptions. The aim of this chapter is to select, from the broad spectrum of re-inscriptions, those in which stonecutters were able to interact directly with the epigraphic “originals,” and, in cases where both versions are preserved, to analyze whether and to what extent this interaction occurred. To this end, the first part of the chapter discusses a taxonomy of re-inscriptions, with specific attention to the spatial, temporal, and functional distance between various versions, while the second part offers an overview of seven case studies drawn from the genre of dedicatory inscriptions, in order to determine whether the layout of older versions is preserved or discarded in the later ones.
Scuola Normale of Pisa, Italy
Titolo del capitolo
Stone to Stone. Patterns and Layouts in Re-Engraved Dedicatory Inscriptions
Autori
Leon Battista Borsano
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0456-9.14
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 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