Informal Writing in a Public Place The Graffiti of Smyrna
A remarkable discovery made in the winter of 2003 gives us a most unusual opportunity to look at a body of writing that stood in a public place and, in a sense, was written on stone, but has little in common with most monumental epigraphy. This find is the graffiti of the basement level of the basil...
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| Published in | Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Vol. 69; p. 7 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
University of California Press
06.12.2010
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| Edition | 1 |
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| Summary: | A remarkable discovery made in the winter of 2003 gives us a most unusual opportunity to look at a body of writing that stood in a public place and, in a sense, was written on stone, but has little in common with most monumental epigraphy. This find is the graffiti of the basement level of the basilica in the agora of Smyrna, modern Izmir (fig. 1).¹ The ground level of the basilica and the east and west ends of the basement level were excavated before the Second World War by Selâhattin Kantar, then director of the Izmir Museum, and Fritz |
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| ISBN: | 0520267028 9780520267022 |