Roman London's first voices: Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010-14

Roman London's first voices: Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010-14

Tomlin, Roger S. O.

 

This publication presents research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets. The collection, which boasts the first hand-written document known from Britain, was discovered during archaeological excavations for Bloomberg. The formal, official, legal and business aspects of life in the first decades of Londinium are revealed, with appearances from slaves, freedmen, traders, soldiers and the judiciary. Aspects of the tablets considered include their manufacture, analysis of the wax applied to their surfaces, their epigraphy and the content of over 80 legible texts.

Date published

• 2016

Institution

• MOLA

Series name

• MOLA Monograph Series

Publisher

• MOLA

Place of publication

• London, UK

Related URL

• https://www.londonmithraeum.com/
• https://www.mola.org.uk/roman-londons-first-voices-writing-tablets-bloomberg-excavations-2010%E2%80%9314

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• MOLA

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• All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the copyright owner. The Ordnance Survey mapping included in this publication is © Crown copyright 2016, Ordnance Survey 100049883. All rights reserved.