Mani e scritture, simboli e testi : Ricerche su fonti documentarie ed epigrafiche tardoantiche

Abstract

The volume collects 7 essays focused on the use and eisappearance of the double document in Egypt after Roman conquest, on the graphic features and the use of symbols in final subscriptions in contracts written in the province of Thebaid, on the witness subscriptions in the late antique documentary papyri originating from the Hermopolite nome, on the value of autograph intervention by issuer and witnesses in the subscriptions of Latin contracts and wills during Late Antiquity, on the shortening practices in use in the context of Greek documentary scripts of the early Byzantine period, on the papyrological attestations of the monograms chi-iota and chi-rho as abbreviations of the term χειρόγραφον, on the mise en texte of prose inscriptions from Late Antique Egypt, offering a survey of the main features of the layout and use of signs in Greek inscriptions