Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier

Name/Title

Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier

Secondary Title

Vindolanda and Its People

Description

Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier summarises over three hundred letters and documents discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, written on wooden tablets. This new evidence is followed by the texts of 38 key tablets, in Latin and in translation, including new tablets found in 1991-4.

Category

Book
Books & Paper

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

books

Book Details

Author

Bowman, Alan K.

Publisher

British Museum Press

Date Published

1994

Publication Language

English

Publication Subjects

Introduction - The Writing Tablets - Strategies of Occupation - The Roman Army - Officers, Men, and Women - Social and Economic Life on the Frontier - Letters and Literacy

ISBN

9780714113890 , 9780714123110

Notes

192 Pages