Portable Inscriptions. Text on objects, between privacy and public

Meunier, Nicolas [UCL] et al.

The epigraphic corpus contains not only the static stone inscriptions, but also texts written on small personal objects. Although this category has received less attraction than others, there exists a great diversity of inscribed objects, which di!er in size, material, function, etc. In particular artefacts are worthy of note, because they o!er a di!erent form of inscription, i.e. movable ones. What purpose do inscriptions have on portable objects? [Co-authors: Sandra Cruz Gutiérrez; Lisa Horstmann; Georgios Valsamakis]