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That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time systematically, across different regions and over an entire epoch, by examining the change in the inscriptions culture in late antiquity with a view of the Italian peninsula.

This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war, and Italy

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Note on Contributors -- The Materiality of Text: An Introduction /Andrej Petrovic -- Concepts -- What is an ἐπιγραφή in Classical Greece? /Athena Kirk -- The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature /Alexei Zadorojnyi -- Contexts -- Epigraphic Spaces -- The 'Spatial Dynamics' of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers /Joseph W. Day -- Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions /Valentina Garulli -- Erasures in Greek Public Documents /P. J. Rhodes -- Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature -- The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram /Donald E. Lavigne -- Writing, Women's Silent Speech /Michael A. Tueller -- Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy /S. J. Heyworth -- Architectural Spaces -- The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars /Ioannis Mylonopoulos -- Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of 'Duplicate' Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias /Abigail Graham -- Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of Pompeii /Fanny Opdenhoff -- Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression /Ida Östenberg -- Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces – A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia /Katharina Bolle -- Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic /Sean V. Leatherbury.

Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of material has not been adequately represented in archaeological research. The present volume addresses this oversight by examining the decorative use of material in Roman Italy between the Late Republic and Early Imperial period.

Eastern Mediterranean should be associated with a deep internal degeneration, a change in the military-administrative structure (the thematic system, exarchates, the reform of Heraclius), as well as the medievalization of culture. The state system of the empire did not undergo any fundamental changes, and the Christian church firmly blended into public life even in the framework of late antiquity

The following article discusses the importance of the province of Fars/Persis as an important province and the Persian Gulf as an important entrep�t. The essay seeks to demonstrate that because of the Perso-Byzantine rivalry the amount of trade on the silk roads was reduced and consequently the amount of sea trade via the Persian Gulf was increased by the fifth and sixth centuries C.E. The campaign for controlling trade in silk and spices was taken to the seas, and Persian colonies were established as far away as Sri Lanka. Administrative seals and Sasanian silver coins also indicated a lively exchange of commodities and the presence of Persians in East Asia.