The Greek lead letter from Ruscino (Languedoc, France)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2017.10.1631Keywords:
Letters on lead, Greeks from the West, classical Greek trade, paleographic chronology, Greek dialectologyAbstract
A new lead tablet with Greek text, possibly a letter from the 4th c. BC, is published here. The edition and partial translation is accompanied by a chronological, paleographic and linguistic study, and a comment that includes some hypotheses about its interpretation within this special genre of documents, whose number and significance are continuously increasing.
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