On a New Argive Inscription

A New Inscription of Xerxes

A Note on the Duenos Inscription

0. Introductory The well-known Archaic Latin “Duenos Inscription”,1 conventionally dated to the 6th or early 5th c. B.C.E.,2 requires no detailed introduction; nor is there any question of surveying the immense bibliography devoted to the many enigmas — archeological, cultural, epigraphical, linguistic — surrounding this celebrated and frustrating text and the unique object on which it is inscr...

Orality, Inscription and the Creation of a New Lore

This essay examines the process by which the discourse of folklore is used to entextualize and recontextualize the oral tradition in West Bengal through a discussion of two contemporary Bangla novels. Motifs from folk tales, myths, and popular epic poems are being re-appropriated by urban cultural forms– both popular as well as elite – to articulate new identities and subject positions. I selec...

A Middle Persian Inscription from Persepolis

This article deciphers and analyzes a  previously unknown Sassanian mint location represented by the inscription WLČ., based on the analysis of a Middle Persian inscription found in Persepolis, and on the linguistic changes that occurred during the transition to modern Persian. Evidence is presented to show that this previously unknown Sassanian mint designation corresponds to the modern-day ci...

New Light on Literacy in Eighth-century East Anglia: a Runic Inscription from Baconsthorpe, Norfolk

An object inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes recently found in East Anglia is tentatively identified as an artefact associated with the use of manuscripts: a page-holder or page-turner. The well-formed and elegant inscription allows us to identify a hitherto unrecognized runic graph in the Anglo-Saxon tradition as well as a previously unrecorded inflected form of the Old English verb cunnan. The ...