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Digitalizzazione e intelligenza del falso epigrafico

Il caso di un titulus atestino

Antonio Pistellato    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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abstract

This essay focuses upon a fragmentary Latin inscription found in Monselice in 1837. Giuseppe first Furlanetto published it in 1847. In 1872, Theodor Mommsen published it as CIL V 2484. However, among Furlanetto’s work materials there is a manuscript note that relates to the same inscription, but shows an intact epigraphic text. Maria Silvia Bassignano published it in 1997, maintaining that the inscription was a forgery. The digitization of the note in EDF, a re-examination of all extant documentation, the books of Livy, and a new analysis of the original inscription, now in Brescia, allow a reassessment of the whole matter, and prompt some methodological and epistemological remarks on the notion of epigraphic forgery.

Published
Dec. 16, 2019
Accepted
Sept. 10, 2019
Submitted
July 3, 2019
Language
IT
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-387-8
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-386-1

Keywords: Latin epigraphyForgeryManuscriptsPrinted editionsDigital editions

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