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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3504
dc.contributor.author	Sartori Antonio
dc.title	Falso quando?
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	An altar, found at Brenna (Como) and donated to the Civic Archaeological Collections of Milan in 1875, was never taken into account by scholars because it is unintelligible. The alleged text is sharply and skilfully engraved on at least 13 lines, but is composed of only partially alphabetic signs, devoid of any logical sense. Blaming the stonecutter of incompetence is too simplistic: the text was either proposed to him with scribbled and illegible notes, or had the function of occupying a physical space with no communication purposes, in order to give authoritativeness to the monument, whose owners were already known in other ways. In both cases, it was a forgery, either not corresponding to the original intention, or visibly added as a complementary filler.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Storia ed epigrafia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2019-09-10
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-07-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-387-8/falso-quando/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-386-1/013
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-387-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-386-1
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Coarse altar
dc.subject	Coarse altar
dc.subject	Epigraph balanced between dimensions and inscripti
dc.subject	Epigraph balanced between dimensions and inscripti
dc.subject	Forged blunder
dc.subject	Forged blunder
dc.subject	Inscribed zone as decorative surface
dc.subject	Inscribed zone as decorative surface
dc.subject	Non-alphabetic graphemes
dc.subject	Non-alphabetic graphemes

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Falso quando?

Antonio Sartori Università di Milano, Italia

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abstract

An altar, found at Brenna (Como) and donated to the Civic Archaeological Collections of Milan in 1875, was never taken into account by scholars because it is unintelligible. The alleged text is sharply and skilfully engraved on at least 13 lines, but is composed of only partially alphabetic signs, devoid of any logical sense. Blaming the stonecutter of incompetence is too simplistic: the text was either proposed to him with scribbled and illegible notes, or had the function of occupying a physical space with no communication purposes, in order to give authoritativeness to the monument, whose owners were already known in other ways. In both cases, it was a forgery, either not corresponding to the original intention, or visibly added as a complementary filler.

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: Non-alphabetic graphemes • Inscribed zone as decorative surface • Coarse altar • Epigraph balanced between dimensions and inscripti • Forged blunder

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