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Michael Meckler

I suggested that the decline in Gaulish writing in the 1st c CE cannot necessarily be seen as a decline in language vibrancy, comparing the status of other nonliterate indigenous languages in the Roman empire.

But I left the question open on what the ‘psychological shift’ may have been for those literate Gaulish speakers who stopped seeing a purpose in writing the language during the early Roman principate.

Anyone here have any suggestions?

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#language#literacy#Gaulish
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Michael Meckler

Despite what I post on this platform, my life is not all Basset Hounds and gardening. (Well, the Basset Hound does often manage to make my life entirely about him.)

I still occasionally carry out some academic research, and I spoke yesterday to the Changelings linguistics group here at Ohio State on the subject of ‘Gaulish literacy’.

In looking at the decline in surviving writing in Gaulish during the 1st c CE, I worked from Roman historian Ramsay MacMullen’s famous 1982 essay on ‘The epigraphic habit in the Roman empire’, where Ramsay attempted to explain the decline in Latin epigraphy from the mid 3rd c CE as being connected to ‘some very broad psychological shift’.

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Institute for Iranian Studies

A new FWF project: "Inscribing Authority: Islamic Rule in Central Asia (10th-13th Centuries) As Reflected in Monumental Epigraphy", conducted by Dr. Viola Allegranzi, is starting at the IFI! The project will look at 10th-13th century Islamic epigraphy in central Asia, and the textual and visual communication strategies it reflects on the part of rulers from that period.

The principles of this project include looking at the epigraphy both as texts and as artefacts, looking at the ways in which these inscriptions took up and used space and attempted to achieve recognition from local communities and power brokers. The project will build an open access database to help facilitate comparative analysis and connect inscriptions to people and places we know of from other sources.

More detail here:
oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/research/cul

A carved detail from a medieval Islamic central Asian monument.
#history#histodons#CentralAsia
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions**

_“An unusual mixture of runes and other markings are revealed as the fragments are reconstructed into a single standing stone, suggesting multiple episodes of inscription and providing insight into early runic writing practices in Iron Age Scandinavia.”_

Solheim, S. et al. (2025) ‘Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions’, Antiquity, pp. 1–18. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.225.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scandinavia #IronAge #Epigraphy #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

Cambridge CoreInscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreInscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions
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Tom Elliott

🚨¡ New Roman boundary marker claxon! 🚨

Ecker, Avner, and Uzi Leibner. “‘Diocletian Oppressed the Inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9:2): A New Tetrarchic Boundary Stone from Abel Beth Maacah.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 0, no. 0 (n.d.): 1–13. doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2024..

"Excavators of tell Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel uncovered a Tetrarchic boundary stone reused as a cover for a Mamluk-period grave. The inscription mentions a hitherto unknown imperial surveyor (censitor). It is suggested that this individual may have been a colleague of Aelius Statutus, the censitor recorded on the boundary stones of the province of Syria Phoenice. Additionally, the inscription reveals two new toponyms: ‘Tirthas’ and ..."

Found by way of “A New Chapter in Roman Administration: Insights from a Late Roman Inscription.” Phys.org News, sec. Archaeology. phys.org/news/2025-01-chapter-

which was posted on Bluesky by @rogueclassicist

#ancientGeography#ancientHistory#epigraphy
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