Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of
Figures
List of
Tables
Foreword
Note on the Text
List of
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
	What This Book Is About
	Sub-elite Education in Literacy
	Defining ‘Old-fashioned’ Spelling
	Standard and Non-standard Spelling
	Structure of the Book
	Methodology
		Scribes, Writers and Authors
		Finding and Counting Old-fashioned Spelling
	The Sub-elite Corpora
		The Tablets of the Sulpicii (TPSulp.)
		The Tablets of Caecilius Jucundus (CIL 4.3340)
		The Tablets from Herculaneum (TH2)
		The Tablets from London (WT)
		The Vindonissa Tablets (T. Vindon.)
		The Vindolanda Tablets (Tab. Vindol.)
		The Bu Njem Ostraca (O. BuNjem)
		Papyrus and Parchment from Dura Europos (P. Dura)
		Graffiti from the Paedagogium
		Curse Tablets (Kropp)
		Letters (CEL)
		Funerary Inscriptions from the Isola Sacra (IS)
	Writers on Language
	A Sketch of the Latin Vowel System through Time
Part I Old-fashioned Spellings
	Chapter 2  for /ae̯/
	Chapter 3  and  for /iː/
		 for /iː/
		 for /iː/
	Chapter 4  for /u/
	Chapter 5  for /uː/
	Chapter 6 Alternation of  and 
		/u/ and /i/ in Initial Syllables after /l/ and before a Labial
		/u/ and /i/ in Medial Syllables before a Labial
	Chapter 7  for /we/ before a Coronal
	Chapter 8  and  for /wu/ and /uu/, and  and  for /kwu/
	Chapter 9 Double Letters to Write Long Vowels
	Chapter 10  for /g/
	Chapter 11  for /jj/
	Chapter 12  before /a(ː)/ and  before /u(ː)/
		 before /a(ː)/
		 before /u(ː)/
	Chapter 13  for /k/ before Back Vowels
	Chapter 14  for /ks/
	Chapter 15 Geminates and Singletons
		 and 
		 and 
		Singletons for Geminate Consonants after Original Long Vowels
	Chapter 16 spepondi
	Chapter 17 popl- and pupl- for publ-
Part II Apices and i-longa
	Chapter 18 Apices and i-longa : Introduction
	Chapter 19 Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra Inscriptions
	Chapter 20 Apices in the Vindolanda Tablets
	Chapter 21 Apices in the Tablets of the Sulpicii
	Chapter 22 Apex Use in the Vindolanda and TPSulp. Tablets in Comparison
	Chapter 23 Apices in the Tablets from Herculaneum
	Chapter 24 i-longa in the Tablets of the Sulpicii and the Tablets from Herculaneum
	Chapter 25 Conclusions
		Old-Fashioned Spelling? Problems and Different Histories
		Optional Spellings and Sub-elite Education
		The Education of Scribes and Stonemasons
		Optional Spellings: Evidence for Sound Change
Appendix:
 and  in Catullus
Bibliography
Index