Graffiti in the Athenian Agora / [prepared by Mabel Lang].

Main entry:

Lang, Mabel L., 1917-2010.

Title & Author:

Graffiti in the Athenian Agora / [prepared by Mabel Lang].

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1974.

Description:

32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture book ; no. 14

Summary:

Like fragments of overheard conversations, the thousands of informal inscriptions scratched and painted on potsherds, tiles, and other objects give us a unique insight into the everyday life of the Athenian Agora. Some are marks of ownership, or the notes of merchants, but many are sexual innuendos, often accompanied by graphic illustrations. Using her wide contextual knowledge, the author suggests why these scraps of sentences were written, and what they can tell us about one of the first widely literate societies.--ASCSA.

Subject:

Graffiti Greece Athens.
Inscriptions, Greek Greece Athens.
Graffiti Grèce Athènes.
Inscriptions grecques Grèce Athènes.
Antiquities.
Graffiti.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Attic Greek dialect Texts.
Inscriptions, Greek Greece Attikē.
Inscriptions grecques Grèce Athènes (Grèce)
Agora (Athens, Greece)
Greece Antiquities.
Athens (Greece) Antiquities.
Agora (Athènes, Grèce)
Grèce Antiquités.
Greece.
Greece Athens.
Greece Athens Agora.
Agora Athen
Agora (Athens, Greece) Antiquities.
Athènes (Grèce) Agora.

Added entries:

Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture book ; no. 14.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 139408
Call No.: ID:86-B9697
Status: Available

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