Roman London's First Voices: Writing Tablets from the Bloomberg Excavations, 2010–14
by
Roger Tomlin
(Author) - Museum of London Archaeology, 2017
This publication presents research into Britain’s largest, earliest and
most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets. The
collection, which boasts the first hand-written document known from
Britain, was discovered during archaeological excavations for Bloomberg.
The formal, official, legal and business aspects of life in the first
decades of Londinium are revealed, with appearances from slaves,
freedmen, traders, soldiers and the judiciary. Aspects of the tablets
considered include their manufacture, analysis of the wax applied to
their surfaces, their epigraphy and the content of over 80 legible
texts.
