03573oam 2200793I 450 991046342980332120200520144314.00-429-23760-X0-203-82369-91-283-96549-61-136-77393-210.4324/9780203823699 (CKB)2670000000325084(EBL)1111435(OCoLC)826854816(SSID)ssj0000820026(PQKBManifestationID)11515122(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820026(PQKBWorkID)10856755(PQKB)10652866(MiAaPQ)EBC1111435(Au-PeEL)EBL1111435(CaPaEBR)ebr10647770(CaONFJC)MIL427799(OCoLC)825768271(EXLCZ)99267000000032508420130331d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLife and letters on the Roman frontier Vindolanda and its people /Alan K. BowmanNew York :Routledge,1998.1 online resource (169 p.)"Originally published in Great Britain by British Museum Press"--T.p. verso.0-415-92025-6 0-415-92024-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-154) and index.Cover; Life and Letterson the Roman frontier vindolanda and its People; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Writing-tablets; 3. Strategies of Occupation; 4. The Roman Army; 5. Officers and Men, and Women; 6. Social and Economic Life on the Frontier; 7. Letters and Literacy; Appendix I: Technical Terminology; Appendix II: The Texts; Bibliography; The Plates; Index; AcknowledgmentsGreetings, I ask that you send the things which I need for the use of my boys . . . which you well know I cannot properly get hold of here . . . --A Roman solider on the frontier of England around AD 100 Over three hundred letters and documents were recently discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, in Northern England, written on wooden tablets which have survived nearly 2,000 years. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman, the materials contribute a wealth of evidence for daily life in the Roman Empire. Military documents testify to the lifestyle of officers and soldiers stationed at Vindolanda,Frontier and pioneer lifeEnglandChesterholmeExcavations (Archaeology)EnglandChesterholmeFortification, RomanEnglandChesterholmeInscriptions, LatinEnglandChesterholmeWooden tabletsEnglandChesterholmeRomansEnglandChesterholmeTablets (Paleography)Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England)Great BritainHistory, Military55 B.C.-449 A.DChesterholme (England)Antiquities, RomanHadrian's Wall (England)Electronic books.Frontier and pioneer lifeExcavations (Archaeology)Fortification, RomanInscriptions, LatinWooden tabletsRomansTablets (Paleography)936.2/881Bowman Alan K.140322MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463429803321Life and letters on the roman frontier563623UNINA