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‘The Girl in Question’: a New Text from Roman London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

R.S.O. Tomlin
R.S.O. Tomlin
Affiliation:
Wolfson College, Oxford, roger.tomlin@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
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The text published here was found in 1994 during excavation at 1 Poultry in the City of London (TQ 3258 8110), on the north side of the main east–west road of Roman London just west of the Walbrook stream, in a layer of debris which post-dated the destruction of a roadside building in a late Flavian fire. It is only the second stilus-tablet ‘page’ from London to have been read almost in full. It is a formal and formulaic text but, to a modern reader, its legal language makes this human document still more disquieting.

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Britannia , Volume 34 , November 2003 , pp. 41 - 51
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Copyright © R.S.O. Tomlin 2003. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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