False positive: testing the authenticity of Latin graffiti in ancient Pompeii

Peter Keegan

doi:10.2307/j.ctv29j3dpf.21

False positive: testing the authenticity of Latin graffiti in ancient Pompeii

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Abstract

The custom in antiquity of fabricating inscriptions to confer credibility to otherwise suspect or unreliable declarations of great age or importance of one kind or another is well known. This chapter examines a representative sample of graffiti found in ancient Pompeii to produce a dataset of graffiti texts that may within the bound of statistical likelihood be designated as authentic or invented, and by extension examine the reasons underlying, as well as the methods used to execute, the manufacture of false graffiti in 1st century BCE and CE Pompeii.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Tenue est mendacium
Subtitle of host publication	rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique and Early Christian works
Editors	Klaus Lennartz, Javier Martínez
Place of Publication	Groningen
Publisher	Barkhuis
Pages	261-292
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Print)	9789493194366
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv29j3dpf.21
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Roman epigraphy
Early modern (18-19th century) archaeology
CIL IV
Graffiti
Forgeries

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False positive: testing the authenticity of Latin graffiti in ancient Pompeii. / Keegan, Peter.
Tenue est mendacium: rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique and Early Christian works. ed. / Klaus Lennartz; Javier Martínez. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2021. p. 261-292.

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False positive: testing the authenticity of Latin graffiti in ancient Pompeii

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