Emptio Bovis Frisica: the `Frisian Ox Sale' Reconsidered.

The article presents a study on the writings in the Frisian Ox Sale which is a wooden stilus tablet discovered in the Netherlands. It mentions that Dutch scholar C. W. Vollgraff was the first person to transcribe the said writings. It states that Vollgraff's text was reinvestigated wherein the imagi...

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Publicado en:Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 99; pp. 156 - 171
Autores principales: Bowman, A. K., Tomlin, R. S. O., Worp, K. A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2009
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Sumario:The article presents a study on the writings in the Frisian Ox Sale which is a wooden stilus tablet discovered in the Netherlands. It mentions that Dutch scholar C. W. Vollgraff was the first person to transcribe the said writings. It states that Vollgraff's text was reinvestigated wherein the imaging techniques developed at the Department of Engineering Science in Oxford were used to solve the consular date problem. It notes that the study could be a tool for researches on inscribed documents.