Imaging incised documents.

Wooden stilus tablets and lead curse tablets from the Roman empire are among the most difficult ancient documents to decipher: the former because they often preserve traces of incised writing from more than one text on a surface characterised by wood-grain and casual damage; the latter because the s...

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Publicado en:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 169 - 177
Autores principales: Bowman, AK, Brady, JM, Tomlin, RSO
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA 1997
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        affil: Christchurch, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Corresponding author address: Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP, UK
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        Wooden tablets
        Preservation of manuscripts
        Technology & society
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