Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Epigraphy

Tuesday was our day to enjoy being at the AAR, learning the traditional way. After a morning of interesting lectures and a delicious lunch, we had a short lesson on epigraphy (= inscriptions). I am no expert on epigraphy, so learning common abbreviations was tremendously useful for me. Even more fun, though, was making rubbings.


To make a rubbing—and thus have a record—of an inscription, you affix tracing paper to the wall around the inscription. Then, you get a piece of carbon paper, press it to your tracing paper, and rub the back of the carbon paper with a cloth. If you work thoroughly, you can transfer a pretty readable version of your inscription to paper that you can take with you. (Mine might end up in my classroom next year!) It was a lot of fun to do something "hands on" that I've never gotten to do before. If I can figure out how, it might be fun to try a version of this with my students.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Sounds fun. Love you. - Mom.