INTRODUCTION, ALICE MANDELL AND EMILY COLE

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS

JACOB LAUINGER
Discourse and Meta-discourse in the
Statue of Idrimi and Its Inscription

ALICE MANDELL
When Form is Function: A Reassessment of the
Marziḥu Contract (KTU 3.9) As a Scribal Exercise

JEREMY D. SMOAK
Holy Bowls: Inscribing Holiness in Ancient Israel and Judah

JODY WASHBURN
The Family Tomb As an Inscribed Artifact:
Toward an Integrative Analysis of the Beit Lei Inscriptions

M. WILLIS MONROE
Looking through the Cracks: Tracing Damage in Textual History

RITA LUCARELLI
The Materiality of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead 

FOY SCALF
The Pragmatics of Interment: How the Placement of
Funerary Papyri Embodied the Divine in Ancient Egypt

EMILIA MATAIX FERRÁNDIZ
Rethinking the Roman Epigraphy of Merchandise:
A Metapragmatic Approach

CATHERINE E. BONESHO
The Aesthetic of Empire: Material Presentation of
Palmyrene Aramaic and Latin Bilingual Inscriptions

ELIZABETH WUESTE
Managing Multiple Conversations:
The Multiveiled Communication of Late Antique
Honorific Monuments and Epigraphy

PLATE FOR LAURINGER’S “DISCOURSE AND META-DISCOURSE”

PLATES FOR MANDELL’S “MARZIḤU CONTRACT”

PLATES FOR SMOAK’S “HOLY BOWLS”

PLATE FOR WASHBURN’S “THE FAMILY TOMB”

PLATE FOR MONROE’S “LOOKING THROUGH THE CRACKS”

PLATES FOR LUCARELLI’S “BOOK OF THE DEAD”

PLATES FOR SCALF’S “THE PRAGMATICS OF INTERMENT”

PLATES FOR MATAIX FERRÁNDIZ’S “RETHINKING
THE ROMAN EPIGRAPHY”

PLATES FOR BONESHO’S “THE AESTHETIC OF EMPIRE”

PLATES FOR WUESTE’S “MANAGING MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS”