Les lamelles de Styra. Nouvelle édition avec étude paléographique, dialectologique et onomastique. ERETRIA XXVII, Fouilles et recherches

In the mid-19th century, several hundred inscribed lead tablets were discovered in Styra, on the island of Euboea. Scattered across private collections, these tablets initially attracted scholarly interest for their palaeographic, dialectological, and onomastic features before gradually fading into obscurity. More recently, research has revisited these finds, interpreting them as identification tokens dating from the transitional period between the Archaic and Classical eras, particularly within the context of studies on the civic life of the Greek polis. However, previous editions were not without problems: partial examinations of a corpus with highly variable states of preservation, conducted using differing methods and objectives, led to the publication of inaccurate information and erroneous or highly speculative readings. The present volume offers a revised edition of all surviving groups, augmented by approximately 70 previously unpublished tablets. Based on first-hand examination of the surviving material and analysis of a range of modern documentary sources, it provides a detailed presentation of each tablet, whether extant or missing. This edition is further enhanced by chapters on the script, dialect, anthroponyms, and, for the first time, the abbreviations attested on these tablets. It thus provides a fresh perspective on the most substantial epigraphic corpus that southern Euboea has transmitted to us.