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Further reading:
General surveys of writing equipment and materials:
Božič and Feugère 2004; Bülow-Jacobsen 2009; Cribiore 2015; Garcia y
Garcia 2005

Regional corpora:
Alonso et al. 2014 (Hispania); Bilkei 1980 (Pannonia); Castoldi
2021 (Cremona); Drescher 1989 (Ostia Antica); Fünfschilling
2012 (Augusta Raurica); Hrnciarik 2006 (Slovakia); Maionica
1903 (Aquileia); Merten 1982 (Trier); Olesti Vila 2019 (Hispania,
northeast); Öllerer 1998 (Magdalensberg); Starac 2008 (Istria)

Depictions:
Merten 1983, 1987; Meyer 2009; Öllerer 2001; Pugliese Caratelli 1950

Useful online databases for small finds, including writing equipment:
finds.org.uk (Portable Antiquities Scheme, UK)
artefacts.mom.fr (Online collaborative Encyclopedia of Archaeological
Small Finds)
portable-antiquities.nl (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands)

Fig. 15: Codex Amiatinus, Ezra with writing equipment, around
700 CE. © Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Ms. Amatino
1, f. Vr. By permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività
Culturali e per il Turismo, further reproduction prohibited.