Scrivere a mano nell'era digitale. Un nuovo esemplare di instrumentum inscriptum dalla via Appia

A new example of inscribed instrumentum in bronze, found during a survey along the via Appia in 2014, throws new light on the problem of the interpretation of the so-called tabellae immunitatis. It was intended to mark an object or a chariot belonging to Protus, a slave that used to work as secretary (a manu) of an imperial freedman called Doryphorus. The latter could probably be identified with the powerful a libellis of the emperor Nero, known, until now, only from literary sources.