NICHOLAS ZAIR is a Senior Lecturer in Classics (Classical Linguistics and Comparative Philology) at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Classics and Linguistics at Peterhouse. He recently held a ProFutura Scientia Fellowship at SCAS (Uppsala) and CRASSH (Cambridge). He is also the author of The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 2016), and co-editor of Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2020).

'… rewarding for epigraphists and linguists, and indeed for anyone interested in the development of Latin orthography and the Latin language, as well as those interested in sub-elite populations and their textual reflection in the Roman empire.' Brent Vine, Mawr Classical Review

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Old-fashioned Spellings: 2. for /aḙ/; 3. and for /i:/; 4. for /u/; 5. for /u:/; 6. Alternation of and ; 7. for /we/ before a coronal; 8. and for /wu/ and /uu/, and and for /kwu/; 9. Double letters to write long vowels; 10. for /g/; 11. for /jj/; 12. before /(a:)/ and before /u(:)/; 13. for /k/ before back vowels; 14. for /ks/; 15. Geminates and singletons; 16. spepondi; 17. popl- and pupl- for publ-; Part II. Apices and i-longa: 18. Introduction; 19. Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra inscriptions; 20. Apices in the Vindolanda tablets; 21. Apices in the tablets of the Sulpicii; 22. Apex use in teh Vindolanda and TPSupl. tablets in comparison; 23. Apices in the tablets from Herculaneium; 24. I-longa in the tablets of the Sulpicii and the tablets from Herculaneum; 25. Conclusions; Appendix.

NICHOLAS ZAIR is a Senior Lecturer in Classics (Classical Linguistics and Comparative Philology) at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Classics and Linguistics at Peterhouse. He recently held a ProFutura Scientia Fellowship at SCAS (Uppsala) and CRASSH (Cambridge). He is also the author of The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 2016), and co-editor of Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2020).

'… rewarding for epigraphists and linguists, and indeed for anyone interested in the development of Latin orthography and the Latin language, as well as those interested in sub-elite populations and their textual reflection in the Roman empire.' Brent Vine, Mawr Classical Review

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Old-fashioned Spellings: 2. for /aḙ/; 3. and for /i:/; 4. for /u/; 5. for /u:/; 6. Alternation of and ; 7. for /we/ before a coronal; 8. and for /wu/ and /uu/, and and for /kwu/; 9. Double letters to write long vowels; 10. for /g/; 11. for /jj/; 12. before /(a:)/ and before /u(:)/; 13. for /k/ before back vowels; 14. for /ks/; 15. Geminates and singletons; 16. spepondi; 17. popl- and pupl- for publ-; Part II. Apices and i-longa: 18. Introduction; 19. Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra inscriptions; 20. Apices in the Vindolanda tablets; 21. Apices in the tablets of the Sulpicii; 22. Apex use in teh Vindolanda and TPSupl. tablets in comparison; 23. Apices in the tablets from Herculaneium; 24. I-longa in the tablets of the Sulpicii and the tablets from Herculaneum; 25. Conclusions; Appendix.

NICHOLAS ZAIR is a Senior Lecturer in Classics (Classical Linguistics and Comparative Philology) at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Classics and Linguistics at Peterhouse. He recently held a ProFutura Scientia Fellowship at SCAS (Uppsala) and CRASSH (Cambridge). He is also the author of The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 2016), and co-editor of Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2020).

'… rewarding for epigraphists and linguists, and indeed for anyone interested in the development of Latin orthography and the Latin language, as well as those interested in sub-elite populations and their textual reflection in the Roman empire.' Brent Vine, Mawr Classical Review

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Old-fashioned Spellings: 2. for /aḙ/; 3. and for /i:/; 4. for /u/; 5. for /u:/; 6. Alternation of and ; 7. for /we/ before a coronal; 8. and for /wu/ and /uu/, and and for /kwu/; 9. Double letters to write long vowels; 10. for /g/; 11. for /jj/; 12. before /(a:)/ and before /u(:)/; 13. for /k/ before back vowels; 14. for /ks/; 15. Geminates and singletons; 16. spepondi; 17. popl- and pupl- for publ-; Part II. Apices and i-longa: 18. Introduction; 19. Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra inscriptions; 20. Apices in the Vindolanda tablets; 21. Apices in the tablets of the Sulpicii; 22. Apex use in teh Vindolanda and TPSupl. tablets in comparison; 23. Apices in the tablets from Herculaneium; 24. I-longa in the tablets of the Sulpicii and the tablets from Herculaneum; 25. Conclusions; Appendix.