ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at a select few only of the plethora of non-official inscriptions, the historical contexts in which the texts and drawings were inscribed, the location of the inscriptions and the ways in which they were presented. It identifies multiple expressions of male and female participation in the epigraphic environment of antiquity, its urban fabric and rural manifestations. Graffiti inscriptions show men and women engaging directly in cultural activities individually, inter-personally and communally. To demonstrate how the foregoing example provides an explicit reference to graffiti as a familiar element of the urban fabric and makes use of non-official mark-making as a literary trope, consider the following literary allusion to official epigraphy. In sum, socio-linguistic analysis of material and textual traces from the epigraphic record locates multiple sites of dialogue between male and female composers, inscribers and consumers of meaning, and the traditions, circumstances and conditions of the ancient Mediterranean world.
