The study focuses instead on the inscribed texts themselves and their immediate religious and cultural context. The focus is on epigraphic visuality backed up by discourses on visuality itself, epigraphic habit and the concrete interaction of the onlooker with the inscription.

Sean Villareal Leatherbury. Inscribing faith in late antiquity: between reading and seeing. Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2020.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Michael Hahn, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts.