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A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda (2023)
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Meyer, A., Mullen, A., & Vanhala, J. (2023). A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda. Britannia, 54, 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X2300020X

The Secundinus stone, with its combination of carved phallus and text, was found in 2022 in excavations within the stone fort at Vindolanda. We consider comparanda for the imagery from Vindolanda, Britannia and further afield, and textual parallels p... Read More about A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda.

Voices of Roman Britain (2022)
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MULLEN, A. (2022). Voices of Roman Britain. Omnibus (London), 83, 30-32

Roman Britain is often seen as a backwater. It offers us few standing remains to rival the likes of the Colosseum or the Pont standing remains to rival the likes of the Colosseum or the Pont du Gard; few of its protagonists get big billing in Roman h... Read More about Voices of Roman Britain.

Gaulish language and epigraphic culture (2020)
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Mullen, A., & Ruiz Darasse, C. (2020). Gaulish language and epigraphic culture. Palaeohispanica, 20, 749-783. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i20.383

Gaulish is a language in the Celtic language family, documented in Gaul (France and surrounding territories) from around the 2nd century BC and through the Roman period. It is transmitted primarily in Greek (Gallo-Greek) and Latin (Gallo-Latin) scrip... Read More about Gaulish language and epigraphic culture.

Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent (2019)
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Wallace, L., & Mullen, A. (2019). Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent. Britannia, 50, 75-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000308

The Canterbury Hinterland Project (CHP) has combined aerial photographic and LiDAR analysis, synthesis of HER and other data across east Kent with targeted survey south and east of Canterbury. We present possible hillforts, temples, large enclosures,... Read More about Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent.

More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent (2019)
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Mullen, A., & Tomlin, R. (2019). More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent. Britannia, 50, 367-374. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000084

A four-line inscription in Old Roman Cursive on a pot base found in excavations in East Farleigh, Kent, in 2010 appears to be written (at least in part) in metre and has close textual similarities with examples from Binchester, County Durham. We desc... Read More about More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent.

Was Latin epigraphy a killer? (2019)
Journal Article
MULLEN, A. (2019). Was Latin epigraphy a killer?. Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Newsletter, 23, 2-5

Roman London’s First Voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, by Roger S.O. Tomlin, 2016. London: Museum of London Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-907586-40-8 hardback £32; xv+309 pp., 144 b/w and colour illus. (2017)
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Mullen, A. (in press). Roman London’s First Voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, by Roger S.O. Tomlin, 2016. London: Museum of London Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-907586-40-8 hardback £32; xv+309 pp., 144 b/w and colour illus. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774317000464

‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature (2015)
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Mullen, A. (2015). ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature. Language and Literature, 24(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947015585244

After a short introduction to code-switching and Classics, this article offers an overview of the phenomenon of code-switching in Roman literature with some comments on possible generic restrictions, followed by a survey of Roman attitudes to the pra... Read More about ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature.

Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world (2015)
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Mullen, A. (2015). Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0197

Roman authors referred to Latin and Greek as utraque lingua (both our languages), and the study of Classics has traditionally entailed an appreciation of the entanglement and complex relations between Latin and Greek language and literature. However,... Read More about Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world.

Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes (2015)
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Pavlenko, A., & Mullen, A. (2015). Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes. Linguistic Landscape, 1(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.1.1-2.07pav

It is commonly argued that the proliferation of urban writing known as linguistic landscapes represents “a thoroughly contemporary global trend” (Coupland, 2010: 78). The purpose of this paper is to show that linguistic landscapes are by no means mod... Read More about Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes.