Practice question · Select all that apply
What makes inscriptions structurally valuable as evidence?
Hints
- No copyist stood between the cutter and you.
- Official does not mean truthful, it means someone could afford it.
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- B. Being public, their claims had to be plausible to contemporaries
- C. They stand where they were meant to stand
- D. No copyists intervened, you read what was cut
Why
Uncopied, located, and publicly constrained. But officialdom is not truthfulness, a monument says what someone could afford to have said permanently, which is a different thing entirely.
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