Nuove indagini petrografiche e paleografiche sul ‘Mendolito di Adrano’: un caso esemplare di micro-mobilità interna

This paper aims to explore the endogenous mobility of Sicily by examining the circulation of epigraphic materials and practices across the island, drawing on the diverse strands of 2 scholarship that have emerged over the past three decades in the wake of the mobility turn. Recent research on Mediterranean micro-mobility and the renewed focus on the agency and roles of individual actors in the development of socio-economic networks open up new avenues for investigating interactions between communities and the exchange of know-how among them. Furthermore, the heuristic shift recently embraced by epigraphic studies—namely, the comprehensive and contextualized analysis of epigraphic documents—now allows for an unprecedented level of detail in the understanding of these testimonies. Operating at the intersection of these two research directions, our contribution presents new findings from petrographic, palaeographic, and historical-epigraphic analyses of the indigenous-language inscriptions on the block from the site of Mendolito di Adrano, conducted within the framework of the Crossreads project.