Inger Kuin, who completed her PhD at NYU in 2015, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Groningen University in the Netherlands, has just published an article in Classical Quarterly. This is a study of the phenomenon of opisthographic tombstones, and is based on the evidence of several such inscriptions, which belong to the antiquities collection in our department (an example of which is pictured -- the recto is above and the verso is below). Kuin's essential suggestion is that certain of these stones involve what has been called symbolic writing, i.e., writing which was not meant, in the normal course of events, to be seen or read, but which was nonetheless efficacious. For a preview of this article, click here.