A re-interpretação de monumentos epigráficos em contextos secundários e as inscrições de Sintra (Portugal): o polissémico caso da grande tábula dos "Aelii" (CIL II 267) [Parte 2]

Abstract

In this second and final part of his study on the polysemy that was ascribed throughout the centuries to the great slate of the Aelii (CIL II 267), the author analyses and attempts to explain in detail and to culturally contextualize another legendary tradition, this one pertaining to the realm of popular belief and fantasy, built around the old stone slab —and its mysterious writing— by the rural pilgrims that, throughout time, travelled from the ends of the territories of Sintra and Mafra to the hermitage of São Miguel de Odrinhas. In the end, the author points out that our own current perspectives, both scientific and museologic, are themselves new and specific interpretations that, equally and obviously, change and add to the original semantic dimension of the investigated object.