Editorial

This inaugural issue of EGI – Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography marks the beginning of a journal dedicated to the study of writing, marking, and visual inscription across time, media, and cultural contexts. The journal emerges from a shared concern with how signs are produced, experienced, and interpreted in relation to space, materiality, and social practice. As a first issue, it sets out both the intellectual scope of the journal and its commitment to interdisciplinary dialogue between epigraphy, graffiti studies, art history, archaeology, visual culture, and writing theory. The issue is inspired by the panel “Graffiti, heritage and context: the act and significance of writing”, organized by Professor Philippa Steele (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge) within the Urban Creativity Conference.