Garigliano_bowl

Garigliano bowl

Garigliano bowl

Impasto bowl from c. 500 BCE

The Garigliano bowl is a small impasto bowl with bucchero glaze likely to have been produced around 500 BC, with an early Latin inscript written in a form of the western Greek or Etruscan alphabet.[1] It was found along the river Garigliano, between Lazio and Campania, in the vicinity of ancient Minturnae (now Minturno, Italy), in the ancient territory occupied by the Aurunci.[1]

A: AHUIDIES
B: NEI[- - -]PARIMEDESOMKOMMEOISSOKIOISTRIVOIADDEOMDUO

As for word division, NEI PARI MED ESOM KOM MEOIS SOKIOIS is clear; the rest is controversial. Brent Vine, however, offers the following interpretation:[2]

Archaic Latin text: NEI PARI MED ESOM KOM MEOIS SOKIOIS TRIFOS AUDEOM DUO[M]

Classical Latin version: nē pare (nōlī capere) mē! sum cum meīs sociīs tribus Audiōrum duōrum

English translation: Do not take me! I am with my three companions (property) of the two Audii

References

  1. [1]
    Cf. page 200, BALDI (2002)
  2. [2]
    Brent Vine, Remarks on the Archaic Latin ‘Garigliano bowl’ inscription, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 1998.

Sources

  • Baldi, Philip (2002). The Foundations of Latin.
  • Harvey, Paul B. (2000). "The inscribed bowl from the Garigliano (Minturnae): local diversity and Romanization in the 4th c. B.C." (PDF). Journal of Roman Archaeology. 13 (1): 164–174. doi:10.1017/S1047759400018833. S2CID 162217035. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • Vine, Brent (August 2002). "Some 'Trivial' remarks on the 'Garigliano bowl' inscription: A response to P. Harvey (JRA 13, 2000)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Vine, Brent (1998). "Remarks on the Archaic Latin "Garigliano Bowl" Inscription" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 121: 257–262. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2014.


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