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Le projet de recherche Police pour les Inscriptions Monétaires (PIM) a pour objectif la création d’outils adaptés pour retranscrire les informations contenues dans les inscriptions monétaires, au-delà de leur contenu sémantique. Les... more
La religiosità dei Sanniti. Cosmo Iannone, Isernia 2016 – preface by Dominique Briquel, This book presents a brief but detailed and updated overview of the main problems concerning the religiosity of the Samnites, and particularly of... more
Argumenta: In the small mountain villages and countryside of Southern Italy, there still lives a magical female tradition shrouded in mystery. These women are called Janare (singular Janara), and in popular folklore they are considered... more
Data computerisation is a strategic element for the study and valorisation of cultural heritage. The final goal of this project is to collect the Oscan inscriptions from Samnium and to store them in a digital archive, taking into account... more
The article examines the various bindin0g formulas contained in the Oscan curse repertory consisting of 13 texts written on lead, to emphasize analogies and differences among these spells and those witnessed by defixiones belonging to... more
Term paper for ARTH 565: City As A Work Of Art under the instruction of Dr. Nathaniel R. Walker, PHD, at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Fall 2017
This is a draft version of the published article
The article considers various aspects of the oscan cursing tablets, particularly it examines the binding formulae, the cursing typologies and the thematic classification of these texts, comparing them with cursing tablets pertaining to... more
The inscriptions of the Vestini, Marrucini, Paeligni, Sabini, Aequi, Marsi, Hernici and Volsci
Lexicon of the languages/dialects of the Vestini, Marrucini, Paeligni, Sabini, Aequi, Marsi, Hernici and Volsci
Declensions and conjugations of the languages/dialects of the Vestini, Marrucini, Paeligni, Sabini, Aequi, Marsi, Hernici and Volsci
In this paper, I provide a new way to read the “Sabine” gloss in Varro LL 5.97 substantiated by philological and linguistic arguments. While Varro explains Lat. porcus ‘pig’ as a loan word either from “Sabine” (apruno porco) or Greek... more
Zusammenfassung: Die erste Etymologie des Ortsnamens ‚Casīnum‘ (heute: ‚Cassino‘, Latium), die uns bekannt ist, stammt von Varro (116-27 v. Chr.). In ‚De lingua latina‘ (7,29) erwähnt er im Kontext lateinischer und sabellischer Wörter für... more
Lexicon of the Oscan inscriptions from Messina
The Saussure’s Effect represents the loss of the laryngeal in the environments *#HRo and *-oRHC, primarily seen in Greek as described by Beekes (1969) . Nussbaum (1997) argued for the presence of the Saussure’s Effect in Italic, counting... more
Der Eindruck, den das vorliegende Buch auf Rez. macht, ist durchweg positiv und wird durch die oben angeführten Kritikpunkte nicht geschmälert. Es handelt sich bei Z.s Studie zu diesem besonderen Teil des Oskischen um ein methodisch sehr... more
Book review of
Francesca Murano," Le" tabellae defixionum" osche". Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione, 8, Pisa-Roma, Ed. Fabrizio Serra, 2013, 259 pp.
Francesca Murano," Le" tabellae defixionum" osche". Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione, 8, Pisa-Roma, Ed. Fabrizio Serra, 2013, 259 pp.