Month: March 2016
In his analysis of the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora, Paolo Poccetti (see Maria Letizia Lazzarini-Paolo Poccetti, Il mondo enotrio tra VI e V secolo a. C. Atti dei seminari napoletani …
The Oscan verb form aflukad occurs twice in the text of the Defixio Vetter 6 (also known as “The Curse of Vibia”) and is the third person singular of …
Sabellian or Osco-Umbrian is one of the two subgroups into which the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family is divided, the other being Latino-Faliscan. Despite their many similarities …
The use of one verb (αματες/amatens) with the same value in the inscriptions I have already mentioned (see my posts Oenotrian amates. Part one / Oenotrian amates. Part two) and …
Because of its antiquity, αματες is in itself a strong argument for classifying it together with historically attested –t– (e.g. Paelignian coisatens, Marrucinian amatens, Volscian sistiatiens) and –tt– perfects (e.g. …
In my major degree dissertation, I dealt with the reconstruction of the Palaeo-Italic inscription from Tortora, one of longest Pre-Samnitic texts. Since Pre-Samnite is a vague category, covering virtually …
