⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry F.Ghinatti, Sileno 23 (1997) 120-126, discusses the function of the many small terracotta disks found in Tarentum; they contain proper names, single letters, or letters in lig…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry See SEG 48 2149. Entry metadata SEG entry SEG 48 1300 Publication year 1998 Type epigraphical Inscription iSEG 48 1300 Theme n/a Inscription metadata Inscription ID iSEG 48 1300 Type Miscellaneous Date not_…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry LSAG² 283 no. 1 ( SEG 45 1478; Arena V 2; cf. SEG 48 1258). M.Nafissi, PP 53 (1998) 30-39, elaborates his argument summarized in SEG 45. He argues that the contest in ξαίνειν was won by Melosa in a symposias…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry SEG 34 1020/1021 (36 943; cf. 45 1475). L.Gasperini, MGR 21 (1997) [1998] 10-15 and Gerion 16 (1998) 155-159 (Spanish translation), collects the - mainly literary - evidence of the cult of …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Gnathia krater with representation of a naked woman dancing before a door and labelled ΚΟΝΝΑΚΙΣ. T.B.L. Webster, BICS 15 (1968) 5; L.Forti, La ceramica di Gnathia (Naples 1965) 113, Pl. 10(b); E.De J…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry SEG 42 956 in fine. F.Ferrandini Troisi, Epigraphica 59 (1997) 225-229 (ph.), argues that this tessera is a gaming counter belonging to a series of the type first recognized by M.Rostovtzev, RA 1 (1905) 11…

Selected Topics Tabai tabellae defixionum Tabellae defixionum tabema tabernacle table table cult table, cult table (for dining) table funerary table in sanctuary table, marble table, of the god table recording the lengths of shadow ta…

Geographical Names Tafas Talmis Tanagra Tarbâ Tarentum Tarğama Tarni fons Tartessus Tartous Tasibastenus Tatar Keui Tauromenium Tchakal Tepe Tchakyrsaz Tcheltidji Tchiflik Tebtunis Tegea Teimâ Tekir Ova Tell Abyad Tell Ebšan Tell …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Graffiti on two vase fragments found in the early 1970s in Piazza Garibaldi or Piazza Archita. Ed.pr. A.Viesti, ASP 61 (2008) 159-164 (ph.): 1) ΕΡΜ (bottom of a black glazed skyphos); 2) ΡΜΕ (black glazed s…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Model of a stone naiskos, probably originally with a statue of a deity in the entrance, with the inscription incised on a single line on the architrave; now in the Museo Arch…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry M.Silvestrini, in P.Desideri, M.Moggi, M.Pani (edd.), Antidoron. Studi in onore di Barbara Scardigli Forster (Pisa 2007) 394-406, presents five Latin epitaphs of members of the gens Nearchi/Nearchii ( C…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry F.G.Lo Porto, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Italia fasc. 70/Taranto fasc. 4 - Collezione Rotondo (Rome 1998), contains the following inscriptions on Attic black (below nos. 1-5) and …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Oval lead sling bullet; on one side an emblem (two hemispheres); on the other an inscription (sinistrorsum). Offered for examination by a private collector to ed.pr. L.Gasperini, Scritti -- (cf. SEG 58 18…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Audollent, DefixTab 155-170; SEG 50 1065; 53 1107. A.Mastrocinque, MHNH. Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas 5 (2005) 45-59, comments on the find circumsta…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Statuette of local grayish stone representing an seated ithyphallic deity (Bes); found during excavations in Taranto in the late 19th cent.; now in the Civici Musei di Storia…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ EntryM.Girone in M.Girone - F.Ghinatti (edd.), op.cit. (cf. SEG 51 1411) 147-152, collects and discusses the evidence for the cult of Asklepios and his sanctuary in Tarentum (cf. Julian, Gal. 200 B, p. 140). …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Corinthian aryballos (580-570 B.C.) decorated with two simplified figures of marching hoplites almost entirely covered by large round shields; inscription incised sinistrorsu…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry SEG 40 901. Republished by E.M.De Juliis, S.Cagnazzi, Ostraka 14 (2005) 25-34 (ph.), who now date this Chian amphora to the last quarter of the 4th cent. B.C. (early 3rd cent. B.C., SEG [E.M.De Juliis]). Inscr…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry Ed.pr. F.G.Loporto, NSA 13/14 (2002/2003) [2004] 483 no. 4 and 488 no. 5 (= below nos. 1 and 2, respectively; ph.; texts in majuscules), publishes two inscribed Attic black-gla…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ EntryA.C.Cassio in Taranto - - (cf. SEG 52 962), studies the Greek dialect of Tarentum, with frequent reference to inscriptions, inter alia SEG 19 620 (C. 454/455, on the names ⊦ιστιήιος and Σάττων); XXX 1220 ( IGR …