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 …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry SEG 34 1020. J.-Y. Strasser, Nikephoros 14 (2001) 153/154, accepts L.Gasperini’s view that the statue dedicated to θεὸς Τάρας is that of the god himself and not of Apollo (so SEG). There may be a link bet…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry H.Tréziny, in Alessandro il Molosso (cf. SEG 54 953) 614-617 (dr.), reflects on the date of the mason marks on blocks of the walls of the Masseria del Carmine (city wall): ca. 450 B.C. (F.G. Lo Porto, in Taranto …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry L.Todisco, RAL 19 (2008) [2009] 383-406 (ph.), draws attention to numerous sherds belonging to Panathenaic or pseudo-Panathenaic prize amphoras found in the Aphrodite sanctuar…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry A.Viesti, ‘Spazi cultuali a Taranto tra VII e III sec. a. C.: alcune osservazioni’, ASP 60 (2007) 7-30, presents a useful survey of cults in Tarentum and its area, with some attention to t…

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry In an article on the Tarentine collection in the Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte in Trieste, N.Poli, Taras 21 (2001) [2006] 79-94, on 89 (majuscule text) mentions a manufacturer’s signature on …

⇐ Previous Browse ⇑ Next ⇒ Entry SEG 34 1022. Republished by J.-Y.Strasser, Nikephoros 14 (2001) 140-146 (no new readings), who argues that Serenos was citizen of Alexandria, Elis and Sparta, bouleutes in Delphi and secretary of the ξυστό…