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The Iovilae-Dedications from S. Maria di Capua

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. Whatmough
Affiliation:
University College, Bangor

Extract

A Famous group of heraldic dedications, with inscriptions in the Oscan dialect, the iovilae-inscriptions as, in the uncertainty that prevails as to their real character, scholars have generally been content to call them (from the recurrence of the word d i u v i l a- or [in a later form] i ῧ v i l a-, presumed to be the name of the object dedicated, in all or nearly all of the dedicatory inscriptions), have long been a standing puzzle to students of the Italic dialects. A visit made in the spring of 1922 to the Museo Nazionale at Naples, where a number of the iovilae are now preserved, provided an opportunity of reconsidering, with the actual objects before me, a new explanation of these most interesting dedications which I now venture to publish.

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Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1922

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