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Messapian Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

J. P. Droop
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In November and December 1906 I travelled in the south of Italy in order to examine Messapian inscriptions. These inscriptions, believed by Mommsen to belong to the first and second centuries B.C., have been rather neglected of late, but rumours of forgeries, accepted and published with too little criticism, made some investigation desirable. Ten years ago Sig. Bartolomeo Nogara ascertained the number of these inscriptions then known to exist, but without, I think, any detailed criticism of them. I followed in his footsteps, and my enquiries, which were directed to everyone likely to be interested in such matters, covered the whole ground, so that I believe that I saw all still extant. Of course other inscriptions, of which nothing has yet been heard, may have been found lately in country places, but my time, unfortunately, was too limited to allow of my searching through every village in that crowded district, though I was fortunate enough to light on some as yet unpublished, and not widely known.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 12 , November 1906 , pp. 137 - 150
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1906

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page 137 note 1 Cf. Rühl, F., Bezzenbergers Beiträger, vol. 14, p. 307Google Scholar; Viola, , Notizie degli Scavi, 1884, p. 128.Google Scholar

page 137 note 2 Nogara, , Annuario della r. Accademia Scientifico-Letteraria di Milano, 1895–1896.Google Scholar

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page 139 note 1 (1) F. 2981, (2) Notizie degli Scavi, 1881, p. 249.

page 140 note 1 One such with the same inscription as (a), (c), and (j), I saw in the possession of Sig. Carissimo at Oria.

page 140 note 2 (1), (2), V. Giornale degli Scavi di Pompei, 1878, vol. 4, p. 70; (3), (4), (5), V. Notizie degli Scavi, 1884, p. 128, § xxv. a, b, c.

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page 141 note 2 V. Notizie degli Scavi, 1884, p. 117.

page 141 note 3 F.P. 560, F.P. 535, F.P. 541, F.P. 555, F.P. 542, F.T. 461, F.T. 447; V. Notizie aegli Scavi, 1884, § xxix. O and p.

page 142 note 1 Cf. Nogara, op. cit. The two vases published by Lenormant, , Gazette Archéologique, 1881–1882,. p. 104Google Scholar, I did not see.

page 143 note 1 F.T. 466, 442, 443, 464, 476, 477, 481; V. Notizie degli Scavi, 1884, § xxv. (d) and (e) {(e) = F.2974bis}; F. 2990–2 (a better copy is given by Castromediano and Maggiulli, Le iscrizioni Messapiche raccolte, 5a).

page 145 note 1 De Giorgi, Nuove Scoperte in Vereto, in Valesio, and in Terenziano (Della Rivista Storica Salentina Anno III. N.I.).

page 146 note 1 V. Notizie degli Scavi, 1884, § xxviii, n.

page 149 note * Forged.