New Messapic Inscriptions: Being Supplement II to the Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy

Whatmough, Joshua

doi:10.1086/361937

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“…It was listed, but not illustrated, by Zangemeister (1885: xxiii no. 18 and xxvii), who saw it in Naples Museum and was convinced of its authenticity; but Whatmough (1933: 33), who knew of it from Zangemeister, was unable to find it in the museum in 1923. I am grateful to Dott.ssa Laura Forte, conservatore Sezione epigrafica , who has located it in the museum deposit, and supplied the photograph reproduced here (Fig.…”

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A Previously Unknown Siege of Botromagno/Silvium: The Evidence of Slingshots From Gravina in Puglia (Provincia Di Bari, Puglia)

Schinco¹,

Small²

2019

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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This article is in two parts. The first part, in Italian, by Giuseppe Schinco, is a study of the typology and technical characteristics of a group of 225 lead slingshots found rather more than twenty years ago by a private metal detectorist on the hill of Botromagno near Gravina in Puglia. The second part, in English, by Alastair Small, is a review of the archaeological evidence for a possible siege of the site within the time frame suggested by the typological study of the slingshots. Since the site, which can be identified with the ancient Silvium, can be shown to have been abandoned around the end of the first quarter of the first century BC within that time frame, we conclude that the siege most probably took place during the slave war of 73–70 BC associated with Spartacus.

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Section: The Historical Context Of the Lead Slingshots (Glandes) Frommentioning

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A Previously Unknown Siege of Botromagno/Silvium: The Evidence of Slingshots From Gravina in Puglia (Provincia Di Bari, Puglia)

Schinco¹,

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2019

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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New Messapic Inscriptions: Being Supplement II to the Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy

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A Previously Unknown Siege of Botromagno/Silvium: The Evidence of Slingshots From Gravina in Puglia (Provincia Di Bari, Puglia)

A Previously Unknown Siege of Botromagno/Silvium: The Evidence of Slingshots From Gravina in Puglia (Provincia Di Bari, Puglia)

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