The Veneti

Lomas, Kathryn

doi:10.1515/9781614513001-034

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“…So far, only a single extended Venetic text is available, a supposedly public document called 'Este's Table '. It contains an inscription on a bronze plate found at Este, one of the major Venetic urban settlements, which adopts alphabetical variants characteristic of the antagonist city of Padua (Lomas 2017). The text is written in scriptio continua, with breaks among paragraphs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cultural Contacts among Pre-Roman Peoples in Iron Age Italy: The Case of Venetic Inscriptions

Vicari,

Perono Cacciafoco

2024

Histories

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The spread of the alphabet in Italy occurred between the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, resulting in the appearance of texts written in so many different languages and in such limited territorial space that one can hardly observe another similar event (Venetic, Raetic, Etruscan, Picenian, Faliscan, Latin, Umbrian, Oscan, Greek, etc.). In this paper, we analyzed inscriptions produced by the Veneti, the ancient inhabitants of a region located between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps, which has provided mainly short sepulchral and votive texts. After a careful analysis, some so far poorly understood texts revealed the development of symbols to represent numbers and the measurement of time. These features are connected with the experience of the Etruscans and show characteristics shared with neighboring Celtic populations. The inscriptions also highlight a focus on the supernatural and the underworld. Cultural influences from the east, especially from Egypt, which represent a prominent moment in the evolution of Greece in the 7th century BC, have left traces in figurative culture and, quite unexpectedly, even in language. Rigorous transliterations and original interpretations of the analyzed inscriptions support the proposed results.

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Section: Literature Review and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%