Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The inscription discussed in this note is not yet entered into the corpus of Etruscan inscriptions. It was painted on a Chiusine terracotta cinerary urn of the Hellenistic period, now in the collections of the British Museum (inv. no. 1856,1226.542). The epitaph was published in the Museum’s 1903 catalogue, but with a long lacuna in the middle. Our reading replaces the lacuna with the deceased’s family name, peśumśnei, which permits us to connect the epitaph on the cinerary urn to the peśumśne epitaph recorded on a Chiusine terracotta tile once used to seal a burial niche. We conclude by discussing the reasons for the differences in the spelling of the final syllable of the names, peśumśnei and peśumśne, on the urn and the tile. Keywords: British Museum ; cinerary urn ; Chiusi, epigraphy ; Hellenistic ; inscription Abbreviations CIE Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum ET Etruskische Texte Bibliography Benelli, E. 2010. “Inscriptions on Tiles from Chiusi: Archaeological and Epigraphical Notes.” EtrStud 13: 123–30. 10.1515/etst.2010.13.1.123 Search in Google Scholar Maggiani, A. 1990. “Alfabeti etruschi di età hellenistica.” AnnMuseoFaina IV: 177–217. Search in Google Scholar Pauli, C., and O.A. Danielsson, eds. 1893. Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum I, 1: Tituli 1–4917 . Leipzig: Barth. Search in Google Scholar Rix, H. 2000. “ La scrittura e la lingua .” In Gli Etruschi: una nuova immagine , 2 nd ed., edited by M. Cristofani, 210–34. Florence: Giunto Martelli. Search in Google Scholar Rix, H. et al. 1991. Etruskische Texte. Editio minor, Bd. I. Einleitung, Konkordanz, Indices. II, Texte. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. Search in Google Scholar Walters, H. B. 1903. Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum. London: British Museum. Search in Google Scholar Published Online: 2014-5-7 Published in Print: 2014-5-31 © 2014 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Source: Etruscan and Italic Studies
Authors: Theresa Huntsman, Rex Wallace
Institutions: Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4234887965