I promised to write something on the social war coinage within the next 12 months. I’m not engaged in the work now but wanted to keep this reference handy and have a place for similar future notes.
There is one chapter on coins but the whole is very relevant:
Pittia, Sylvie, et Loredana Cappelletti, éd. L’Italie entre déchirement et réconciliation : la guerre sociale (91-88 avant notre ère) et ses lendemains. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024. doi:10.4000/139nk.
If you want to see all the social war coinage, your best bet is IRIS populated with the BnF specimens and with Rutter’s citations for the few they don’t have.
More to come. Back to my lit survey for the article I’m working on.
Next Day.
A colleague sent this note:
“Apropos Italia:, see the latest thinking by Crawford in ImIt I, 2011, pp. 67-74”
So I re read it. Most know but the standard work is.
I would sorely love a physical copy of this for my library but that is a pipe dream. I went looking for a copy of Crawford’s Roman Statutes yesterday and struck out for anything less than 2-3k. By heavens, Crawford is really the mind of last 100 years.
My other stray thoughts after a quick skim are that the Oscan legend uses something very like the apex, a diacritic mark I discussed fairly recently in Latin. And it has vowel reduplication for long vowels (cf. earlier post with classic example). The orthography, or writing culture, of the Italians was clearly part of the same cultural world as that of literate Latin. No surprise but exciting nonetheless to observe.
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