This morning, I was reading through all the goodies that ILL has delivered electronically during the post-Passover flood of activity back in Brooklyn and was just dead impressed (again) by the types of connections Michael Crawford can make. This paragraph above is from a relatively hard to find conference volume:
M. H. Crawford, ‘The Oscan inscriptions of Messana’ in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Medlterraneo antico, VIII-III sec. a.C.; arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra (2006), 521-525, at p. 525.
The rest of the article will be of interest to numismatists for his comments about the choice to use Greek on the coinage being a reflection of coinage as a ‘Greek phenomenon’. He also has some good comments on the choice of types by the Marmertini.
I’d love to have a photo of the front of the altar in the passage quoted above. I’ve put the Rix on ILL order. In case you’re unfamiliar with the awesome Pompeii inscription here are my comments on it in print:
Here’s an old pic I took when writing that article:
The one point I’m a little fuzzy on is did anyone actually record seeing a Latin inscription on the plaster over the Oscan one in Pompeii? Or are we just assuming it must have had one? Also could some high tec imaging process allow us to see under the Mamertine stucco inscription to let us read what if anything it is covering up?
Liv Mariah Yarrow 