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1/15/2012

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Olivier Gengler

3/18/2013 07:42:30 am

01-12/2012 'Pierre Coste on Agesilaus and Diana'
A Colleague of mine sent me a link to this Puzzle, because of my interest for the inscription of Sparta in the travel literature.
I didn't knew the origin of the citation by Conte, but I found it.
It comes from Ellis Veryard, An account of divers choice remarks, as well as geographical, as historical, political, mathematical, physical, and moral taken in a journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy, and part of Spain with the isles of Sicily and Malta ... as also, a voyage to the Levant ..., London, 1701, p. 356-357.
Here it is: http://books.google.at/books?id=Y1IGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Benet Salway

11/7/2017 01:26:26 am

01-11/2017 "Punchy"
In the first two lines we would expect the identity of the dedicator (probably name in nominative and patronymic in genitive). I can't pretend to make much sense of it straightaway but the end of the fist line looks temptingly like ... TIANOC, which suits the Roman date for the statuette.

Marguerite Hirt

12/31/2021 11:07:13 am

Puzzle ID: 01-01/2012 'From vintage to mise en amphore?'

The two names might not be a reference to consuls, but to potters or owners of ceramic workshops. They appear on a number of pottery fragments in Italy, Narbonensis, Lugdunensis, even Germania Inferior (see e.g.: CIL XIII 10009, 134; CIL XIII 10009, 229a; CAG 56, p. 373; 75, p. 110; 83-03, p. 359, etc.). They are known as producers of Arretine ware, probably among other things.
They are mentioned in various articles about Roman ceramics, among them: G. Fülle in JRS 87, 1997, 142; M.T. Marabini Moers, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 32, 1973, 29, 62, 222n. 99.
The date seems to be Augustan-early Tiberian period.

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