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A FALISCAN BLACK-GLAZED ASKOS
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a rooster, standing on a pedestal base, naturalistically modeled, with a strap handle rising up from the back and joined to the back of the head, a fill-hole at the join, the spout below the beak; the waddle, beak, comb, the sclarae, and feet reserved, with some red pigment preserved on the waddle and comb, bands of zigzag and wave on the base, the underside with a Faliscan inscription, first incised then painted in black, in sinistroverse direction beginning at the rim and spiraling towards the center: oufilo : clipeaio : letei : fileo : met : facet (Oufilus Clipeaius son of Letus made me)
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high
Literature
R. Wallace, "A Faliscan Inscription in the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection," in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Band 153, 2005, pp. 175-182.
C. de Simone, "Falisco faced–Latino arcaico vhevhaked: la genuinità della fibula prenestina e problemi connessi," in ILing 20, 2006, pp. 159-175.
J.N. Adams, The Regional Diversification of Latin, 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge, 2007. p. 69, n. 139.
R. Giacomelli, “In Margine ad Alcuni Nuovi Testi Falischi,” in Le Lingue dell’Italia Antica Oltre Il Latino: Lasciamo Parlare I Testi, 2007, pp. 69ff.
G.C.L.M. Bakkum, The Latin Dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 Years of Scholarship, vol. 1, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 579, no. 470.
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