page_title: South Picene language
section_title: Corpus
hierarchical_section_title: South Picene language / Corpus
caption_attribution_description: Iscrizioni picene - Stele di Mogliano Museo archeologico nazionale delle Marche &#160;&#160;Native nameMuseo archeologico nazionale delle MarcheLocationAncona, Marche, ItalyCoordinates43°&#160;37′&#160;23.39″&#160;N, 13°&#160;30′&#160;39.38″&#160;E &#160;Established1863&#160;Web pagewww.archeomarche.beniculturali.itAuthority control : Q3867709 VIAF:&#8201;130879044 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0001 2158 0954 LCCN:&#8201;nr97041772 SUDOC:&#8201;027703002 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q3867709 Italiano: Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche - MIBAC This is a photo of a monument which is part of cultural heritage of Italy. This monument participates in the contest Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2014. See authorisations. (wiki-ID: 042002516-MIBAC) Further authorizations required by the Italian "Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape" (Codice Urbani), under Legislative Decree No. 42, dated January 22, 2004, and its subsequent amendments, regarding the reuse of the picture.This image reproduces a property belonging to the Italian cultural heritage as entrusted to the Italian government. Such images are regulated by Articles 106 et seq. of the Italian Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape under Legislative Decree No. 42, dated January 22, 2004, and its subsequent amendments. These regulations, unrelated to copyright regulations, establish a system for the protection of Italy’s historic and artistic heritage and its standards of dignity. Among other things, these regulations provide for the payment of a concession fee by those who intend to benefit economically from reproductions of property belonging to the Italian cultural heritage. Reproduction of this image is permitted for personal use or study. A further authorization by the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Culture is required for reproduction for any other purpose, and particularly for commercial use. Such commercial use includes, but is not limited to, use in (a) any form of advertising, and (b) any company name, logo, trademark, image, activity, or product.
context_page_description: South Picene is an extinct Italic language belonging to the Sabellic subfamily. It is apparently unrelated to the North Picene language, which is not understood and therefore unclassified. South Picene texts were at first relatively inscrutable even though some words were clearly Indo-European. The discovery in 1983 that two of the apparently redundant punctuation marks were in reality simplified letters led to an incremental improvement in their understanding and a first translation in 1985. Difficulties remain.
context_section_description: The corpus of South Picene inscriptions consists of 23 inscriptions on stone or bronze dating from as early as the 6th century BC to as late as the 4th century BC. The dating is estimated according to the features of the letters and in some cases the archaeological context. As the known history of the Picentes does not begin until their subjugation by Rome in the 3rd century, the inscriptions open an earlier window onto their culture as far back as the late Roman Kingdom. Most are stelai or cippi of sandstone or limestone in whole or fragmentary condition sculpted for funerary contexts, but some are monumental statues.
  On a typical gravestone is the representation of the face or figure of the deceased with the inscription in a spiral around it or under it reading in a clockwise direction, or boustrophedon, or vertically. Stones have been found at Ascoli Piceno, Chieti, Teramo, Fano, Loro Piceno, Cures, the Abruzzi between the Tronto and the Aterno-Pescara, and Casteldieri and Crecchio south of the Aterno-Pescara. To them are added inscriptions on a bronze bracelet in central Abruzzi and two 4th-century BC helmets from Bologna in the Po Valley and Bari on the southeastern coast.
  A complete inventory is as follows:
  the Cippus of Castignano (6th-century BC sandstone pyramid)
  three stelai of Penna Sant'Andrea at Teramo (a whole and two fragmentary limestone obelisks of the 1st half of the 5th century BC)
  the cover of the Campovalano pyxis (7th to 6th centuries BC)
  spiral bracelet of Chietino in Valle del Pescara (5th century BC)
  the Cippus of Cures (limestone)
  the Stele of Loro Piceno (sandstone)
  the Stele of Mogliano (sandstone)
  the Stele of Acquaviva
  the Stele of Belmonte (jointed sandstone)
  the Cippus of Falerone
  the Stele of Servigliano (sandstone)
  a fragment of inscribed sandstone at Belmonte
  the Cippus of Sant'Omero (sandstone)
  two stelai of Bellante (sandstone)
  the Stele of Crecchio (sandstone)
  two cippi of Casteldieri (limestone, whole and fragmentary)
  the Statue of Capestrano (limestone, life-size representation of king Nevio Pompuledio, 2nd half of the 7th, 1st half of the 6th centuries BC)
  the Helmet of Bologna (bronze)
  the Helmet of Apulia
caption: Stele of Mogliano
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