- Luciano Agostiniani –
the late third–early second century bc, which registers a transaction that relates to land
(presumably, the subdivision of a latifundium, for which historical and archaeological
parallels are not lacking in this period). Almost half of the words are personal names. The
lexical units are 60, some appearing more than once; the total occurrences of lexical units
are 90. Let’s cite the beginning of the text (Fig. 22.4):
(3) et pêtruś scêvêś êliun-tś vina-c restm-c cenu
thus by Petru Scevas the eliun the vineyard and the restm (were) Xed,
[“thus, the vineyard and the restm (were) Xed by Petru Scevas, the eliun”]
Another legal document is the so-called “Cippus of Perugia,” (Fig. 22.5) a rectangular
travertine stone cippus (block-like marker), found near Perugia. The inscription, dated
between the third and second century bc, runs in 24 lines on the front and continues on
Figure 22.4 Detail of the Tabula Cortonensis, late third-second century bc
(Cortona, Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona).Figure 22.5 Cippus of Perugia, early second century bc
(Perugia, Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell’Umbria).