![Assisi
Cippus (2nd century BC)
This is a cast of an inscription that was found in 1742 at Ospedalicchio, near Bastia (12 km west of Assisi). The inscription, which is in the Umbrian language and uses the Latin alphabet, records the demarcation of a piece of land, and is dated with reference to the serving magistrates of Assisi:
AGER EMPS ET
TERMNAS OHT[RETIE]
C V VISTINE NER T BABR[IE]
MARONATEI
VOIS NER PROPARTIE
T V VOISNIER
SACRE STAHU
The inscription refers to a field (ager) that has been bought and delimited (emps et termnas) during the period of office of:
the two men who held the post of uhter in the year in question:
C(aius) Vestinius, son of V(ibius) and
Ner(o) Babrius, son of T(itus); and
the two men who held the post of marone:
Vois(ienus) Propartius, son of Ner(o); and
T(itus) Voisienus, son of V(ibius).
The final words “sacre stahu” probably imply that the field had religious significance: it is suggestive that the flour used in the annual ritual described in Table Vb of the Iguvine Tables came from the Ager Tltius and the Ager Casilus of Picus Martius.
There is a cast of this inscription in the Museo Civico, Assisi (Exhibit 2) and it is also described in the page on Umbrian Inscriptions after 295BC.
Cascia
Antefixes (1st century BC)
These terracotta antefixes came from one of the three temples recently excavated at Villa San Silvestro.
Massa Martana
Bust of a woman (ca. 140 AD)
This marble bust was discovered in 1928. It is probably a copy of a bust of Annia Galeria Faustina (died ca. 140 AD), better known as Faustina the Elder, who was the wife of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. The latter bust is in the Musei Capitolini, Rome.
Orvieto
Bust of a man (3rd century AD)
This marble bust was found during the excavation at Campo della Fiera in 2007.
Terni
Votive offerings (3rd century BC – 1st century AD)
The terracotta objects illustrated are among a number that were discovered in 2004 in a deposit near the amphitheatre of Terni. They include:
an anatomically accurate votive offering that relates to the lower part of a female body;
a bronze belt inscribed with a scene from a boar hunt;
a votive figure of a woman; and
a votive bust of a woman.
The museum also displays interesting photographs of the context in which some of these objects were found.
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