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The Tita Vendia vase is a ceramic impasto pithos〔Baccum, p. 583.〕 (wine container〔Baldi, p. 126.〕), crafted around 620-600 BC,〔Baldi, p. 126. Blanck, p. 24, dates it 640-630 B.C.E.〕 most likely in Rome.〔Baldi, p. 126: "It is probably from Rome, ca. 620-600 B.C.E.".〕 The pithos, which exists only as an incomplete set of sherds,〔See photograph in Blanck, p. 24.〕 carries one of two earliest known inscriptions in Latin language (the ''Vendia inscription'')〔 and is usually, but not unanimously, interpreted as the earliest instance of a bipartite female Latin name with praenomen and gentilicum.〔 The sherds of the vase were found by Raniero Mengarelli and deposited in the collection of Museo di Villa Giulia.〔 The exact location of the find is unknown but it probably occurred in Cerveteri〔 (ancient Caere).〔Caerean origin is taken for granted, for example, by Vogt-Spira, p. 38.〕 The vase belongs to a type found in Southern Etruria,.〔 In its original form, based on the collection of sherds found, it was likely to have been approximately 35 centimeters tall and 45 centimeters wide.〔 The letters, 15 to 25 millimeters tall, had been scratched near the bottom.〔 They were inscribed by a right handed artisan, using reversed letter ''S'' (Ƨ), and with letters ''VH'' instead of normal ''F'' (''vhecet'' instead if ''fecit''; according to Baccum, this rules out Faliscan origin of the vase).〔 The inscription reads: ECOVRNATITAVENDIASMAMAR EDVHE〔 The lacuna between ''MAMAR'' and ''EDVHE'' is ten to twelve letters wide.〔 Only part of it has been reliably filled by interpreters. The missing part probably contained the name of the second potter; the first potter is unanimously identified as ''Mamarcos'' or ''Mamarce''.〔Baccum, p. 584.〕 With the lacuna partially filled the inscription is expanded into: ECO VRNA TITA VENDIAS MAMAR(M )ED VHE()〔 The most common English interpretation of this text is: I am the urn of Tita Vendia. Mamar(had me made ).〔〔Clarkson and Horrocks, p. 29.〕 In this interpretation, archaic ''eco'' is used where we would expect normative Latin ''ego'', since Latin had not yet developed a separate symbol for the voiced velar (); the personal name ''Vendias'' uses archaic genitive declension (as in ''paterfamilias'') which is omitted in ''Tita'', most likely due to a writing error.〔 There are also alternative interpretations: * that ''vrna'' connects to ''tita'' as ''vrna tvta'', i.e. "this whole urn".〔 * that ''tita'' should be interpreted as an adjective, meaning ''prosperous''.〔 * that ''vrna tita'' is a piggy bank.〔〔Watkins, p. 129.〕 * that ''tita'' is a teat that feeds Vendia wine.〔 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tita Vendia vase」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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