Ancient legends of Roman history . EXCAVATIONS IN THE FORUM 23 acter of many of its letters, and even in its external form,recalls the one lately discovered at Rome. But there is still more. An examination of the Italiandialectic inscriptions teaches us that archaic letters, thethree diacritic points and the boustrophedon order are pre-cisely the characteristics of the great majority of the in-scriptions of Picenum, of the Marrucini, of the Paeligniand of the Marsi. Such inscriptions are not, as a whole,earlier than the fourth century. And, surely, at least aslate as the third century we find
Ancient legends of Roman history . EXCAVATIONS IN THE FORUM 23 acter of many of its letters, and even in its external form,recalls the one lately discovered at Rome. But there is still more. An examination of the Italiandialectic inscriptions teaches us that archaic letters, thethree diacritic points and the boustrophedon order are pre-cisely the characteristics of the great majority of the in-scriptions of Picenum, of the Marrucini, of the Paeligniand of the Marsi. Such inscriptions are not, as a whole,earlier than the fourth century. And, surely, at least aslate as the third century we find Venetian inscriptions withvery archaic letters similar to those of our inscription, andwith the boustrophedon direction of the The historic, and not epigraphic, character of this studydoes not permit me to proceed to a minute palaeographicalexamination of the inscription. I confine myself, there-fore, to inviting the readers to make for themselves, as Ihave done, a careful comparison of the stele with Oscan,Etruscan and
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