Due laminette d'oro con iscrizione greca da Falerii Veteres: la firma di un artigiano su una corona aurea?
Conference Paper
Publication Date:
2015
abstract:
At the beginning of 1894 L. Pollak saw on the Roman antiquities market two little thin gold plates found in
Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana, near Viterbo, in the Ager Faliscus) bearing Greek inscriptions
engraved. He published, fortunately, a sketch of the two inscribed gold plates. The first gold plate bears on one
side the inscription "kalos epoiese" and on the other the letters "sa". The second gold plate bears only on one
side the inscription "ho pai ". According to Pollak, the gold plates, dated to the first half of the fifth century BC,
might be relevant to a gold crown. The first inscription could be the signature of a Greek skilled craftsman in
gold processing.
Iris type:
04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Keywords:
iscrizione; Grecia; laminette d'oro; orefice; Agro Falisco; Falerii Veteres
List of contributors:
Ambrosini, Laura
Book title:
XVIII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUEOLOGÍA CLÁSICA. Centro y periferia en el Mundo Clásico / Centre and periphery in the ancient world.