Registering Duenos
The inclusion of Duenos is one of the oldest known texts in Latin. She is represented by one hundred twenty-eight letters written to the tip around the outer sides of a trio of vases, also called kernos, rounded and connected together by a single strut of clay. Discovered by Heinrich Dressel in 1880 on Hill Quirinal at Rome , the kernos are preserved in the National Museums in Berlin (Catalogue No. 30894.3) and its inclusion was the subject of much research, but its meaning remains partially obscure. Its date, which is not accurately known, is probably between the seventh century and fourth century BC. AD.
Text
We give here three versions of the text. The first transcribed following letters appearing on the vase, the second between words and puts macron helping them understand the meaning, and the third a translation into classical Latin given by Vine. We notice a gap in the second pass, the more obscure.
IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED
ASTEDNOISIOPETOITESIAIPACARIVOIS
DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD
deivos qoi med Mitat, nei ted endo cosmas Virco suits
as (t) Ted noise o (p) petoit esii paca riuois
duenos med fced in manometer Einomies dueni do malo med (s) statd
Iurat deos mitti me, nor in te (= erga te) COMIS sit virgo
Did you Rivision paca (...)
Bonus / Bonus me fecit in (manomeinom) bono to me malus (tollito, clepito)
Bibliography
- Heinrich Dressel , "Di una antichissima Iscrizione latina graffiti sopra vaso votivo rinvenuto in Roma," Annali dell'Istituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica 52 (1880), p. 158-195. (L + s)
- Michel Breal , "Listing Duenos" Mixtures of Archaeology and History, vol2-2 (1882), p. 147-167 (read online)
- Emil Goldmann, Die-Duenos Inschrift, C. Winter, xiii, 176 p. II pl, 1926
- Arthur Gordon, "Notes on the Vase-Duenos Registration in Berlin," California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Vol. 8 (1975), p. 53-72 (read online)
- Brent Vine, "A Note on The Duenos Registration", UCLA Indo-European Studies, vol.1 (1999), p.293-306 (read online)
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