Rex Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rex Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rex |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Sacred and the Mundane
The most recent studies of Etruscan dice have focused on those recovered from Etruscan settlements of Tarquinia, Volsinii (Orvieto), and Clusium. The studies of these dice make special note of the fact that the corpus of dice under consideration was recovered from funerary contexts. Information regarding each of the dice includes the material (ivory and bone) out of which they were carved, the forms and common configurations of the numerical sign…
Dominique Briquel
Alphabetic Sigla on Stone Beads from Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Two stone beads carved in the form of spindle whorls were recovered from the site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo). The beads are particularly noteworthy because they were incised with alphabetic sigla or, in the case of stone bead (PC 19870049), possibly a sequence of syllables with Consonant-Vowel structure. We examine the findspots of the beads and discuss the paleography of the letterforms. We conclude by considering the possible functions of the i…
Numeri-form Sigla at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Symbols incised and drawn on artifacts recovered from Poggio Civitate (Murlo) have intrigued scholars since the earliest days of its excavation. Dozens of different types of symbols, some alphabetic and others non-alphabetic, were placed on roofing tiles, ceramics, and in rare cases, weaving implements. A subset of these symbols, all incised on locally produced ceramic objects, resembles the forms of numerals found on Etruscan inscriptions and so…
Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Excavation during the 2024 season revealed new evidence related to industrial activities at Poggio Civitate as well as traces of habitation and related activities located to the east of Piano del Tesoro
Jorma Kaimio
Article Jorma Kaimio: The Funerary Inscriptions of Hellenistic Perusia (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 50) was published on November 1, 2024 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 27, issue 1-2)
An Etruscan Inscription Rediscovered
In 1886, a terracotta tile inscribed with an Etruscan inscription was recovered from Tomb 11 in the first cemetery of S. Antonio, located in the environs of Corchiano, an important settlement in the Ager Faliscus. Soon after the tile’s discovery, it disappeared from the scholarly record and was assumed to have been lost. A collector for the Field Museum purchased the tile and other artifacts from an antiquities dealer in Rome and shipped them to …
An Ivory Writing Tablet from Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Four non-joining fragments of an ivory object were recovered in the vicinity of Poggio Civitate’s OC2/Workshop, an industrial structure associated with the community’s intermediate phase of development (c. 650–600 BCE). The ivory fragments preserve elements of a similar decorative design—an incised guilloche pattern—indicating that they were constituents of the same object. One fragment (PC20080011) preserves a corner of the object. Inside the de…
Early Latin
A “Spurinas Group” Bowl in the Getty Collection
A terracotta bowl in the collection of antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum is the latest entry to an assemblage of Etruscan ceramics known as the “Spurinas Group.” The interior of the bowl was painted with the name calprnies , the earliest known reference to a family whose Roman branch includes several distinguished members. The paper reports on the dipinto’s paleography, the morphology, and derivational history of the Etruscan name calprnies…
Antonio Varone
Article Antonio Varone: Iscrizioni parietali di Stabiae (Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei 39) was published on December 1, 2022 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 25, issue 1-2)
Lucilius and Satire in Second-Century BC Rome
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Etruskische Texte. Editio minor
The Latin Alphabet and Orthography
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Arrival of the Alphabet in Italy Etruscan Origins Date of Borrowing and Other Considerations Innovations and Changes Old Latin Orthography Letterforms Direction of Writing and Punctuation Abbreviations Letter Names Diffusion of the Latin Alphabet Further Reading
Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (review)
Reviewed by: Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages Rex Wallace Michiel de Vaan. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. 825. $341. ISBN 978-90-04-16797-1. The Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (EDL) is the seventh volume in the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series. This series publishes the etymological research of a L…
Etruscan Inscriptions on Ivory Objects Recovered from the Orientalizing Period Residence at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Article Etruscan Inscriptions on Ivory Objects Recovered from the Orientalizing Period Residence at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) was published on June 1, 2008 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 11, issue 1)
Muluvanice Inscriptions at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo) have uncovered a seventh-century B.C.E. building complex. Two of the buildings in the complex are securely identified: one is an aristocratic residence (OC1/Residence) and the other a multifunctional workshop (OC2/Workshop). The function of a third building in the complex, which has a tripartite floor plan (OC3/Tripartite Building), is uncertain. Excavators note that the internal structu…
Using Morphophonology in Elementary Ancient Greek
Most elementary ancient Greek textbooks do not employ much in the way of linguistic theory or practice in the presentation of the Greek grammatical system. This is unfortunate because insights made by linguists can be pedagogically beneficial to classics students, particularly when it comes to understanding changes affecting stems in inflectional morphology. In this paper one particularly venerable analytic procedure is discussed, namely, morphop…
The Etruscan Language
I tirreni a Lemnos
On the Development of PIE *gh/gh in Faliscan
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Socially determined variation in ancient Rome
Phonological and morphological variation in Classical Latin (e.g., diphthongs ae/au vs. monophthongs e/o , retention vs. loss of final consonants and initial h- , GEN SG -is vs. -us/-os , DAT SG in -ae vs. -a , etc.) has typically been treated as regional in nature. However, these seemingly “rural” features cannot be considered instances of purely geographically based variation, for they also occur both on inscriptions from within Rome and in Rom…
Our Greek and Latin Roots
Latin and Greek are often called 'dead' languages. Our Greek and Latin Roots gives the lie to the myth by taking its readers on a journey of exploration through their own language. It charts the historical spread of the classical languages throughout the English-speaking world and encourages students to take an active role in uncovering just how central a part they play in giving English the shape it has today. Full of fascinating information and…
Is Faliscan a Local Latin Patois
Faliscan clearly shows affinities with Latin, but the exact nature of the relationship between the two languages has not met with complete acceptance. Some scholars treat Faliscan as nothing more than a 'rural dialect' of Latin, though the inexactness of the designation 'dialectal Latin' makes this characterization problematic.Moreover, it is demonstrated here that the various features that are claimed to link Faliscan and non-Roman Latin to the …
Pāṇini
More on Assimilation in English
Astadhyayi of Panini
Il nome Etrusco di Atlante
Is Faliscan a Local Latin Patois
Faliscan clearly shows affinities with Latin, but the exact nature of the relationship between the two languages has not met with complete acceptance. Some scholars treat Faliscan as nothing more than a 'rural dialect' of Latin, though the inexactness of the designation 'dialectal Latin' makes this characterization problematic.Moreover, it is demonstrated here that the various features that are claimed to link Faliscan and non-Roman Latin to the …
Pāṇini
Etruscan
Socially determined variation in ancient Rome
Phonological and morphological variation in Classical Latin (e.g., diphthongs ae/au vs. monophthongs e/o , retention vs. loss of final consonants and initial h- , GEN SG -is vs. -us/-os , DAT SG in -ae vs. -a , etc.) has typically been treated as regional in nature. However, these seemingly “rural” features cannot be considered instances of purely geographically based variation, for they also occur both on inscriptions from within Rome and in Rom…
Our Greek and Latin Roots
Latin and Greek are often called 'dead' languages. Our Greek and Latin Roots gives the lie to the myth by taking its readers on a journey of exploration through their own language. It charts the historical spread of the classical languages throughout the English-speaking world and encourages students to take an active role in uncovering just how central a part they play in giving English the shape it has today. Full of fascinating information and…
On the Development of PIE *gh/gh in Faliscan
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I tirreni a Lemnos
The Etruscan Language
Using Morphophonology in Elementary Ancient Greek
Most elementary ancient Greek textbooks do not employ much in the way of linguistic theory or practice in the presentation of the Greek grammatical system. This is unfortunate because insights made by linguists can be pedagogically beneficial to classics students, particularly when it comes to understanding changes affecting stems in inflectional morphology. In this paper one particularly venerable analytic procedure is discussed, namely, morphop…
Etruscan Inscriptions on Ivory Objects Recovered from the Orientalizing Period Residence at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Article Etruscan Inscriptions on Ivory Objects Recovered from the Orientalizing Period Residence at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) was published on June 1, 2008 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 11, issue 1)
Muluvanice Inscriptions at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo) have uncovered a seventh-century B.C.E. building complex. Two of the buildings in the complex are securely identified: one is an aristocratic residence (OC1/Residence) and the other a multifunctional workshop (OC2/Workshop). The function of a third building in the complex, which has a tripartite floor plan (OC3/Tripartite Building), is uncertain. Excavators note that the internal structu…
Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (review)
Reviewed by: Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages Rex Wallace Michiel de Vaan. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. 825. $341. ISBN 978-90-04-16797-1. The Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (EDL) is the seventh volume in the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series. This series publishes the etymological research of a L…
The Latin Alphabet and Orthography
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Arrival of the Alphabet in Italy Etruscan Origins Date of Borrowing and Other Considerations Innovations and Changes Old Latin Orthography Letterforms Direction of Writing and Punctuation Abbreviations Letter Names Diffusion of the Latin Alphabet Further Reading
Etruskische Texte. Editio minor
Lucilius and Satire in Second-Century BC Rome
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Antonio Varone
Article Antonio Varone: Iscrizioni parietali di Stabiae (Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei 39) was published on December 1, 2022 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 25, issue 1-2)
Early Latin
A “Spurinas Group” Bowl in the Getty Collection
A terracotta bowl in the collection of antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum is the latest entry to an assemblage of Etruscan ceramics known as the “Spurinas Group.” The interior of the bowl was painted with the name calprnies , the earliest known reference to a family whose Roman branch includes several distinguished members. The paper reports on the dipinto’s paleography, the morphology, and derivational history of the Etruscan name calprnies…
Jorma Kaimio
Article Jorma Kaimio: The Funerary Inscriptions of Hellenistic Perusia (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 50) was published on November 1, 2024 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 27, issue 1-2)
An Etruscan Inscription Rediscovered
In 1886, a terracotta tile inscribed with an Etruscan inscription was recovered from Tomb 11 in the first cemetery of S. Antonio, located in the environs of Corchiano, an important settlement in the Ager Faliscus. Soon after the tile’s discovery, it disappeared from the scholarly record and was assumed to have been lost. A collector for the Field Museum purchased the tile and other artifacts from an antiquities dealer in Rome and shipped them to …
An Ivory Writing Tablet from Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Four non-joining fragments of an ivory object were recovered in the vicinity of Poggio Civitate’s OC2/Workshop, an industrial structure associated with the community’s intermediate phase of development (c. 650–600 BCE). The ivory fragments preserve elements of a similar decorative design—an incised guilloche pattern—indicating that they were constituents of the same object. One fragment (PC20080011) preserves a corner of the object. Inside the de…
Dominique Briquel
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