Herculaneum Miscellaneous.
Ercolano Miscellanea.
Herkulaneum Verschiedenes.
This page contains items of general interest and unprovenanced items which we are unable to put back into the page for their original location.
1. Comparison of alphabets.
Comparison of Western Greek, Etruscan, Latin, Oscan, Umbrian and North-Sabellian alphabets.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
Diffusion of writing information card from Naples Archaeological Museum.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
“The Languages in ancient Italy” information card from Naples Archaeological Museum.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
2. Bronze military diploma of
Nerva Desidiatus, son of Laidus.
Herculaneum, bronze diploma information card from Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory
number 3725 (CIL X 1402; CIL XVI 11).
Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
Herculaneum, but provenance unknown, found 19th March 1746.
Outside of tablet 1, part 1 of the diploma.
Bronze military diploma of Nerva Desidiatus, son of Laidus.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 3725.
Herculaneum, insides of tablets 1 (upper) and 2 (lower), parts 2 and 3 of
the diploma.
Bronze military diploma of Nerva Desidiatus,
son of Laidus, found Herculaneum but provenance unknown, found 19th
March 1746.
On
display in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 3725.
Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
Herculaneum, but provenance unknown, found 19th March 1746.
Outside of tablet 2, part 4 of the diploma containing the seven signatories. Bronze military diploma of Nerva Desidiatus, son of Laidus.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 3725.
According
to the Epigraphic Database Roma the tablets read:
〈 : tab. I,
intus, p. 2〉
Ìmp(erator)
Vespasianus Caesar August(us),
tribunic(ia)
potest(ate), co(n)s(ul) I̅I̅,
veteranis,
qui militaverunt in leg(ione) I̅I̅
Adiutrice
Pia Fidele, qui vicena
5 stipendia aut
plura meruerant
et sunt dimissi honesta missione,
quorum nomina subscripta sunt, ip=
sis
liberis posterisque eorum civi=
tatem dedit et conubium cum uxori=
10 bus, quas tunc habuissent, cum est
civita[s
i]ìs data, aut, si qui caelibes
essen[t,
cu]m iìs quas postea duxissent
dum taxat singuli singulas.
〈: tab. II, intus, p. 3〉
A(nte) d(iem) Non(as) Mart(ias)
Ìmp(eratore) Vespasiano Caesare Aug(usto) I̅I̅
Caesare Aug(usti) f(ilio) Vespasiano
co(n)s(ulibus).
T(abula) I̅, pag(ina) V̅, loc(o) XX̅X̅X̅V̅I̅.
5 Nervae Laidi f(ilio), Desidiati.
Descriptum et recognitum ex tabula
aenea, quae fixa est Romae in Capi=
tolio in podio arae gentis Iuliae.
〈: tab. I, extrinsecus, p. 1)
Imp(erator) Vespasianus Caesar August(us)
tribunic(ia) potest(ate), co(n)s(ul) I̅I̅,
veteranis, qui militaverunt in leg(ione)
I̅I̅ Adiutrice Pia Fidele, qui vicena
5 stipendia aut plura meruerant
et sunt dimissi honesta m[iss]ione,
quorum nomina subscrip̣[ta su]nt, ip=
sis liberis posterisqu[e eo]ṛum
civitatem dedit et conubium [c]um
10 uxoribus quas tunc habuissent
cum est civitas iìs data, aut, si qui
caelibes essent, cum iìs quas pọstea
duxissent dum taxat singuli
singulas. A(nte) d(iem) non(as) Mar(tias)
15 Ìmp(eratore) Vespasiano Caesare Aug(usto)
II,
Caesare Aug(usti) f(ilio) Vespasiano
co(n)s(ulibus).
T(abula) I, pag(ina) V̅, loc(o) XXXXVI.
Nervae Laidi f(ilio), Desidiati.
Descriptum et recognitum ex tabula
20 aenea, quae fixa est Romae in Capi=
tolio in podio arae gentis Iuliae
`latere dextro´
` ante signu(m) Lib(eri) Patris´.
〈: tab. II, extrinsecus, p. 4, signatores〉
C(ai) Helvi Lepidi Saloni=
tani
Q(uinti) Petroni Musaei Iades=
tini
5 L(uci) Valeri Acuti Salonit(ani)
M(arci) Nassi Phoebi Salonit(ani)
L(uci) Publici Germulli
Q(uinti) Publici Macedonis
Neditani
10 Q(uinti) Publici Crescentis.
[CIL X, 1402]
3. Bronze tintinnabulum. Gladiator fighting against his own phallus which has turned into a panther.
Found Herculaneum, 8th February 1740. Bronze tintinnabulum. Unknown Provenance.
Gladiator fighting against his own phallus which has turned into a panther.
On display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 27853.
May 2021. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
4. Bronze Mirmillo helmet crest with
depictions of Mars, Rhea Silvia, she-wolf with Romulus and Remus and deities
Found Herculaneum,
19th June 1834. Provenance unknown.
Bronze Mirmillo helmet crest with depictions of Mars, Rhea Silvia,
she-wolf with Romulus and Remus and deities.
May 2021. On display in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number
5673-5656. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
According to the
Museum card –
The crest, which is the only part of this type of helmet found at
Herculaneum, has a depiction of Mars who appears in a dream to Rhea Silvia, the
she-wolf with the twins Romulus and Remus, the chariot of Aurora and, above,
Jupiter seated on a throne among other figures.
The inventory number is shown as 5673-5656.
5. Roman iron gladiator helmet
From Herculaneum. Roman iron gladiator helmet. Provenance unknown.
This helmet is of the type used by a Secutor gladiator.
Its rounded shape and small eye holes were designed to counter the net and trident of the Retiarius.
The Secutor was specially trained to fight a Retiarius, a type of lightly armoured gladiator armed with a trident and net.
The retiarius was thus faster and would try to tire the secutor whose heavy armour and the difficulty of breathing in the helmet meant that he had to win quickly.
May 2021. On
display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.