This paper focuses on the collection and the overall analysis of the painted inscriptions with consular date on Italic wine amphorae. This kind of inscriptions are beared mainly on Dressel 1 and Dressel 2-4 amphoras produced along the Tyrrhenian coastal area of Italy. The research has pointed out a great variety both in the expression of these dates and in the kind of extra information (e.g. the wine names, which can originate from the production place and/or the name of the fundus). As for the consular dates, the most part of the examples collected bears only one date, probably connected to the wine bottling; an interpretation as indication of the wine production is difficult because the consuls documented on tituli picti were in office in different periods of the year. Sometimes we have two dates, which are respectively referred to the year of production – expressed by the words vindemia/natum or by the indication of the wine ageing – and to the wine diffusio. The lack of orderliness in the tituli picti structure can be interpretated as a clear signal of the informal nature of these inscriptions, which are connected to the wine, a product that was not controlled by the annona.
Raccolta e analisi globale delle iscrizioni dipinte con data consolare presenti su anfore vinarie italiche. L'analisi dei dati, che compaiono principalmente su anfore Dressel 1 e Dressel 2-4, prodotte nell'area costiera tirrenica italiana, ha evidenziato una grande varietà sia per quanto concerne la modalità di espressione della data consolare sia per il tipo di informazioni accessorie. In relazione alle date consolari, la maggior parte degli esempi raccolti reca solo una data, probabilmente connessa all'imbottigliamento del vino. Una interpretazione alternativa risulta difficile, in quanto i consoli documentati dai tituli picti erano in carica in periodi diversi dell'anno. Talvolta si hanno due date riferibili, rispettivamente, all'anno di produzione - espresso dai termini vindemia/natum o dall'indicazione dell'invecchiamento del vino- e alla diffusio del vino. La mancanza di sistematicità nell astruttura dei tituli picti può essere interpretata come un chiaro segnale della natura informale di queste iscrizioni, connesse a un prodotto non sottoposto a controlli annonari.
Tituli picti con datazione consolare su anfore vinarie italiche: indagini preliminari.
RIGATO, DANIELA;MONGARDI, MANUELA
2016
Abstract
This paper focuses on the collection and the overall analysis of the painted inscriptions with consular date on Italic wine amphorae. This kind of inscriptions are beared mainly on Dressel 1 and Dressel 2-4 amphoras produced along the Tyrrhenian coastal area of Italy. The research has pointed out a great variety both in the expression of these dates and in the kind of extra information (e.g. the wine names, which can originate from the production place and/or the name of the fundus). As for the consular dates, the most part of the examples collected bears only one date, probably connected to the wine bottling; an interpretation as indication of the wine production is difficult because the consuls documented on tituli picti were in office in different periods of the year. Sometimes we have two dates, which are respectively referred to the year of production – expressed by the words vindemia/natum or by the indication of the wine ageing – and to the wine diffusio. The lack of orderliness in the tituli picti structure can be interpretated as a clear signal of the informal nature of these inscriptions, which are connected to the wine, a product that was not controlled by the annona.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
