SIGNIA: NOTE SULL’EPIGRAFIA MEDIO REPUBBLICANA SU INSTRUMENTUM

Abstract

The excavation of the Segni Project in the area of Prato Felici, or Orto di Cunto, led to the discovery,
unfortunately in secondary deposit, of a discrete amount of Mid-Republican votive material;
together with these were some fragments of architectural terracottas, of a different type from those
pertaining to the temple of Juno Moneta, which testify to the probable presence in this higher area
of the city of an additional place of worship, still topographically unlocatable. Among this material
several have graffiti inscriptions, of which a catalogue is offered.
From these pieces, which first of all confirms the occurrence of a votive inscriptional practice in
Mid-Republican Segni, we can then take a cue for a summary overview of the Mid-Republican
epigraphy of the city. The quantity of inscriptions known today from the various votive contexts in
the city and its territory, together with the quality of many of them, offer the possibility of recognizing
many of the gentilizi preserved by them, but also touch on aspects related to cults and, again,
economic themes, particularly with regard to the manufacture and selling of ceramic products.

Keywords: Signia; Lazio; età medio repubblicana; epigrafia; instrumentum.