FALISCITÀ E ROMANITÀ NELLA EPIGRAFIA DEL SACRO A FALERII NOVI: LE DEDICHE DEI QUQUEI E DEI FALESCE QUEI IN SARDINIA SUNT

Abstract

This paper focuses on the dedicatory inscriptions coming from the Faliscan territory and dating back to
the period following the Falerii Veteres destruction by the Romans in 241 BC. Specifically, it will examine
the dedications of the ququei (‘cooks’) to the i]nperat{.}oribus summeis (‘high emperors’) and of the Falesce
quei in Sardinia sunt (‘Faliscans who are in Sardinia’) to [di]ouei, iunonei, and mineruai (‘Jupiter, Juno, and
Minerva’), respectively engraved on the two sides of a bronze plate found in Falerii Novi. After discussing
the relationship problem between the two texts, contibution will analyse their main linguistic and cultural
aspects, also in comparison with other same period dedicatory inscriptions from Latium. Furthermore, it
will propose some considerations on the possibility of recognizing in the two dedications, despite their
evident Roman character, traces of local models, which are likely to be interpreted as the desire to connect
with a disappearing local tradition.