This stone from Satricum (EDR078476) has been found reused in a later temple and had a text on it of very high interest for its script, dating as far as VI century BCE and making of it one of the oldest attested Latin texts which have survived until today.

[---]+̲IEISTETERAI Popliosio(:Publi) Valesiosio(:Valeri)
suodales(:sodales) Mamartei(:Marti).

Another example of early Latin script are the Egadi Rams

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Room 0: Introduction

Room 1: Inscriptions and History

Room 3: Objects and the relation between image, text and context

Room 4: Emotions in inscriptions

Room 5: The stone cutter, methods and mistakes

Room 6: Digital technologies for epigraphy

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