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IOVILAE, or JOVILAE
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See also:IOVILAE, or JOVILAE , a latinized See also:form of iuvilas, the name given by the Oscan-speaking Campanians in the 5th, 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. to an interesting class of monuments, not yet fully understood. They all See also:bear crests or heraldic emblems proper to some See also:family or See also:group of families, and See also:inscriptions directing the See also:annual performance of certain ceremonies on fixed days. While some of them are dedicated to See also:Jupiter (in a See also:special capacity, which our See also:present knowledge of Oscan is insufficient to determine), others were certainly found attached to See also:graves. See the articles OSCA LINGUA, See also:CAPUA, See also:CUMAE and See also:MESSAPII. The See also:text of all those yet discovered (at Capua and Cumae), with particulars of similar usages elsewhere in See also:Italy and other See also:historical and archaeological detail, is given by R. S. See also:Conway in The See also:Italic Dialects (See also:Cambridge, 1897, pp. 101 ff.). A briefer but valuable discussion of the See also:chief characteristics of the group will be found in R. von Planta's Oskisch-umbrische Grammalik, .i. 631 if., and a See also:summary description in C. D. See also:Buck's Osco- Umbrian See also:Grammar, 247. (R. S. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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