Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

Of the vereis of the Lucanians. Water directed from Pallano.
5. ST Lu 37, Ve 192, Pocc 151, Pi 4C. Inscription in Greek characters
on a bronze helmet from an unknown location in Lucania 547 Dated to the
mid-fourth century BC.
'-OEpFLaQ
xapiwavac NETa7 OVTLVao 2mrn JEbLKIaL no-?
Vereia of Campsa, of Metapontum. During the meddicate of po[?
The term may have appeared in a handful of other instances as well:
I. It has been suggested that in the inscriptions ST Cm 4,5 and 9 (cited
above), the office of mv should be emended to meddix vereks.
2. Tagliamonte thought that the term verega in an inscription from
Adrano, Mendolito in Sicily, could refer to the vereia. S48
Inscribed on a stone
built into the city-wall of the ancient settlement. It dates from the end of the
sixth century BC. Morandi 54:
'iamakaramehpiiaskaagiiesgeped 2teutoveregaiesoekadoara[iead]
3. ST tLu 9: a tile stamp from Hipponion, on which we find the
expression DEQExo. The tile stamp must date from before the end of the third
century BC, because this city received a Latin colony in 192 BC and was
renamed Vibo Valentia.
4. STSa 1 A11 and B14: the Agnone tablet includes the phrase diüvei
verehasiüf. Several interpretations of this god have been put forward,
Morandi, however, linked him to the vereia. 549
547
Previous readings have been modified by Vlad Borrelli (1957) 234-42. See also Parlangeli (1960)
239-40.
348
Tagliamonte (1989) 362 and 368. Morandi (1982) 166-7.
153