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Three recently found tile stamps from Bovianum and Campochiaro apparently<br />

also cast doubt on whether there was a single meddix tuticus. One tile, ST tSa 21,<br />

records m. t. sn. staff mitl k, the second, ST tSa 20, m. t. 1. sta. A. mit. We might be<br />

dealing with two pairs <strong>of</strong> meddices tutici, the first being composed <strong>of</strong> Stenius Staius<br />

and Mitulus C() and the second <strong>of</strong> Lucius Staius and Ovius Mitulus. 247 However, in<br />

most tile stamps the name <strong>of</strong> the meddiz tuticus includes his patronymic and La<br />

Regina has argued that these abbreviations give the patronymic and papponymic <strong>of</strong><br />

each meddix tuticus: Stenius Staius son <strong>of</strong> Mitulus grandson <strong>of</strong> C( ) and Lucius<br />

Staius son <strong>of</strong> Ovius grandson <strong>of</strong> Mitulus. 248 Capini instead suggests that the fourth<br />

element in each case is an abbreviated cognomen: Stenius Staius C() son <strong>of</strong> Mitulus<br />

and Lucius Staius Mitulus son <strong>of</strong><br />

Ovius. 249<br />

Two stone inscriptions from Pietrabbondante are relevant<br />

here. 250<br />

ST Sa 13: gn(aivs) staatiis. l(üvkieis) klar [. m(eddis). tüvtiks). süvad eitiuva]d.<br />

pestlüm. üpsannüm. faamated. p(ediim). LX (Pietrabbondante, Temple B)<br />

ST Sa 21: gn(aivs). staiis. m(ara)h(eis). stafidins. metd(is) t(üvtiks).<br />

dadikatted (Pietrabbondante, Temple A)<br />

The names <strong>of</strong> two meddices tutici consist <strong>of</strong> four parts in these inscriptions: those <strong>of</strong><br />

Gnaeus Staius Stabidinus son <strong>of</strong> Maraeus and Gnaeus Statius Clar() son <strong>of</strong> Lucius.<br />

Since the verbs <strong>of</strong> both inscriptions are singular (dedfkated, faamated), a single<br />

meddix tuticus must be meant in both cases. The fourth element <strong>of</strong> the names seems<br />

to be a cognomen. In the first case Clar might be toponymic or papponymic, in the<br />

247 <strong>for</strong> mitt = Mitulus / Mutilus see Salonries (1987) 105-6.<br />

248 La Regina (1989) 336 nr. 9 and 12. La Regina emended the abbreviation C to Gellius.<br />

249 Capini (1978) 424. Poccetti supports Capini's view <strong>for</strong> ST tSa 21.<br />

250 The Oscan text appear throughout the thesis as given by Rix (2002). His usage <strong>of</strong> dots and brackets<br />

are also followed: [... ] <strong>for</strong> letters not now preserved which the editor believe to have been inscribed<br />

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