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

m(ediküd) t(üvtikiid) ni(umsiüd) dekitiüd. mi(ineis). mi, (inis) püpelii(s)
st(aatieis) legü. tanginüd 2aamanafed. esidum. pr[ü]fated. üpsed. g(aavis).
paapi(is). g(aavieis)
f( )
When Numidius Decitius son of Minius was meddix tuticus, Minius Pupelius
son of Statius by the decree of leg-ti commissioned (this temple). He himself
approved it. Gavius Papius son of Gavius built it.
This inscription records that a person who was not meddix tuticus commissioned and
approved the smaller and later temple at the sanctuary of
Schiavi d'Abruzzo
according to the decision of what may perhaps have been a council. 267 The
inscription shows strong Latin influence. First, the title and name of meddix tuticus
appear in the ablative absolute, which is commonly used for dating in Rome. The
name of the builder apparently has the letter f to denote filiation by the Latin filius.
This and the previous text both use the formula tanginüd aamanafed esfdum
priifated, which is conventionally Latinised as (senatus) sententiafaciendum curavit
idemque probavit. The end of the same formula also appears on a fragmentary
bronze plate from Temple B at Pietrabbonante. 268 ST Sa 2 is the only inscription in
which the word legt is attested. It appears in the same position as the senatus in the
former inscription and presumably denotes the council giving orders or approval for
the commission of the sanctuary. It is not clear whether the legü was the same as the
senalus. At Pompeii two urban councils are attested in inscriptions, the kümbenneis
and [k]ümparakineis, which both gave orders to the quaestores. In Lucania too a
senate appears to have instructed or advised a local quaestor. 269 The two inscriptions
from Samnium similarly suggest that the construction work in sanctuaries was
267 The position of the word (legii tanginüd, as s]enateis {u} tangin id above) and its relation of the
Latin word lex suggest that it could have been a counselling body. See Untermann (2000) under lege.
268STSa8.
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