Material culture studies

SLOW SUMER

SLOW SUMER

SLOW SUMER is aimed at analysing repair, reuse and recycling in Sumerian society between 2500-2000 BC, opening in this way a new trend of studies on these practices, substantially narrowing the current void in archaeological and philological research

SLOW SUMER project is going to test the following key questions:

“Drawing” inscriptions. Preliminary remarks on writing artisans in the 7th century BC Faliscan territory

In the complex mosaic of the Etruscan region of the 7th century BC, two cultural enclaves can be recognised: the Faliscan and the Capenate. In that period these two realities can be distinguished from the neighbouring Etruscans thanks to specific cultural features and in particular in the case of the Faliscans, by the linguistic aspect as well.
The paper considers especially Falerii, which, not surprisingly, has provided the oldest and most complex Faliscan inscriptions.

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