Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2013
I am very grateful to the British School at Rome for a grant which enabled me to travel to Italy to check the inscriptions and to Anna Sommella and the late Alessandro Vaciago for help in accessing the materials. I would also like to thank the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Abruzzo, Chieti, for allowing me to check inscription CH.2 and for permission to reproduce their photographs of the text; the Museo Nazionale di Ancona for allowing me to photograph inscription AP.4 and for permission to publish their official photograph of the inscription; and the publishers Leo S. Olschki for permission to reproduce the figures of CH.2 (from Marinetti, 1985: 233). The work has been much improved from the comments of John Penney, Michael Crawford and the anonymous reviewers of the paper.