Bojano - Bovianum - Buvaianud
The Archaeological Museum

My notes are not very good because I found the museum open just before I was supposed to catch a train to Rome, but I have the pictures. More thorough text will follow as time and research permit.

A few pieces of pottery, the last bearing an M inscribed in the Oscan alphabet
An Oscan brick-stamp reading
x].T.AK.LAI/.PK
Two knives, a pommel, and assorted iron fragments.
Various circular objects.
Assorted bronze and iron objects
An iron spear-point and glass beads
Text about the museum
Text about the museum
Two pieces of black-glaze ware (ceramica a vernice nera)
Six pieces of black-glaze ware
Stamped black-glaze ware.
Stamped black-glaze ware
C * PROBILIANO
]F Q VIXIT * M * VIIII
ET DIES * X * DEPOSI
TVS EST * D * V * K *
MAR

C(aio) Probiliano 2[.] f(ilio) q(ui) vixit m(enses) viiii 3et dies x. deposi4tus est d(ie) v K(alendae) 5Mar(tiae)

"To Gaius Probilianus, son of ..., who lived nine months and ten days. He was buried five days before the calends of March (February 23)"


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