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ATMC NACL DGDA ZLIOCK AANS IPAO RIELN TD, R, J A A M E S , MCM o e i dng tr i taa ect rti r o ain n n , e a M an ndo b a i rl oi t uy n a dn td h L CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL STUDIES e a A n ng Migration, Mobility and cu i ea ng Language Contact in and around e t the Ancient Mediterranean EDITED BY JAMES CLACKSON, PATRICK JAMES, KATHERINE MCDONALD, LIVIA TAGLIAPIETRA AND NICHOLAS ZAIR MIGRATION, MOBILITYAND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN AND AROUND THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterraneanisthefirstvolumetoshowthedifferentwaysinwhichsurviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world.Elevenchapterscovera numberofcasestudies,whichspantheperiod fromtheseventhcenturyBCtothefourthcenturyAD,rangingfromSpainto Egypt,fromSicilytoPannonia.Thebookincludesdetailedstudyofepigraphic andliteraryevidencewritteninLatinandGreek,aswellasworkonlanguages whicharenotsowelldocumented,suchasEtruscanandOscan.Thereisasubject indexandanindexofworksandinscriptionscited. james clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and isone of the foremost scholars of thehistoricalsociolinguisticsofLatinandGreek.Hismajorpublicationsinclude Indo-EuropeanLinguistics(Cambridge,2007),TheBlackwellHistoryoftheLatin Language(withGeoffreyHorrocks)(2007),ACompaniontotheLatinLanguage (2011)andLanguageandSocietyintheGreekandRomanWorlds(Cambridge, 2015).HewasPIoftheAHRC-fundedProject‘GreekinItaly’(2013–18). patrick james teaches Classics at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. He servedfornineyearsasanAssistantEditorfortheCambridgeGreekLexicon. katherine mcdonald is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the UniversityofExeter.HerbooksincludeOscaninSouthernItalyandSicily(CUP, 2015)andItaly before Rome:ASourcebook(forthcoming),writtenaspartofher AHRC-fundedproject‘ConnectivityandCompetition:MultilingualisminAncient Italy’. livia tagliapietra is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge.ShewroteherPhDthesisaspartoftheAHRC-fundedproject‘Greekin Italy’. Her research interests include ancient Greek linguistics and dialectology, historicalsociolinguistics,andthelanguagesandculturesofancientItaly. nicholas zair is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and FellowofPeterhouse.Hehaswrittentwobooks:TheReflexesoftheProto-Indo- European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 2016). He is presently working on a third, on Roman imperial inscriptions and sub-elite education, while holding a Pro Futura Scientia FellowshipbasedinCambridgeandUppsala. cambridge classical studies Generaleditors j. p. t. clackson, w. m. beard, g. betegh, r. l. hunter, m. j. millett, s. p. oakley, r. g. osborne, t. j. g. whitmarsh MIGRATION, MOBILITYAND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN AND AROUND THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN editedby JAMESCLACKSON UniversityofCambridge PATRICKJAMES HaileyburyCollege KATHERINEMCDONALD UniversityofExeter LIVIATAGLIAPIETRA UniversityofCambridge NICHOLASZAIR UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108488440 doi:10.1017/9781108763943 ©FacultyofClassics,UniversityofCambridge2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-48844-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Thisbookisdedicatedto GeoffreyHorrocks asasmalltoken ofprofoundappreciation. CONTENTS ListofFigures pageix ListofTables x ListofContributors xi Acknowledgements xii AbbreviationsofAncientAuthorsandWorks xiii AbbreviationsofModernSources xvi 1 Introduction 1 james clackson, patrick james, katherine mcdonald, livia tagliapietra and nicholas zair 2 InterethnicMobilityandIntegrationinPre-Roman Etruria:TheContributionofOnomastics 23 daniele f. maras 3 ElusiveMigrantsofAncientItaly 53 elena isayev 4 TheLanguageofMobileCraftsmenintheWestern Mediterranean 75 katherine mcdonald and james clackson 5 Lost–andFound–inTransmission:TheCreation oftheOscanAlphabet 98 karin w. tikkanen 6 MobilityandOrthography:AContextualisation ofVariantSpellingsintheOscanInscriptions intheGreekAlphabet 122 livia tagliapietra vii Contents 7 TheMamertiniinMessina:Mobility,Migration andMercenaries 156 nicholas zair 8 Migration,Identity,andMultilingualism inLateHellenisticDelos 171 francesco rovai 9 Interpretes,NegotiatoresandtheRomanArmy: MobileProfessionalsandTheirLanguages 203 rachel mairs 10 HOCPRIMVSVENIT:ItaliansandOthers inEgyptbeforetheCaesars 230 patrick james 11 Population,MigrationandLanguageintheCity ofRome 268 olivia elder References 296 IndexLocorum 335 SubjectIndex 350 viii

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