File:Lapis-niger.jpg

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Detail from the Lapis Niger from Forum Romanum, one of the oldest known examples of writing in the Latin language.

Summary

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  • English: Detail from the Lapis Niger from Forum Romanum. One of the oldest known examples of writing in the Latin language.
  • Français : Detail du Lapis Niger sur le Forum Romanum. Une des plus anciennes inscriptions latines .
  • Italiano: Lapis Niger - uno dei più antichi esempi di scrittura in lingua latina.
  • Latina: Lapis Niger (pars) - unum antiquissimorum exemplorum Latinae Linguae.
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    Photograph.
  • Transcription.
    Transcription.

Source

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John Edwin Sandys, "Epigraphy", in A Companion to Latin Studies (ed. John Edwin Sandys), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1913; p. 732, plate 107.

This, in turn, credits Domenico Comparetti (1835-1927), Iscrizione arcaica del Foro Romano, Firenze, 1900.

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