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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED |
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IOVILAE, or JOVILAE , a latinized form of iuvilas, the name given by the Oscan-speaking Campanians in the 5th, 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. to an interesting class of monuments, not yet fully understood. They all bear crests or heraldic emblems proper to some family or group of families, and inscriptions directing the annual performance of certain ceremonies on fixed days. While some of them are dedicated to Jupiter (in a special
graves
See the articles OSCA LINGUA, CAPUA
MESSAPII
Capua
Italic
Cambridge , 1897, pp. 101 ff.). A briefer but valuable discussion of the chief
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