{"id":204,"date":"2006-10-29T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/umbrian-mystery\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T11:58:33","slug":"umbrian-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"An Umbrian mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the walls of the Palazzo Bucelli in Montepulciano, Italy, which was built in the 17th century and remodelled in the 18th century by the antiquarian Pietro Bucelli, there are a number of inscriptions. These inscriptions are generally thought to be in Etruscan or Latin, but they look more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/olditalic.htm#umbrian\">Umbrian<\/a> to me.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of one of the inscriptions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"118\" alt=\"Umbrian inscription?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_umbrian.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This inscription, which reads from left to right, can be transliterated as something like: &#8220;AOTETINA ARNTNI TETINALISA&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/Lombardese\/200610UmbriaMontepulcianoPalazzoBucelli\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the walls of the Palazzo Bucelli in Montepulciano, Italy, which was built in the 17th century and remodelled in the 18th century by the antiquarian Pietro Bucelli, there are a number of inscriptions. These inscriptions are generally thought to be in Etruscan or Latin, but they look more like Umbrian to me. Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}