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Feugère, Michel, and Pierre-Yves Lambert, “Une belle gauloise... À propos d’une fibule inscrite de Laon”, Études Celtiques 37 (2011): 147–152.
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“Une belle gauloise... À propos d’une fibule inscrite de Laon”
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Études Celtiques 37 (2011)
Études Celtiques 37 (2011), Paris: CNRS Editions.
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147–152
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[FR] Michel Feugère décrit une fibule gallo-romaine avec inscription AVII VIMPI, trouvée à Laon. C’est une fibule à charnière, en forme de semelle, avec apposition d’un décor en relief sur une feuille de cuivre étamée. La même légende apparaît sur une fusaïole de terre cuite trouvée à Nyon, et sur deux autres fibules, l’une trouvée à Reims (aujourd’hui perdue), et l’autre à Cirencester (GB). Les décors sur feuille rapportée datent de la 2nde moitié du Ier s. Pierre-Yves Lambert observe que le message juxtapose un mot latin et un mot gaulois : «bonjour la belle » . La fréquence de vimpi sur des objets inscrits tels que les pesons de fuseaux rend peu probable l’hypothèse d’un nom propre. La désinence en -i, susceptible de plusieurs explications, paraît être à l’origine un vocatif sg. de thème en -iā : son extension à un thème en -ā signalait peut-être l’emploi substantif de l’adjectif.
[EN] Michel Feugère describes a Gallo-Roman fibula with the inscription AVII VIMPI, found in Laon. This is a hinged brooch, designed as a sole, with an applied leaf of stanned copper, bearing a decorative relief. The same legend has been found on an earthen spindle whorl from Nyon, and on two others brooches, one from Reims (now lost), and the other from Cirencester. Ornamentation by application of a separate leaf dates from the second half of the first century. Pierre-Yves Lambert remarks that this legend combines a Latin word and a Gaulish one : «Hello, pretty ! » . The high frequency of vimpi on small inscribed objects such as spindle whorls makes it improbable that it would be a Proper Name. The -i ending, open to many explanations, seems to have originally been a vocative singular of an -iā stem. Its extension to an -ā-stem was perhaps intended to mark a substantivised adjective.
[EN] Michel Feugère describes a Gallo-Roman fibula with the inscription AVII VIMPI, found in Laon. This is a hinged brooch, designed as a sole, with an applied leaf of stanned copper, bearing a decorative relief. The same legend has been found on an earthen spindle whorl from Nyon, and on two others brooches, one from Reims (now lost), and the other from Cirencester. Ornamentation by application of a separate leaf dates from the second half of the first century. Pierre-Yves Lambert remarks that this legend combines a Latin word and a Gaulish one : «Hello, pretty ! » . The high frequency of vimpi on small inscribed objects such as spindle whorls makes it improbable that it would be a Proper Name. The -i ending, open to many explanations, seems to have originally been a vocative singular of an -iā stem. Its extension to an -ā-stem was perhaps intended to mark a substantivised adjective.
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