The Tita Vendia vase is a ceramic impasto pithos (wine container^[2]), crafted around 620-600 BC,^[3] most likely in Rome.^[4] The pithos, which exists only as an incomplete set of sherds,^[5] carries one of two earliest known inscriptions in Latin language (the Vendia inscription)^[2] and is usually, but not unanimously, interpreted as the earliest instance of a bipartite female Latin name with praenomen and gentilicum.^[1]

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