Online resources

Web sites of general interest

1. Musei della Puglia
   The page contains a list of the most important Museums of the Puglia Region, sorted in Province order.
   
2. Cartapulia
   The site, maintained by the Region of Puglia, is a territorial information system that makes it possible to read and represent the cultural heritage of the region. In addition to presenting a catalogue of sites and cultural heritage, it collects and describes Puglia's main museums and offers playful and didactic ideas for getting to know the region and its cultural heritage.
   
3. CISA
   International Center for the Study of the History and Archaeology of Salento within which Adriatlas, a computerized atlas of the ancient Adriatic, is being developed.
   

Institutions, centers for study and research

1. Istituto per la Storia e l'Archeologia della Magna Grecia.
   The Institute, together with editing and publishing monographs dealing with the Magna Grecia, organizes annual international meetings of high calibre, in which a section dealing with epigraphic and linguistic information from the Magna Grecia is always planned.
   
2. University of Salento, Department of Cultural Heritage
   In addition to constituting the most specialised and dedicated centre for Messapian archaeology with its lecturers and researchers, the department has two laboratories dedicated to studying classical and Messapian civilisation: the Laboratory of Classical Archaeology (LAC) and the Laboratory of Information Technology for Archaeology LIA .
   
3. Alteritas
   With two research projects, SELECT (2020-2023) and xFORMAL (2021-2025), it deals with Messapic and Messapi and organises Training Schools on the subject. Alteritas also maintains an up-to-date database of Messapic inscriptions and is dedicated to the study of the language through a permanent seminar with international students and researchers.
   

Texts

1. D'Andria F., (2022) Necessità di un’archeologia delle iscrizioni: tra Taranto, la Messapia e l’Athenaion di Castro, Orizzonti, pp. 67-85.
   
   
2. Marchesini S. (2015), Epigrafi messapiche del Salento, L’Idomeneo 19, pp. 69-78.
   
   
3. Marchesini S. (2021) I Messapi nel Mediterraneo, in Storia dei Mediterranei, vol. II, Mediterraneo e Storia, 35, Edizioni di Storia e Studi Sociali, Ragusa, pp. 10-42.
   
   
4. Marchesini S. (2020), Lingua e cultura epigrafica del Messapico, in F. Beltrán, B. Díaz Ariño, M.J. Estarán Tolosa, C. Jordán Cólera, eds., Palaeoeuropean Languages and Epigraphic Cultures. Challenges and Perspectives, Paleohispanica 20,1, pp. 495-530
   
   
5. Matzinger, J. (2005): Messapisch und Albanisch, International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 2, pp. 29-54.
   
   
6. Matzinger, J. (2019), Messapisch, Wiesbaden.
   
   

Museums and collections

1. Cavallino Open-Air Museum and MUSA University Historical Archaeological Museum
   The University Museum System preserves valuable Messapian collections, including inscribed cippus from Otranto.
   
2. Sigismondo Castromediano Museum, Lecce
   It contains a large collection of Messapic inscriptions.
   
3. National Archaeological Museum of Taranto – MARTA
   It houses some Messapian and Greek inscriptions.
   
4. Ugento Museum System
   The Ugento Museum System includes the New Archaeological Museum, the 'Adolfo Colosso ' Archaeological Collection, and other medieval complexes. The Archaeological Museum houses the remains of the ancient Messapian city, including inscriptions and coins.
   
5. Giuseppe Andreassi' National Archaeological Museum and Egnazia Archaeological Park
   The museum is located outside the city walls of ancient Gnathia, in the necropolis area. One of the seven sections is dedicated to Iapigia and Messapian culture.
   
6. Jatta National Archaeological Museum, Palazzo Jatta, Ruvo di Puglia
   The house-museum curated by the Jatta family houses around 20 inscribed fictile loom weights.
   
7. 'Francesco Ribezzo' Provincial Archaeological Museum in Brindisi
   The epigraphic collection contains inscriptions in Latin, Hebrew, Greek and Messapic. Over 30 inscriptions from Mesagne, Valesio, Ceglie, and Brindisi are preserved in the museum.
   
8. Santa Scolastica Archaeological Museum in Bari
   The medieval Benedictine monastery also houses archaeological remains from ancient Peucezia, including some inscriptions from Ostuni and Gravina.
   
9. National Archaeological Museum in Canosa di Puglia
   The National Museum houses inscriptions from Canosa.
   
10. The Museum of Preclassical Civilizations of Southern Murgia in Ostuni
    It is part of the museum system that includes the City Museum, the Archaeological Park and the Diocesan Museum. In particular, the second room is dedicated to the frequentation of the site in the Messapian period, when the cave and surrounding terraces were probably the site of a sanctuary possibly dedicated to the goddess Demeter. Fragments of local and imported pottery, inscriptions in the Messapian language, weapons and terracotta belong to the period between the end of the 5th and the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.
    
11. Muro Leccese Museum
    This open-air museum contains archaeological finds from the Iapigian village, the Messapian town and structures from the Byzantine period to the Renaissance.
    
12. Archaeological Museum of Castro
    The museum is located in the Castle and houses finds from the excavation of the Sanctuary to Athena. Section D is dedicated to Messapian inscriptions, including monumental ones, found in the sanctuary.
    
13. The museum system of Vaste and Poggiardo
    It contains the recently renovated Archaeological Museum of Messapic Civilisation. Inside are the rich grave goods from the necropolis, architectural elements, coins (a small treasure of 150 staters), and a dozen Messapian inscriptions from the ancient city of Vaste.
    
14. Archaeological Museum of Oria and the Messapians
    The museum contains archaeological materials from the ancient Messapian city of Oria, including inscribed cippus.
    
15. Francavilla Fontana Archaeological Museum
    It exhibits archaeological finds from Ceglie Messapica, Mesagne and Brindisi.
    
16. Mesagne Museum
    Created from the 'Granafei' donation that contained the family's archaeological collection, it has acquired new material and collected other donations. It also contains inscriptions and coins from the city's ancient archaeological site.
    
17. Archaeological Museum of Ceglie Messapica
    Created following a 1998 archaeological exhibition on Ceglie Messapica, it contains material from funerary contexts between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC.
    
18. City Museum 'Emanuele Barba' in Gallipoli
    It is divided into three sections, the Museum, the 'Ex- Sant'Angelo ' Municipal Library and the Coppola Collection Room. The Museum houses the archaeological collection with numismatic and archaeological finds from the ancient necropolis of Alezio.
    
19. Messapian City Museum of Alezio
    Together with the Municipal Library, it is located in Palazzo Tafuri. Here, one of the richest collections of Messapic epigraphs from Alezio's necropolis of Monte D'Elia (4th-3rd century B.C.) is housed both inside and outside the museum, in the epigraphic park.
    

Institutions

1. Provincia di Brindisi
   In the Brindisi provincial site reference to public museums and collections of the Province are offered.
   

People

1. Francesco Ribezzo
   Wikipedia Page of the Puglia historical linguist and archaeologist (1875-1952).
   
2. Carlo de Simone
   Wikipedia page of the Italian historical linguist, specialist of the relic languages of Ancient Italy and especially of Messapic and Etruscan (1932- )
   
3. Jürgen Untermann
   Wikipedia page of the German historical linguist, specialist of relic languages of ancient Italy and Spain (1928- )
   
4. Hans Krahe
   Wikipedia page of the German historical linguist (1898-1965).
   
5. Joachim Matzinger
   Page of the historic linguist Joachim Matzinger (1968-). Scroll to the bottom of the page.
   
6. Mario Lombardo
   Page of the historian Mario Lombardo (1948-).
   
7. Francesco D'Andria
   Page of the archaeologist Francesco D'Andria (1943-)
   
8. Simona Marchesini
   Wikipedia page of the historical linguist Simona Marchesini (1963-)
   
9. Giovanni Mastronuzzi
   Page of the archaeologist Giovanni Mastronuzzi (1969-).
   
10. Grazia Semeraro
    Page of the archaeologist Grazia Semeraro (1959-).