{"id":"TUCCI1969-006","label":"Sora / Ciociaria je mescone","people_or_site":"Villages around Sora, Frosinone","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Lazio / Ciociaria","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"je mescone","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"A rhomboid or rectangle cut from a small board, a palm long and two fingers wide, bored at the tip and tied to a string.","function_summary":"Boys' toy, spun fast.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"tucci_1969_rombo_italia","source_type":"ethnographic_survey","source_url":"https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf","page_or_plate":"Tucci 1969, p. 370","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Sora town; one regional anchor for the named villages.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Around Sora, in the Ciociaria, nearly every village named the little roarer differently: je mescone in Sora itself, la parruza at Campoli Appennino, zeuarella at Arpino, schiavetta or cucchiarella or lenguetta at Selva. The thing itself stayed constant — a strip of board a palm long and two fingers wide, bored at the tip, tied to a string, and spun fast.","pull_quote":"Il rombo a Sora centro vien detto mescone (je mescóne), in contrada Valianito uentaréglie, in contrada Selva ha ben tre nomi schiavétta-cucchiarella-lenguétta … Nel vicino comune di Campoli Appennino viene usato e chiamato la parruza. Ad Arpino si chiama zeuarella (nome dello scarafaggio).","pull_quote_translation":"The rombo, in Sora town, is called 'mescone' (je mescone); in the Valianito district 'uentareglie'; in the Selva district it has three names, 'schiavetta-cucchiarella-lenguetta' … In the neighbouring town of Campoli Appennino it is used and called 'la parruza'. At Arpino it is called 'zeuarella' (the name of the beetle).","pull_quote_cite":"Arduino Carbone to Tucci, 15 July 1967 (Tucci 1969, p. 370)","term_gloss":"je mescone (Sora); uentareglie (Valianito); schiavetta, cucchiarella, lenguetta (Selva); je pazzejareglie (Carnello); la parruza (Campoli Appennino); zeuarella (Arpino).","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377","url":"https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917113515/https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377","source_display":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A rhomboid or rectangle cut from a small board, a palm long and two fingers wide, bored at the tip and tied to a string.","function_display":"Boys' toy, spun fast.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"villages around","display_name":"Sora / Ciociaria je mescone","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SPANU1994-001_spanu1994-001-sonos-fig112-gavoi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SPANU1994-001_spanu1994-001-sonos-fig112-gavoi_thumb.jpg","credit":"Gian Nicola Spanu (ed.), Sonos: strumenti della musica popolare sarda (Ilisso, 1994), fig. 112","license":"Rights reserved (© Ilisso Edizioni); rehosted for non-commercial research; no open reuse licence stated","source_page":"https://it.scribd.com/doc/194502952/sonos","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Sardinian burriburri","pool_id":"auto-SPANU1994-001_spanu1994-001-sonos-fig112-gavoi"},"slug":"tucci1969-006-villages-around-sora-frosinone"}