Isca Dumnoniorum but seems to have gone into decline prior to the Roman withdrawal from Britain . The name "Isca Dumnoniorum" is a Latinization of a native Brittonic name describing flowing water, in reference to the River Exe. More exactly, the name seems to have originally meant "full of fish" (cf. Welsh "pysg", "fish"), although it came to be a simple synonym for water (cf. Scottish whiskey). This is also reflected in the modern Welsh name for Exeter: "Caerwysg" meaning "fortified settlement on the river Uisc". The same name was used for the River Usk (modern ) in southern Wales, causing the
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Isca Greenfield-Sanders Isca Greenfield-Sanders (born 1978) is an American figurative/landscape painter based in New York City. Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City to lawyer, Karin and photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. She grew up in New York City's East Village surrounded by artists, her paternal grandmother is concert pianist and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield, her maternal grandmother is Leider singer, Isca Sanders, her maternal grandfather is painter Joop Sanders, her sister is filmmaker, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders and her uncle is steel sculptor, John Sanders. In 2000 she received a B.A. in math and a B.A. with honors in visual arts from Brown