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{{inscription
|reading=arisae.ki
|reading_original={{c|A|A3}}{{c|R|R2|d}}{{c|I||d}}{{c|S|S2}}{{c|A|A3}}{{c|E||d}}{{c|punctuation||d}}{{c|K|K3|d}}{{c|I||d}}
|direction=dextroverse
|letter_height_min=about 6 cm
|letter_number_min=8
|sign_number=9
|word_number=0
|line_number=1
|script=North Italic script
|alphabet=Alphabet of Steinberg
|language=Raetic
|meaning=unknown
|object=ST rock
|position=left area
|orientation=90
|craftsmanship=engraved
|condition=damaged
|sigla_ir=113
|sigla_mancini=STN-8
|source=Schumacher 2004: 193, 232, 355
|checklevel=5
|problem=nicht autopsiert; Verweis Sydow; Platte/Lage
}}
== Commentary ==
First published in {{bib|Mayr 1962c}}: 287.

Pictures in {{bib|Mayr 1962c}}: 287 (drawing), 288 (photo), {{bib|Joppich 1971}}: 43 (drawing), {{bib|Zavaroni 2004}}: Fig. 10 (photo/drawing), {{bib|Schumacher 2004}}: Taf. 20 (drawing) and {{bib|Mandl 2011}}: Abb. 133 (photo).

Length about 25 cm, running almost vertically upwards about halfway between [[index::ST-5]] and [[index::ST-1]]. {{c||R2|d}} is disrupted by more recent M-shaped scratches; the other letters are fairly well legible, though heavily eroded. '''{{bib|Vetter 1957}}, who knew only inscriptions 1–7 and considered the central area of the wall most suitable for inscribing, speculated that a bronze plaque of votive character, similar to ones found in Venetic Làgole, had been affixed there, but the trial excavation conducted by <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Menghin</span> '''auch Sydow''' did not yield any accordant finds. The peculiar arrangement of inscriptions 1–6 may be due to a lack of inscribable weathering crust in the central area, which would also account for the comparatively small letters and bad condition of ST-8''' 

No interpretation of the sequence suggests itself, but compare {{w||.ki}} on [[index::VN-14]] and Etruscan {{w||ki}} 'three' on the [[index::Script|Feltre inscription]].

Further references: {{bib|Pisani 1964}}: 324 (no. 137 bis), {{bib|Prosdocimi 1971}}: 38 incl. {{bib|Joppich 1971}}: 43, {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1978}}: 232, '''{{bib|Sydow 1989}}: 68 ff.''', {{bib|Zavaroni 2004}}: 59 f.
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