CE-1.2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	velχanu
Original script:
Object:	CE-1 situla (bronze) (Inscriptions: CE-1.1, CE-1.2, CE-1.3, CE-1.4, CE-1.5)
Position:	rim
Script:	North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1 cm
Number of letters:	7
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	complete
Date of inscription:	4th century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	typology [from object]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	'son of Velχa*'
Alternative sigla:	PID 215 (b1) IR 5 (b1) LIR CE-1 (3) MLR 26 (b1)
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 155, 337

Images

Object CE-1 situla with inscriptions CE-1.1, CE-1.2, CE-1.3, CE-1.4 and CE-1.5 - positions.

Inscription CE-1.2.

Commentary

First published in Giovanelli 1834. Autopsied by TIR in November 2014.

Pictures in Giovanelli 1834: drawing (= Giovanelli 1844), Inghirami 1828: Tav. XII (drawing), Giovanelli 1845: tav. I, fig. 7 (drawing = Giovanelli 1876: Taf. I, No. 7), Mommsen 1853: Taf. I, 11 B (drawing), Sulzer 1855: Tav. VII (drawing), CII: tav. I, Corssen 1874: tav. XXIII, Oberziner 1883b: tav. XXIII, AIF I: tav. II, no. 37, IR (photo = LIR), Morandi 1982: 201 (drawing), MLR (photo).

Length about 4 cm; written on the rim of the situla, starting at about 2 cm from one of the eye for the handle (the one closer to CE-1.1). Applied very neatly with thin strokes (>1 mm); only in final are they a bit askew. See CE-1.4 for a discussion of whether the five sequences on the situla should be considerd part of one inscription or not.

The reading is unambiguous. The ending -nu indicates a patronymic.

Further reference: Inghirami 1828: 210–218 (= a letter from Giovanelli to Inghirami (1832), followed by Inghirami's reply (1833); the latter is also reprinted in the original publication), Giovanelli 1844: 99–113, Mommsen 1853: No. 11, Sulzer 1855: 22, Weber 1861: 31, Schneller 1866: 185 ff., CII: no. 12, Suppl. I: 6, 100, Corssen 1874: 919 ff., Pichler 1880: no. 1, Oberziner 1883b: 182 ff., AIF I: no. 37, Runes 1935, Battisti 1944: 235 f., Mayr 1959d, Pisani 1964: 323 f., Morandi 1982: no. 77, Battisti 1936b: 596 f., Kretschmer 1943: 170 ff., Altheim 1951: passim, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 233 f.

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
Altheim 1951	Franz Altheim, Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn der Literatur, Frankfurt am Main: 1951.
Battisti 1936b	Carlo Battisti, "Rassegna critica degli studi linguistici sull'Alto Adige nel quinquennio 1931-36", Archivio per l'Alto Adige 31/2 (1936), 561–611.
Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
Corssen 1874	Wilhelm Paul Corssen, Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker. Band 1, Leipzig: 1874.
Deecke 1875–1884	Wilhelm Deecke, Etruskische Forschungen, Stuttgart: 1875–1884. (7 volumes)
Giovanelli 1834	Benedetto Giovanelli, "Ueber ein rhätisches Gefäß und über rhätische Paläographie", Beiträge zur Geschichte, Statistik, Naturkunde und Kunst von Tirol und Vorarlberg 8 (1834), 133–149.
Giovanelli 1844	Benedetto Giovanelli, Dei Rezj. Dell'origini de' popoli d'Italia e d'una iscrizione rezio-etrusca. Pensieri di Benedetto Conte Giovanelli Podestà di Trento, Trento: 1844.
Giovanelli 1845	Benedetto Giovanelli, Le antichità rezio-etrusche scoperte presso Matrai nel Maggio 1845, Trento: Monauni 1845.
Giovanelli 1876	Benedetto Giovanelli, "Die Rhätisch-Etruskischen Alterthümer entdeckt bei Matrei im Mai 1845", Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg 3/20 (1876), 45–99.
Inghirami 1828	Francesco Inghirami (Ed.), Lettere di etrusca erudizione, Fiesole: 1828.
IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
Kretschmer 1943	Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)