MA-19

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Inscription
Transliteration:	lasθeφutiχinu
Original script:
Object:	MA-19 antler (antler)
Position:	front
Script:	North Italic script (Magrè alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	11 cm <br /> – 1.5 cm
Number of letters:	13
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Date of inscription:	3rd–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	'Lasθe, son of Φutiχi*'
Alternative sigla:	PID 239 LIR MA-13 MLR 57 TM 218492
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 165

Commentary

First published in Pellegrini 1918: 183 (no. 9).

Images in Pellegrini 1918: 183, fig. 16 (drawing), LIR (photo and drawings), MLR (photos).

Length 8.3 cm, starting at the narrower end of the antler piece. With deeply incised letters on a well preserved object, the inscription is in excellent condition and very well legible. Tau is damaged by a break, but unambiguous.

The inscription contains a Raetic name formula (individual name + patronym in -nu).

On the back, at 2.7 cm from the broader end, an arrangement of lines (length 2.2 cm), as is the case on almost all the antler votives from Magrè.

Further references: Kretschmer 1932, Kretschmer 1943: 178 f., Pisani 1964: 319 (no. 135b), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 236 f., Morandi 1982: 199 (no. 74).

Bibliography

Kretschmer 1932	Paul Kretschmer, "Die Etruskerfrage und die Inschriften von Magrè", in: Axel Nelson (Ed.), Symbolae philologicae O.A. Danielsson Octogenario dicatae, Uppsala: 1932, 134–142.
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)