ST-2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ritaụịesikaszrinụalet[
Original script:	]A19 sA19 sA19 s
Variant Reading:	pita?esikaszrinụale ]A19 sA19 s?A19 s
Object:	ST rock (stone) (Inscriptions: ST-1, ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-5, ST-6, ST-7, ST-8, ST-9)
Position:	right-hand side"right-hand side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Orientation:	90°
Frame:	?   (unknown, top and bottom, none)
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	88 cm <br /> – 12 cm
Number of letters:	20 – 21
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Archaeological culture:	La Tène
Date of inscription:	5th–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	'of/by Ritauie Kastrinu'
Alternative sigla:	IR 107 LIR STN-2
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 191, 223 f., 342 ff.

Images

Inscriptions ST-1, ST-2, ST-3.

Commentary

First published in Vetter 1957.

Pictures in Vetter 1957: Taf. VI (photos = Mayr 1960: Abb. 2 and 3), Prosdocimi 1971: 35 (drawing = Schumacher 1992: Taf. 8,2), Joppich 1971: 41 (drawing), Zavaroni 2004: Fig. 1 (drawing), Fig. 2 and 3 (photos), Schumacher 2004: Taf. 18 (drawing) and Mandl 2011: Abb. 1, 130, 131 (photos). Numerous casts have been made of the Steinberg inscriptions; positives of the most recent one, made by the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Innsbruck in 1993, can be seen at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum and the Archäologische Staatssammlung München. Drawings of the arrangement of the inscriptions in Vetter 1957: 386, Prosdocimi 1971: 30, Zavaroni 2004: Fig. 15 and Schumacher 2002: 1276 (= Schumacher 2004: Taf 8,1); photos of the wall in Sydow 1989: Abb. 6, Gleirscher 1991: Abb. 3 and Mandl 2011: Abb. 133.

Length about 79 cm, running towards the ground; today the end is about 1.5 m from the ground. Situated on the right-hand side just behind the entrance to the crevice, the middle one of a group of three; well legible despite some erosion. Our reading follows Schumacher 2004: 345 ff. and 351 ff. The first letter is generally read , but compare the first letter in IT-4 and IT-8 which can be argued to be a Venetoid form of Pi . See also Zavaroni 2004: 49 f. A reading pitam/nesi, is, however, highly speculative: While there is a lacuna damaging the group of scratches between A19 s and , seems fairly certain. Rix 1998: 10 suggests pitalie, cp. piθale on MA-9. Joppich read ritaunesi.

The sequence can be segmented into a typical two-part Raetic name in the pertinentive case. The inscription belongs with ST-1, but appears to be written in a different hand: The letters are taller, the bars of Kappa are rounded, and the name Kastrie is spelled with , a letter which is here classified as a form of Zeta, but which might also be considered a graphic variant of the Tau used in ST-1. For details see Script. Note that Zavaroni (p. 50) reads instead of also in ST-1. The last letter enjoys a somewhat doubtful status – while it is not improbable that the writer added maybe a verb to his inscription, the bar might not be intentional and the vertical line part of the cartouche. Any continuation of the inscription must be lost as the area beneath it was evened to add another petrograph in more recent times. The line drawn under the inscription has subsequently been prolonged and recycled as part of a cross.

Further references: Mayr 1958b, Mayr 1960: 309 f., Pisani 1964: 137 bis, Prosdocimi 1971: 35, 45 incl. Joppich 1971: 41, Schürr 1975: 606, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 232, Sydow 1989: 70 ff., Schürr 2001: 215 f., Schumacher 2002: 1276 ff., Zavaroni 2004: 50 ff.

Bibliography

Gleirscher 1991	Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter, Chur: Rätisches Museum 1991.
IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
Joppich 1971	Julius Joppich, "Anhang. Tonabdruck und Korrektur zur Lesung der Felsinschriften nach Emil Vetter", in: Wolfgang Meid, Hermann M. Ölberg, Hans Schmeja (Eds), Studien zur Namenkunde und Sprachgeographie. Festschrift für Karl Finsterwalder zum 70. Geburtstag [= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 16], Innsbruck: 1971, 41–44.
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)
Mandl 2011	Franz Mandl, Felsbilder. Österreich – Bayern: Nördliche Kalkalpen [= Anisa – Verein für alpine Forschung 4], Haus im Ennstal: 2011.
Mayr 1958b	Karl M. Mayr, "-", review of: Emil Vetter, "Die vorrömischen Felsinschriften von Steinberg in Nordtirol", Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Jg. 1957, Nr. 24 (1957), 384–398, Der Schlern 32 (1958), 303–304.