MA-19
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| Transliteration: | lasθeφutiχinu |
| Original script: |           
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| 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] |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | 'Lasθe, son of Φutiχi*' |
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| Alternative sigla: | PID 239 LIR MA-13 MLR 57 |
| 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. |
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| 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) |
