SL-2.4

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Inscription
Transliteration:	kerup
Original script:
Variant Reading:	karup lurak purak
Object:	SL-2 helmet (bronze) (Inscriptions: SL-2.1, SL-2.2, SL-2.4)
Position:	front, lower area"lower area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property., outside
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	1.81.8 cm <br /> – 2.0 cm
Number of letters:	5
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène A [from object]
Date of inscription:	second half of 5th–beginning of 4th century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	typology [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 330 f.

Images

Inscription SL-2.4.

Commentary

First published in ???.
Further references: Nedoma 1995: 16–20, Egg 1986: 227 (Nr 324), Urban & Nedoma 2002: ???.
Pictures in Nedoma 1995: Abb. 1–8 (photo) and Egg 1986: Abb. 138 (drawing).
Length about 6.5 cm. Written on the brim under the second part of SL-2.5.
The letter is written with a long topmost twig. The strokes which reach the bottom of the line are scratched from there upwards, probably because the upturned rim presented an impediment.
The writing direction is ambiguous: Either (in a sinistroverse reading) or (in a dextroverse reading) is turned the wrong way. The second letter from the right consists of two oblique hastae (the left one slightly straighter) with two twigs slanting down from the right hasta. It can be read as , tipped forward with its twigs almost reaching to the bottom of the line, or as erroneously supplied with a superfluous stroke. In the first case, the letter supports a sinistroverse reading, while the , though not as significant statistically, is dextroverse. The leftmost sign, if read sinistroverse, is a canonical Sanzeno p, but occurences of the letter with the twig pointing in writing direction are numerous – remember that , if present, is not the typical Sanzeno-type.

Bibliography

Egg 1986	Markus Egg, Italische Helme. Studien zu den ältereisenzeitlichen Helmen Italiens und der Alpen. Teil 1: Text, Teil 2: Tafeln, Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 1986.
Egger 1959	Rudolf Egger, Die Inschrift des Harigasthelmes, Wien: 1959. (Sonderabdruck aus dem Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der ÖAW, Jahrgang 1959, Nr. 5.)
Höfler 1970	Otto Höfler, "–", review of: Wolfgang Krause, Herbert Jankuhn, Die Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark [= Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., 3. Folge 65], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1966, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 222 (1970), 109–143.
Höfler 1971	Otto Höfler, "Herkunft und Ausbreitung der Runen", Die Sprache 17 (1971), 134–156.
Klingenberg 1973	Heinz Klingenberg, Runenschrift – Schriftdenken – Runeninschriften, Heidelberg: Winter 1973.
Kretschmer 1943	Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
Lipperheide & Rickelt 1896	Franz von Lipperheide, Karl Rickelt, Antike Helme, München: Mühlthaler's Königliche Hofbuchdruckerei 1896.
Markey 2001	Tom Markey, "A tale of two helmets: The Negau A and B inscriptions", The Journal of Indo-European Studies 29 (2001), 69–172.
Marstrander 1927	Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Remarques sur les inscriptions des casques en bronze de Negau et de Watsch", Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. Hist.-filos. klasse 1926/2 (1927), 1–26.