ST-7

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?
Original script:	?
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
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	unknown
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	IR 112 LIR STN-7
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 192, 232, 355

Commentary

First published in Vetter 1957: 391.

Image in Mandl 2011: Abb. 1 (photo). 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).

Putative traces of an inscription running vertically upwards between the typical frame lines some 25 cm to the right of the beginning of ST-6, proposed by Otto Kurz via Vetter (p. 385). Kurz read sinistroverse ḳịṣẹ, while Vetter saw kuse (with upsilon ) on the cast made by Kurz. Joppich 1971: 43 and Prosdocimi 1971: 46 agree that the scratches are "inutilizzabile". Schumacher 1998b: 173 f. observes that the traces, so much less clear than the lines in the other inscriptions, are highly unlikely to be intentionally carved, and considers ST-7 a pseudo-inscription. See also Schumacher & Salomon 2019: 173.

Further references: Mayr 1958b, Mayr 1960: 310, Pisani 1964: 137 bis, Sydow 1989: 70 ff., Schumacher 2002: 1276.

Bibliography

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.