SL-2.2

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Inscription
Transliteration: : ar??eisṿ?
Original script: ?V3 sS sI sE s??R2 sA5 spunctuation4 s
Variant Reading: :ịar??eisṿ?
?V3 sS sI sE s??R2 sA5 sI spunctuation4 s

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: sinistroverse
Letter height: 1.11.1 cm <br /> – 2.0 cm
Number of letters: 7 – 10
Number of characters: 8 – 12
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

Images

Commentary

First published in Mommsen 1853: 208, no. 12.

Further references: Von Hormayr 1823 I.2: 143, Anm. 23, Giovanelli 1845: 43 ff., Von Sacken & Kenner 1866: 292, no. 1089, CII: no. 59, Corssen 1874: 949 (note), Pichler 1880: 43 f., AIF I: 36, no. 99a, Marstrander 1925: passim, Marstrander 1927: 5 f. (A 2), Kretschmer 1943: 187, Egg 1986: 227 (Nr. 324), Nedoma 1995: 19 f. (Ib), Markey 2001: 112 f., Urban & Nedoma 2002: 57.

Pictures in Von Hormayr 1823: Nr. 2 (drawing), Giovanelli 1845: tav. II (drawing = Giovanelli 1876: Taf. II, No.1), Mommsen 1853: Taf. I, 12B (drawing; see Mommsen 1853: 208 f.) (= CII: Tav. VI, b = AIF I: Taf VI, 99 A = Marstrander 1925: 38), Sulzer 1855: Taf. VII, Von Sacken & Kenner 1866: Taf. Nr. 3 (drawing), Pichler 1880: [?] (= AIF I: Taf. VI, 99 B), Marstrander 1927: 5, Fig. 2 (drawing) and Pl. I (photo), Reinecke 1942: 133, a (drawing = Markey 2001: 105, Fig. 6) and Taf. 11a and b (photos), Egg 1986: 226, Abb. 183 (drawing) (= Schumacher 2004: Taf. 16, 2) and Nedoma 1995: Abb. 3–5 (photos).

Written on the chamfer. A white inlay was added sometime before 1927, possibly for photos made for Marstrander 1927, but must have been cleaned away since. Remains can still be seen in some of the deeper scratches.

The inscription immediately follows SL-2.1, being separated from it by a punctuation mark consisting of four small dots (the lowermost executed twice) distinctly unlike the separator in SL-2.1. The two inscriptions were dissociated by Marstrander (see SL-2.1), who argued that the intermediate separator must have been added by the writer of the second inscription (p. 4). SL-2.2 runs leftwards right up to the last sign of the embossed and upside-down SL-2.3.

The inscription begins with a single repeatedly scratched and somewhat crooked hasta, conveying the impression of being jammed in between the separator and A5 s. While the distance between the stroke and the right hasta of A5 s is rather big and the sequence may be read ia, it is more likely that the two strokes together constitute the hasta – the other hasta of A5 s is scratched twice as well. R2 s engraved – with some effort – with a curve is followed by a problematic group of strokes. The most likely segmentation graphically would be Þ3 sL s, yielding a sequence arlþ. The fact that the twig of supposed L s is prolonged at an angle suggests that this was done after the right twig of supposed Þ3 s was seen to merge with it. A reading Ś s (Marstrander 1927: 5 f.) is therefore unlikely, although his suggestion of M s corrected to Ś s is interesting, because it explains the questionable twig to the left of the second hasta. If part of a letter Þ3 s, it may be crooked because the writer's tool was led along the hasta for a few millimetres. E s and I s, though not too neat, are fairly well legible. The following V3 s is confined on top by a patch of corrosion, but no additional twig (yielding E s) can be made out. The inscription is concluded by two crooked strokes, which have been read I s i (Mommsen, Pauli, Kretschmer, Markey; scratched twice like some of the hastae before it), U s u (Egg; very unlikely in the context of the other inscriptions on helmet A), or been interpreted as a demarcation sign added to separate the inscription from SL-2.3 (Marstrander 1927: 6). The twig branching away from the left stroke, mentioned and dismissed by Marstrander, is clearly unintentional.

Epigraphically, the inscription is likely to be Raetic (A5 s – also found in Venetic inscriptions of the Isonzo-area), S s, and possibly Þ3 s with the same shape as in SL-2.1).

Markey 2001 reads iarśeisvi = *Iarśe eisvi 'Iarsus (who performs the) sacred ceremony/offering'.

Bibliography

AIF I Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
CII Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
Corssen 1874 Wilhelm Paul Corssen, Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker. Band 1, Leipzig: 1874.
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.
Giovanelli 1845 Benedetto Giovanelli, Le antichità rezio-etrusche scoperte presso Matrai nel Maggio 1845, Trento: Monauni 1845.
Giovanelli 1876 Benedetto Giovanelli, "Die Rhätisch-Etruskischen Alterthümer entdeckt bei Matrei im Mai 1845", Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg 3/20 (1876), 45–99.
Hormayr 1823 Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr, Wien, seine Geschicke und seine Denkwürdigkeiten, Wien: Franz Härter 1823.
Kretschmer 1943 Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
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 1925 Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Les inscriptions des casques de Negau, Styrie", Symbolae Osloensis 3 (1925), 37–64.
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.