ST-1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	kastriesieθunnuale
Original script:	A19 sA20 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 (Alphabet of Steinberg"Alphabet of Steinberg" is not in the list (Venetic alphabet, Magrè alphabet, Sanzeno alphabet, Lugano alphabet, ?) of allowed values for the "alphabet" property.)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	77 cm <br /> – 8 cm
Number of letters:	18
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	'of/by Kastrie Eθunnu'
Alternative sigla:	IR 106 LIR STN-1
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 191, 222, 342 ff.

Images

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

Commentary

First published in Vetter 1957: 387 f.

Pictures in Vetter 1957: Taf. VI (photos), Mayr 1960: Abb. 2 and 3 (photos), Prosdocimi 1971: 35 (drawing = Schumacher 1992: Taf. 8,2), Joppich 1971: 41 (drawing), Schumacher 2004: Taf. 18 (drawing).

Length about 80 cm, running towards the ground. Situated on the right-hand side just behind the entrance to the crevice, the leftmost of a group of three; fairly well legible despite erosion. Our reading follows Schumacher 2004: 344 f. and 351 ff. The first A20 s and are inverted in opposition to the rest of this inscription and the associated inscriptions ST-2 and ST-3. The reading of the sequence after is impeded by a petrograph in the shape of a multiple cross: The two vertical strokes following the two s belong to this group and are not part of the inscription. The final seen by Vetter (p. 388) could not be confirmed by Schumacher and is probably due to the shape appearing at the end of ST-2.

The sequence can be segmented into a typical two-part Raetic name in the pertinentive case. Note that though the inscription seems to be written in a different hand, it belongs with the two inscriptions ST-2 and ST-3 which are written to its immediate right – either Kastrie was travelling or out working with two sons, or his sons returned at a later date to add their names to that of their father (the latter theory being supported by the fact that ST-1 is more weathered than the others).

Further references: Pisani 1964: 324 (no. 137 bis), Mayr 1960: 309 f., Prosdocimi 1971: 35, 45 incl. Joppich 1971: 41, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 232, Sydow 1989: 68 ff., Schürr 2001: 215 f.

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.