ST-8
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| Transliteration: | arisae.ki |
| Original script: |       
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| Object: | ST rock (stone) (Inscriptions: ST-1, ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-5, ST-6, ST-7, ST-8, ST-9) |
| Position: | left area"left area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property. |
| Orientation: | 90° |
| 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: | dextroverse |
| Letter height: | about 6 cm"about" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. "about" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. |
| Number of letters: | 8 |
| Number of characters: | 9 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | damaged |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | IR 113 LIR STN-8 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 193, 232, 355 |
Images
Commentary
First published in Mayr 1962c: 287.
Pictures in Mayr 1962c: 287 (drawing), 288 (photo), Joppich 1971: 43 (drawings), Gleirscher 1991: Abb. 3 (photo), Zavaroni 2004: Fig. 10 (photo/drawing), Schumacher 2004: Taf. 20 (drawing) and Mandl 2011: Abb. 133 (photo). Numerous casts have been made of the Steinberg inscriptions; the most recent one, made by the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Innsbruck in 1995, can be seen at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum.
Length about 25 cm, running almost vertically upwards about halfway between ST-5 and ST-1. is disrupted by more recent M-shaped scratches; the other letters are fairly well legible, though heavily eroded. Vetter 1957, who knew only inscriptions 1–7 and considered the central area of the wall most suitable for inscribing, speculated that a bronze plaque of votive character, similar to ones found in Venetic Làgole, had been affixed there, but the trial excavation conducted by Menghin auch Sydow did not yield any accordant finds. The peculiar arrangement of inscriptions 1–6 may be due to a lack of inscribable weathering crust in the central area, which would also account for the comparatively small letters and bad condition of ST-8.
No interpretation of the sequence suggests itself, but compare .ki on VN-14 and Etruscan ki 'three' on the Feltre inscription.
Further references: Pisani 1964: 324 (no. 137 bis), Prosdocimi 1971: 38 incl. Joppich 1971: 43, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 232, Sydow 1989: 68 ff., Zavaroni 2004: 59 f.
Bibliography
| IR | Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306. |
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| 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. |
