TV-1.1
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| Transliteration: | ]iaṇ·aθa re / ]armatan·̣ / ]??es·̣śaruś·̣?·̣ / ]ḷ·s·salusruśnụ / ]?ạṛṃạ[ |
| Original script: | ]       ]  ]??     ?]  ]? [
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| Object: | TV-1 slab (sandstone) (Inscriptions: TV-1.1, TV-1.2) |
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| Script: | North Italic script (Magrè alphabet) |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Letter height: | 3.53.5 cm <br /> – 4.5 cm |
| Number of letters: | 40 |
| Number of characters: | 48 |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
| Date of inscription: | |
| Date derived from: | |
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| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | IR 98 LIR TV-1 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 173 |
Images
Commentary
First published in Lejeune 1951.
Images in Moschetti 1932: fig. 114 (photo = Sartori 1951: fig. 2 = Lejeune 1951: 210 = Pellegrini 1959: Tav. XLII, fig. 20), Lejeune 1951: 211 (drawing), Pellegrini 1952: 239 (drawing = Pellegrini 1959: 194), Pellegrini & Prosdocimi 1967: 398 and 399 (photos), Morandi 1999: fig. 3, 5, 8–10, 12 and 13 (photos) and 11 and 14 (drawings), LIR: 279 and 280 (drawings).
Written in five (preserved) lines, dextroverse, on the smoothed surface of a slab, covering its entire breadth. The lines appear to be incomplete in the beginning, the slab being broken on the left side. Morandi reckons, on the basis of his reading of the inscription on the reverse, that about half of each line is missing – provided that the Latin text was not written on an already broken slab. In addition to this, a layer of stone has broken off next to the breaking edge, further shortening the first two lines and damaging the first letters of the third. The preserved lines are neatly executed, running parallel with a widely consistent letter height of 4–4.5 cm and a distance of about 1–1.5 cm between them.
The letters are mostly well legible despite erosion. In line 1, no trace of a letter can be made out at the breaking edge before Iota. Morandi's reading of the third letter as Nu rather than Lambda can be confirmed. The separator in line 1 is a short vertical , rather than a dot as in the rest of the inscription. The sequence is written on the side of the slab, close to the left edge. It may be assumed that the two letters represent the ending of line 1, belonging with . That the writer did not simply complete the word in the next line might be taken as an indication that the text is written in tabulatory form, with one line constituting one entry. Lines 2 and 3 end with separators. The effort to avoid division of words may, however, just testify to a heightened sense of orderliness on the part of the writer. Line 2 is unambiguous, including the first letter Alpha, where the stone has broken off along the left hasta. The final punctuation mark is faint, but probably dot-shaped like the following ones.
The beginning of line 3 is problematic. The first two (?) letters are damaged by the break on top. Morandi reads ]. is most probably correct, but the vertical following it appears to curve slightly to the left. Even if this impression is just due to the damage, the gap between the vertical and Epsilon is much wider than between the other letters. A bar 
, faint but hardly unintentional, extends into it from the breaking edge. What looks like a separator between Epsilon and Sigma is likely just the remains of the more pronounced end of the lower bar of Epsilon, which has completely straight bars, just like the one in line 1. The separator seen by Morandi between Sigma and San is really a cavity more extensive than a punct. It may well be the consequence, after erosion, of a punct, but note that the space between Sigma and San is particularly small. Then again, sś is an unlikely cluster. The rest of the line is clear, including damaged final San between two puncts, which is smaller than the other letters.
In line 4, a bar of what is probably Lambda next to the breaking edge, and a separator below it. The separator between the two Sigmas is a very short and slightly inclined line.
Hohe Datierung 5. jh wg geschlossenem A (23), E mit graden bars is accidentale.
Further references: Sartori 1951: 15, Ribezzo 1952: 523 ff., Vetter 1954: 76 ff., Pisani 1964: 327, Pellegrini 1964: 78, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 241 f., Pellegrini 1985: 115 f.
Bibliography
| IR | Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306. |
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| Lejeune 1951 | Michel Lejeune, "L'Inscription Rétique de Castelcies", Studi Etruschi 21 (1951), 209–214. |
| 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) |
