BZ-10.1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	pnake : ̣ṿiθamu / laþe?
Original script:
Object:	BZ-10 slab (porphyry) (Inscriptions: BZ-10.1, BZ-10.2)
Position:	front
Frame:	?   (straight, none, unknown)
Script:	North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	4.5 cm – 8.5 cm
Number of letters:	15 – 16
Number of lines:	2
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	'Pnake son of Vitam- ?' (?)
Alternative sigla:	PID 196 a IR 4 a LIR BZ-13 a
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 181

Images

Inscription BZ-10.1.

Object BZ-10 slab with inscriptions BZ-10.1 (frontside) and BZ-10.2 (backside).

Commentary

First published in CII 24. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Pictures in Sulzer 1855: Tav. IX (drawing), Schneller 1866: Taf. II, Fig. 3, CII: tab. II (drawing = AIF I: Taf. II,36 A), Giovanelli 1876: Taf. II, No. 4, Oberziner 1883b: tab. XX, Franz 1959 (photo), IR: Tav. XXXVI b (photo) and LIR (drawing).

Length 50.5 cm (line 1), 24 cm (line 2). The small stroke interpreted as a punctuation mark looks more like a bar belonging to , but on the wrong side – possibly a mistake? The two dots seen in the drawing are part of the stone; the dots drawn by Mancini could not be verified. The character after laþe might be read as San, but is more likely to be a sign marking the end of the inscription. Cp. SR-4. If pnake viθamu is indeed a name, it might be either that of the person who put up the stone, or the person in whose memory it was erected. In either case, laþe may be an additional individual name or a verbal form.

Further references: Sulzer 1855: 307, Weber 1861: 36, Schneller 1866: 198 f., Giovanelli 1876: 97, Pichler 1880: 41 (no. 5), Oberziner 1883b: 150, AIF I 36, Kretschmer 1943: 178, 190, Battisti 1944: 227 f., Pisani 1953 321.

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
De Bernardo Stempel 2009	Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "La ricostruzione del celtico d'Italia sulla base dell'onomastica antica", in: Paolo Pocetti (Ed.), L'onomastica dell'Italia antica. Aspetti linguistici, storici, culturali, tipologici e classificatori, Roma: 2009, 153–192.
Franz 1951	Leonhard Franz, "Der älteste Fundbericht über das vorgeschichtliche Gräberfeld von Pfatten", Veröffentlichungen des Museums Ferdinandeum 31 (1951), Innsbruck: 1951, 125–132.
Franz 1959	Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
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.
IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
Kretschmer 1943	Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
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)
Marchesini 2014b	Simona Marchesini, "Über die rätische Inschrift aus Pfatten/Vadena im Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck", Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch der Tiroler Landesmuseen 7 (2014), 202–217.
Markey 2000	Tom Markey, "Rheto-Celtic Pnake-Vitamulate = *Ben(n)acos Windamolatos", General Linguistics 37 (2000 [1997]), 37–40.