HU-7

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Inscription
Transliteration: ṭẹḳiesiuφikuφanin / meφlainile
Original script: T2 dE dK dI dE dS sI dU dÞ4 dI dK dU dÞ4 dA3 dN dI dN dM dE dÞ4 dL dA3 dI dN dI dL dE d

Object: HU-7 situla (bronze)
Position: rim
Script: North Italic script
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Number of letters: 27
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: embossed
Current condition: damaged
Archaeological culture: Hallstatt [from object]
Date of inscription: third quarter of the 6th century BC [from object]
Date derived from: typology [from object]

Language: Raetic
Meaning: 'by Dekie X-ed ? ?'

Alternative sigla: none

Images

Commentary

First published by Whatmough in Hanfmann 1940: p. 32 f.

Pictures in Hanfmann 1940 (photo and drawing = Schürr 2003: fig. 2a), Olzscha 1962: Taf. 4 (photo and drawing = Schürr 2003: fig. 2b) and Schürr 2003: pl. XXI (photo) and fig. 2c (drawings).

Length ???, running along the rim, starting at 0.9 cm to the right of one of the handle fittings (see drawing in Schürr 2003: fig. 1). Separated into two parts by a space of 1.5 cm. Hardly damaged by corrosion – the situla was restored in 1961 and 1968; it is not known whether the inscription has been worked on in the process. As first observed by Lunz 1974: 318 f. (Anm. 961), the reading is impeded by a number of oblique strokes in the lower part of the inscription, disrupting most of the letters. As those strokes only occur on the part of the rim which bears the inscription, it is generally assumed that someone made an effort to efface or invalidate what was most probably a votive inscription.

The older readings of Whatmough and Olzscha, both of whom worked only with photos, are largely negligible, as they fail to distinguish between original inscription and secondary strokes. Schürr in doing so could segment the text correctly and assign the inscription to the Raetic corpus.

Bibliography

Hanfmann 1940 George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, "The Etruscans and their art", Bulletin of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 28 (1940), 1–35.
Lunz 1974 Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.
Marchesini & Zaghetto 2019 Simona Marchesini, Luca Zaghetto, "The Situla in Providence. A comprehensive analysis of inscription and decorative program", in: Simon Hye, Ulrike Töchterle (eds), UPIKU:TAUKE. Festschrift für Gerhard Tomedi zum 65. Geburtstag [= Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 339], Bonn: 2019, 329–341.