MA-18
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Transliteration: | knusesusinu |
Original script: | |
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Object: | MA-18 antler (antler) |
Position: | front |
Script: | North Italic script (Magrè alphabet) |
Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
Letter height: | 0.80.8 cm <br /> – 1.2 cm |
Number of letters: | 11 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Craftsmanship: | engraved |
Current condition: | complete, damaged |
Date of inscription: | 3rd–2nd centuries BC [from object] |
Date derived from: | archaeological context [from object] |
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Language: | Raetic |
Meaning: | 'Knuse, son of Susi' |
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Alternative sigla: | PID 238 LIR MA-17 MLR 56 TM 218491 |
Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 165 |
Commentary
First published in Pellegrini 1918: 182 f. (no. 8).
Images in Pellegrini 1918: 182, fig. 15 (drawing), LIR (photo and drawings), MLR (photos).
Length 6.1 cm, starting at the broader end of the antler piece. Deeply engraved and well legible; the second Nu is damaged by a break, but unambiguous.
The inscription contains a Raetic name formula (individual name + patronym in -nu).
On the back, at 2.4 cm from the broader end, an arrangement of lines (length 3.4 cm), as is the case on almost all the antler votives from Magrè.
Further references: Kretschmer 1932, Kretschmer 1943: 178 f., Pisani 1964: 319, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 237.
Bibliography
Kretschmer 1932 | Paul Kretschmer, "Die Etruskerfrage und die Inschriften von Magrè", in: Axel Nelson (Ed.), Symbolae philologicae O.A. Danielsson Octogenario dicatae, Uppsala: 1932, 134–142. |
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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) |