SL-2.2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	: ar??eisṿ?(?)
Original script:	???
Variant Reading:	:ịar??eisṿ?(?) ???
Object:	SL-2 helmet (bronze) (Inscriptions: SL-2.1, SL-2.2, SL-2.4)
Position:	front, lower area"lower area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property., outside
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1.11.1 cm <br /> – 2.0 cm
Number of letters:	7 – 10
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène A [from object]
Date of inscription:	second half of 5th–beginning of 4th century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	typology [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 330

Images

Inscriptions SL-2.1 and SL-2.2.

Commentary

Length about 8 cm. Running leftwards toward the embossed and upside-down SL-2.3.

Part (B) ((ị)ar??eisṿ?(?)) begins with a single repeatedly scratched and somewhat crooked hasta, again looking a bit jammed in between the separator and . While the distance between the stroke and the right hasta of is rather big and the sequence is usually read ia, it is more likely that the two strokes both constitute the hasta – the other hasta of is scratched twice as well. engraved round with some effort is followed by a group of strokes curiously resembling the mucked up in (A). The most likely segmentation graphically would be , yielding arlþ. The fact that the twig of supposed is prolonged at an angle suggests that this was done after the right twig of supposed was seen to merge with it. The left twig of may be crooked because the writer's tool was led along the hasta for a few millimetres. and , though not very neat, are fairly well legible. The following is confined by a patch of corrosion, but no additional twig at the top (yielding can be made out. Finally, the last two strokes (or stroke carved twice), sometimes read u (???) defy interpretation. It may be observed that the inscription ends right before the last sign of SL-2.3, so that the deteriorating quality of the writing and the queer last sign may be due to lack of space.

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
Corssen 1874	Wilhelm Paul Corssen, Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker. Band 1, Leipzig: 1874.
Egg 1986	Markus Egg, Italische Helme. Studien zu den ältereisenzeitlichen Helmen Italiens und der Alpen. Teil 1: Text, Teil 2: Tafeln, Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 1986.
Giovanelli 1845	Benedetto Giovanelli, Le antichità rezio-etrusche scoperte presso Matrai nel Maggio 1845, Trento: Monauni 1845.
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.
Hormayr 1823	Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr, Wien, seine Geschicke und seine Denkwürdigkeiten, Wien: Franz Härter 1823.
Kretschmer 1943	Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
Markey 2001	Tom Markey, "A tale of two helmets: The Negau A and B inscriptions", The Journal of Indo-European Studies 29 (2001), 69–172.
Marstrander 1925	Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Les inscriptions des casques de Negau, Styrie", Symbolae Osloensis 3 (1925), 37–64.
Marstrander 1927	Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Remarques sur les inscriptions des casques en bronze de Negau et de Watsch", Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. Hist.-filos. klasse 1926/2 (1927), 1–26.