MA-18

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Inscription
Transliteration:	knusesusinu
Original script:
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]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	'Knuse, son of Susi'
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.
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)