WE-1
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| Inscription | |
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| Transliteration: | lavises |
| Original script: |      
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| Object: | WE-1 handle (bronze) |
| Position: | inside, handle |
| Script: | North Italic script (Magrè alphabet) |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Letter height: | 0.80.8 cm <br /> – 1.1 cm |
| Number of letters: | 7 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | embossed |
| Current condition: | complete, restored |
| Date of inscription: | 5th–4th centuries BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | typology [from object] |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | 'of Lavise' |
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| Alternative sigla: | PID 188 LIR MAT-1 MLR 69 TM 218553 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 189 |
Commentary
First published in Giovanelli 1845: 31. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.
Image in Giovanelli 1845: Tav. I,1 and Mommsen 1853: Taf. I,10 (drawing = AIF I: Taf. II (32)).
Length 2.5 cm. Probably an owner's inscription.
Further references: Mommsen 1853: 106, no. 10, Weber 1861: 35, AIF I 32, CII: no. 50, Taf. VI, Corssen 1874: 949 (Fn.), Pichler 1880: 42, no. 13.
Bibliography
| AIF I | Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885. |
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| CII | Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes) |
| Corssen 1874 | Wilhelm Paul Corssen, Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker. Band 1, Leipzig: 1874. |
| Giovanelli 1845 | Benedetto Giovanelli, Le antichità rezio-etrusche scoperte presso Matrai nel Maggio 1845, Trento: Monauni 1845. |
| 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) |
