NO·18

From Lexicon Leponticum

Reading in Transliteration:	metelui : maeśilalui : uenia : metelikna : aśmina / krasanikna
Reading in Original Script:	unknown
Object:	NO·18 Miasino (bottle)Latitude: 45.808581 Longitude: 8.421465
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of Writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic Script
Number of Letters:	47
Number of Words:	6
Number of Lines:	2
Workmanship:	scratched
Condition:	complete
Archaeological Culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of Inscription:	second half of 2nd century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	palaeography [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	Uenia daughter of Metelos (and) Aśmina daughter of Krasanos (for) Metelos son of Maeśilos
Alternative Sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 321 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 20 Solinas 1994: 122 Morandi 2004: 94
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 582 Solinas 1994: 372-373 Rhŷs 1913: pl. VII

Commentary

According to the poor photograph in Rhŷs 1913, pl. VII

• the following character variants are cognizable: , , , , , , ,
• the last word seems to be written in a second line

See:

• Pulgram 1978: 37-38 and Pisani 1964: 284-285 in Celtic Languages 1st ed. p. 44
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 321
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 56-59, n.8, Tav. VII
• Lejeune 1971: pp. 64, 73-74
• Lattes 1903-4: pp. 443-452 (with photograph of the vessel)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1973-5: p.54
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 149-150, 166
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 174-176, n.20
• McCone 1993
• Meid 1999: p. 15
• Markey & Mees 2003: p. 140
• Vetter 1926: pp. 12-13

Bibliography

Lattes 1903-4	Elia Lattes, "Di un'Iscrizione Anteromana Trovata a Carcegna sul Lago d´Orta", Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 34 (1903-1904), 449 ff..
Lejeune 1971	Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500)
Markey & Mees 2003	Thomas L. Markey, Bernard Mees, "Prestino, patrimony and the Plinys", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 53 (2003), 116-167.
McCone 1993	Kim McCone, "Zisalpinisch-gallisch uenia und lokan", in: Frank Heidermanns et al. (Eds.), Sprachen und Schriften des antiken Mittelmeerraums. Festschrift für Jürgen Untermann zum 65. Geburtstag, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck 1993, 243-249.
Meid 1999	Wolfgang Meid, "Altkeltische Sprachen II", Kratylos 44 (1999), 1-19.
Morandi 2004	Alessandro Morandi, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo II: Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.2], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004.
Pisani 1964	Vittore Pisani, Le lingue dell'Italia antica oltre il latino, 2nd, revised edition [= Manuale storico della lingua latina 4], Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier 1964.
Rhŷs 1913	Sir John Rhŷs, The Celtic inscriptions of Cisalpine Gaul [= Proceedings of the British Academy 6], London: British Academy 1913.
Solinas 1994	Patrizia Solinas, "Il Celtico in Italia", Studi Etruschi 60 (1994 [1995]), 311-408.
Tibiletti Bruno 1973-5	Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Problemi Epigrafico-Linguistici del Ticino e della Lombardia Preromani", Sibrium 12 (1973-1975), 47-57.
Tibiletti Bruno 1978	Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Ligure Leponzio e Gallico", in: Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (Ed.), Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 6/1], Roma: Biblioteca di Storia Patria 1978, 131-208.
Tibiletti Bruno 1981	Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Le iscrizioni celtiche d'Italia", in: Enrico Campanile (Ed.), I Celti d'Italia, Pisa: Giardini 1981, 157-207.
Vetter 1926	Emil Vetter, "Italische Sprachen", Glotta 15 (1926), 1-13.
Whatmough 1933	Joshua Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. Vol. 2, Part 3: The Raetic, Lepontic, Gallic, East-Italic, Messapic and Sicel inscriptions, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 1933.