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{{inscription
|reading=eluveitie
|reading_lepontic={{c|E|E3}}{{c|I}}{{c|T|T5}}{{c|I}}{{c|E|E3}}{{c|V|V3}}{{c|U}}{{c|L}}{{c|E|E3}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=0
|letter_number_min=9
|word_number=1
|line_number=1
|corpus=Etruscan
|script=Etruscan script
|object=Pa 0.3 Mantova
|position=inside, wall
|orientation=0
|workmanship=scratched after firing
|condition=complete
|type_inscription=unknown
|language=Etruscan
|meaning='Eluveitie'
|source_detail=Vitali & Kaenel 2000: 115–122
|checklevel=0
}}
==Commentary==
First published in {{bib|De Marinis 1989}}: 40 with n. 37.

Images in {{bib|De Marinis 1989}}: 43, fig. 21.6 (drawing = {{bib|Vitali 1998}}: fig. 4 = {{bib|Vitali & Kaenel 2000}}: 118, fig. 2 = {{bib|Sassatelli 2003}}: 240 = {{bib|Sassatelli 2008}}: 333, fig. 7 = {{bib|De Marinis 2005}}: 74, fig. 17.1), {{bib|Vitali 1998}}: fig. 4 (photo = {{bib|Vitali & Kaenel 2000}}: 118, fig. 2).

Inscribed on the inside of the bowl along the wall above the foot. The reading is unproblematic; the alphabet used it that of other Etruscan inscriptions from Mantova and Forcello ({{bib|Pandolfini 1986}}, {{bib|De Marinis 2005}}), indeed the letter forms are exactly the same as those in the alphabetarium from Castellazzo della Garolda (4<sup>th</sup> c. BC; {{bib|De Marinis 2005}}: 58, fig. 20), inluding epsilon and waw with their hastae not prolonged beneath the lowest bar, waw with the bars far apart, and tau with the bar not crossing the hasta.

The form is an Etruscan name with the typical auslaut -''ie'' of names borrowed from IE ''i̯o''-stems in the vocative (see the word page). The base is Celtic *''eluφeitii̯os'' as in the ethnonym 'Helvetian' ({{bib|Vitali 1998}}: 262–264), though we cannot be certain whether the Etruscan attestation is a cognomen/nickname literally meaning 'the Helvetian' ({{bib|Sassatelli 2003}}: 240 = {{bib|Sassatelli 2008}}: 333), an individual name, or a nomen, and thus whether the person who bore it actually identified as Helvetian and was a speaker of a Celtic language. Cf. {{w||kalatiknos}} for another ethnonym-derived name of similarly uncertain status. The historical background for a Helvetian in Mantova is discussed by {{bib|Vitali & Kaenel 2000}}: 115–122.

The inscription was originally given the siglum MN·2 in LexLep, but is now filed under its Etruscan siglum Pa 0.3 after being added to the Etruscan corpus in {{bib|ET²}}.

Further literature: {{bib|De Marinis 2005}}: 75.
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