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|reading=mini muluvanike keivale!keiṿ[ space | |reading=mini muluvanike keivale!keiṿ[ space !]eś | ||
|reading_lepontic={{c|Ś|Ś2}}{{c|E}}[ ]{{c|V}}{{c|I}}{{c|E}}{{c|K}}{{c|E}}{{c|K}}{{c|I}}{{c|N}}{{c|A|A24}}{{c|V}}{{c|U}}{{c|L}}{{c|U}}{{c|M}}{{c|I}}{{c|N}}{{c|I}}{{c|M}} | |reading_lepontic={{c|Ś|Ś2}}{{c|E}}[ ]{{c|V}}{{c|I}}{{c|E}}{{c|K}}{{c|E}}{{c|K}}{{c|I}}{{c|N}}{{c|A|A24}}{{c|V}}{{c|U}}{{c|L}}{{c|U}}{{c|M}}{{c|I}}{{c|N}}{{c|I}}{{c|M}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:46, 14 March 2025
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| Reading in transliteration: | minimuluvanikekeiṿ[ ]eś |
| Reading in original script: |   [ ]       
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| Object: | AS 3.2 Castelnuovo Berardenga (cup) |
| Position: | outside, wall |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Frame: |  (left: none, middle: top and bottom, right: none)
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| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | Etruscan script |
| Letter height: | 0.4–0.5 cm0.157 in <br />0.197 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 20 |
| Number of words: | 4 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched into leather-hard clay |
| Condition: | incomplete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second half of 7th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | dedicatory |
| Language: | Etruscan |
| Meaning: | 'Keivale ? gave me' |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Mangani 1986: 277–279 |
Commentary
Images in Mangani 1986: 278 (drawing) and tav. XLII.2 (photo).
Inscribed below the rim of the cup between the two handles; a section of the text (about seven letters) is missing with a fragment of the cup. Measurements from Mangani 1986: 278, no. 3. Mangani says that the decoration was made before firing, which seems to include the inscription. Cf. the similar inscription AS 3.1 on an identical object from the same grave.
The text is a standard Etruscan dedicatory speaking inscription. The personal name keivale, preserved completely in AS 3.1, is grammatically Etruscan, but is suggested to be "di origine forse non etrusca" by Mangani 1986: 278 on account of the apparent suffix -al-, which she associates with Raetic, Ligurian and/or Lepontic; see further on the word page. AS 3.2 features an additional, but fragmentary word, probably a second name on the genitive (see Mangani 1986: 278 f.).
See also Gambari & Colonna 1988: 154, Colonna 1998: 263, Sassatelli 2008: 338.
- Stephanie A. Layton, Etruscan Bucchero Pottery from Cetamura del Chianti (Gaiole), in Etruscan Studies 12.1 (2009)
Bibliography
| Colonna 1998 | Giovanni Colonna, "Etruschi sulla via delle Alpi occidentali", in: Liliana Mercando, Marica Venturino Gambari (eds), Archeologia in Piemonte. Volume I: La preistoria, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte 1998, 261–266. |
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