Li 1.2
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| Reading in transliteration: | minemetịẹś |
| Reading in original script: |      
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| Object: | Li 1.2 Genova (gravel) |
| Position: | front |
| Orientation: | 270° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | Etruscan script |
| Letter height: | 5.5–6 cm2.165 in <br />2.362 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 10 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | first half of 5th c. BC |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Etruscan |
| Meaning: | 'I (am) of Nemetie' |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Bermond Montanari 1980: 296 f. |
Commentary
Images in Bermond Montanari 1980: 296 (drawing = Sassatelli 2008: 338, fig. 13), Bermond Montanari 1980b: LXXXVII a and b (photos), Arcà & Rubat Borel 2024: 37, fig. 10 (photo).
Inscribed from the bottom toward the top on the face side and then around the top of the ciottolone (length 37.5 cm); due to surface abrasion on this extremity, the reading of iota and epsilon is uncertain (Bermond Montanari 1980: 296). Bermond Montanari 1980: 296 dates the inscription palaeographically to the first half of the 5th century BC; De Simone 1980: 198 adds that no syncope has occurred in nemetieś.
The function of the inscription appears to be unclear – Bermond Montanari 1980: 296 considers it to be funerary, De Simone 1980: 198 an owner's inscription, Sassatelli 2008: 338 a guarantee of weight.
The personal name nemetieś is noted to be "riscontrabile in area gallo-ligure" by Bermond Montanari 1980: 296, who compares Gaul. νεμητον and personal names in nam(et)-. More precise De Simone 1980: 198 f., who identifies the name as a loan from Gaulish; see further on the word page.
Colonna 2004: 303 f. reports an additional character on the back of the stone, resembling a sinistroverse ligature of tau 
and epsilon 
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See also Maggiani 1987: 439.
Bibliography
| Bermond Montanari 1980 | Giovanna Bermond Montanari, "Genua [REE]", Studi Etruschi 47 (1979 [1980]), 296–297. |
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| Bermond Montanari 1980b | Giovanna Bermond Montanari, "Genova, Colle di Castello", Studi Etruschi 47 (1979 [1980]), 530–531. |
| Colonna 2004 | Giovanni Colonna, "Catalogo delle iscrizioni preromane di Genova", in: Raffaele C. de Marinis, Giuseppina Spadea, I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, Milano: Skira 2004, 302–307. |
| De Simone 1980 | Carlo de Simone, "Gallisch '*Nemeti̯os – etruskisch Nemetie", Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 94 (1980), 198–202. |
