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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: mezunemuśus
Reading in original script: S sU sŚ2 sU sM sE sN sU sZ2 sE sM s
Variant reading: mezunemuśus (one word), mezunemunius (Maggiani 1976)

Object: SP·1 Zignago (stela)
Position: front, left-hand side
Orientation: 90°
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: unknown
Number of letters: 11
Number of words: 2
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: carved
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription: end of 6th century BC [from object]

Type: prob. funerary
Language: unknown
Syntactic analysis: unknown
Meaning: "Mezu (son of) Nemuśu" (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 338
Morandi 2004: 272

Sources: Lejeune 1971: 136 & pl. XIV
Morandi 2004: 696-697 & 699 (fig. 31.272) & 809 (pl. XXXII.272)

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Commentary

Maggiani (1987: p. 438 fig. 1) lists this inscription in the area of the Lunigiana stelae.

Bibliography

Ambrosi 1972 Augusto Cesare Ambrosi, Corpus delle Statue-Stele Lunigianesi, Bordighera: Istituto Internazionale Studi Liguri 1972.
CII Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum antiquioris aevi. Ordine geographico digestum et glossarium italicum, in quo omnia vocabula continentur ex umbricis, sabinis, oscis, volscis, etruscis aliisque monumentis quae supersunt, Augusta Taurinorum: 1867.