Cl 3.2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	minevikumuluevnekearp̣aśkamaia
Reading in original script:
Object:	Cl 3.2 Chiusi (pot)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	Etruscan script
Letter height:	2.5 cm0.984 in <br />
Number of letters:	29
Number of words:	5
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	last quarter of 7th c. BC [from object]
Type:	dedicatory
Language:	Etruscan
Meaning:	'Viku gave me to Arpa Kamai'
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 573 n. 33

Commentary

Images in Cristofani 1977: tav. XXXIb and c, XXXIIa (photos).

Inscribed on the shoulder of the olla just below the rim; well legible except for pi, which is damaged by a break, but clear. The letters are executed by a different hand than the decoration, and with some uncertainty: the waw of viku was begun as an alpha , and waw and epsilon in muluevneke are transposed (Cristofani 1977: 198). Reading and interpretation according to Cristofani 1977: 198 f., who follows Colonna's suggestion (at a conference) to identify viku as the personal name of the subject and donor of the gift. Cristofani merely identifies the name as belonging to a group of "Individualnamen" in -u attested in the 7^th century. It is classified as Celtic and compared with putative viχu (VA·4.2) by Morandi 2004: 573, n. 33. While it is not clear what a random Celt was doing in 7^th-century Chiusi, giving vases to Etruscan ladies, Etruscan comparanda for the base are absent (according to the index of ET²).

See also CIE 3234, TLE 481.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIE	Carl Pauli, Olof August Danielsson et al. (eds.), Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum. (3 volumes, various parts)
Cristofani 1977	Mauro Cristofani, "Appunti di epigrafia etrusca arcaica - III", Studi Etruschi 45 (1977), 193–204.
ET²	Gerhard Meiser, Etruskische Texte. Editio minor, auf Grundlage der Erstausgabe von †Helmut Rix neu bearbeitet in Zusammenarbeit mit Valentina Belfiore und Sindy Kluge. Teil 1: Einleitung, Konkordanz, Indizes, Teil 2: Texte, 2nd, revised edition [= Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft 4], Hamburg: Baar 2014.