SP·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	mezunemuśus
Reading in original script:
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)

Commentary

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

• Maggiani 1987: p. 437 fn. 2
• Maggiani & Prosdocimi 1976: pp. 258, n. 1, and 262-263 (phonetic interpretation)
• Maggiani 1984: p. 335
• Ambrosi 1969: pp. 35-37, n. 1 (= Ambrosi 1972? See Maggiani & Prosdocimi 1976: p. 258)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1968d: p. 265
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 159-160
• Fabretti 1867 (CII): 101
• Lejeune 1971: p. 136 and passim
• Rix 1991: Volume 2, p. 330, n. Li 1.3

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.