SP·1

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	mezu nemuśus
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 6^th 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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Stela SP·1 Zignago containing the inscription SP·1 mezu nemuśus

Inscription SP·1 mezu nemuśus

Stela SP·1 Zignago with the inscription SP·1 mezu nemuśus

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

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.
ET	Helmut Rix, Etruskische Texte. Editio minor, in Zusammenarbeit mit Gerhard Meiser. Vol. I: Einleitung, Konkordanz, Indices, Vol. II: Texte [= Script Oralia 23: Reihe A, Altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe 6], Tübingen: Narr 1991.