[gothic-l] Gothic (oldest attestation of Germanic)

[Alburysteve at AOL.COM]

Hi:

>  But I knew that the oldest known attestation of Germanic is the
>  inscription in Etrusc alphabet "harigasti teiwa" (1st century BC) on a
>  helmet found in Austria. Or maybe my information is wrong?
>
>  Francisc

My source (Lockwood's Panorama of Indo-European Languages-'72) says the
inscription was dated to the 3rd century BC.  The helmet was from Negau in
the Steiermark.

Rgds,

Steve O'Brien

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