New Celtic Inscription from Italy

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

FYI - A new Celtic inscription from Italy may have been discovered. A
discussion of this is going on in the Continental Celtic list, or you
can post any comments here.

>Message: 2
    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 104 15:30:03 +22344002 (EST)
    From: "Joseph F. Eska" <eska at vtaix.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: New inscription

My colleague Michael Weiss, an Indo-Europeanist from Cornell University, has
informed me that, at a recent conference on Italic linguistics, a person from
the Imagines Italicae project mentioned a cup from Alise-Sainte-Reine which
bears the following inscription in Greek characters: mela arage e:mun (he
doesn't mention whether the text is complete).  The Imagines Italicae people
had classified the language of the inscription as Sabellic, apparently
owing to the resemble of the second form to Osc. abl. sg. aragetud 'silver',
but Michael objects that it is hardly likely that a Sabellic inscription
would be found in ancient Alisia.  I see that the inscription is not listed
in RIG 1 or any of the subsequent Complements gallo-grecs published in EC.
I'm not immediately assuming that the language of the text must be Celtic,
but wonder whether anyone on this list knows anything of this inscription.

Joe Eska
eska at vtaix.cc.vt.edu
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