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Cippus Perusinus
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The Cippus of Perugia, 3rd or 2nd century BCE
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Side view
The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of incised Etruscan text. The cippus is assumed to be a text dedicating a legal contract between the Etruscan families of Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding the sharing or use of a property upon which there was a tomb belonging to the noble Velthinas.[1][2]
The date of the inscription is considered to be 3rd or 2nd century BC. The Cippus is conserved in the National Archeological Museum of Perugia.[1]
Original text
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Text transcription
- eurat tanna larezul ame vaχr.
- Lautn . Velθina-ś, eśtla Afuna-s, sleleθc aru ::tezan,
- fuśle-ri tesn-ś tei-ś Raśne-ś ipa ama hen.
- Naper XII (12) Velthina θuraś araś,
- pe raścemulml escul, zuci en esci epl, tularu.
- Auleśi, Velθina-ś Arznal, clenśi,
- θii θil ścun'a cenu, eplc felic Larθal-ś Afune-ś,
- clen, θunχ ulθe fala-ś.
- Χi=em fuśle, Velθina hinθa cape, municlet, masu,
- naper śran . ctl, θii falśti.
- Veltina hut naper penez-ś masu.
- Acnina clel Afuna, Velθina mler zinia.
- Intemame r cnl Velθina zia śatene tesne,
- Eca Velθina θuraś θaura hel-u tes ne Raśne cei.
- Tesn-ś tei-ś Raśne-ś χimθ, śpel θuta ścun'a, Afuna mena hen.
- Naper ci (3) cnl hare utuśe.
- Reverse side:
- Velθina śatena zu ci en esci ipa spel ane-θi fulum-χva.
- spel-θi, re ne-θi.
- Estac Velθina, acil-un-e, turune, ścu-n-e.
- Zea zu ci en esci aθumi=cś.
- Afuna-ś penθn-a ama.
- Velθina, Afun[a]θuruni ein zeri, una cla θil θunχulθ-l.
- Iχ ca ceχa ziχuχe.
- Supplementary for the word clel found in the main inscription in the Golini Tomb 1 at Orvieto.
- me'ch'l um rasneas clevsinsl: zila'ch'nve pulum (stars).
- rumitrinei : ma?ce . clel . lu?[
- Supplementary for the word naper,from a cippus found at Volterra.
- l : titesi :cale 's'i
- cina : c's' : mes [month] tle's'
- [mes, month in Spanish, mese in Italian]
- hu'th' [six]: naper' lescan
- letem : 'th'ui :
- ara's'a : 'th'en tma
- se : laei : tre c's'
- 'th'en's't : me ua'th'a
- Supplementary from the Liber Linteus Column X for comparison
- for the words aru,ame,ipa, θuta, cnl, ama.
- 5 aru’s’ . ame . acnesem . ipa . se’th’umati . siml’ch’a
- 6 ‘th’ui . turve . acil . ham’ph’e’s’ . lae’s’ . sulu’s’i
- 7 ‘th’uni . ‘s’er’ph’ue . acil . ipei . θuta . cnl . ‘ch’a’s’ri
- 8 he’ch’z . sul . sc vetu (carpenter=Latin Faber). ca’th’nis . ::‘s’canin . vei’th’a
- 9 Ipe . ipa . ma’th’cva ‘ . ama . trinum (three). hetrn . acl’ch’n
See also
- Tyrrhenian languages
- Other Etruscan inscriptions:
Notes
- ^ a b "National Archaeological Museum of Perugia - The Cippus of Perugia".
- ^ "The first Chapter of the Cortona inscription" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13.
References
- Bonfante, Giuliano; Bonfante, Larissa (2002). The Etruscan Language: an Introduction. Manchester, University of Manchester Press. ISBN 0-7190-5540-7.
- Cristofani, Mauro; et al. (1984). Gli Etruschi: una nuova immagine. Firenze, Giunti Martello.
- Cristofani, Mauro (1979). The Etruscans: A New Investigation (Echoes of the ancient world). Orbis Pub. ISBN 0-85613-259-4.
- Rix, Helmut (1991). Etruskische Texte. G. Narr. ISBN 3-8233-4240-1. 2 vols.
External links
- The Etruscan Texts Project A searchable database of Etruscan texts.