Alpine Mezzovico Stela (500 BCE)

For translation methodology see: How to Translate Alphabetic Akkadian Texts

Two different texts having a circle at the top. Bottom Text read right to left. This text was written in response to the 499 drought. This Alpine Celtic letter style is a mix of Etruscan and Aegean. Photo from Lexicon Leponticum (Text VA-27) with letter assignments by Olmsted.

Alpine Celtic Mezzovico Stela (499 BCE)
The stele seems to be displayed upside down as most texts are read from top to bottom and not bottom to top. Online at: https://lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/TI%C2%B727.1

Mezzovico Stele Translation

(Jan 27, 2023) The Po river valley came under the control of a Celtic tribe known  by the Romans as the "Insubres" around 600 BCE.  They sacked Rome in 390 BCE. Yet they were conquered by Rome in the battle of Clastidium (modern Casteggio) in 222 BCE but gained a brief period of freedom when Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy in the Second Punic War (218–201 bc). The Insubres were finally subdued by Rome in 196 BCE and gradually lost their identity in the rise of municipal communities. They were granted Latin rights in 89 BCE and full Roman citizenship 40 years later.

This stele was found during construction in March 1984. It is now at the Museo Civico e Archeologico in Locarno, Switzerland.

Translation in Akkadian (North Text 2)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Ku  WA  N'u  Mu :   (North 2.1)
  2. Pu  A  Lu  A   : (North 2.2)
  3. Ya  EBu YA  Lu  U  Ya'u (North 2.3)

In English

  1. In regards to the fate-curses affecting the fertility-fluids :
  2. Openings for those are lacking them. 
  3. Is not the sky-shell  nourishing ALu and YaHu (I')

References

Lexicon Leponticum. Online at: https://lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/TI%C2%B727.1