Alpine Davesco Stele (250 BCE)

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Davesco Stele from Lexicon Leponticum (number TI·36)
Davesco Stele from Lexicon Leponticum (number TI·36) with letter assignments by Olmsted

Two different images of the Davesco Stele from Lexicon Leponticum (number TI·36). Between them a good set of letter assignments can be made. Letter assignments made by Olmsted. The text is a statement against the magical rituals involving the motion powers.

Davesco Stele from Lexicon Leponticum (number TI·36) showing its scale

This image from Lexicon Leponticum shows its scale.

Davesco Stele

(Jan 30, 2023, updated January 25, 2025) This stela was found in 1813. It dimensions are: height 180 cm, breadth 56 cm, width 20 cm. It is dated by its letter style which is this cultures final style before it was suppressed by the Romans. Many from this Celtic Alpine culture then fled north into Scandinavia and northern Europe where their writing tradition continued as the runic texts.

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 regained 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 with the rise of municipal communities. They were granted Latin rights in 89 BCE and full Roman citizenship 40 years later.

Translation of Top (Right) Row in Akkadian (North Text 5.1)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.
Runic Letter Style is Pontic. Letter Chart Used: Northern Letter Lineage
  1. Zu  Lu  Pu.  Mu  IPu  Ya : 
  2. U  EDu  Ku  Pu.  Bu  Pu  Ya :
  3. Ru  PaLu  Pu

In English

  1. Emanations are lacking openings. The fertility-fluids are not being freed-up :  
  2. And motivations (a motion power) will be involved with the openings.  Nourishments (a life power) do not open :
  3. Eagle-vultures rule-over the openings.

Translation of Bottom (Left) Row in Akkadian (North Text 5.2)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.
Runic Letter Style is Pontic. Letter Chart Used: Northern Letter Lineage
  1. Šu  Ṣu  GaGu  :
  2. Nu  U'a  Šu  IPu  Bu  UYa  :
  3. Pu  Bu  LePu

In English 

  1. Correspondences (of emotion magic rituals) can activate the cloister (Hekate's powers of the underworld):
  2. Revelations of fate-curses by correspondences can free-up the nourishing of the curses.
  3. Openings should be nourishing the fat-of-the-land.

References

Lexicon Leponticum number TI·36.  Online at: https://lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/TI%C2%B736_Davesco