Alpine Mezzovico Stela (500 BCE)

For translation methodology see: How to Translate Alphabetic Akkadian Texts

Two different photos of the same runestone from Lexicon Leponticum (Text VA-27) with letter assignments by Olmsted.

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, updated January 25, 2025) 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. 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. 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

Ku Wa A N'u Mu : (North 2.1)
Pu ALu A : (North 2.2)
Šu EQu Ya ALu U Ya'u (North 2.3)

In English

Involvement of fate-curses will result in emotionally-affecting the fertility-fluids :
Open Alu for that.
Correspondences (as used in emotion magic rituals) of the sky-shell is not ALu and Yahu (I')

Comment: This text is stating that the life powers need to be opened to counter the emotion powers of fate from the night sky.

References

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

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