The shape of some letters may resemble the form of letters from the ancient alphabets of northern Italy (Raetic, Venetic), but there are no systematic correspondences, and there are other very different signs.

This is one of the few Raetic inscriptions on stone slabs, which could theoretically qualify as funerary – the text rileke:sa[ is opaque though; "rileke" could be a past verb as well as a personal name. I'm also not sure if the stone was inscribed in its present form, or whether it's a fragment.

Some runic letters have much clearer correspondences in North Italic writing (Venetic, Raetic, Lepontic) than in Latin. However, those traditions petered out in the 1st c. BC.

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🏺 I've recently had the opportunity to examine the inscription on the "Situla in Providence" – the oldest Raetic epigraphic document (ca. 530 BC), and the only one which is kept in a US museum. Close-up images are now available in Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/HU-7).

The text does not feature the usual grammatical endings and is therefore structurally opaque, but certainly funerary. The name Uallaun° is etymologically Celtic (Gaul. uercassiuellaunus, W. cadwallaun, OIr. folloman), but there may be some linguistically non-Celtic (Raetic?) material in here. 2/2