Ligure scambiato per etrusco. La pietra di Monte Ribone, la fusaiola di Genova, le statue stele di Bigliolo, Zignago, Filetto II

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The inscriptions on the Monte Ribone stone, on the Genoa loom weight and on the stele statues from Bigliolo and Filetto II were considered probably Etruscan, but a careful examination shows that they contain ligatures typical of the Ligurian writing. The Monte Ribone inscription was designed to allow alternative readings on two themes dear to Ligurian engravers : 1. the brief dialogue cues between the two great gods when one strikes the other in order to replace him in the sovereignty over the tripartite universe ; 2. the exhortation to a soul to hasten to resurrect. The latter is also the subject of the inscription on the Genoa loom weight. The inscription on the Bigliolo stele indicates that the statue represents a god (or a deified ancestor?) “protector of the (Ligurian) people”. The inscription on the stele from Filetto II is readable and interpretable in this way: ute ezram bus Apus “favour the people: grow (it), Creator !”.