The evidence for the language consists of four inscriptions apparently dating from the 1st millennium BC, three of them no more than small broken fragments.

The forerunner of the term North Picene was devised in 1933 by the linguist Joshua Whatmough, in Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, a catalogue of texts in Italic languages.

A 2021 study of the techniques used on the stone and other considerations claimed that all supposed North Picene inscriptions are forgeries created in the 19th century, by an antique dealer from Fano.

[1] The corpus of North Picene inscriptions consists of four engraved items of similar lettering and decoration, one of known archaeological provenance and the others acquired out of context but believed to be of the same location and date.

Many objects are missing, as the region, the site and the museum have endured a century and a half of history, including war and occupation.

It was a time of Italic and Etruscan wars and warrior kings during the Roman Kingdom, as martial scenes on other stelae and the presence of weapons in nearly all graves of males suggest.

It begins mimniś erút .....[7] The decorations: spirals, wheel, herring bone and zig-zag patterns, are similar to those of the others.

The best-known and longest North Picene inscription is on the stele from Novilara (now in the Museo Preistorico Pigorini, Rome), dated to approximately the 6th century BCE: