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{{inscription
|reading=terisna
|reading_original={{c|A|A13}}{{c|N}}{{c|S||d}}{{c|I}}{{c|R|R2}}{{c|E}}{{c|T|T4}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=0.9
|letter_height_max=1.3 cm
|letter_number_min=7
|word_number=1
|line_number=1
|script=North Italic script
|alphabet=Magrè alphabet
|language=Raetic
|meaning=unknown
|object=SL-1 helmet
|position=front, lower area
|orientation=0
|craftsmanship=embossed
|condition=complete
|sigla_mlr=285
|source=Schumacher 2004: 329
|checklevel=3
|problem=Erstpubl. AA oder (Reinecke p 145) Lipperheide 180, Nr 396, Inschr. 555? Interpretation; Verweis Helm? Magrè alphabet lassen?
}}
== Commentary ==
First published in {{bib|Marstrander 1927}}: 18–24. Autopsied by TIR on 12<sup>th</sup> February 2014.

Images in {{bib|Marstrander 1927}}: Pl. III (photo), {{bib|Pellegrini 1969}}: tav. I (photo), {{bib|Egg 1986}}: 228, Abb. 186 (drawing) and {{bib|Nedoma 1995}}: 32, Fig. 11 (drawing) and Abb. 22 and 23 (photos), {{bib|MLR}} (photo and drawing = {{bib|Egg 1986}}).

Length 3.7 cm. Embossed with a pointed tool on the chamfer. The inscription is in excellent condition, the characters are easily legible. The only point of debate is the first letter, built up of a hasta with a circle of eight indentations, embossed counter-clockwise, encircling one of the hasta's topmost elements. A single indentation, apparently belonging to the hasta, appears over the circle. See also the detailed description by {{bib|Marstrander 1927}}: 18. The letter has in the past been interpreted as a form of Zeta for {{p||t}} ({{bib|Marstrander 1927}}: 20 ff., Prosdocimi in {{bib|Prosdocimi & Scardigli 1976}}: 228, see also [[index::SL-2.3]]), as Etruscan {{p||f}} {{c||addF1}} ({{bib|Kretschmer 1943}}: 186, see also [[index::SL-2.3]]), or as {{p||i}} {{c||I}} (Pellegrini 1969: 50 f., {{bib|Egg 1986}}: 228 (Nr. 330)). See [[index::T]] for a discussion of {{c||T4}}, and the possible consequences for ascription to the Magrè alphabet. The small scratched bar extending upwards from the hasta to the left, suspected by {{bib|Eichner et al. 1994|Eichner 1994}}: 135 to be the bar of a character variant of Tau, we consider with {{bib|Marstrander 1927}}: 18 to be unintentional – either a slip of the tool used for embossing, or entirely unconnected with the inscription. The same goes for what looks like one or even two indentations right below the bar of {{c||A13}}. See also {{bib|Nedoma 1995}}: 33.

As the find circumstances are unknown, no terminus ante quem can be given for the dating of the inscription.
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