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{{inscription
|reading=$ space unknown!lah
|reading_original={{c|H|H2|d}}{{c|A||d}}{{c|L|L2}}{{c||line d 02}}{{c||line d 01}}{{c||line v 01}} {{c||line v 01}} {{c||line v 01}}{{c||line d 02}}{{c||line d 01}}{{c||space}}{{c||line d 021}}{{c||line d 012}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=1 cm
|letter_number_min=3
|line_number=1
|script=unknown
|language=unknown
|meaning=unknown
|object=BZ-5 handle
|position=centre, outside
|craftsmanship=embossed
|condition=complete
|sigla_mancini=BZ-5
|sigla_mlr=274
|source=Schumacher 2004: 179, 209 f.
|checklevel=1
|problem=position/orientation: handles einheitlich
}}
== Commentary ==
First published in {{bib|Lunz 1985}}.

Pictures in {{bib|Lunz 1985}}: 147 (photo and drawing), {{bib|Schumacher 2004}}: Taf. 3,8 (drawing), {{bib|LIR}} (drawing), {{bib|MLR}} (photo).

On the flat part on the outside of the handle; length of the entire inscription 6.3 cm (0.8 cm only the letters). On the very right, an octothorpe covering the entire breadth of the handle. At a small distance to its left, a row of characters only half as high, being inscribed below the ridge which runs along the middle of the handle: A cross {{c||line d 021}}{{c||line d 012}}, after a small space {{c||line d 02}}{{c||line d 01}}{{c||line v 01}} {{c||line v 01}} {{c||line v 01}}{{c||line d 02}}{{c||line d 01}}, with the left and right of the vertical strokes being much fainter than the others. Immediately after this, the three letters {{c||H2|d}}{{c||A|d}}{{c||L2}}. The entire inscription is well readable and unambiguous, but the relation of the various parts is unclear. Possibly a comparatively elaborate factory mark; see [[index::Non-script notational systems|here]] for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status.
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