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{{inscription
|reading=unknown!taevvtarie
|reading_original={{c|E}}{{c|I}}{{c|R}}{{c|A||d}}{{c|T|T3}}{{c|V}}{{c|V}}{{c|E}}{{c|A||d}}{{c|T|T3}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=0.5 cm
|letter_number_min=8
|letter_number_max=10
|line_number=1
|script=North Italic script
|alphabet=Sanzeno alphabet
|language=unknown
|meaning=unknown
|object=HU-6 bronze
|position=foot, lower area
|orientation=180
|craftsmanship=embossed
|condition=unknown
|sigla_mancini=SA-20
|sigla_mlr=306
|sigla_tm=563551
|source=Schumacher 2004: 332
|checklevel=2
|problem=weitere Deko-Striche? Symbol extra?
}}
== Commentary ==
First published in {{bib|Schumacher 1994}}: 318 f. Autopsied by Stefan Schumacher in October 1992.

Images in {{bib|Gempeler 1976}}: Abb. 12a (photo = {{bib|LIR}}) and 12b (drawing = {{bib|Schumacher 1994}}: Abb. 6 = {{bib|Schumacher 2004}}: Taf. 17,2 = {{bib|LIR}}), {{bib|MLR}} (photo and drawing = {{bib|Gempeler 1976}} photo and drawing).

Inscribed upside-down on lower part of the bronze's base; length about 4 cm. According to {{bib|Schumacher 1994}}, the letters are clearly legible, including the two characters in the middle transcribed {{p||v}}. A reading {{p||v}}{{p||v}} is of course phonetically unfavourable, especially seeing as the ending of the inscription in -{{p||i}}{{p||e}} suggests a Raetic individual name and hence linguistic content (pace {{bib|LIR}}).

The letter forms clearly demonstrate the inscription to be written in the [[index::Script|Sanzeno alphabet]]; the inscription should be considered part of the subcorpus of the [[index::Sanzeno]] votive inscriptions on bronzes (as done in {{bib|LIR}}, cp. also {{bib|Ciurletti 1992}}: nota 20), even though the provenance of the object cannot be verified.

The complex symbol on the horse's croup is unparalleled on Sanzeno bronzes; for ornamental (?) strokes like the ones to the symbol's left cp. [[index::HU-5 bronze]].
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