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{{inscription
|reading=e??θ&#x0323;
|reading_original={{c|Θ}}??{{c|E}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=1.0 cm
|letter_number_min=4
|word_number=0
|line_number=1
|script=unknown
|language=unknown
|meaning=unknown
|object=SZ-73 helmet
|position=back, right-hand side, outside
|craftsmanship=embossed
|condition=damaged
|sigla_mancini=SA-34 a
|sigla_tm=218443
|source=Schumacher 2004: 149, 336
|checklevel=1
|problem=Länge
|disambiguation=SZ-73
}}
== Commentary ==
First published in {{bib|Schumacher 1992}}. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Photos in {{bib|Schaaff 1977}}: Taf. 61 (photo), {{bib|Schumacher 2004}}: Taf. 1,2 (drawing) and {{bib|LIR}} (drawing).

Very faint traces on the neck-guard. {{c||E}} is comparatively well legible. It is followed by the upper parts of probably two letters (see drawing), then what can only be the four tips of {{c||Θ}}. {{bib|LIR|Mancini}} suggests, not implausibly, {{c||Θ}}{{c||E}}{{c||S|d}}{{c||E}} (or {{c||Θ}}{{c||E}}{{c||S2|d}}{{c||E}}?) {{w||eseθ}}. The inscription may have been longer, but no further traces can be detected. The [[index::SZ-73.2|letters on the other side of the neck-guard]] are a discrete inscription.
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