SZ-13

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?
Original script:	?
Object:	SZ-13 bronze (bronze)
Position:	front, lower area"lower area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	unknown
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	complete
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	IR 26 LIR SA-18
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 135

Images

Object SZ-13 bronze with inscription SZ-13 - front side.

Object SZ-13 bronze with inscription SZ-13 - bottom side.

Commentary

First published in Mayr 1959c. Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.

Images in LIR (photo and drawing).

Along the edge on the animal's belly, over a length about 8.7 cm, a succession of short strokes and angles (max. height 4 mm). After Pellegrini 1951: 315 (no. 13) stated his conviction that these constituted an inscription, though hadly legible, Mayr, who had not acknowledged the traces at all in 1951 (p. 134, no. XIII), was the first to attempt a reading: iupuru uþ φleri iaśin. Mancini, however, observes quite correctly that it is impossible to determine the original shape of the characters, and remarks on the fact that only their lower halfs appear to be in evidence. Indeed, the row of longer and shorter lines and bigger and smaller angles offers four points which might suggest letters: In two places, there appear to be bars extending from hastae; in two places, very short vertical strokes do not reach the edge of the bronze and appear to be inscribed into larger angles (see these spots pointed out in the drawing). Note that the object does not fit in with the other Sanzeno bronzes and may be imported (see SZ-13 bronze for details). Cp. SZ-21, also on an atypical object, with a very similar row of strokes along the edge.

Further references: Mayr 1952: 176 (no. 13), Vetter 1954: 72.

Bibliography

IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)
Mayr 1951	Karl M. Mayr, "Die Inschriften der Votive von Sanzeno (2)", Der Schlern 25 (1951), 30–32, 78–79, 133–135, 179–181.
Mayr 1952	Karl M. Mayr, "Zu den Inschriften der Votive von Sanzeno", Der Schlern 26 (1952), 175–177.
Mayr 1959c	Karl M. Mayr, "Die Inschrift auf dem Delphin von Sanzeno. Ein Erstversuch zu ihrer Entzifferung", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 397.